A new wave of legislative scrutiny is hitting the toy box as California lawmakers weigh the potential psychological risks of artificial intelligence on the state’s youngest residents. Could we be seeing the country's first (short-term) ban on AI smart toys? Last week, San Diego State Senator Steve Padilla introduced a bill that would impose

The domestic cleaning battle between homeowner and multi-story house has finally reached a ceasefire, thanks to a vacuum cleaner that refuses to be grounded by physics or floor plans. All it took was a set of robotic legs with wheels. At the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show, Roborock unveiled the Saros Rover, a two-legged robotic vacuum.

If you had Razer entering the AI workstation market on your 2026 Bingo card, then you're off to a stellar start. Razer, best known for its gaming peripherals, announced the Forge AI Dev Workstation at CES, and it packs some serious horsepower to achieve the "next AI breakthrough," or so goes part the marketing pitch. Razer backs up its claim

Almost coming out of left field, Motorola took the stage at CES this week to unveil a surprise expansion of its mobile lineup, headlined by its first-ever book-style foldable, the Motorola Razr Fold. The Razr Fold is quite the big deal, especially coming from a brand that has spent years focusing solely on vertical flip foldables. Moving

Gamers clamoring for a more powerful version of Lenovo's Legion Go handheld with SteamOS instead of Windows will get their wish in a few months. At CES, Lenovo announced it's planning to release a SteamOS edition of its second-generation Legion Go, which will ship with the same core hardware as its existing Windows variant. Why does this

Why buy a mechanical gaming keyboard and Stream Deck separately when you can have them both in the same package? The easy answer is because an integrated all-in-one solution was never a solution...until now. Announced at CES 2026, Corsair's new Galleon SD 100 is a full-size mechanical deck for gamers with a built-in Stream Deck situated where

Of course, not to be left out, MSI's at CES 2026 with a pile of premium products. In this post, we're taking a short look at the three lines of laptops that MSI brought to the show as well as a new version of the Claw gaming handheld that resolves one of our biggest complaints about the original Claw 8 AI+. We're fans of MSI's Prestige

MSI is joining the modern NUC race and showing off one of the first Intel Panther Lake mini PCs of its kind at CES 2026. Meet the MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG, the latest in MSI's Cubi NUC AI+ series, which you can outfit with up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H. That's is one of the highest-end Core Ultra Series 3 offerings, flaunting 16 cores and a

One of the wildest laptop concepts to debut at CES this year comes by way of Lenovo. While it's just a concept at the moment, the Lenovo ThinkPad Rollable XD already seems fairly refined and it incorporates a number of intriguing design elements that not only give the machine a distinctive look, but also make better use of all the screen real

Lenovo is refreshing its ThinkPad X1 laptops with some exciting new hardware upgrades, not the least of which is the debut of what it calls a Space Frame design to facilitate better cooling and to make swapping out components a lot easier. This is brand new and a key differentiator from the previous generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon we reviewed.

The old adage that good things come in small packages rings true with one of Lenovo’s CES 2026 debuts, the Yoga Mini i. This device’s diminutive size belies just how much hardware horsepower the company has managed to pack into its small chassis, including Intel’s latest Panther Lake processors, making it an excellent option for those in need

After many years attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one thing we've learned is that not every concept device shown off at the annual event in Las Vegas becomes a shipping product. One that most definitely will, however, is Lenovo's innovative ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist laptop with a motorized display that we first saw at CES

If you haven't caught up on the latest CES coverage, NVIDIA announced and released the latest version of DLSS late last night, or early this morning if you're in most of the rest of the world. DLSS 4.5 brings along major updates to frame generation and super resolution, including support for 6x Multi-Frame Generation as well as Dynamic Frame

8BitDo is releasing an evolved version of its Ultimate 3 controller this summer, and it's aimed squarely at the high-end gamepad market—meet the 8BitDo Ultimate 3E. The Ultimate 3E builds upon the foundation of the Ultimate 3 with two additional bumpers, swappable D-Pad, and even swappable face buttons. Like Ultimate 3, Ultimate 3E also has

Micron's out at the Consumer Electronics Show shouting, 'You get a Gen5 SSD, you get Gen5 SSD, you get a Gen5 SSD!'. Okay, maybe not quite literally, but it did use the annual tech showcase as a launchpad for its new Micron 3610 NVMe solid state drive family, which it's billing as the industry's first PCIe Gen5 Q9 QLC SSDs for client computing. The

Windows users will need to be a bit more cautious, as researchers at security firm Securonix have uncovered a new ClickFix malware campaign, dubbed PHALT#BLYX, targeting Microsoft’s operating system. The threat actors behind this campaign are leveraging several techniques to install malicious software, including displaying a fake blue screen

There's a whole lot of uncertainty in the consumer DRAM and storage space with AI pushing demand for NAND flash memory chips to unprecedented levels, but one thing is for certain—the accompanying parts are in place for whenever the market settles down. Driving that point home is Phison's new PS5037-E37T controller designed to give mainstream

As tech enthusiasts gather at CES 2026, a groundbreaking but brief (more on that in a quick second) showcase from Samsung Display has likely revealed the future of Apple’s most anticipated hardware: the iPhone Fold. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Display at CES👀 pic.twitter.com/rSzfoQSkdt — Max Jambor (@MaxJmb) January 6, 2026 Early eyes-on

A team of astronomers have uncovered an unusually hot 12 billion year-old gas cluster that challenges everything we thought we knew about the early growth of the universe. Peering back to about 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, an international group of researchers has identified a baby galaxy cluster, cataloged as SPT2349-56, that's

It took a minute, but NVIDIA has finally answered the call to deliver a native Linux app for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service (timely too, with recent Steam's survey data showing Linux on the rise for gaming). Same goes for select Amazon Fire TV Stick devices, both of which can tap into the service's GeForce RTX 5080-class pods to stream

In a world where you usually have to choose between ignoring your friends with noise-canceling earmuffs or annoying them with a portable boombox, a new gadget has arrived at CES 2026 to ensure you can do both with a single flick of the wrist. The TDM Neo has officially been unveiled and it's determined to solve a problem that exactly three

We already reported on the serious slick ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses yesterday, but ASUS didn't come to CES 2026 with just one big reveal. The company's Republic of Gamers brand rolled out updated Zephyrus laptops with more GPU headroom, a bold new take on the dual-screen Zephyrus Duo, a Kojima Productions–themed Flow Z13 that looks like a

Samsung is making quick work of deploying Intel's newly launched Core Ultra Series 3 processors, otherwise known as Panther Lake, which underpin its latest generation Galaxy Book6 laptop lineup. Announced at CES, the new Galaxy Book6 laptops draw inevitable design language comparisons Apple's MacBook Pro, though internally, these are very

PNY put the GeForce RTX 50 series on a diet with a new lineup of slim models designed for small form factor (SFF) gaming PCs, or anyone who simply wants a more compact GPU. The new cards span the GeForce RTX 5070, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, and GeForce RTX 5080, each of which are packaged in a dual-slot configuration. These are true 2-slot cards,