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Welcome to a new newsletter, with a bit of a new direction. While our mid-week edition tackles news specifics, this end-of-the-week missive combines the biggest news with more context, more things to read and watch, recommendations, easter eggs, inside baseball and stuff that interests our readers, alongside the breaking news, reviews and features you expect from Engadget.Wed love your feedback on what youd like to see covered in these meatier editions hit me up at tma(at)engadget.com.Luckily for me, we kick things off with Samsungs big Unpacked event, launching three new phones and teasing two yes, two! more coming soon.Everything Samsung announced, including prices and launch dates (February 8 Ill save you a click), we collated here, but it was largely a fallow year for Galaxy S hardware, barring a substantially more powerful chip.While the Galaxy S25 Ultra et al. might not thrill, Samsung managed to breadcrumb several devices with no launch date. First, at its San Jose event, the company revealed its mixed reality headset in person, finally even if it was just a functionless headset for photos and gawping at.Then there was the Galaxy S25 Edge a device I didnt think existed. (And something that wasnt shown at my satellite event in London we got a not-great projection mapping brand activation across Londons Thames river. Boo.)Like Samsung did a year ago with its Galaxy Ring teaser, we got a fleeting glimpse of the rumored slim Galaxy phone, actually called the Galaxy S25 Edge. Its slim, has two cameras and... thats about all we know. Bloomberg reports it will cost less than the S25 Ultra when it arrives later this year.Samsung/YouTUbeAnd then theres the mysterious teaser for some possible bifold device see the screengrab above. This would be a foldable concertina, like devices weve seen from Huawei. Samsung teased the display tech back at CES 2022 and subsequent trade events. Is it now ready?Will the companys foldables become the new home for Samsung hardware innovation? Is the Galaxy Fold series now truly the new Galaxy Note? Mat SmithThe biggest stories you might have missedNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 review: Pure AI excess for $2,000Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra hands-on: Faster and way more... AI-ierStar Trek: Section 31 review: An embarrassment from start to endToday, in 1984The first Mac(intosh).BBCApple demonstrated its first Macintosh computer in front of 3,000 people. Graphical computing on the Macintosh wasnt as commercially successful as Microsofts DOS and Windows, but this was the first successful mass-market desktop personal computer with a graphical user interface, built-in screen and mouse. Yes, a mouse! The epic Ridley Scott-directed ad, 1984, also teased it.Time to watch that ad again.President Trump and techThe new leader got straight to work.It was a busy first week for President Trump.The Trump Administration no longer lets asylum seekers make appointments with appDonald Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross UlbrichtTrump executive order rescinds Bidens AI frameworkTrump delays TikTok ban for at least 75 days via executive orderPresident Trump withdraws the US from the Paris climate agreement (again)Reintroducing: Ask Engadget!AMA or AEA.I'm used to fighting robots.EngadgetWhat can we answer for you that a hallucinating AI cant? When is the best time to buy a new iPhone? Do I need a high-res screen on my gaming laptop? My smart home is trying to kill me. While Google/ ChatGPT/ social media can often help, were bringing back Ask Engadget. Whatever it is, I made my boss create an entirely new email address: askmat(at)engadget.com. So help me help you. (Keep me gainfully employed in an era of bots and AI.)This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-123633309.html?src=rss