As we approach 2025, we are reviewing all of our… notice. Yes, everything we explored, instigated and critiqued this year. Alongside the inevitable smartphone and laptop upgrades (it was a particularly good year for Pixel phones, while Apple continues to deliver a premium phone experience on its pro iPhones), it was also a year of drones and impressive cameras, which has kept Steve Dent very active. busy.
Unfortunately, we can’t test everything, so we try to balance devices from companies with experience making things people buy and products and services that are weird, fascinating, and do something different. We’ve included the best gaming laptop of 2024 and Apple’s continued strong form with its Apple Silicone-powered MacBooks.
Oh, and we’ve included the flip side: two of the worst products we’ve tested. Surprise! They heavily feature AI.
—Mat Smith
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The biggest tech stories you missed
More curved screens.
LG just announced several of its new OLED monitors before CES 2025 kicks off in earnest. The new UltraGear GX9 series features curved WOLED panels, webOS, and low-reflection anti-glare coating. The flagship is a 45-inch 5K2K foldable display that can go “from completely flat to 900R curvature in seconds,” according to LG.
A complete series is coming to Disney+.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, which will take us back to Peter Parker’s beginnings as a high school superhero. The art draws on a classic comic book style, and it looks like the story itself will deviate from the MCU version of things.
This year’s “extreme weather” has brought droughts, wildfires, storms and floods.
2023 was the hottest year on record. Last year we came close to beating him. We did it, guys. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) released its annual “extreme weather” report showing how the record 34.34 degrees Fahrenheit increase in human-caused warming over the past year has caused “waves of incessant heat, droughts, forest fires, storms and floods. The report recorded 219 events occurring in 2024 that met its “trigger criteria” for identifying impact weather events. In related stories, here are the . I’m not kidding.
