The rain has finally stopped in Las Vegas, so we’re back out here for another day of gadgets, tech, smartphones, robots, and best of all, cars. Our reporters are meeting up with a ton of car companies for their rides of the year, so stick around for a first look at the future of … | Continue reading
Huawei doesn’t just make smartphones and laptops; it’s also getting into mesh Wi-Fi. Yesterday at CES, the China-based company announced a hybrid whole-home Wi-Fi system.Like other mesh Wi-Fi systems, Huawei’s Wi-Fi Q2 system aims to send a stable signal through a large home or a … | Continue reading
Super Deluxe, the viral internet content and TV production studio owned by Turner, made a major sale today, Variety reports. Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of a supernatural drama called Chambers, executive produced by Syriana writer and director Stephen Gaghan. The series is se … | Continue reading
Jimmy Iovine says he isn’t going anywhere. During an interview at the Grammy Museum, the Apple Music executive said he has no plans to leave after the last of his shares from the sale of Beats Electronics to Apple will vest in August, as has been reported by multiple outlets. “Th … | Continue reading
After an extensive audit by UK tax body HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Apple Europe has agreed to pay over £137 million (around $185 million) in extra taxes, reports The Guardian. The payment includes interest on unpaid tax, covering several years until September 2015, mirroring … | Continue reading
Wireless charging is not particularly new technology, but this year at CES 2018, we’re seeing it show up in a big way. Tons of companies are releasing new products in a wide variety of form factors and styles.Specifically, we’re seeing a huge wave of Qi wireless chargers, the pop … | Continue reading
A year ago in Las Vegas, Amazon and some budget TV manufacturing partners announced the first-ever “Fire TV Edition” televisions. They were designed to compete with the fast-growing number of TVs that come with Roku’s software as the built-in operating system. Roku TVs are everyw … | Continue reading
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I was standing off to the side of the showroom at CES, while engineers worked in hushed voices fussing over a $16,000 artificial-intelligence powered laundry-folding machine. The machine wasn’t giving back the t-shirt I put in, and for one brief, terrifying second, I really thoug … | Continue reading
SteelSeries’ new mouse, the Rival 600, is designed to eliminate an obvious problem for gamers: keeping track of the cursor in mid-air. Sometimes, when a player lifts their mouse off the mat and places it back down, the cursor can jump and skitter across the screen. The Rival 600 … | Continue reading
Intel’s not had the best of times recently. Meltdown and Spectre security flaws have helped reveal fundamental issues with processor design over the past 20 years, and the software updates to protect PCs will have performance impacts. Even as I write this, it’s still not clear to … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of its integration with Razer’s Chroma lighting system, Philips has announced a way to sync its smart lights with not just games, but anything and everything that shows up on your computer.It’ll all work through an upcoming app, called Hue Sync, which will be rel … | Continue reading
Samsung will unveil its next flagship handset, the Galaxy S9, next month at the Mobile World Congress (MWC). The company’s smartphone chief, DJ Koh, confirmed the launch to ZDNet at CES yesterday. Koh didn’t offer a specific date, but MWC will run from February 26th to March 1st … | Continue reading
Google released a “Kinda Blue” version of its Pixel 2 phone last year, though the downside was that it was exclusive to Verizon. Now that color handset is available from the Google Store and Play Fi unlocked (as spotted by 9to5Google), so you can buy it unlocked and use it on a c … | Continue reading
A serious payment glitch on retail website Overstock.com, which sells everything from furniture to diamond rings, allowed customers to pay with either bitcoin or bitcoin cash interchangeably. It’s a problem because the two cryptocurrencies, which split off from one another last A … | Continue reading
I don't think of kids when I think of RFID tags, but congrats to MuuseLabs for making the connection for me. Jooki is a Wi-Fi speaker for kids. It ships with five figurines, each of which has an RFID tag embedded inside. Kids can place their toy on the speaker to cue it to play d … | Continue reading
Wacom announced over the summer that the company would be adding 24-inch and 32-inch Cintiq Pros to its lineup, and the flagship tablets debuted tonight at CES for the first time. They feature edge-to-edge glass screens, and work with the Pro Pen 2 stylus, which boasts 8,192 pres … | Continue reading
Apple discontinued its wired Mac keyboard back in June when it introduced a new version of its wireless Magic Keyboard with a number pad, but a company called Matias is trying to keep the wired version alive with its own replica versions. And this year at CES 2018, the company is … | Continue reading
Hong Kong-based RealMax is an augmented reality startup, one of many trying to crack the highly sought after smart glasses market that’s taken CES by storm this year. The company’s prototype product, which it’s brought to the show floor in Las Vegas this week, is very much a work … | Continue reading
Microsoft is starting to roll out an update for Xbox One testers that includes a new do not disturb mode. The new option lets Xbox gamers mute notifications and other distractions when they’re playing a game or watching a movie. Microsoft is adding an online status so friends wil … | Continue reading
AEE Aviation Technology's Selfly is a phone case that turns into a drone. Your first question is probably “does it fly with the phone in the case?” The answer is no. Which is undoubtedly for the best, since I don't think it would do a very good job of protecting your phone when i … | Continue reading
Modius Health wants you to believe that weight loss is more in the brain than in the body — and that wearing its headset can help you lose weight without extra effort. Most likely, it’s too good to be true. Plus, the headset gives you a headache. The headset is made of white plas … | Continue reading
At its worst, CES is an insufferable barrage of cliches, buzzwords, and other rehearsed insincerities, but today I saw a little glimpse of the big technology show at its best, and I really enjoyed it.Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei’s consumer products division, just spent a solid h … | Continue reading
Polk Audio has announced a voice-controlled sound bar with Alexa built-in. Polk envisions the Command Bar to be at the heart of the smart home theatre that provides “rich audio” for movies and music. Polk Audio’s parent company is DEI Holdings (its sound division is known as Soun … | Continue reading
The fourth season of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on December 29th, 2017. In this series, six writers look at each of the fourth season’s six episodes to see w … | Continue reading
It’s been a long road to market for Blocks, a modular smartwatch that was first announced back in 2015, but at CES 2018 the company has said that it’s finally selling watches to the general public (via TechCrunch). To recap, Blocks was first announced three years ago at CES 2015, … | Continue reading
Huawei was widely expected to announce its first flagship smartphone partnership with a major US carrier at CES this week, but AT&T pulled out of the deal — possibly for political reasons — at the eleventh hour. If you live in America and do really want the Mate 10 Pro, though, y … | Continue reading
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Philips just came out with a new headband that plays white noise to help your brain get to sleep.Although Philips’ headband looks like an ill-formed diaper, its weird design attaches built-in sensors to your forehead in order to detect brain activity. Then it shares that data wit … | Continue reading
Johnson Controls invented the first thermostat 135 years ago, and it’s now taking its first step into smart thermostats with the GLAS. It’s a truly unique thermostat that’s powered by Windows 10 IoT Core and Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant. It also has a 5.9-inch translucen … | Continue reading
The image you get from Sony’s newly unveiled $30,000 4K projector isn’t as good as the image you’ll get from one of the company’s many pricey but still far-less-expensive OLED TVs. But the presentation you get from having this incredible projector in your room instead of a dull b … | Continue reading
YouTube is investigating “further consequences” for Logan Paul, the influencer who filmed a dead body in Japan’s Aokigahara forest. In a thread on Twitter, YouTube acknowledged the recent frustrations with the platform and its lack of response. “You’re right to be [frustrated],” … | Continue reading
Waist-high mud flowed through California’s Santa Barbara County early Tuesday morning, killing at least six people and tearing homes from their foundations. Firefighters report rescuing people buried in mud, while mud and flooding forced a 30-mile stretch of the 101 freeway to cl … | Continue reading
Cyclist deaths are at a historic high: 840 bicyclists were killed by automobiles in 2016, the highest number since 1991. In an effort to prevent further mayhem on the roads, Trek Bicyclists is working with Ford Motor Company and Tome Software to create a “bicycle-to-vehicle” comm … | Continue reading
I’d like to explain something, anything, about the trailer you’re about to watch, but I’m truly at a loss here. Like a fever dream filled with manic celebrities and dashed promises, so too descends Bartlett, a musical comedy in which people allegedly sing about Silicon Valley. Al … | Continue reading
AKG has announced its new N5005 in-ear headphones at CES, clocking in at just under $1,000. The headphones expand on AKG’s Studio on-the-go Series, offering a variety of cables, ear tips, and filters to suit the preferences of audiophiles and musicians.The N5005 is beautifully sl … | Continue reading
Sennheiser is one of the best known companies in the audio world, and yet it’s never made a consumer speaker. This year, that’s supposed to change. At CES today, Sennheiser began showing a prototype soundbar that it intends to launch by the end of 2018.The prototype’s body is unf … | Continue reading
There’s a growing list of companies that have added language about blockchain or cryptocurrency into their names and mission statements, and it makes sense. Companies that do so see their stocks rise in value afterward. The latest company to jump on this trend is, unexpectedly, K … | Continue reading
Back in April, we were forced to acknowledge that the Indiegogo crowdfunded Keyboard Moto Mod was actually a real physical device. This year at CES 2018, Motorola has announced that you’ll actually be able to buy one soon for $99.The Slider Keyboard Moto Mod, developed by a third … | Continue reading
Toyota is the latest automaker to adopt Amazon’s Alexa in its vehicles, announcing a partnership at CES that enables the assistant to work with its newest infotainment platforms. On Tuesday, Toyota said vehicles with the Entune 3.0 infotainment system, and Lexus models with the E … | Continue reading
Humanoids are the hardest. Atlas is the state of the art, and you might think that because Atlas has solved backflips, building a full-sized biped robot that can just walk around should be easy by now. But it’s very much not easy, especially in the home.For starters, there’s the … | Continue reading
Like many other headphone makers at CES this year, Japanese electronics company JVC released several wireless headphones, bringing us ever closer to a wireless future where we’re all juggling a dozen chargers in our bags.JVC is launching the new HA-ET90BT wireless sport headphone … | Continue reading
Most people ignore marquee features inside of Snapchat and use the app primarily for chatting and exchanging photos with friends, according to leaked internal metrics published today by the Daily Beast.Snap Maps, a prominent new feature in the app that lets you share your locatio … | Continue reading
Lenovo is launching a point-and-shoot camera designed to live stream 180-degree VR video. The Lenovo Mirage Camera, as it’s called, has two fisheye cameras that record super-wide-angle 3D footage. It can store images and video locally, but Google and Lenovo collaborated to connec … | Continue reading
Lenovo has announced the first self-contained VR headset based on Google’s Daydream platform, called the Lenovo Mirage Solo. The Mirage Solo supports the same experiences as existing Daydream headsets, but it’s a standalone piece of hardware, not a shell powered by a mobile phone … | Continue reading
Vuzix, a Rochester, New York-based display provider, has been trying to resurrect the promise of Google Glass for years now, but this year’s iteration finally feels ready. The company’s new product, called the Vuzix Blade, was unveiled at CES this week in Las Vegas. It’s a pair o … | Continue reading
After years of wondering when a consumer robot will be released that can finally relieve me of the drudgery of going to the fridge for a cold adult beverage, Aeolus might have the answer. Last night at CES, I witnessed this chunky new wheeled robot from Aeolus Robotics pick up a … | Continue reading
Tractive, a company that specializes in GPS trackers for pets, has announced two new products at CES: a new Tractive GPS dog tracker and Tractive GPS Cat, the company’s spinoff for felines.The new Tractive GPS Dog tracker has a slew of new updates beyond the initial changes in de … | Continue reading