| The Morning After: The Best of CES 2021 award winners Posted: 14 Jan 2021 04:25 AM PST  Congratulations to all of our winners from the Best of CES 2021, including our Best of the Best winner, AMD's Ryzen 5000 mobile CPUs. Is it weird for a chipset to best high-end TVs, robots and futuristic transport announcements? You might think so, b... |
| The iconic Renault 5 is coming back as an EV Posted: 14 Jan 2021 04:01 AM PST  Amid all the drama with CEO Carlos Ghosn and a rift with Nissan, a bright spot for Renault has been its leadership in EV sales — particularly with the Zoe. Now, Renault is increasing its electric bet by announcing that it will launch 10 new EVs acros... |
| Renault's reborn Alpine team will work with Lotus on an EV sports car Posted: 14 Jan 2021 03:35 AM PST  Renault wants to be known as a technology-focused sports car powerhouse. To that end, the company is relaunching Alpine — a French manufacturer established in 1955 and acquired by Renault in 1973 — as an umbrella brand for all of its high-performance... |
| Oculus is launching multi-user accounts and app sharing next month Posted: 14 Jan 2021 03:08 AM PST  Starting next month, Quest 2 owners will be able to create separate accounts for anybody they're sharing their VR headset with. Oculus has announced that it's rolling out multi-user accounts and app sharing, which it says are two of its users' most r... |
| Qualcomm buys a startup founded by former Apple chip designers Posted: 14 Jan 2021 02:14 AM PST  Qualcomm has announced an acquisition that's bound to make ripples in the chip world — even though you may not have heard of the company it acquired. Qualcomm paid $1.4 billion for Nuvia, a startup founded by three engineers who worked on Apple's A-s... |
| Denon expands its home theater lineup with the Home Sound Bar 550 Posted: 14 Jan 2021 01:00 AM PST  Denon's home theater lineup is about to expand with the impending arrival of the Home Sound Bar 550. The company says the soundbar can deliver Dolby Atmos and DTS:X 3D surround sound through its six-driver array. The soundbar can operate as a standal... |
| Laser microrobot makes minimally invasive surgery more precise Posted: 14 Jan 2021 12:14 AM PST  Minimally invasive surgery techniques have gone far over the past few decades, but they still have limitations that scientists are working to overcome. Laser micro surgery, for instance, leaves minimal peripheral tissue damage, but it can only be use... |
| Super Nintendo World opening delayed again due to COVID-19 Posted: 13 Jan 2021 09:47 PM PST  Universal Studios Japan had planned to open its Nintendo-based theme park on February 4th, however after a state of emergency was declared across several prefectures, it's pushed that back indefinitely. As Reuters reports, Japan is experiencing a thi... |
| NHTSA wants Tesla to recall 158,000 Tegra 3-equipped vehicles Posted: 13 Jan 2021 08:08 PM PST  Years ago, Tesla touted that the large touchscreens in its electric vehicles were powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset. However, as configured in certain cars, the infotainment setup has a known issue that causes the 8GB eMMC NAND flash memory device... |
| Jack Dorsey breaks his silence after Trump ban Posted: 13 Jan 2021 04:53 PM PST  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made his first public statements since the company permanently banned Donald Trump from its platform. In a series of tweets, Dorsey said he believed Twitter made the correct decision, but that "a ban is a failure of ours ultim... |
| Snap permanently closes Donald Trump's account Posted: 13 Jan 2021 04:46 PM PST  Last week, as many social networks took steps to ban or restrict President Trump's posts in the wake of violent riots that attacked Capitol Hill, Snap indefinitely suspended his account on its service. Today, the company announced that shutdown is pe... |
| Evernote's Home feature is a dashboard full of handy widgets Posted: 13 Jan 2021 03:20 PM PST  Back in September, Evernote started rolling it out its first major redesign in years. At the time, the company promised the refresh was just the start of an ongoing initiative to make its app, once a titan in the space, faster, more reliable and bett... |
| Breaking down the AI wizardry of 'Microsoft Flight Simulator' Posted: 13 Jan 2021 02:45 PM PST  There are some wild stats about Microsoft Flight Simulator. In the sim, all 117 million lakes in the world are rendered in their appropriate places. Each plane has more than 1,000 points that respond to a variety of conditions at any given time, incl... |
| CD Projekt Red co-founder apologizes for the sorry state of 'Cyberpunk 2077' Posted: 13 Jan 2021 02:00 PM PST  CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwiński apologized for the state of Cyberpunk 2077 on consoles in a video today, alongside a vague roadmap for updating the game throughout 2021. "The console version of Cyberpunk 2077 did not meet the quality standar... |
| Presenting the Best of CES 2021 winners! Posted: 13 Jan 2021 01:53 PM PST  As Wednesday draws to a close, so does a grand social experiment: the first-ever online-only CES. In the end, the experience was invariably different. We particularly missed being able to wander The Sands and learn about smaller, up-and-coming startu... |
| Watch the ASUS CES 2021 keynote in 8 minutes Posted: 13 Jan 2021 01:49 PM PST  While ASUS ROG's CES presentation was all about PC gaming, its parent company's keynote was a bit broader in scope. As you might expect, ASUS showed off a number of laptops, including the rugged Chromebook CX9 and the updated dual-screen ZenBook Duo... |
| Cyberpunk 2077's next-gen update will arrive in the second half of 2021 Posted: 13 Jan 2021 01:27 PM PST  CD Projekt Red will release Cyberpunk 2077's free next-gen console update in the second half of 2021, the studio announced today. "We're aiming for the second half of the year and we'll reveal more when we have more to share," CD Projekt Red said in... |
| HTC is still making phones? Posted: 13 Jan 2021 12:50 PM PST  One day before Samsung's big Unpacked event, HTC has announced a new phone, the Desire 21 Pro 5G. Yes, the company that was once a powerhouse in the Android space is still alive and kicking, and releasing new devices no less.All things considered, th... |
| Amazon says it spent months warning Parler about violent posts Posted: 13 Jan 2021 12:34 PM PST  Amazon has officially responded to Parler's lawsuit against AWS. In court documents filed Tuesday, Amazon says it warned Parler officials about the violent threats on its platform nearly two months before the riot at the US Capitol sparked the app's... |
| Uno Synth Pro is IK Multimedia's attempt to move beyond budget instruments Posted: 13 Jan 2021 10:33 AM PST  It was only two years ago that IK Multimedia decided to branch out from its normal MIDI controllers and mobile audio interfaces to try its hand at building a standalone synthesizer. The Uno Synth was pretty successful — it packed big authentic analog... |
| GoPro Labs adds more experimental features to its cameras Posted: 13 Jan 2021 10:23 AM PST  In May, GoPro came out with GoPro Labs, a sandbox that gave its most passionate users a chance to tinker with experimental and in-development features. The one drawback was that you could only try it out if you had a Hero8 Black, then GoPro's flagshi... |
| ASUS' ZenBeam Latte is a coffee cup-sized portable projector Posted: 13 Jan 2021 10:00 AM PST  Many home projectors are big or austere devices, but ASUS wants to offer something friendlier. It just introduced a ZenBeam Latte projector whose coffee cup-like, fabric-covered body makes it both highly portable and (according to ASUS) "homey." You... |
| Google's new Assistant feature is an incognito mode for smart speakers Posted: 13 Jan 2021 10:00 AM PST  Last January Google quietly did away with the existing Guest Mode feature, which allows people not on your Wi-Fi network to connect with a Chromecast or smart speaker by entering a four-digit PIN, from its Home and Nest devices on account that some p... |
| ASUS made its next wave of dual-screen laptops more practical Posted: 13 Jan 2021 10:00 AM PST  Dual-screen laptops have a tendency to feel more like novelties than proper workhorse machines, but ASUS was clearly proud of the approach it took with its original ZenBook Duo and Pro Duo. Frankly, it should be -- while neither machine was perfect o... |
| The ASUS Chromebook CX9 is rugged, light and powerful Posted: 13 Jan 2021 10:00 AM PST  ASUS has made a host of Chromebooks over the years, perhaps most notably its line of convertible "Flip" laptops. As part of its CES 2021 lineup, the company has a new Chromebook that's a little different, though — the Chromebook CX9 is a thin, light... |
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