Wondering what the new button on the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro can do? Much more than take photos. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-make-the-most-of-iphones-new-camera-control-button/#ftag=CADf328eec
This is the previous-gen model of CNET's favorite flip phone, and you can get your hands on one for half the usual price right now. https://www.cnet.com/deals/razr-plus-2023-half-off-amazon-deal/#ftag=CADf328eec
Amazon is aiming to branch out into broadband services in the UK.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/amazon-is-bringing-its-satellite-broadband-to-the-uk
Intel's latest mobile processors were announced at CES 2025 this week, but are they enough to dethrone Lunar Lake?
AI PCs with NPUs deliver predictive power, fix issues before you notice them, cut costs and boost enterprise productivity
Victrola's Wave is a wireless all-in-wonder
The Ring Spotlight Cam Pro is one of two cameras getting a 2K upgrade
Ring is finally adding more alarms to its smart home mix but it’s not building them
Ultraloq Bolt Mission UWB + NFC is spatially aware.
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China denies involvement as more US telecoms providers are revealed to be victims of Salt Typhoon attack.
OWC ThunderBlade X12 offers blazing-fast speeds up to 6.5GBps with RAID configurations and Thunderbolt ports.
New Samsung ViewFinity S8 is built with productivity in mind.
Bosch has revealed a new 'Battery Lock' feature for eBikes that could help deter thieves, but it comes with a monthly cost.
We're just hours away from an official RTX 5090 reveal, but we've just had our first look thanks to an Inno3D leak.
Bird Buddy creator unveils Wonder Blocks and Petal at CES 2025
At the 2025 Godlen Globes, Demi Moore wins her first major acting award for The Substance, proving that even horror movies are worthy of the biggest awards.
Can Arrow Lake mobile redeem the lackluster desktop launch?
The AMD Ryzen Z2 series has leaked early, after months of speculation. How does it stack up in practice? We likely won't know until ASUS, Lenovo, and ... Valve (?) release their new devices.
Athom unveiled its newest smart home hub at CES 2025 Monday morning. Like its full-sized sibling, the Homey Pro Mini doesn’t rely on the cloud for operation, a feature that allows homeowners a truly local and private experience. With a price tag of $199, this compact yet powerful hub promises to bring privacy-first, highly compatible smart home management to a broade
The Kindle Scribe is an e-reader like no other. Not only does it deliver Amazon’s signature Kindle E Ink reading experience, but it also lets you write directly onto the digital pages of your ebooks, which is surprisingly useful for taking notes, doodling diagrams, and more.
If your New Year’s resolution for 2025 is to read more books, learn a lot of new th
After a controversial launch on the desktop, Intel is debuting its Arrow Lake processor for laptops here at CES 2025, hoping that the chip’s emphasis on low power has a more welcome reception. It’s the first time the Core Ultra branding has be
Two of Ring’s best home security cameras—the Ring Spotlight Cam Pro and the Ring Floodlight Cam Pro—are getting a surprise upgrade to 2K video resolution.
Most Ring home security cameras, including those two, are—or at least have been—limited to video resolution of 1080p. The home security company has seemed much more interested in bringing features like th
The smart home security specialists at Ring have partnered with Kidde, a leader in the fire protection business since 1917, to develop a pair of new home safety devices that operate in the Ring ecosystem.
Bearing both the Kidde and Ring brands, the new Smoke Alarm ($54.97) and Combination Alarm (smoke plus carbon monoxide detection, $74.97) are equipped wit
GE Lighting is looking to branch out in the coming year, with the Savant-owned brand taking its first steps into the professionally installed smart-shade business.
Following their debut back in September during the CEDIA 2024 conference, GE’s Proseo lights and shades are taking another bow at CES alongside GE Lighting’s new café lights, dimmer switches, an
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Schlage, a leading home security brand, announced two new smart locks at CES today: the Schlage Sense Pro smart deadbolt and the Schlage Arrive smart Wi-Fi deadbolt. Both locks are designed to simplify home access and improve integration with smart home systems.
The Schlage Sense Pro smart deadbolt features Matter-over-Thread support, enabling integration w
Getting out of bed to turn off the lights is as annoying as it gets, but this smart button pusher from SwitchBot can help solve that problem in a blink. Even better, the SwitchBot Smart Switch is now just $20 on Amazon, down 30 percent from its usual price.
The
The HyperSpace TrackPad Pro is one of a handful of technology devices that I like, but it might not be quite ready for prime time.
The concept is simple enough: It’s a mammoth haptic trackpad that’s primarily designed for people who don’t already own one. The external trackpad connects
Aqara announced an array of new smart home devices at CES 2025, including its first in-wall touchscreen control panel. The Matter-compatible controller works with the company’s new dimmers, switches, and sensors to deliver Aqara’s most advanced suite of hardware for in-home lighting, climate control, home security, and power management.
The Aqara Panel Hub
About seven years after the HDMI 2.1 specification was introduced, the HDMI Forum has announced the next generation: HDMI 2.2, which will require new cables to take advantage of its most high-performance features. It will not require a new connector, though, thankfully.
Though the HDMI Forum is officially calling the new specification HDMI 2.2, the accompan
Jaeheon Shim is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to power this Inky Frame display with a custom organizer setup that integrates with Todoist.
An image has surfaced showcasing Gainward's RTX 5080 just hours before the GPU is set to be announced by Nvidia at CES.
China-backed Canyon Bridge is putting up British chipmaker Imagination Technologies on the market — hopes to find an interested buyer for the company with the continued market interest in AI.
Intel launched its Arrow Lake mobile product stack here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, announcing five new Core Ultra 200H series processors for mainstream high-performance thin-and-lights, and six new Core Ultra 200HX series models for laptops.
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, which kicks off this week, Roborock, a Chinese manufacturer of robot vacuums and other household cleaning appliances, has unveiled a new robotic vacuum model with a foldable robotic arm. It had already piqued my curiosity, but now I really want one.
The OmniGrip arm has five-axis movement and can l
JBL has never met a CES it couldn't dump a bunch of new audio products on, and CES 2025 is no different. The company's new
Keeping its annual tradition of announcing a literal ton of audio products at CES, JBL has loads of new devices for 2025. Amongst the earbuds and speakers, the company is debuting a set of premium over-ear headphones with an interesting feature. The Tour One M3 headphones will ship with what JBL calls the Smart Tx audio transmitte
This is not a phone. The Comet by Mecha Systems is a modular, Linux-based handheld computer built for hobbyists, engineers, students, artists and roboticists of all kinds. The Comet is a chunky palm-sized device, and it has a 1.8 GHz ARM64 Quad-core processor, 4 GB of memory and 32 GB of on-board storage, though this space is expandable. Most of the Comet's features are customizable, in fact.
The Comet's magnetic snap interface allows users to clip on a variety of control panels, calle
Every year at CES, Stern Pinball has a new game to show off. They're one of the oldest and most well-known pinball manufacturers (not to mention one of the few left standing in 2025) so it's always fun for me, a pinball nerd, to check out what they have to show off. This year, it's a new machine meant to celebrate 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons called Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye. And like many pinball games, you can just walk up and play without knowing the intricacies of th
Intel is revving up its AI chip lineup at CES 2025. Today, the company unveiled the Core Ultra 200H chips for "performance thin and light" notebooks, alongside the Core Ultra 200HX chips for mobile gamers who demand powerful discrete GPUs. There aren't any big surprises with these chips, but if you were eyeing the
Ring makes doorbells, cameras, floodlights,
Swimming is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Cleaning a pool, however, is an absolute drag. For my money, pool-cleaning robots are much handier than even standard robovacs. If you have access to a pool, the forthcoming Wybot S3 could ensure you never have to walk around like a doofus with an oversized net ever again.
Announced at CES, the Wybot S3 is an improvement over the S2 in nearly every way. The company says it’s the “first self-docking, self-emptying automatic char
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i'm pretty tired of engagement bait and all the political nonsense on my x/twitter feed.
i was curious if i could use an llm to filter out these type of content, so i prototyped a quick chrome extension.
it uses LLama 3.3 to analyze the tweet through https://groq.com/ (because they are super-super fast).
the extension is available in the chrome store, also there is a link to the repo.
- you can tweak the system prompt for t
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NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission.
Artemis II will utilize NASA’s Space L
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Grow your money faster with these top rates – while you still can. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/dont-miss-out-on-apys-up-to-4-70-todays-cd-rates-jan-6-2025/#ftag=CADf328eec
The best savings rates are close to 5%, but these rates may not last long. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/these-high-savings-apys-can-help-you-reach-your-money-goals-faster-todays-savings-rates-jan-6-2025/#ftag=CADf328eec
Some key mortgage rates declined. Here's where experts say rates might be headed in 2025. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/home-loan-rates-fall-current-mortgage-rates-on-jan-6-2025/#ftag=CADf328eec
Several important refinance rates fell. If your mortgage rate is 1% higher than today's rate, a refinance might be worth it. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/refi-rates-are-easing-for-homeowners-mortgage-refinance-rates-on-jan-6-2025/#ftag=CADf328eec
Roborock's new Saros Z70 robot vacuum, debuting at CES, can do the dirty work nobody wants to do. https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/we-spent-hours-watching-a-robot-vacuum-pick-up-socks-its-a-dream-come-true/#ftag=CADf328eec
How do those tiny trackers work, anyway? Here's a quick look at how they operate. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/everything-you-need-to-know-about-how-airtags-work/#ftag=CADf328eec
If you need to renew your US passport, it's now faster and easier to do it. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-year-new-passport-here-how-you-can-renew-your-us-passport-online/#ftag=CADf328eec
There's a chance you're eligible to get some of your work-from-home internet expenses back but don't count on it. https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/i-work-100-percent-remotely-should-the-irs-compensate-for-wfh-internet/#ftag=CADf328eec
SwitchBot's CES 2025 lineup includes a deluxe AI doorbell that caught my eye -- sporting its own mountable video monitor. https://www.cnet.com/home/security/this-next-gen-video-doorbell-at-ces-comes-with-its-own-high-res-smart-display/#ftag=CADf328eec
You can watch the first six episodes of the galactic adventure now if you need to get caught up. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/star-wars-skeleton-crew-release-schedule-when-episode-seven-hits-disney-plus/#ftag=CADf328eec
This feature has been on your iPhone for awhile if you knew where to find it. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-secret-iphone-ios-feature-that-made-my-calls-more-crisp/#ftag=CADf328eec
A patent filed for a touchpad with haptic feedback and an integrated speaker is a potential spark of ingenuity from Microsoft.
The Eli Health Hormometer aims to gauge stress levels, reproductive health and more by analyzing your saliva.
The first major awards ceremony of 2025 delivered a huge shock in the best animated film category.
While the immediate consequences of a breach are often clear, the long-term implications can be far more devastating.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-true-cost-of-a-security-breach
From the company that brought you last year's finger-nibbling Amagami Ham Ham.
Russian mobile app store spoofed to deploy Android malware.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/this-nasty-android-malware-is-posing-as-telegram-premium-app
New photos might show us a Nintendo Switch 2 controller.
Ever wanted a DualSense for Xbox? You might want to keep an eye on Hyperkin's The Competitor controller.
Despite taking a heavy hit after the July 2024 outage, CrowdStrike’s market value is now close to where it was previously
LG and Samsung are both adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs, and we'll be intrigued to see how that works.
Windows 10 users, start planning for Windows 11 now – by watching Microsoft’s pop-up pushing an upgrade crash.
Withings is showing off a new smart mirror that can show all of your health stats and answer questions about them.
Halliday smart glasses push the boundaries of wearable AI and smart glasses tech and look to release early this year.
The SwitchBot Multitaskin Household Robot K20+ Pro is a robot vacuum cleaner, delivery assistant, mobile security guard and more.
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum co-founder proposes a "global soft pause button" on global hardware to prevent AI from causing existential doom.
Microsoft is set to double down on its generative artificial intelligence efforts in 2025 following the company's Vice Chair and President, Brad Smith's recent announcement of the tech giant's plans to invest up to $80 billion in building data centers.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-massive-80-billiion-investment-in-data-centers
Microsoft Copilot is coming to your TV. Or at least, the web app is. Dual press releases from LG and Samsung detail how the firms are leaning into the AI hype.
CES 2025 officially begins on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, and we’re excited to see all the newfangled consumer tech products that are slated to be announced. But we already have a good idea of what the show has in store when it comes to computer monitors.
Leaks and early announcements hint that CES 2025 will see the debut of several pixel-dense OLED panels, a
Tackling climate change is a team sport, and we all have to be in it together if we want to win. So, not only should we hold companies to high standards as far as mitigating their environmental impact, we should also laud them when they make positive steps in the right direction.
With almost 190 million laptops expected to ship throughout 2024, laptop manuf
Intel officially announced its first two budget-mainstream Battlemage GPUs, the Arc B580 and Arc B570, but they're only the first salvo. The new architecture offers performance and efficiency improvements that should give Nvidia some much-needed competition, though drivers remain a potential sticking point.
The Mecha Comet is made for hackers and makers, running Debian with a custom touch UI and lots of upgradeability.
We, as human beings, don’t worry too much about making sure the connections land at the right point. Our brain just works that way, declaratively. However, for building AI, we need to be more explicit. Let’s dive in! https://smashingmagazine.com/2025/01/understanding-ai-meaning/
Regardless of what kind of exercise you’re into, if you’re working out, you’ll want a pair of wireless workout headphones. They allow you to be free and untethered during a serious weight-lifting session, a 5K run, an hour at the skate park and everywhere in between where you’re moving and sweating a ton. There are dozens of great wireless headphones and
The Espresso 17 Pro is our favorite portable monitor. It delivers great image quality, has a rugged build, boasts built-in speakers and includes a touchscreen function. The only real trouble is that, with a 17-inch screen, it's perhaps not as truly portable as it could be.
Enter the Espresso 15 Pro.
As you mig
Elvie, the company known for its popular wearable breast pump, is showing off a new piece of baby gear at CES. Called Rise, it’s an app-controlled baby bouncer that can transform into a bassinet with a baby inside.
The $799 device is made for infants in the first few months of their lives. Elvie says the bouncer works for babies up to 20 lbs or 6 months old, whi
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