CES 2026 has not officially opened yet, but the pattern is already clear. As usual, the real show starts early, with companies teasing products and half-announcements well before the doors open in Las Vegas. This year feels busier than the last few editions, with more hardware, bigger booths, and less restraint around buzzwords. Artificial intelligence…
Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silksong, took home the Game of the Year honors. It was also given the “Best Game You Suck At” award, which, I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not. Given the relentless fawning over Silksong since its release in…
On a soccer pitch outside Beijing, the players are humanoid robots. They dribble, fall over, get back up, and occasionally crash into things they should not. This is not a gimmick demo. It is how a growing number of Chinese robotics companies are training machines for real-world use. One of them is Booster Robotics, founded…
In the latest wave of social media trends, people are now using Grok AI on X to generate bikini-edited pictures of random users without their consent. This is a massive privacy concern for millions of users, as any stranger can create potentially derogatory edits of any X profile. To tackle this, X has a feature… Read…
An event first observed almost 1,000 years ago could finally have an explanation.
China has enacted a major revision of its Cybersecurity Law, effective January 1, 2026. The amendments mark the most significant shift since the law’s original introduction in 2017 and materially change how companies must handle cyber incidents, regulatory reporting, and compliance exposure. The updated framework places speed and accountability at the center of enforcement. Incident…
xAI’s Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week’s rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing the original poster’s permission. Not only does the original poster not get notified if their picture was edited, but Grok appears to…
And $1,000 consoles could become the new normal.
LG worked with museum curators to create Gallery Mode, which matches an artwork’s color integrity and brightness.
LG is adding a karaoke-focused party speaker to its lineup of Xboom devices, which is built in collaboration with Will.i.am. Announced this week, LG says the Stage 501 speaker comes with an “AI Karaoke Master” that can remove or adjust vocals from “virtually any song,” similar to the Soundcore Rave 3S. It can also adjust…
