This week was a weird one in a world of tech, but we’re still here to help you catch up with all the biggest technological news stories you may have missed in the last seven days.
At the normal end we got a date and time for Nintendos Switch 2 Direct presentation (April 2, 2025), and on ‘I can’t think we’re sewn to this target’, Apple was flusted by iPhone’s first ever official porn app .
Once you’ve caught up with everything and more, be sure to check out our choices for the seven new movies and TV shows to stream this weekend (7 February).
7. Nintendo Set a Switch 2 -Presentation Date
We now know exactly when the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct will happen on April 2nd. Thanks to Nintendo’s official social media channels over to X / Twitter, it has been confirmed that the expected broadcast will take place at 1 p.m. . This really comes as no surprise, as Nintendo Direct presentations typically land in the morning for American audiences and mid-afternoon in the UK and Europe.
As for the content of Nintendo Switch 2 directly, the company remains tight. We do not think it will be a deep exploration of the system’s specifications, but the presentation should give us a decent idea of the new hardware’s improvements. It also seems reasonable to expect a look at New Nintendo Switch 2 games that potentially include a better look at the new Mario Kart Title, we saw in the official disclosure -teaser.
6. Dyson’s new handheld vacuum turned out to be … not so new
Dyson has added a handheld vacuum to his range, but it turns out that the Dyson Car+boat is really just a V8 -Stick -Vakuum sent without its stick and floor heads. We couldn’t help but feel a little cheated and not just because the V8 launched a decade ago, in 2016.
This disappointment aside, the new addition actually worked very well in our official Dyson Car+Boat Review. While not the latest Dyson -Stick -Vakuum, it is the smallest and lightest of the current interval and when tied to other handhelds, the car+the boat wins easily. The life of the battery is twice the most handheld vacuum, and it is powerful enough to blow through even the most challenging clean -up tasks.
In short, the car+the boat is an ultra-compatible hand-held vacuum, we just wish we got more of the brand Dyson innovation instead.
5. Openai fought back toward Deepseek R1
It didn’t take long for Openai to bend his muscles after the incredible success of Chinese start -up Deepseek. Just last week, we talked about the US AI company’s concerns after the launch of a completely free reasoning model, Deepseek R1, it was just as good, if not better than Openais O1 offering.
Now not only has Openai revealed deep research, an incredible AI agent that acts as your own personal analyst, ready to tackle any research you throw on it and come back with results, but deep research has also darkened all rivals on the world Hardest AI exam.
If that wasn’t enough, Openai also announced this week that Chatgpt Search, its competitor to Google Search, would no longer require a login so someone can use the free AI search engine without need to provide personal information. It is reasonable to say that the company took Deepseek’s attempts to shake the AI industry personally, and now it is us, the consumers who reap the benefits.
4. Amazon teased Alexa upgrades
Amazon invited people to an exclusive product launch event in New York City later in February. While many details from the invitation made us reasonably sure it would be for the long-awaited Alexa AI upgrade we’ve been waiting for, Amazon spelled it for us when it was discovered that combining five invitations would show you ‘ Alexa ‘in a cursive font.
We are not sure what this new Alexa will be able to, but leaks have suggested that it will finally start catching them up as chatgpt, Gemini and other LLMs that have left the smart assistant in their dust.
More specifically, they tease that Alexa will be better at understanding and responding to natural human speech, such as several prompts presented in a row. It will also be able to perform multiple tasks autonomously as AI agent. Unfortunately, it can also cost $ 5- $ 10 a month — but We will have to take all these details with a pinch of salt until Amazon’s event in a few weeks.
3. Apple launched invitations
Apple has made slow and stable calendar app improvements across iOS, iPados and MacOS, but it just made organizing parties 100 times easier with the brand new Apple Invities app for iCloud+ users.
It is designed to be an one-stop shop to create the event’s invitation, from setting an event description to properly capturing the mood to build a guest list and control who has RSVP’d and who is not coming. It can even serve as a light one-stop shop for guests who can see all event info without everyone having to send the host of the same questions individually.
iCloud+ is a central part of this as you need it to send invitations and create an event, but anyone can receive them even people on Android.
2. Apple got angry on iPhone’s first porn -App
It’s not a phrase we expected to write this week, but it’s 2025, so all bets are off. Yes, iPhone’s first official porn app (called hot tub, of course) has just landed in the EU, and Apple is not best satisfied – to say the least.
Hot Tub arrived thanks to EU rules that recently opened the door to third-party iOS app stores like Altstore, where you can download the app (or so we’ve heard). Apple was quick to point out that it is “deeply concerned about security risks” and rejects the controversial porn units.
An extra dimension to the story is that Altstore is financed by Apple’s Nemesis Epic Games, which recently fought for it over Fortnite. We can feel a Netflix documentary that comes on …
1. Apple’s robot stole our hearts
Apple also showed its elegant (expressive and functional movement design for non-antropomorphic robot) lamp this week and this real pixar lamp is wonderfully sweet.
Videos highlighted the robot’s functional meetings expressive approach, which then perform tasks with a bit of flair – at one point the robot was asked to grab something out of row to stretch a few times before shaking your head and admitting that it cannot complete the task.
While playing music, it danced with, and while helping a user to build a 3D printer, it performed micro-adjustments that made it seem alive before playing a video of the instructions when it saw that they fought . Apple has not announced any plans to launch this as something you can buy one day, but we hope we will one day get an Apple Ilamp message.
