The MC03 aims to improve on the MC02’s shortcomings. Punkt, the Switzerland-based, privacy-focused phone maker, is trying the whole "smartphone" thing again . The MC03 improves on some of the disappoi...
LG is adding a karaoke-focused party speaker to its lineup of Xboom devices, which is built in collaboration with Will.i.am. Announced this week, LG says the Stage 501 speaker comes with an "AI Karaok...
LG is getting ready to take the wraps off a new robot it claims is capable of performing a "wide range" of household chores. The robot, called LG CLOiD, will make its debut at CES next month, featurin...
X users are asking Elon Musk's Grok AI to create sexualized deepfakes of women and minors. VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images X users have used Elon Musk's Grok image generator to create s...
The ROG NeoCore concept router from Asus. The first Wi-Fi 8 routers and chips made a surprise appearance at CES 2026, and could launch this year, only a couple of years after Wi-Fi 7 debuted. So, if y...
I was surprised that these… work pretty dang well. My biggest gripe about open-ear buds is that they're rotten for loud city commutes. Cue a pedantic audiophile pointing out that the whole premise of ...
The DeskMate doesn’t have its own display, it just uses your iPhone’s. CES is packed with AI companions and assistant robots this year, but the DeskMate from Yoona is a clever take on the idea: it's a...
AMD is introducing an improved version of its popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor today at CES. The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D offers up the same 8-core / 16-thread CPU as the 9800X3D, running at even faster b...
Mark Rober is the latest YouTube star to get a Netflix deal. Rich Storry/Getty Images 2025 was the year of the creator in Hollywood. YouTube is the top TV service, while Netflix and other streamers ar...
Image and video capabilities could be crucial in 2026. Getty Images Partners a16z said ChatGPT is winning the consumer AI race, but things can change "very quickly." They predict that image an...
Shanghai, China’s financial and tech hub, is aiming to foster over 200 open-source projects over the next two years as part of the city’s ambitious road map to build a world-class ecosystem amid the h...
Nvidia announced DLSS 4.5 at CES today, an update to its deep learning super sampling (DLSS) feature that improves image quality on all RTX graphics cards now and extends its frame generation abilitie...
Character.AI and Google are entering settlement negotiations with the families of teenagers who died by suicide. Illustration by Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google and C...
An OpenAI engineer explains how OpenAI hired her in a week. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images An OpenAI engineer breaks down OpenAI's fast, "no-nonsense" hiring process. Jerene Yang sai...
ChatGPT and Gemini's recent web traffic patterns, per Similarweb data, highlight the tightening AI race. Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images ChatGPT's web traffic has decreased since November, when ...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping lauded his country's AI advancements in 2025. Yan Yan/Xinhua via Getty Images China's Xi Jinping lauded his country's AI wins in 2025 in his New Year's address from Beijing. ...
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While most attention in the AI race is focused on model builders and cloud platforms, Lenovo sits closer to millions of users than most companies. As the world's top PC maker by volume , Lenovo ships ...
Another entry in the Wolfenstein franchise may be on the way, according to multiple reports today. Specifically, a Wolfenstein 3. The possibility was first mentioned by Windows Central today as part o...
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