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.
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
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
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👀
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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
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
HP has unveiled its latest flagship, the improved Series 7 Pro 32-inch 4K Monitor (732xk), at CES 2026. Like the previous generation, the display is targeted towards creative professionals and content creators, but has been refined with Neo:LED display tech, advanced visual design, and robust I/O, just to name a few upgrades.
The centerpiece
Zeroth Robotics has officially stormed CES 2026 with a fleet of five AI-powered mechanical companions designed to infiltrate our homes, workplaces, Christmas wish lists, and Pixar fever dreams.
Quite undisputedly, the star of the show is the $5.600 W1 WALL-E lookalike, which brings everyone’s favorite trash-compacting romantic into the
LG has revealed the OLED evo W6 at CES 2026, which is its latest take on the wallpaper TV niche. This wafer-thin, reflection-free TV (or is it an electronic wallpaper?) is meant to be flush-mounted to your wall and even boasts nearly four times the brightness of standard OLEDs.
Measuring in at an impressive 9mm thick (versus roughly 12.7mm
Shure has officially brought its most iconic MV88 mobile microphone into the modern era at CES 2026, ditching the Lightning connector for a more universal USB-C setup that finally bridges the gap between iPhone and Android creators.
The original MV88, first released in 2015, became a staple for iPhone users who valued high-fidelity stereo
Today at CES, Qualcomm signaled its dominance in the burgeoning world of Physical AI by unveiling a massive expansion of its industrial and robotics portfolios. This expansion ought to put the company in position to be a comprehensive provider of edge computing technology for everything from tiny smart cameras to full-size humanoid robots.
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Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This Saturn-sized rogue planet was discovered by an international team of scientists using the gravitational microlensing technique.
Free-floating planet gravitationally microlensing a distant star in the Galactic center. (Credit:
China has completed construction of the world’s most powerful hypergravity machine, a device designed to compress space and time to simulate extreme events like dam and earthquake disasters.
The machine, officially known as CHIEF1900, was delivered to Zhejiang University on December 22. Built by the Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group,
Instagram head Adam Mosseri dropped a telling Threads post suggesting that we're approaching a tipping point where AI will be so deeply integrated into media creation that distinguishing fake content from the real thing will be impossibly difficult. Instead of chasing the infinite tide of AI-generated pixels, the future of digital trust may
Color us not surprised that the Trump Phone (a.k.a. T1) has been delayed yet again, with delivery now slated for sometime this year (happy New Year, btw). The phone, which has been promised as a golden bastion of free speech and high-end luxury, was first slated for an August 2025 release, then rescheduled for the end of the year. Trump blames
NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year process of merging into a single celestial entity. This event was captured with the combined power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The two galaxies, located approximately 120
In the world of automotive restoration, few projects dare to blend the obscure with the astronomical, yet a recently unveiled Ferrari 412 restomod has done exactly that, setting the owner back nearly $2 million and looking pretty impressive while at it.
Ferrari 412
The Ferrari 412, a wedge-shaped grand tourer from the 1980s, has long
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