This week was a strange in the world of technology, but we are still here to help you to catch up with all the biggest technical news stories that you have missed in the last seven days.
At the normal end we received a date and time for Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct Presentation (2 April 2025), and on the ‘I cannot believe that we Syauen’, ” Apple was confused by the very first official official porn app of the iPhone.
Once you have caught all that and more, view our choices for the Seven new films and TV programs to stream this weekend (7 February).
7. Nintendo Set a Switch 2 presentation date
We now know exactly when the Nintendo Switch 2 will take place directly at 2. Thanks to the official social media channels from Nintendo on X / Twitter, it has been confirmed that the expected broadcast will take place at 6 am pt / 9am et / 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CEST . This really does not come as a surprise, because Nintendo direct presentations usually land in the morning for the American public and in the middle of the afternoon in the UK and Europe.
Regarding the content of the Nintendo Switch 2 directly, the company remains tight lips. We do not think that it will be a deep exploration of the specifications of the system, but the presentation should give us a good idea of the improvements of the new hardware. It also seems reasonable to expect a can of new Nintendo Switch 2 games, which may have a better look at that new one Mario Kart Title we saw in the official unveiling teaser.
6. Dyson’s new handheld vacuum cleaner turned out to be … not so new
Dyson has added a portable vacuum to its reach, but it appears that the Dyson Car+boat has actually just been sent a V8 -stick -vacuum without its wand and floor heads. We couldn’t help it, but felt a bit cheated, and not just because the V8 was launched ten years ago in 2016.
Apart from that disappointment, the new addition actually performed very well in our official Dyson Car+Boat Review. Although it is not the newest Dyson Stick -vacuum, it is the smallest and lightest of the current range, and when it is deposited against other handhelds, the Car+boat easily wins away. The battery life is double that of most handheld cleaners, and it is powerful enough to go through even the most challenging clean -up tasks.
In short, the Car+Boat is an ultra-competitive handheld-vacuum, we just want us to get more of that trademark Dyson Innovation instead.
5. OpenAI fought back against Deepseek R1
It wasn’t long before Openi To bend his muscles after the incredible success of the Chinese start-up deep chat. Last week we were talking about the concerns of the American AI company after the launch of a completely free reasoning model, Deepseek R1, which was just as good, if not better than the O1 offer from OpenAi.
Now not only Openai has unveiled the deep investigation, an incredible AI agent who works as your own personal analyst, ready to tackle each investigation that you are throwing and coming back with results, but deep research also has all the rivals about the most difficultest AI overshadowed exam.
If that wasn’t enough, OpenAi announced this week Chatgpt Search, his competitor to Google Searching would no longer require a login, so that someone can use the free AI search engine without the need to provide personal information. It is fair to say that the company has made the Deepseek attempt to personally shake up the AI industry, and now we are, the consumers who pick the rewards.
4. Amazon teased Alexa -upgrades
Amazon people invited for an exclusive Product launch event In New York City later in February. Although many details of the invitation have reasonably made us sure that it would be for the long-awaited Alexa Ai-upgrade that we were waiting for, Amazon spelled it for us when it was discovered that combining five invitations would show you ‘Alexa’ In a italic font.
We are not sure what this new Alexa will be able, but have suggested that it will finally start catching chatgpt, Gemini and other LLMs, who have left the smart assistant in their fabric.
More specifically, they teased that Alexa will be better at understanding and responding to natural human speech, such as several instructions presented in a row. It can also perform more tasks autonomously as an AI agent. Unfortunately it can also cost $ 5- $ 10 per month we will have to take all these details with a pinch of salt until the Amazon event in a few weeks.
3. Apple launched invitations
Apple has made slow and steady agenda -App -improvements iOSiPados and macOS, but it made organizing parties 100 times easier with the brand new Apple invites app for iCloud+ users.
It is designed to be a one-stop shop to make the invitation of the event, from setting an event description to correctly recording the atmosphere to building a guest list and managing Wie RSVP’D has and who doesn’t come. It can even serve as a simple one-stop-shop for guests who can see all event information without everyone having to report the host of the same questions individually.
iCloud+ is a central part of this, because you need to send invitations and make an event, but everyone can even receive them on Android.
2. Apple became angry with the first porn app of the iPhone
That is no sense that we had expected this week, but it is 2025, so all bets are eliminated. Yes, the first official porn app of the iPhone (of course called hot tub) has just landed in the EU, and Apple is not the best satisfied – to say the least.
Hot Tub arrived thanks to EU regulations that recently opened the door for iOS app stores from third parties such as Altstore, where you can download the app (or we have heard so). Apple quickly pointed out that it is “deeply concerned about the safety risks” and rejects the controversial porn -aggregator.
An extra dimension to the story is that Altstore is financed by Apple’s Nemesis Epicwho recently fought it Fortnite. We can feel a Netflix -documentary coming up …
1. Apple’s robot has stolen our heart
This week Apple also showed its elegant (expressive and functional motion design for non-Antropomorphic robot) lamp-and this real Pixar lamp is wonderfully cute.
Videos showed the functional encounters of the robot, the expressive approach, where it saw tasks perform with a little flair – at one point the robot was asked to get something out of reach, and instead of realizing it wasn’t long enough , the lamp tries to stretch a few times before he shakes his head and admits that it cannot complete the task.
While playing music it danced along, and while helping a user to build a 3D printer, the micro-adjustments made it seemed alive before he played a video of the instructions when it saw that they had a hard time. Apple has not announced any plans to launch this as something that you can buy one day, but we hope that one day we will receive an Apple Ilamp announcement.
