Tag: gear

Sennheiser packed its Ambeo 3D audio tech in a soundbar

Sennheiser has been touting the merits of its Ambeo 3D audio for a few years now at CES, but in

GM plans to release cars with no steering wheel in 2019

If the Department of Transportation grants GM's latest Safety Petition, the automaker will be able to deploy its no-steering-wheel, pedal-less

Europe enters race to build world-class supercomputers

Supercomputers are a crucial research tool for medicine, aviation, robots and weapons, but there are only three dominant players: The

Dolby knows what you’re watching based on your breath

If you thought it was creepy that technology lets networks know what you're watching, you'd better sit down. It turns

Electrameccanica’s Solo is a single-seat EV commuter car

If you're looking for an electric vehicle but don't need the extra seats (or long delivery times) that a full-sized

Samsung talks PC strategy and its vision for a connected world at CES

This week, Samsung showed off everything from new laptops to a massive microLED wall to a chattier kind of refrigerator.

Intel pledges transparency after Spectre, Meltdown vulnerability

The last week or so has seen a lot of activity around Meltdown and Spectre, two CPU flaws in modern

The Moto Z’s keyboard mod feels like an imperfect blast from the past

Motorola's first great Android phone had a physical keyboard, and when I stuck Livermorium's keyboard Moto Mod onto a Moto

You can’t talk about accessibility without talking about diversity

Over the past few years, we've been seeing more and more products at CES meant to assist the elderly and

OnePlus weighs in on smartphone strategy and the value of trust

OnePlus released two great smartphones in 2017, but the smartphone startup is facing more and better competition than ever before.

The challenge of showcasing weed tech at CES

There was, as expected, a thin scent of weed in Roger Volodarsky's 28th-floor Mirage hotel suite as the Puffco CEO

Louis Vuitton is making a luggage tracker

A smartphone app and recent FCC filing strongly hints that Louis Vuitton has a new tech product on the way:

LG puts Google Assistant in its own touchscreen-equipped speaker

Google Assistant's fingerprints are all over the CES 2018 show floor, but it's especially easy to see on a few

Don’t call it a dildo: Kiiroo and OhMiBod on the future of sex toys

CES may have a complicated relationship with sex, but one company has made it its mission to destigmatize doing it

Facebook will focus on friends over publishers in the News Feed

Facebook just announced that it will make sweeping changes to the News Feed, the primary place where users find content

Presenting the Best of CES 2018 winners!

Finally, after long hours of debating about which of our finalists should win our Best of CES awards this year,

YouTube may review its most popular channels for offensive content

It became pretty clear last year that YouTube has a content problem. Last spring, companies like AT&T and Verizon pulled

Chinese court rules Samsung violated Huawei patent

In 2016, Huawei sued Samsung in both China and the US for allegedly infringing on multiple wireless communication patents, and

Google details how it protected services like Gmail from Spectre

Google says it already deployed anti-Spectre and Meltdown solutions to protect its products, and users didn't even notice. The downside

The Morning After: CES 2018, Day 3

Hey, good morning! We've just crowned the best in show at CES 2018. Capping off our third day of coverage

Aptiv on helping automakers create an autonomous world

Automakers don't build every component in their vehicles. It's a complex combination of in-house parts and third-party components working in

Samsung Galaxy S9 box leak hints at variable aperture camera

Sometimes leaks are obviously legitimate, and sometimes people go out of their way to dupe us with an elaborate hoax.