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Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Meredith Whitney Advisory Group's Meredith Whitney, RiverFront Investment Group's Kevin Nicholson, Atlantic Council's Joseph Webster, Union Square Advisors' Ted Smith, Raymond James' Larry Adam, Amherst's Sean Dobson, Southern... View Source

The latest generation of smartglasses can create huge virtual screens without the need to lug around giant monitors are a real boon to frequent travelers. However, their specs aren’t often tailored to the needs of gamers, so at CES 2026, ASUS and XREAL partnered to make a pair with two very important features you don’t normally get from rivals. The new ROG XREAL R1 AR glasses are based on the... View Source

Disney Plus will be getting a vertical video feed later this year, Disney announced as part of its Global Tech & Data Showcase for advertisers at CES, Deadline reports. According to a Disney announcement cited by Deadline, the company's goal is to "explore its use in a variety of ways across categories, and content types, for a personalized and dynamic feed. That will include expanding across... View Source

Anduril Industries Inc. founder Palmer Luckey said he didn’t oppose regulations on defense companies proposed by President Donald Trump, including limits on compensation... View Source

Apple announced today JPMorgan Chase will be the new issuer for the Apple Card. The official news arrived shortly after The Wall Street Journal reported that the two businesses had reached a deal regarding Apple's credit card service. According to the tech company, the transition to the new provider should take about two years to complete, but customers can continue to use their Apple Cards a... View Source

Ford's new AI-powered voice assistant will be rolling out to customers later this year, the company's top software executive said at CES today. And in 2028, the automaker will introduce a hands-free, eyes-off Level 3 autonomous driving feature as part of its more affordable (and hopefully more profitable) Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform, set to launch in 2027. Most importantly, Ford said... View Source

Oil traders and US refiners are rushing to position for access to Venezuelan crude after the Trump administration said it would take control of as much as 50 million barrels, one of the largest unexpected supply flows in years... View Source

Every fall, dozens of maple and oak trees in my neighborhood shed their leaves. Thus begins the constant drone of gas-powered leaf blowers every day through early December. The noise is by far the most annoying thing about these yard tools, but I can appreciate it’s a necessary evil — unless you prefer to pick up a blister-inducing rake. Whisper Aero argues there’s a better way. The company is usi... View Source

On Wednesday evening, Apple announced that JPMorgan Chase will become the new issuer of Apple Card, replacing Goldman Sachs, which has backed the company's credit cards since their launch in 2019. This ends speculation about a new partner for Apple Card stretching back a few years, as Goldman Sachs continues an exit from consumer lending, and Apple manages a services business that has gone from $1... View Source

Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC Ltd. will start trading in Hong Kong on Thursday after a $558 million initial public offering, becoming the first major Chinese generative-AI startup to list... View Source

If you’re off-roading, it’s a neat idea to use your engine to top up your battery, which prompted Bluetti to launch the Charger. You could hook it to your alternator and draw off energy as you drove to make sure you turned up to your campsite with full batteries. But if you’re also toting around solar panels on your roof, then it’s a shame you can’t also use that power to top up. This omission is... View Source

Predator: Badlands has landed on digital platforms ahead of the February 4K Blu-ray release, but still no word on the Hulu streaming release date... View Source

This cutaway shows how the Bluetti Charger 2 can be integrated into your vehicle. | Image: Bluetti Bluetti's latest car charger can quickly charge power stations at a very fast 1200W - about 10 times faster than plugging it into the 12V cigarette lighter outlet. The Charger 2, as it's called, can also reverse the flow of electrons to jump-start your vehicle or maintain its starter battery when use... View Source

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and letters that may belong to the Renaissance genius... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s profit jumped a better-than-projected 208%, driven by surging global demand for AI servers that sharply lifted memory chip prices... View Source

Samsung Display is the part of its giant parent company that makes OLEDs, LCDs and other screens for both Samsung devices and anyone else that can afford them. This year, it’s going all-in on OLEDs of the future. And that meant things like foldable displays with invisible creases, robots hurling basketballs at supertough OLED panels, and OLED screens packed into baffling form factors for no good r... View Source

From left, NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, Johnson Space Center employees Tessa Rundle and Daniel Kolodziejcyk wearing Orion Crew Survival System suits, and Johnson Director Vanessa Wyche stand on the field during the Houston Texans’ Space City Day game Jan. 4, 2026. NASA/James Blair NASA’s Johnson Space Center was front and center Jan. 4, 2026, as the Houston Texans faced the... View Source

Character.AI and Google have reached settlements with several families whose teens harmed themselves or died by suicide after interacting with Character.AI's chatbots, according to new court filings. The details of the settlements are still unknown. The parties notified a federal court in Florida that they had reached a "mediated settlement in principle to resolve all claims," and asked to pause t... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. has once again sidelined Ballie, a long-anticipated robot that was first announced six years ago but never released... View Source

CES 2026: A rocky year ahead of the PC industryWe're halfway through CES 2026, and it’s clear that it's going to be a rough year for the PC industry. In this episode, Devindra chats with Engadget's Dan Cooper about Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and the sad state of the PC industry. We've got some new CPUs, but the volatile RAM market will likely make everything expensive this year. Also, they dive into Dell'... View Source

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about how these cities of galaxies form... View Source

Bloomberg Tech's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow are live from CES in Las Vegas. They sit down with Jim Johnson of Intel's Client Computing Group to discuss the chipmaker's efforts to make its products competitive again. They also discuss why Warner Brothers rejected an amended takeover offer from Paramount Skydance; and they are joined by Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to weigh in on the company's acquis... View Source

It's only been a few months since Meta announced that it would open its smart glasses platform to third-party developers. But one startup at CES is already showing off how the glasses can help power an intriguing set of accessibility features.Hapware has created Aleye, a haptic wristband that, when paired with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, can help people understand the facial expressions and o... View Source

NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman will conduct a historic spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday morning (Jan. 8), and you can watch the action live... View Source

X's Grok chatbot hasn't stopped accepting users' requests to strip down women and, in some cases, apparent minors to AI-generated bikinis. According to some reports, the flood of AI-generated images includes more extreme content that potentially violates laws against nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Even in the US, where X owner Elon Musk has close ties... View Source

Kelvin Chiang knew the five agentic AI models built by his team could in ten minutes do what used to take a private banker an entire day. With that in place, he went to show Singapore’s banking regulator the safeguards would sufficiently control the risks... View Source

OpenAI is launching a new facet for its AI chatbot called ChatGPT Health. This new feature will allow users to connect medical records and wellness apps to ChatGPT in order to get more tailored responses to queries about their health. The company noted that there will be additional privacy safeguards for this separate space within ChatGPT, and said that it will not use conversations held in Health... View Source

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli retrieves media bags inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module for Emory University’s Project EAGLE investigation.NASA NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. A truly global endeavor, the International Space Station has been visited by more than 290 people from 26 coun... View Source

Over the last 25 years, a lot of Lego Star Wars sets have come and gone. These are the ones we wish would make a return... View Source

The Amazfit Active 2 is a solid fitness tracker that could easily be mistaken for a smartwatch. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazfit might not have the name recognition of a company like Garmin or Fitbit, but its wearables consistently impress, with the Amazfit Active 2 being one of the best fitness trackers you can buy. And right now, it’s on sale for just $84.99 ($15 off) at Amazo... View Source

A look at the cyber efforts used in the operation to capture Maduro... View Source

Character.AI and Google have reportedly agreed to settle multiple lawsuits regarding teen suicide and self-harm. According to The Wall Street Journal, the victims' families and the companies are working to finalize the settlement terms.The families of several teens sued the companies in Florida, Colorado, Texas and New York. The Orlando, FL, lawsuit was filed by the mother of 14-year-old Sewe... View Source

The holidays — and the copious amounts of binge-watching that come with them — are very much behind us at this point, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be time to catch up on the movies from last year (and beyond) you might have missed. Thankfully, Amazon has brought back one of the better promos we’ve seen in recent years, allowing you to snag three 4K UHD Blu-ray discs for $33 through January 19... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery rejected an amended takeover offer from Paramount Skydance and encouraged shareholders to stick with a deal it has in place with Netflix. Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the news with Quickplay Chief Business Officer Paul Pastor, who previously held senior executive positions at Discovery Communications and the Walt Disney Company. They speak on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source... View Source

Installing a virtual private network (VPN) on an iPhone or iPad is easy. The days are gone when Apple users had to be content with the leavings from the Windows ecosystem — in 2026, all the best VPN services have secure, user-friendly iOS apps on par with every other platform. If you've decided to add a VPN to your iPhone to stay anonymous online and change your virtual location, you've... View Source

OpenAI has been dropping hints this week about AI's role as a "healthcare ally" - and today, the company is announcing a product to go along with that idea: ChatGPT Health. ChatGPT Health is a sandboxed tab within ChatGPT that's designed for users to ask their health-related questions in what it describes as a more secure and personalized environment, with a separate chat history and memory featur... View Source

CEO Jochen Hanebeck discusses how AI has become a growth story for Infineon. He joins Annabelle Droulers on “Bloomberg Markets” from CES in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Fujifilm just revealed the Instax mini Evo Cinema camera, which looks suspiciously like a vintage Super 8. More specifically, it was designed to mimic the Single-8 from 1965, which was a rival unit to the Super 8. Fujifilm's latest device captures video, just like its retro inspiration. Wow, the new FUJIFILM Instax Mini EVO Cinema camera looks nuts.. esp the decade slider thing for the looks... View Source

The Light Straight maxes out at 320 degrees Fahrenheit. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Hair gadgets have become increasingly popular over the last decade. Hair dryers, curlers, steamers - you name it, there's probably a TikTokker shilling for the latest hair gadget that will totally revolutionize a hair routine. Even so, I was excited to get a demo of L'Oréal's Light Straight at CES 2... View Source

OpenAI is introducing a new feature in ChatGPT that will allow users to analyze medical test results, prepare for doctors appointments and seek guidance on diets and workout routines — marking the company’s biggest push yet into the health care sector... View Source

As power gets more dicey, personal energy generation only gets more appealing. Shine’s compact turbine isn’t going to power your house any time soon (though the company’s co-founder told me they have plans in that direction) but it can suck up the energy required to refill a smartphone in as little as 17 minutes. Of course, what it can generate depends on wind speed. That same charge could take as... View Source

Jared Leto's sci-fi flick hits the Disney+ streaming grid starting January 7... View Source

Samsung's spherical Ballie robot may be rolling off into the sunset, less than a year after its retail launch was announced. The smart home robot has made an appearance at CES almost every year since it was first announced in 2020, but was notably absent at CES 2026. Unfortunately, its disappearance may be because Ballie has been shelved. In a statement emailed to Bloomberg, Samsung said Ballie is... View Source

AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based artificial intelligence startup, has held preliminary talks with Nvidia Corp. and other companies, though no deal is imminent, co-founder Amnon Shashua said... View Source

If you've never docked a boat before, consider yourself lucky. There are plenty of popular TikTok channels devoted to shaming those who bring their craft back home clumsily or berth them with something less than finesse. Tricky crosswinds, unpredictable surf and even the jeers of passersby can make it a stressful experience at the best of times.Brunswick, which owns more than 50 water-borne b... View Source

Amazon says its new Dash Cart has a 40 percent larger capacity. Amazon is launching a revamped version of its smart shopping cart, which it plans to bring to dozens of Whole Foods locations by the end of this year, according to an announcement on Wednesday. The new Dash Cart features a "more responsive" item scanner that's now located next to the built-in display, along with a new NFC reader that... View Source

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup behind the chatbot Claude, is planning to raise $10 billion in a funding round that would value the company at $350 billion before the new investment, the Wall Street Journal reported... View Source

When LG announced that it would demo a laundry-folding, chore-doing robot at CES 2026, I was immediately intrigued. For years, I've wandered the Las Vegas Convention Center halls and wondered when someone might create a robot that can tackle the mundane but useful tasks I despise like folding laundry. With CLOiD (pronounced like "Floyd"), LG has proven that this is theoretically pos... View Source

You hold Fujifilm’s new instant camera sideways like a camcorder. | Image: Fujifilm Fujifilm is expanding its hybrid instant camera line with the new Instax Mini Evo Cinema that adds the ability to capture video clips up to 15 seconds long. The Mini Evo Cinema also features a unique design inspired by the vintage Fujica Single-8 8mm film camera that Fujifilm introduced in 1965. It will be released... View Source

Discord Inc. filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The chat app company is working with Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase on a listing, people familiar with the plans said. Bailey Lipschultz has more on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

I'll admit that I've always kind of taken walking for granted. Other than a knee injury more than a decade ago, my ability to walk long distances has largely been limited only by my own choices. That's not the case for everyone, though. And robotics company Dephy has created a pair of robotic sneakers, called the Sidekick, that are meant to help people who want to walk more than the... View Source

Dell has revealed that consumers aren't buying PCs for AI features right now. In an interview with PC Gamer ahead of CES, Dell has made it clear its 2026 products aren't all about being AI-first, and it's moving beyond being "all about" AI PCs. "We're very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device-in fact everything that we're announcing has an NPU in it - but what we've learned o... View Source

At the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week, robots poured coffee, played ping pong, dealt poker hands and folded laundry — all within a few feet of one another... View Source

Samsung says AI data center-fueled RAM scarcity could raise the company's prices. Wonjin Lee, Samsung's global marketing leader, sounded the alarm in an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday at CES 2026. As recently as early December, Samsung told Reuters that it was monitoring the market but wouldn't comment on pricing. So, the change of tune can be seen as a deliberate signal to sof... View Source

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky as dusk slowly fades. You really should catch the show... View Source

Belkin’s Charging Case Pro makes some thoughtful tweaks to its previous battery-equipped model, and it’s launching in mid-January. | Image: Belkin News coming out of CES 2026 might be slowing down, but as of Wednesday we still have writers on the ground, zipping around from hotel suite to Las Vegas convention center to try everything that matters. We've published well over 100 articles, and there'... View Source

Mobileye, the maker of self-driving car technology, is buying startup Mentee Robotics for $900 million. Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua explains how the acquisition fits in with the company’s push to develop humanoid robots. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” from CES in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

CES 2026 is in full swing, but you don’t have to wait months to get your hands on everything announced in Las Vegas this year. A surprising number of products are already up for pre-order, if not outright available to buy today, from new chargers and docks to projectors, keyboards and smart home gear. CES is still a showcase for concepts and big promises, but these are the gadgets that have real p... View Source

Sony's first PlayStation announcement of 2026 is all about color. The new Hyperpop Collection includes colorful neon console covers and controllers that really add a pop of color to a PS5. Sadly, if you own a PS5 Pro then you won't be able to enjoy the RGB in your living room fun. There are three colors available: techno red, remix green, and rhythm blue (RGB!). All three are very different to the... View Source

New research has given credence to a 5,000-year-old practice... View Source

WhatsApp just rolled out some upgrades to group chats. Perhaps the most interesting is the addition of member tags, which lets users give themselves a tag that's customized for a specific group. Meta gives examples of a user assigning themself the role of a dad in one chat and a soccer goalkeeper in another. This could actually be pretty useful to people who use WhatsApp group chats to role p... View Source

NASA/Nichole Ayers NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this image of lightning while orbiting aboard the International Space Station more than 250 miles above Milan, Italy on July 1, 2025. Storm observations from space station help scientists study Earth’s upper atmosphere, which can improve weather models and protect communication systems and aircraft. Space station crew take photographs of Ear... View Source

Last year was a pivotal one for Netflix, as it saw arguably the streamer's two most prominent series - Stranger Things and Squid Game - come to an end. And while Netflix has a number of competing priorities now, its lineup for 2026 also shows it's not quite done with blockbuster franchises just yet. The company just released its planned lineup for the year and it features plenty of major names. In... View Source

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he left a bear cub's corpse in Central Park in 2014 to "be fun." Records newly obtained by WIRED show what he left New York civil servants to clean up... View Source

Payhawk, a Bulgarian startup that helps companies manage spending, is in early discussions to raise new financing that could double its valuation to around $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

CES 2026 isn't the first year we've seen a wave of interesting robots or even useful robots crop up in Las Vegas. But it's the first year I can remember when there have been so many humanoid and humanoid-like robots performing actually useful tasks. Of those, Switchbot's Onero H1 has been one of the most intriguing robot helpers I've seen on the show floor, especially beca... View Source

Since almost day one, Spotify has offered the ability to creep on your friends' listening habits - but you could mostly only uncover those guilty pleasures on the desktop app. The company experimented with a community feature on the mobile app back in 2022, but it never officially launched. Now the company is finally bringing Listening Activity to the mobile app for real. Listening Activity is opt... View Source

President Donald Trump has revived his long-running ambition to bring Greenland under US control, but traders putting money on the outcome are skeptical it will happen this year, while assigning higher odds to some form of acquisition before his term ends... View Source

Throne has rocked up to CES 2026 to show off its forthcoming toilet computer which uses computer vision to study your poop. It hangs from the side of the bowl and has a camera and microphone to track bowel motions and urination and offer feedback. It was co-founded by (activity tracker) Whoop co-founder John Capodilupo, who explained the hardware is designed to understand what your base state is t... View Source

The Hubble Telescope appears as a tiny silhouette during a perfectly timed solar transit captured from Puerto Rico... View Source

The X5 Alteron’s customizable design should accommodate most gamers’ preferences. | Image: Hyperkin and GameSir Hyperkin announced a new clamp-on style wireless controller created in collaboration with GameSir. The X5 Alteron features similar functionality to GameSir's GameSir G8 Plus that debuted in 2024 with an expanding telescopic mechanism that can clamp onto smartphones, tablets, and several... View Source

CES 2026’s first official show day kept the pace up with a mix of near-term gaming upgrades, ambitious new form factors and a few reminders that not every gadget needs to do everything. NVIDIA announced important gaming news, we caught up with Samsung’s tri-fold phone and Lenovo marched out an army of impressive looking gaming laptops and concept tech. Here are the biggest stories from January 6.N... View Source

There are some things you can reliably expect to see at the Consumer Electronics Show every year. Companies will announce big splashy TVs, there's going to be a bunch of new gadgets for charging your other gadgets, and the odds are good that a robot or two is going to hilariously malfunction. But CES always manages to sneak in a few surprises, whether with what has been announced, what hasn't made... View Source

In a unanimous written determination, the Warner Bros. Discovery's board is advising shareholders to once again reject Paramount Skydance's "inadequate" hostile takeover bid. The letter to shareholders cites a number of concerns with the offer and reiterates its position that Netflix's offer remains superior. Netflix and WBD have entered into a merger agreement in early De... View Source

The new Kallsup speakers are cute and affordable. Ikea's new cute, colorful Kallsup Bluetooth speakers cost just $10 (€5 in Europe) each and feature instant Bluetooth pairing. Pair one to your phone, then, with a two-button sequence, another Kallsup can join the party. You can theoretically pair up to 100. The team I chatted with at CES - where Ikea is making its debut this year - says they'v... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset-management unit cut ties with proxy-advisory firms and plans to use artificial intelligence to assist with voting US company shares, according to a person with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Lego’s new Smart Play system, announced at CES earlier this week, is an embrace of digital technology the likes of which we haven’t seen from the company before. And while the demonstration it gave on Monday was a good start towards showing just what Lego’s Smart Brick is capable of, there’s no substitute for seeing it in person. Fortunately, an extended demo answered a lot of my questions on how... View Source

From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike anything I'd seen before... View Source

When The Lego Group announced that its biggest innovation since 1978 would be a tiny proprietary computer brick, the reactions were divided. I heard from people concerned this was the death of imagination from a company that's all about imagination - and from people who thought it sounded pretty cool! Personally, I walked in skeptical. My kids loved Lego's previous computer bricks, the Lego Mario... View Source

Bose Corp. will extend functionality for a range of smart speakers it previously announced would lose support in February, following a customer outcry... View Source

Klipsch hasn’t debuted new headphones in years, but that’s going to change in 2026. At CES, Klipsch announced the upcoming Atlas hi-fi series that includes wireless and both closed and semi-open back models. All three are expected to arrive this summer, but the company hasn’t announced pricing or many details on any of them just yet. However, I was able to listen to the Atlas HP-1, the wireless mo... View Source

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is... View Source

Roblox is rolling out its previously announced requirement for all users to go through an age estimation process to be able to use the platform's chat features. The policy was announced in November 2025 and was rolled out to Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands in December, but now users will be prompted to complete an age check to be able to chat in "all regions where chat is available," R... View Source

Venture firm Lux Capital raised $1.5 billion for its ninth fund — the largest in its more than 20-year history — with plans to back more companies that focus on fields like breakthrough science and national security... View Source

We see plenty of far-out ideas on the CES show floor, and this year Razer brought in a concept piece called Project Motoko. The device is Razer's take on blurring the line between a gaming headset and an AI-powered wearable for daily life. Or it's a way for Ghost in the Shell fans to feel affronted by Razer taking The Major's name in vain, take your pick. Project Motoko is powe... View Source

You’re not ready for this level of weirdness. There's never a shortage of exciting and innovative tech at CES. A superthin TV and tri-folding phone are cool and all, but sometimes the weirdest gadgets are the ones that make us go "huh." Luckily, there was plenty of wacky stuff on the show floor this year, and we've rounded up some of the most bizarre (in no particular order). A hair dryer that dou... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Vlad Savov reflects on what’s most important in life, which stock markets suggest might be memory... View Source

MTV shut down its remaining 24/7 music channels in several countries, including the UK and Australia, at the end of 2025. The main MTV network shifted its focus to reality shows long ago and it occasionally dips back into music with things like the Video Music Awards, but this shutdown felt like the end of an era. If you yearn for the days when MTV actually played music videos, though, you might b... View Source

Customizable features, like the buttons and scrollwheel on this Logitech MX Master 4, stopped working. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge If you're among the macOS users experiencing some weird issues with your Logitech mouse, then good news: Logitech has now released a fix. This comes after multiple Reddit users reported yesterday that Logi Options Plus - the app required to manage and confi... View Source

Chinese officials are looking into whether Meta Platforms Inc.’s acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus violated national security or technology export regulations, an initial review that could hinder the deal down the road if officials determine wrongdoing... View Source

LG just announced its fastest and brightest OLED gaming monitor yet at CES, the 27-inch UltraGear GX7. The new QHD display, which uses LG Display's 4th-gen RGB Tandem 2.0 OLED tech, can hit 335 nits typical brightness and is DisplayHDR True Black 500 certified. At the same time, it offers an outstanding 540Hz refresh rate at QHD (720Hz at HD) and a .002ms grey-to-grey (GtG) response time. So... View Source

Elon Musk’s X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI, according to a third-party analysis, with thousands of instances each hour over a day earlier this week... View Source

CES remains a key stage for laptop makers to lay out their plans for the year ahead. At CES 2026, that meant new flagship productivity machines, reconsidered gaming notebooks and solid incremental updates across several major lineups. While we’re still seeing embargoes lift and hands-on time on the show floor, the announcements below reflect the most significant laptops we’ve seen so far. Plus, th... View Source

Siemens AG Chief Executive Officer Roland Busch sees potential deals in artificial intelligence, life sciences and operations software, which runs factories... View Source

Last year, PocketBook rocked up at CES with a series of large e-paper displays to display art on the walls of your home. This year, the company has turned up with a far larger, A1-sized model called the Duna, which it says mimics the “texture, depth and tonal richness of printed paper.” It’s intended to act as an upmarket alternative to those big screen TVs which display art when they’re not being... View Source

"The Chinese may well beat the U.S. with a grab sample."... View Source

Mobileye Global Inc. is acquiring Israeli startup Mentee Robotics in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $900 million, as the self-driving car system company expands its robotics capabilities... View Source

Philips Hue has introduced a new software feature called SpatialAware at CES 2026 designed to ensure that all the lights in a space are in harmony with each other. Available exclusively for the Hue Bridge Pro, it takes into account each light point in a room and tailors the colors to ensure a natural representation. "In a sunset scene, for example, the lights on one side of the room emit warm... View Source

Lenovo Group Ltd. unveiled a new artificial intelligence platform and several proof-of-concept devices, an attempt by the world’s best-selling PC maker to show it can be a serious player in AI... View Source

The following article discusses themes of an adult nature.Lovense has turned up to CES with a “companion doll,” a life-size sex doll that’s designed to be more than just a life size sex doll. The company has equipped it with its proprietary AI engine and promises “human-like cognition, emotional awareness and expressive behavior.” The doll, which in the marketing video is called Emily, is Lovense’... View Source

Bloomberg's Shery Ahn and Annabelle Droulers host a special edition of 'Bloomberg Tech: Asia' at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, featuring one of China's rising stars, Deep Robotics. Plus, an exclusive interview with Samsung on their latest AI developments and outlook for the year ahead. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

As soon as I held the Pebble Round 2 in my hand, I suddenly realized what I’d been missing for the better part of a decade. I’ve always felt smartwatches should supplement, rather than supplant, your phone, but that’s an attitude that feels almost quaint these days. After all, Apple and Samsung believe everyone wants a watch that can do almost everything your phone can do. But that wasn’t the prev... View Source

SpatialAware lets Hue know where lights are in your room, so it can apply lighting scenes more effectively. Color-changing lights are a lot of fun, but it can be hard to figure out how to best use them in your home. Most smart lighting companies offer pre-designed scenes to help you light your space, but the lights don't know where they are physically in your home, and the effect can get diluted... View Source

African credit markets may disappoint investors hoping for a repeat of last year’s stellar returns, according to hedge fund Enko Capital Management LLP, which is seeking out trades to cushion against setbacks in the continent’s top performing assets... View Source

Multiple of Satechi's Thunderbolt 4 docks are on Engadget's list of the best docking stations, so when the company announces a new accessory, it's usually worth a look. At CES 2026, Satechi is finally making the jump to Thunderbolt 5 with a new docking station and cable. The Thunderbolt 5 CubeDock with SSD Enclosure and Thunderbolt 5 Pro Cable leverage the faster speeds of Intel's cable tech, and... View Source

US President Donald Trump says Venezuela will send the US as much as 50M barrels of oil. Also on the show: Nvidia and Siemens are expanding their partnership using AI to transform industrial systems; President Trump is not ruling out the use of military force to acquire Greenland; Saudi Arabia is moving to open its real estate market to foreign buyers; Saudi is also opening its stock market to all... View Source

The ASUS Zenbook Duo was easily one of my favorite laptops of 2024 as it was the first dual-screen notebook actually worth buying. But now at CES 2026, ASUS has given the second-gen model a complete revamp with practically all the upgrades and tweaks I’ve been hoping for. Like the rest of the Zenbook line, the 2026 Duo is getting ASUS’ Ceraluminum treatment on its lid, bottom and kickstand, w... View Source

China launched an anti-dumping probe into imports from Japan of dichlorosilane, a material used in the chipmaking process, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement... View Source

The Chinese micromobility company Navee has some wild new stuff at CES 2026. The lineup is headlined by the UT5 Ultra X, a dual-motor e-scooter with an advertised top speed of 43 mph. And who among us isn't in the market for an auto-following golf cart and a seaplane?The flagship UT5 Ultra X is a sleek-looking e-scooter with a pair of 2,400W motors. Navee says it can reach a top speed of 43 m... View Source

IKEA will shutter seven of its signature blue-box furniture stores across China and pivot to smaller outlets, as the Swedish retailer grapples with the country’s prolonged property slump and rising competition from local rivals... View Source

Anker dove into CES 2026 with a slew of announcements that bring new chargers and accessories under its umbrella. The new accessories include improved visual interfaces, faster Qi2 wireless charging and “upgraded ecosystems” that support the latest iPhones. Some of the latest devices are even available to buy right now. First up is the Anker Nano Charger with smart display, which features a tiny s... View Source

Revolut Ltd. is in talks to acquire Turkish digital bank FUPS to start offerings its services in the country, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

On Monday, we went hands-on at CES with LG's new Sound Suite speakers featuring Dolby Atmos FlexConnect and now we have pricing for the entire lineup. The modular home audio system consists of four speakers that include a soundbar, surround speakers and a subwoofer. The centerpiece of the group is the H7 soundbar, which will retail for $1,000. The soundbar uses FlexConnect to optimize sound b... View Source

The Moto Watch will be available on January 22nd. At CES, Motorola announced its latest smartwatch, the Moto Watch. According to Motorola, the Android watch offers up to 13 days of battery life, alongside Polar-powered health tracking, open-source software, and dual-frequency GPS - a combination that helps set it apart from Apple's and Google's flagship wearables. Battery life is easily its most n... View Source

Daniel Newman, CEO of Futurum Group, shares his thoughts on AI valuations, agentic AI, and the biggest trends he sees emerging from CES in Las Vegas. He spoke on Bloomberg’s Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Lenovo has unveiled a bunch of new laptops and concepts at CES 2026, including its latest ThinkPad X1 models. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition and ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 11 Aura Edition come with a new design the company has dubbed “Space Frame.” Lenovo calls Space Frame an “engineering breakthrough” and describes it as a design that restructures the interior of a laptop, so that compone... View Source

Got me all twisted up. At CES 2026, Lenovo is announcing a new ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist laptop. Once a concept, the 14-inch thin-and-light sports a motorized pivoting hinge, allowing it to twist and angle its screen toward you. It can be manually controlled, but the real trick is tracking your head and automatically adjusting to your position or posture. It can follow you around a portion o... View Source

Lenovo Group Ltd.‘s Motorola unveiled its first folding phone that opens like a book or passport, a departure from the string of clamshell-style foldables that the brand has released over the last several years... View Source

If you saw Lenovo's Legion Go 2 launch last year and thought, "I'll wait for the SteamOS version," well, you'll have to wait a little longer. But at least now it's official. At CES 2026, the company revealed the Legion Go 2, Powered by SteamOS. The Valve-friendly variant of the gaming handheld arrives in June, starting at a pricey $1,199.There aren't any surprise... View Source

Yes, that nice big stylus is included. Lenovo's new pair of Yoga laptops for CES 2026 are its most powerful and most lightweight models. The flagship Yoga Pro 9i is a creator-focused laptop with a 16-inch 4K tandem OLED reaching 1,600 peak nits of brightness, Intel Panther Lake processor options, and up to an RTX 5070 for a discrete GPU. It also includes a Yoga Pen Gen 2 stylus that can magnetical... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products... View Source

A couple years ago Lenovo showed off a concept laptop stand that used cameras and AI to follow you around. But now at CES 2026, the company has taken that idea and turned it into a full-fledged system that it’s actually going to sell. Dubbed the ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist, instead of a laptop stand, Lenovo created a standalone notebook with the same functionality, plus a little more. The... View Source

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Wider is better. Lenovo is at it again with wild laptop concepts for CES 2026, and the biggest one is the Legion Pro Rollable gaming laptop. It has a flexible OLED display that expands horizontally - as opposed to Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, which rolls up and down. The Legion Pro Rollable's screen goes from a conventional 16-inch 16:10 aspect ratio to an extra-wide 21.5 inches, all the way to... View Source

China unveiled broad regulations Wednesday that ban major platforms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. from coercing online merchants into promotions, one of a raft of new measures intended to cool rapidly intensifying e-commerce competition... View Source

After kicking off its Moto Things accessory line with wireless earbuds, a Bluetooth tracker and a cheap smartwatch in 2024, Motorola is doubling down. At CES 2026, the company is announcing a sequel to its tracker, the Moto Tag 2, a stylus for its new folding phone, the Moto Pen Ultra and a more premium smartwatch called the Moto Watch.The Moto Watch has a 47mm round face with a stainless steel cr... View Source

Watching this thing in action is pretty fun, thanks to that windowed lid. At CES 2026, Lenovo is announcing yet another new concept laptop with a transforming screen: the ThinkPad Rollable XD Concept. It's a ThinkPad, complete with its iconic red TrackPoint nub, but it features a flexible OLED display that wraps around to the outer part of its lid. Slide your finger along the folded spin of its t... View Source

Kuaishou Technology is considering a maiden offshore bond sale, according to people familiar with the matter, joining a wave of Chinese technology companies tapping global debt markets... View Source

If the world didn't already have one too many digital assistants, Lenovo is adding another one to the pile. On Tuesday evening, the company announced Qira, a cross-device AI for both its own computers and Motorola smartphones. Set to arrive later this quarter, it will live at the system level of Lenovo devices. Users won't need to open or switch to the assistant. Instead, "it's... View Source

If you prefer to have your notifications on silent but don't want to miss anything, Lenovo's new All-in-One (AIO) PC might have a solution. The Yoga AIO i Aura Edition unveiled today at CES features a major design overhaul with a transparent light bar at the bottom of the display. The customizable ambient lighting can sync to video content on the display and change when you get notifications. It a... View Source

Baidu Inc.’s artificial-intelligence chip unit has hired banks for an initial public offering in Hong Kong that may raise as much as $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Not everyone remembers the unique controllers that never quite made it. As third-party peripheral makers attempt to offer gamers something different to the likes of DualSense and Joy-Cons, they often have to go in a different direction. GameSir’s Swift Drive (apparently a working product name) is definitely that. And if you remember 1998’s JogCon for the PS1, there’s definitely some shared DNA. It... View Source

Lenovo is the latest tech company to get bit by the smart glasses bug. The company just showed off a pair of concept AI glasses at CES 2026. While these weren't a working prototype, we have some idea of where Lenovo's head is at. The lightweight frames weigh about 45g and have a 2MP camera right above the nose bridge. You can also sort of see the binocular display in our photos. A nearby spec shee... View Source

Apple battery supplier TDK is moving into smart glasses, putting it in direct competition with Chinese rivals in the race to produce the lightest wearables. CEO Noboru Saito discusses opportunity in the realm of smart glasses with Bloomberg's Asia Trade anchor Shery Ahn at the CES event in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Lenovo has experimented more with laptops featuring rollable displays than pretty much any other PC maker and at CES 2026 it’s keeping that trend going with the XD Rollable Concept.Equipped with a 180-degree Gorilla Glass Victus 2 cover, the XD Rollable concept features a very futuristic design. However, underneath, it has the same basic engineering as last year’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6. That means... View Source

Intel announced yesterday that it's developing an entire "handheld gaming platform" powered by its new Panther Lake chips, and joining an increasingly competitive field. Qualcomm is hinting about potential Windows gaming handhelds showing up at the Game Developers Conference in March, and AMD's new Strix Halo chips could lead to more powerful handhelds. According to IGN and TechCrunch, sources say... View Source

The New Zealand High Court has issued an urgent injunction barring the publication of stolen medical data after hackers accessed about 430,000 private patient documents held on a health portal used by more than a third of the country’s population... View Source

Lenovo might have the most concept devices of any company at CES 2026, but the wildest and most interesting one is almost certainly the Legion Pro Rollable which features a 16-inch flexible display that can expand to not one but two different sizes. To make the Legion Pro Rollable, Lenovo started out with a standard Legion Pro 7i and kept the bottom half including all of its ports and support... View Source

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 tens of millions of devices every year. What it decides to ship, bundle, and integrate can directly shape how AI shows up in many everyday lives. That's what made Lenovo's announcement today at CES not... View Source

Research analysts are scrambling to raise price targets on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shares, underscoring continued bullishness on the chipmaking giant after its record surge... View Source

Motorola just announced its very first side-foldable smartphone, joining the ranks of the Pixel 10 Pro Fold and the Galaxy Z Fold 7. The Razr Fold boasts an impressive 6.6-inch external screen and an 8.1-inch flexible main display. The company hasn't provided dimensions, so we don't know how thick it is. We do know, however, that it'll include support for the Moto Pen Ultra stylus... View Source

The Legion Go 2 with SteamOS. | Image: Lenovo One year ago, Lenovo became the first company besides Valve to announce a handheld with SteamOS instead of Windows. The result was the Legion Go S with SteamOS; no Steam Deck killer due to price and battery life, but a big step forward in performance and pick-up-and-play portability. Now, Lenovo's doing it again - it's bringing SteamOS to the Legion Go... View Source

Lenovo is unveiling its new AI products and partnerships at its annual Tech World conference, which this year coincides with CES in Las Vegas. CTO Tolga Kurtoğlu says the company is focusing on providing on-device Hybrid AI technology for its customers and sees embedding artificial intelligence into robotics as the future of its adoption. He spoke with Annabelle Droulers in the sidelines of CES. (... View Source

Lenovo has brought a slew of updates to its Legion and LOQ line of gaming laptops for CES 2026. The refreshed laptops are all built around Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs. The new Legion 7a is both thinner and lighter than the previous generation and is aimed at gamers, creators, and working professionals. Lenovo says the new 7a will be powered by AMD Ryzen AI 400 CPUs and RTX 50-series GPUs, delivering... View Source

A battery you can forget about for a while. It's always refreshing when the new version of a product gets significantly better battery life than the last. And that's the case with the Moto Tag 2: Motorola's second-gen tracker tag can go more than 500 days before it needs a new battery. That's almost a year and a half that you can forget about charging at least one of your gadgets. The Moto Tag 2 t... View Source

Samsung’s new products at CES have generated fresh buzz, but President Wonjin Lee sounded the alarm: memory‑chip shortages could drive price hikes across the electronics industry. Lee exclusively spoke with Bloomberg’s Shery Ahn on the sidelines of CES in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Lenovo just revealed a new smartglasses concept design at CES 2026. The appropriately-named Lenovo AI Glasses Concept promises to transform "how users interact with their surroundings and unifies their workflow." They look like a standard pair of specs and not all that different from something like Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses. A pair weighs just 45 grams and the battery lasts eig... View Source

Samsung Display and Intel have teamed up on laptop technology called SmartPower HDR that they claim can minimize power usage while you're watching HDR content on an OLED screen. Intel showed off this technology last year, but Samsung Display is sharing details about how it works and the power savings you might expect. However, the company didn't say which laptops may get SmartPower HDR, so it's st... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Kayne Anderson Rudnick’s Julie Biel, Council on Foreign Relations’ Richard Haass, Baird’s David George, Hines’ David Steinbach, Wells Fargo Investment Institute’s Veronica Willis, 15-Time NBA all-Star Shaquille O’Neal, Hershey... View Source

If I were building a new PC today, I'd go for a small form factor mATX or ITX build. With companies like Fractal Design and Lian Li making cases that can fit modern GPUs without sacrificing on thermals, you don't need to settle for the old mid-tower monstrosities of yesteryear. And that's why PNY's new "Slim” model RTX 50-series designs caught my eye. All three variants, c... View Source

Discord Inc. filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to a rapidly growing pipeline of venture capital-backed tech listings... View Source

In the original, and best Total Recall, there’s a scene where Rekall’s receptionist uses a digital pen to change the color of her nail polish. It’s only taken 35 years, but now a company has turned up to CES 2026 with a version that actually works outside a pricey sci-fi movie. iPolish is a company which makes press-on acrylic nails that, when you apply an electric charge, changes color.In order t... View Source

A stock rally that has added $350 billion in market value for Samsung Electronics Co. since the start of last year may have more room to run as bullish analysts and investors eye record profits... View Source

Meta has been experimenting with EMG technology for years. In 2025, the company commercialized it for the first time in its Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, which users control via a dedicated neural band that is able to interpret subtle muscle movements in the wrist.Now, at CES 2026, the company is offering its first look at how its neural band could be used to control devices outside of its smart g... View Source

xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round, exceeding the $15 billion targeted round size, and raised $20 billion. Investors participating in the round include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX and Baron Capital Group, amongst other key partners. Strategic investors in the round include NVIDIA and ... Read mor... View Source

SwitchBot’s Onero H1 is the only multi-purpose home robot with any firm release plan, and even that is just “soon.” If you listen to the CES hype machine this year, you might think that robots are finally ready to take over your domestic duties. To some extent that's true, but take note of the plural: there's no single robot ready to take over all of your household chores yet, but an army of them... View Source

Two of China’s largest generative AI startups are set for back-to-back debuts in Hong Kong this week, testing investor appetite for an industry that blossomed in the post-ChatGPT era. Yet Zhipu and MiniMax — among the country’s earliest challengers to sector leaders including OpenAI — took very different routes to public markets... View Source

How far has Intel's embedded Arc graphics come over the years? Enough to let me play Battlefield 6 at up to 190 fps in 1080p, with the graphics settings set to high, all on an unassuming Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5. There was no need for dedicated graphics, just the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H's built-in Arc B390 GPU. There's a catch, of course: Intel's XeSS3 AI upscaling and 4X fra... View Source

Using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and observatories on Earth, scientists have confirmed the existence of Betelgeuse's elusive companion star, named Siwarha... View Source

Universal Music Group is partnering with Nvidia to bring a new AI model to one of the world's largest music catalogs. Among other initiatives, Tuesday's announcement touts the extension of Nvidia's music AI model Music Flamingo, which is designed to mimic how humans understand music by recognizing nuanced elements like song structure, harmony, emotional arcs, and chord progressions. It's another i... View Source

Bloomberg Tech's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow are live from CES in Las Vegas. They sit down with AMD CEO Lisa Su after the company announced a new chip for corporate data center use. Plus, Lucid Interim CEO Marc Winterhoff weighs in on the global EV and robotaxi landscape. And the CEO of gaming-hardware company Razer joins to discuss its latest AI gaming ecosystem. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bethesda announced on X today that Quake is now a Steam Deck Verified title. The 1996 game from the legendary id Software has also been designated Handheld Optimized for the Xbox ROG Ally devices. As one of the OG boomer shooters, Quake still commands a sizable and passionate fan base, and it's now available on just about every gaming platform imaginable. Since rolling out its verificati... View Source

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech, Big Government, and the big paradigm shifts that result from their collision. Not a subscriber yet? It's a new year, so why not treat yourself? In 2022, Jake Sullivan, then national security adviser under President Joe Biden and a powerful figure in the White House's foreign policy team, assembled an interagency pla... View Source

"Bloomberg Markets" follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today's guests: Citi Global Head of Commodities Research Max Layton and General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

I’ve been using the same smartphone controller on my iPhone for years. That’s partly because most options are so similar. Announced at CES 2026, the X5 Alteron couldn’t be more different. It’s a collaboration between GameSir (which loves unusual peripheral dalliances) and Hyperkin (retro-leaning controller maker). The X5 Alteron is apparently the world's first fully modular mobile games contr... View Source

SpaceX recently stacked the giant Super Heavy booster that will help launch the upcoming 12th test flight of the company's Starship megarocket... View Source

Grok began 2026 as it began 2025: under fire for its AI-generated images. Elon Musk's chatbot has spent the last week flooding X with nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors. Circulating screenshots show Grok complying with requests to put real women in lingerie and make them spread their legs, and to put small children in bikinis. Reports of images that were later removed describ... View Source

Forget tech unicorns. It’s now the era of the “hectocorn,” Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Robot vacuum companies are once again trying to outdo each other at CES 2026. This year, Chinese appliance maker Dreame is showing off a prototype of a device that can climb up and down an entire flight of stairs.The concept, called the Cyber X, was previewed last year at IFA in Berlin. The vacuum sports a somewhat terrifying set of legs with rubber treads that allow it to autonomously navigate mu... View Source

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoA new video shows changes in Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades with observations taken in 2000, 2004, 2006, 2014, and 2025. In this video, which is the longest-spanning one ever released by Chandra, X-... View Source

Electric trucks seem to have hit a pothole recently, ignored by truck owners who say they're worried about losing too much ranging from towing. But what if the thing your towing could also pump electrons back into your truck's battery when all's said and done? That what California-company Evotrex is proposing with its new RV, the Evotrex-PG5. The secret to the Evotrex-PG5 is its "unified energy sy... View Source

Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses associated with Amazon.com Inc... View Source

Last year at CES, Dreame showed off a robot vacuum prototype with a mechanical arm. But while we were able to see the arm extend and retract, we didn’t see the device, which was described as a prototype at the time, actually grab anything, which was a bit disappointing.This year, though, the company has made its arm-enabled vacuum a reality with the Cyber 10 Ultra. Dreame previewed it recently at... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb. 10, and four one-year option periods that if exercised would extend it to 2031. The... View Source

Roguelite structure, mysterious narrative, and breakneck third-person shooter action come together once again in Housemarque's Saros... View Source

Just a day after publishing a 40-minute video alleging fraud at Minnesota daycare centers, Nick Shirley had the vice president's attention. In Shirley's video, he and another man identified only as "David" roam Minneapolis with cameras and microphones, demanding entrance to daycare centers they say are operated by members of the local Somali community. With scant evidence, Shirley accuses the cent... View Source

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI said it has completed a $20 billion funding round from investors including Nvidia Corp., Valor Equity Partners and the Qatar Investment Authority... View Source

IO Interactive just revealed minimum and recommended specs for the PC build of 007 First Light. The company recommends 32GB of RAM and 12GB of VRAM. In a normal world, this wouldn't be news, as modern NVIDIA GPUs certainly have more than enough VRAM. However, we live in a world where AI companies gobble up lots of memory. This has caused newer cards to tick up in price, with more hikes to com... View Source

It says a lot about the current moment when one of the world's largest EV sellers shows up at the world's biggest electronics show to announce not a new, more affordable model or a cool futuristic concept car, but a humanoid robot. And one we've seen already. Hyundai's decision to use its CES keynote to tout Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot sends a pretty clear message about how the auto industry is a... View Source

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon sees robotics as the "next big wave of AI" during an interview with Caroline Hyde at CES in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Home appliance company Cosori has released a stainless steel air fryer because why not. The Iconic Air Fryer debuted in all its shiny glory at Pepcom this week, a media showcase event ahead of CES. Cosori says the air fryer is meant to address a pain point in the market regarding consumer concern over heating food in plastic air fryers. The company's answer to this is a 6.5-quart stainless st... View Source

Elon Musk is very optimismi about AI + robotics leading to an age of extreme abundance. He sees a Star Trek future and not Terminator. The next 3–7 year transition will be very bumpy, potentially causing massive social unrest despite rising prosperity. AI and robotics is a supersonic tsunami that is already accelerating, no off-switch, ... Read more... View Source

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 you don't already have a Wi-Fi 7 router - and many of us don't - you might want to consider holding off on upgrading. Rather than focusing on speed upgrades, Wi-Fi 8 promises improved stability. It off... View Source

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says robotics is the next big opportunity in AI. Speaking with Caroline Hyde at CES in Las Vegas, Amon also says Qualcomm doesn't see AI as in a bubble and discusses the autonomous driving race. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google's Pixel Buds Pro 2 earbuds are on sale for $165 via Amazon. That's a nice discount of $64, which breaks down to 28 percent. There is a spot of bad news. The deal only applies to the hazel colorway. Other colors are discounted, but they aren't as cheap. It's not as if the hazel is hideous. These are standard dark brown-hued earbuds. The device made our list of the best wi... View Source

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of Mount Sharp, offering a dramatic look at the rugged Martian landscape it's been exploring for more than a decade... View Source

New year, new opportunity for Jensen Huang to show off his shiny jackets at CES. We're not even a full week into 2026 yet, but Nvidia has already announced several products and updates to start the new year. Nvidia's new Vera Rubin architecture was launched earlier than expected at CES, joined by announcements for its own Tesla-rivaling self-driving car technology, and the latest updates coming to... View Source

Nvidia and Siemens announced plans to build an industrial AI operating system together. CEOs Jensen Huang and Roland Busch speak to Ed Ludlow about this partnership, the need for energy, Nvidia's new chips, China and Siemen's potential deals in the operations software space. They sit down at the Consumer Electronics Show. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon has announced the next collection games that will be available to play through its Luna game streaming service in January. The highlight of the bunch is EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26, which will be available for a limited time on the service, but as in the past, Amazon is also giving away free PC games too if you'd prefer not to stream.Madden NFL 26 will be available to Prime members everywh... View Source

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Uncanny valley meets Bichon Frisé. Artificial intelligence doesn't always want to optimize your life or steal your job. Sometimes, AI just wants to be your friend. And while robot pets weren't the biggest stars of CES 2026, they've become more than just noise and are signaling how AI is apparently leaving our screens and taking on a physical presence in our lives. To be clear, there's no shortage... View Source

Since 2020 there have been more than 215 documented cases of physical crypto attacks around the globe, with 2025’s tally almost doubling the previous year’s total. Bloomberg's Austin Carr discussed the story on "Bloomberg Crypto" with Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Riot Games has a pretty long legacy as a PC gaming studio, but the company is spreading out into consoles with its newest title. 2XKO will land on consoles on January 20, to coincide with the start of its first season. The game will be available globally for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S with cross-play support, allowing current players to access their existing progress on a PC account... View Source

6 Min Read NASA Marshall Prepares for Demolition of Historic Test, Simulation Facilities Engineers and technicians hoist the first flight version of the Saturn IB rocket's first stage into the T-tower for static testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on March 15, 1965. Credits: NASA NASA is preparing for the demolition of three iconic structures at the agency’s... View Source

You shouldn’t have to lift the Spino S1 Pro out of the water yourself. Mammotion, the company best known for its line of robot lawnmowers, is launching a robot pool cleaner that can take itself out of the water. As shown during CES 2026, the Spino S1 Pro comes with a robotic arm mounted to a docking station that sits at the edge of your pool. When the bot is ready to charge, the Spino S1 Pro uses... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares slid on Tuesday, with investors brushing off comments by Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su that demand is soaring... View Source

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the first batch of incoming Game Pass titles for 2026. Star Wars Outlaws and Resident Evil Village headline the first wave of the January lineup.If you (perhaps wisely) held off on spending $70 on Ubisoft's first stab at a Star Wars game, here's your chance to try it for less. Star Wars Outlaws sets you loose in an open world as the young thief Kay Vess. T... View Source

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Artemis 2, NASA's next astronaut mission to the moon, is gearing up for a launch that could occur as soon as Feb. 6... View Source