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You probably won’t find X CEO Linda Yaccarino praising Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on the CES 2025 bingo card, but here we are nonetheless. In his keynote speech in Las Vegas, Yaccarino called Meta’s decision to end its long-standing fact-checking program and introduce Community Notes “exciting” and “relevant.”Yaccarino and X owner Elon Musk both support the crowdsourced fact-checking functionality that Meta plans to emulate in its service. “I think it’s really inspiring to think that community notes are a good thing for the world…and nothing makes more sense than to see Mark and Meta recognize that,” Yaccarino said. . “Mark,…
According to Wikipedia, the term “post-truth” was first used by Steve Teish in 1992, referring to the post-Watergate political scandals. Obviously, old Stevie never visited CES. CES has slightly less stringent standards for saying things that can be proven to be true than in other civil discourse. Not surprisingly, Rictor, the company that makes and sells the Rictor K1 electric bike, is promoting the Skyrider X1. The moped-cum-quadcopter allows you to zoom momentarily down the road or into the sky. As we all know, this is entirely achievable for any consumer electronics manufacturer by the promised 2026 release date.The Skyrider…
The Lenovo Legion Go is like a gaming handheld SUV. It’s big and sturdy, comes with lots of extras like a removable controller, and supports vertical mouse functionality to adapt to all kinds of situations. All the versatility is great, but it does make the device a little bulky. But for CES 2025, Lenovo is introducing a slightly more portable version called the Legion Go S, which supports not one but two different OSes.Before we get into the details, it’s important to mention that I only had a chance to check out the Windows 11 model. However, for those who…
NVIDIA held its CES 2025 keynote with CEO Jensen Huang last night, and it was a surprisingly eventful one. The company has finally announced its long-awaited GeForce RTX 5000 GPU. First of all, you can expect significant performance improvements. The company didn’t stop there, it also announced Project Digits, a personal AI supercomputer, along with DLSS 4 and more. Here’s a summary of what happened. You can watch the entire event uncut in the YouTube embed below. (Spoiler alert: It’s over 90 minutes long.)NVIDIA RTX 5000 series GPUHuang strutted around in a new snakeskin-like leather jacket and showed off his…
I’m not a fan of framed TVs that companies advertise as suitable for displaying art in your home. There’s something off-putting about using a powered, backlit screen for something you’re going to be staring at for a long time. Can you really appreciate Turner’s Sunrise over Norham Castle if your eyes start to feel strained after about five minutes?Perhaps the cure for my malaise lies in PocketBook’s new device, the InkPoster. It uses a large color e-paper display to perform the same function, so you can see your brush strokes up close.InkPoster is a series of color e-paper displays with…
Another CES is another opportunity for the tech industry to drop a trebuchet’s worth of molten lead on the last vestiges of my dignity. This year, EcoFlow is unveiling this fun solar hat that helps the planet and your phone more than your personal brand. Sure, you won’t look too out of place if you’re wearing the right outdoor fit, but aesthetics is secondary to function.As the name suggests, the EcoFlow Power Hat has a small solar panel embedded in the brim to help charge your portable devices when you’re on the go. The collar is segmented, and each section…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major shift in the company’s approach to moderation and speech. Meta will suspend its fact-checking program and move to an X-style community notes model on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.Zuckerberg said in the video that Meta has “built a lot of complex systems to manage content” in recent years. “But the problem with complex systems is that they make mistakes. Even if you accidentally censor 1% of posts, that’s millions of people,” he continued. , said it was at a stage where no censorship had taken place. “There are too many mistakes and too much…
Just like last year, TCL will be showing off its new generation of NXTPAPER technology at CES this week. The new NXTPAPER 11 Plus tablet is built around the also new NXTPAPER 4.0 screen, which uses “nano-matrix lithography” to improve sharpness and sharpness, as well as improved color accuracy, and the new output is Delta Only one measurement is made with -E. Scale (this metric measures how the human eye perceives color differences, and values below 1 are said to be imperceptible to the human eye).Since its launch in 2021, the goal of NXTPAPER technology has been to create screens…
Announced at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, NVIDIA’s Reflex technology has received a major upgrade. The company’s Reflex 2 takes things up a few notches thanks to some software wizardry. The final result? Promises to further reduce game lag by up to 75%. In this case, latency refers to the time it takes for the game to display reactions from the player’s input.Here’s how it works, and it’s pretty wild. Reflex 2 combines the existing low-latency mode with something called frame warp. This technique forces the CPU to calculate the position of the next frame while the current frame is…
I knew I’d found my favorite computer at CES 2025 at the beginning of December last year, long before I’d had a chance to see what most other PC manufacturers were making. That was the Zenbook A14, a system ASUS jokingly called the Zenbook Air. This name is perfect. Weighing less than 2.2 pounds (or 1 kg), it’s 0.5 pounds lighter than Apple’s smallest MacBook Air. The ZenBook A14 outperforms Apple’s ultraportables in almost every way, with specs like a 14-inch OLED screen and up to 32 hours of battery life. The only downside is that it runs Qualcomm’s Snapdragon…