| Watch Sony test drive its Vision-S prototype on public roads Posted: 11 Jan 2021 03:29 PM PST  Partway through last year, Sony's Vision-S electric vehicle went from a mere prototype to something the company said it wanted to bring closer to reality. In July, Sony announced it planned to start testing the vehicle on public roads by the end of 2...  |
| Netflix and Kevin Hart agree to a multi-year film deal Posted: 11 Jan 2021 03:11 PM PST  2021 is off to a great start for everybody named Kevin Hart. Netflix announced on Monday that it had signed a multi-year distribution deal with the comedian's HartBeat Production company. Under the terms of that deal, Netflix would be the exclusive h...  |
| Dolby promises better call quality with Dolby Voice for PCs Posted: 11 Jan 2021 03:01 PM PST  Dolby is looking to help your audio and video calls sound as clear as possible by optimizing microphone and speaker performance. It has announced a tool called Dolby Voice for PCs, which it says removes unwanted background noise and echoes, while aut...  |
| Sony shows off its Airpeak filmmaking drone for the first time Posted: 11 Jan 2021 02:52 PM PST  Just two months after announcing the Airpeak in a vague press release and equally mysterious video, Sony has shown off its new drone in a virtual CES 2021 presentation. The Airpeak supports Sony's Alpha series of mirrorless cameras and uses AI to kee...  |
| Hatch adds the $39 Rest Mini sound machine to its lineup Posted: 11 Jan 2021 02:31 PM PST  Last year at CES, Hatch announced the Restore, a smart sleep light intended for adults that replicates the popular design and features of its baby line-up the Rest and Rest+. This year, they've announced another smart sound machine, the Rest Mini. Th...  |
| Facebook bans all mentions of ‘stop the steal’ ahead of inauguration Posted: 11 Jan 2021 01:42 PM PST  Facebook says it's barring all mentions of the phrase "stop the steal" in the wake of last week's riot in Washington D.C. that resulted in five deaths. The social network said Monday that it will start taking down Facebook and Instagram posts that us...  |
| Intel's Rocket Lake S CPUs are up to 19 percent faster than last year Posted: 11 Jan 2021 01:30 PM PST  We've known since October that Intel's upcoming Rocket Lake S desktop CPUs will only support up to 8-core chips, down from last year's 10-core i9-10900K. The real question is if that step back will be worth it. Well, Intel is now claiming the new Roc...  |
| Intel Evo Chromebooks will feature visual sensing tech and Thunderbolt Posted: 11 Jan 2021 01:30 PM PST  Intel normally doesn't have much dedicated hardware for Chromebooks at CES, but this year it announced a few intriguing tidbits. First, the company revealed that Chromebooks are coming with Intel Evo branding, its new name for refined Project Athena...  |
| Intel's 11th-gen H-series CPUs are made for ultraportable gaming laptops Posted: 11 Jan 2021 01:30 PM PST  Historically, Intel's H-series laptop chips have been meant for beefy gaming and workhorse PCs. That's in contrast to its U-series CPUs, which are aimed at efficient ultraportables. Putting an H-series chip into a thin and light notebook would normal...  |
| Intel's 10nm Pentium Silver and Celeron CPUs are a huge leap for schools Posted: 11 Jan 2021 01:30 PM PST  While it may seem strange to be reading about new Pentium processors in the year 2021, bear with me. Intel just announced its N-series Pentium Silver and Celeron processors at CES, and they may just lead to some transformative changes for inexpensive...  |
| Lenovo’s ThinkPad Yoga gets a titanium upgrade Posted: 11 Jan 2021 01:30 PM PST  If you're a PC maker with a mission to reduce weight but maintain rigidity, then you need to be smart about what material you use. For Lenovo, it's clad one of its flagship convertibles in titanium in order to create what it says is the "thinnest Thi...  |
| Watch TCL's CES keynote in 9 minutes Posted: 11 Jan 2021 01:19 PM PST  TCL's CES keynote was full of announcements, but if you don't have time to watch the entire thing, we've packed everything you need to know into a nine-minute video. Naturally, TVs were front and center, with 8K and Mini LED models on show. The compa...  |
| Cowin's $80 soundbar splits in half for easy surround sound Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:39 PM PST  Soundbars can make setting up a great home theater system relatively easy, but they still don't match the full immersion of a true surround sound system. To remedy this, JBL showed off a 9.1 bar at last year's CES with ends that could be snapped off...  |
| Cowin's latest earbuds and headphones balance budget and battery life Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:21 PM PST  While it's not exactly a household name in the space, Cowin has spent the last couple of years making and selling affordable audio products. The company's CES 2021 slate promises more of the same. On Monday, Cowin announced two new Bluetooth headphon...  |
| Samsung TVs will have solar-charging remote controls in 2021 Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:10 PM PST  In addition to an array of new televisions, Samsung has also announced a more eco-friendly remote control at CES 2021. The Solar Cell Remote Control can be powered by both indoor and outdoor light, or just regular USB if the former two are insufficie...  |
| Reachy the robot can now be controlled via VR Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:05 PM PST  Last year at CES French startup Pollen Robotics debuted Reachy, an open-source humanoid robot (the top half of one at least) capable of performing a wide variety of tasks — from traditional R&D to product demonstrations and food service. This yea...  |
| Qualcomm says its new in-display fingerprint sensor is 50 percent faster Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:00 PM PST  Qualcomm is upgrading one of its in-display fingerprint sensors. The second-generation 3D Sonic Sensor is 77 percent larger than its predecessor. It covers an area of 64 square millimeters (8mm x 8mm) compared with the first version's 36 square milli...  |
| Columbia engineers built basic empathy into a robot Posted: 11 Jan 2021 11:52 AM PST  When it comes to imitating human emotion, robots have a long way to go, but researchers at Columbia Engineering's Creative Machines Lab have taken an initial step toward this goal. They designed a robot capable of predicting another robot's intent, e...  |
| Facebook appoints a vice president of civil rights Posted: 11 Jan 2021 11:46 AM PST  Facebook has hired a vice president of civil rights as it looks to improve its handling of such issues. Roy Austin Jr., a long-time civil rights attorney and advocate, will set up Facebook's civil rights organization and become a deputy general couns...  |
| Parler sues AWS after Amazon knocks service offline Posted: 11 Jan 2021 11:32 AM PST  Parler is facing an uncertain future after Amazon cut off the company's servers, knocking the "free speech" app offline. Now, Parler has responded by suing Amazon Web Services for antitrust in a last-ditch attempt to restore its service.In court docu...  |
| The TCL 20 5G vs. the Motorola One 5G Ace and the Pixel 4a 5G Posted: 11 Jan 2021 11:15 AM PST  We don't normally see a lot of phones at CES, but this year companies have seen fit to push up their announcements, particularly TCL and Motorola. Both have debuted new mid-range 5G phones at the show, the better to compete with Google's existing Pix...  |
| Watch Mercedes-Benz's CES keynote in under 7 minutes Posted: 11 Jan 2021 11:05 AM PST  Last week, we got our first look at the 56-inch Hyperscreen Mercedes made for its upcoming EQS EV. The teaser the automaker shared gave some details about how the display will work but also left us with many more questions. For example, it wasn't cle...  |
| Honor's Band 6 wearable is coming to the US for around $35 Posted: 11 Jan 2021 11:00 AM PST  Honor, currently in the process of extricating itself from Huawei, will start selling its Honor Band 6 fitness tracker in the US. The barebones wearable, which launched in China back in November, will arrive on these shores at an as-yet unspecified d...  |
| Watch LG's CES event in 9 minutes Posted: 11 Jan 2021 10:37 AM PST  From rollable phones to air-purifying masks, LG had plenty to show off during its CES 2021 keynote, including a virtual human presenter. Of course, this being LG, there was plenty of news on the TV and monitor fronts. The company unveiled its first 4...  |
| Facebook is freezing some of its political spending Posted: 11 Jan 2021 10:30 AM PST  Facebook plans to pause its contributions to political action committees (PACs) through the first quarter of 2021 in the wake of last week's US Capitol riot. The company told Axios, which was the first to report on the development, it will also condu...  |
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