CES is bonkers, and yesterday’s Circuit Breaker Live was just as bonkers. We had a flying drone, we had robots, we replaced an iPhone battery, and we even had a real live Sam Sheffer at the Hype Podium. If you happened to miss it, you can catch the replay right here, right now. C … | Continue reading
About a month before Super Mario Odyssey’s launch, Nintendo released two teaser images of the game: one of Mario bundled up for frigid weather, and one of him shirtless and zipping around a beach. Seeing the nipples of the bare-chested icon for the first time launched a meme fren … | Continue reading
The torrent of wireless headphone news at CES 2018 continues with one of my personal highlights: B&O Play is updating its H8 on-ear and H9 over-ear wireless headphones with new, longer-lasting models. The sound has been retuned, with the company boldly proclaiming that the H8i an … | Continue reading
B&O Play’s truly wireless Beosound E8 headphones have only been out for a few months, but the company is already launching some new limited edition colors at CES 2018.The headphones originally launched in two-tone black / dark gray and gray / tan colors, but now B&O Play is embra … | Continue reading
After an entire year of speculation about whether Apple or Samsung might integrate the fingerprint sensor under the display of their flagship phones, it is actually China’s Vivo that has gotten there first. At CES 2018, I got to grips with the first smartphone to have this futuri … | Continue reading
Dell is introducing a 15-inch version of its XPS 2-in-1, after debuting a 13-inch model last year. But this isn’t just a scaled up version of the original — it’s a much more powerful computer with some unique tweaks.Among the most interesting quirks is the laptop’s keyboard: thou … | Continue reading
It’s a huge convenience to be able to respond to text messages and view incoming phone notifications right from your computer, so Dell has created a new app called Mobile Connect that lets you do just that and plans to ship the app on most of its new PCs. The app syncs calls and … | Continue reading
After the Amazon Echo started to get its owners hooked on smart home gadgets, Amazon went ahead and added Zigbee — a low-power smart home protocol — to the new Echo Plus, letting owners go even further.Google still hasn’t tried that with the Google Home, but another company has c … | Continue reading
The rerun rights to Netflix’s BoJack Horseman are being shopped to cable buyers. Distributor Debmar-Mercury and BoJack production company Tornante Company are offering reruns of the animated series to cable networks for the first time, Variety reports.“Not only do we love the sho … | Continue reading
Ford unveiled its new self-driving “platform” on which its partners like Lyft, Domino’s Pizza, and Postmates — and even small- and medium-sized businesses — can tap into and reap the benefits of the auto giant’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. It’s an aggressive approach to the fut … | Continue reading
Hulu just provided an update on its subscriber base as of the end of 2017: the streaming company now has over 17 million paying customers spread across both its on-demand and live TV services. That’s an increase of 5 million since Hulu last gave a number on total subscribers — 12 … | Continue reading
Facebook is planning to launch its rumored home video chat product, the one with a screen that appears similar to Amazon’s Echo Show, later this year, according to a report from online news network Cheddar. The product will be called Portal, the report says, and it will be the fi … | Continue reading
I bought an LG OLED TV last year, thinking it was the best option for a living room TV at the time. When Nvidia unveiled what it calls Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs) at CES earlier this week, my heart sank. These displays are essentially giant gaming monitors, complete with s … | Continue reading
Will.i.am’s tech company i.am+ has bought truly wireless earbud startup Earin, according to TechCrunch. It sounds like this will not affect the release of Earin’s second product, the M2 wireless earbuds, though it’s still unclear when that will happen. Terms of the deal have not … | Continue reading
Apple is facing a French criminal probe after allegations from consumer groups that it’s slowing down old iPhones on purpose. Paris prosecutors confirmed the probe today, as first spotted by Bloomberg.Apple apologized to customers on December 28th for intentionally slowing down t … | Continue reading
Ever since Logitech introduced the Powerplay mouse pad last June, it seems like gaming accessory manufacturers have been scrambling to release their own takes on the “wirelessly charging mouse pad” concept. At CES 2018, we’ve already seen various takes on the concept from Mad Cat … | Continue reading
If there’s a common theme in Ford Motor Company’s approach to the future of transportation, it’s that there needs to be some rules. Perhaps it’s that it was caught flat-footed when numerous other automakers were investing in self-driving technology or partnering up with Silicon V … | Continue reading
Altec Lansing has announced a suite of upgrades to a fleet of speaker and headphone products at CES. It’s also introduced several new products, including an entire new line of Google Assistant built-in speakers called GVA; a Versa at Home speaker; new EVO True Wireless Earbuds; a … | Continue reading
Sunday night at the 75th annual Golden Globes, something significant happened. Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel took home the award for Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy, while Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale won for Best Series, Drama. It was the first time streaming servic … | Continue reading
We’ve been in the desert for days and at long last, the show floor is finally opening, rain or shine (spoiler alert: it is most definitely raining here in Las Vegas.) But that’s not going to stop us from tracking down the biggest news in laptops, cars, giant screens, and larger t … | Continue reading
Microsoft is taking the surprise step of detailing how Spectre and Meltdown firmware updates may affect PC performance. The tech industry has been scrambling to issue updates to protect against two CPU security flaws over the past week, and there have been many reports of potenti … | Continue reading
Misfit, the wearable company that started out making jewelry-like, low-power activity trackers before it was eventually bought by Fossil Group, is still making wearables under its own brand name. This year at CES, that means a rollout of new watches. The new Misfit Path is a stai … | Continue reading
Google’s logo today is a tribute to an Indian-American biochemist who played an important part in figuring out how DNA works. The Google Doodle honors Har Gobind Khorana, who won a Nobel Prize in 1968 for his work on genes and nucleotides, which are the basic structural units of … | Continue reading
Yuneec has announced three new drones at CES 2018 — a follow-up to the impressive Typhoon H that made its debut two years ago, and two first entries into new categories for the company.The Typhoon H Plus is the second generation of Yuneec’s drone aimed at pro photographers and vi … | Continue reading
As part of 2016’s Autism Acceptance Month, Apple released an uplifting video called Dillan’s Voice, in which a nonverbal teenager delivers a speech at his graduation, his text turning swiftly to spoken word through his iPad. Before he had the iPad, he says in the video’s voiceove … | Continue reading
Most of the TV world is still busy transitioning into the 4K era, but LG Display is sprinting out ahead with the debut of its new 88-inch 8K OLED TV. 8K is four times the resolution of 4K, and it delivers the sort of intense pixel density that makes OLED panels look even more stu … | Continue reading
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced WPA3, a new standard of Wi-Fi security features for users and service providers. This is welcome news, given that a Wi-Fi exploit was uncovered late last year which affected all modern Wi-Fi networks using WPA or WPA2 security encryption, letting … | Continue reading
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Japan’s Audio-Technica is coming to CES 2018 with a big set of new wireless headphones to show off. The highlight among them is the DSR5BT. Its codename hints at the fact it has the same Pure Digital Drive tech as last year’s over-ear DSR9BT and DSR7BT. The difference with this t … | Continue reading
Spoilers ahead for the mid-season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, “Despite Yourself.”Reception to Star Trek: Discovery’s first season has been mixed since it premiered back in September 2017. But its two-month mid-season break might have made a significant difference for the Tr … | Continue reading
Sony announced a load of new products at CES this year, but it hasn’t forgotten about the older stock either. Buried in the announcements for new wireless earbuds and open-ear headphones, was the news that old speakers and headphones would get support for Google Assistant via a s … | Continue reading
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From my perspective, there are two camps of people when it comes to screen protectors on phones. Some of us don’t mind scratches and minor wear on our devices. They’re tools we carry everywhere — every day. If they pick up slight scratches over the course of a couple years, what’ … | Continue reading
Twitter says that while it’s committed to keeping “elected world leaders” like President Donald Trump on the service, there’s at least one thing that could cross the line: tweets that reveal a private address or phone number. Bruce Daisley, Twitter’s VP of Europe, the Middle East … | Continue reading
We come to CES to see the most outlandish and extravagant developments in tech, and few live up to such a description as well as LG Display’s new rollable OLED TV. It’s the successor to 2016’s rollable 18-inch display panel, only now it’s been scaled up to 65 inches and a full 4K … | Continue reading
Audio company Klipsch announced today that its next generation of Heritage Wireless speakers will have Google Assistant enabled. It’s still pretty uncommon for higher-end audio companies to include Google Assistant, which is why seeing Klipsch incorporate it is notable.While the … | Continue reading
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Suitable Technologies, maker of the Beam range of telepresence robots, has unveiled the BeamPro 2 — its latest high-end device. Like all telepresence bots, the BeamPro 2’s main function is Skype-on-wheels; letting employees call in to their workplace remotely and trundle around i … | Continue reading
It’s practically become a CES tradition at this point for Razer to show up with some sort of cool new prototype piece of hardware. And this year at CES 2018, the company is showing off Project Linda, a companion piece of hardware for the recently released Razer Phone that extends … | Continue reading
Fashion brand Kate Spade New York started dabbling in “hybrid” smartwatches back in 2016, introducing classic-looking wrist-wearables that happened to include accelerometers and Bluetooth chips. Now it’s going full-on smartwatch. Kate Spade brand, in conjunction with the Fossil G … | Continue reading
Danish watch brand Skagen is announcing its first touchscreen smartwatch at CES this week. The Falster runs Android Wear and joins Skagen’s lineup of connected hybrid analog watches. It will be available starting at $275 later this month.Skagen watches have long favored a minimal … | Continue reading
The Razer Phone will soon support HDR video and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound in the Netflix app thanks to a forthcoming software update. This will make the Razer Phone the first mobile device to support both of these audio and video formats in Netflix.In addition, the update … | Continue reading
Last year, August began testing in-home deliveries with Walmart. Now the smart lock maker has made the practice official with the launch of its in-home delivery service, in partnership with Deliv, a last mile logistics company.August will use its Access platform to support the ne … | Continue reading
If you’re looking for a gaming headset that’s only a little bit goofy but does the job, consider the new Sennheiser GSP 600, which comes with a new speaker system, new ear pad design with deep memory foam, and improved aluminum voice coil speakers. The GSP 600 builds on Sennheise … | Continue reading
A new teaser trailer for Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther aired on ESPN last night, introducing Andy Serkis as the film’s primary antagonist. As Ulysses Klaue, an arms dealer working in South Africa, he has a personal and vague vendetta against Wakandan king T’Challa and the rest of … | Continue reading
Peloton is getting into running for the new year. The New York-based maker of a cultish, Internet-connected indoor cycling bike has just revealed an Internet-connected treadmill, one it says is “the most technologically advanced, innovative and immersive” treadmill on the market. … | Continue reading
Last year at CES, BlackBerry unveiled the phone that would eventually become the KeyOne, the first smartphone released under the new management of TCL, which had bought the rights to the company. And while BlackBerry didn’t have any news as to a followup for its flagship model at … | Continue reading
HTC just announced a new Vive Pro with higher-resolution displays and built-in headphones. HTC has increased the resolution of the dual-OLED displays to 2880 x 1600 (1400 x 1600 per eye, and 615 ppi), a 78 percent increase from the 2160 x 1200 (1080 x 1200 per eye) resolution in … | Continue reading