Nvidia’s new G-Sync monitors automatically adjust brightness just like a laptop
Nvidia’s new G-Sync monitors automatically adjust brightness just like a laptop

Nvidia is bringing a new set of G-Sync Pulsar monitors to the market this week that will automatically adjust brightness and color based on the ambient lighting in a room. Much like a modern laptop, these new monitors have a built-in light sensor that measures the brightness and color temperature of an environment to enable […]

Nvidia announces DLSS 4.5 with 6x Frame Generation and improved image quality
Nvidia announces DLSS 4.5 with 6x Frame Generation and improved image quality

Nvidia is announcing its next major update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) feature at CES today. DLSS 4.5 includes Nvidia’s second-generation Super Resolution transformer model and a new 6x Multi Frame Generation mode for RTX 50-series GPUs that uses AI to generate up to five additional frames for every single rendered one. DLSS […]

Emerson’s SmartVoice devices follow verbal instructions without Wi-Fi or a hub
Emerson’s SmartVoice devices follow verbal instructions without Wi-Fi or a hub

A new line of small appliances and devices from IAI Smart, billed as Emerson Smart products, are now available that will let you operate fans, heaters, smart plugs, and air fryers with your voice – with no apps, Wi-Fi, or smart home connection at all. Using the company’s SmartVoice technology, the devices react to wake-up […]

AMD heard you like powerful gaming portables — so here are new Strix Halo chips
AMD heard you like powerful gaming portables — so here are new Strix Halo chips

AMD’s Strix Halo, aka “Ryzen AI Max,” is a hugely expensive chip that includes some of the most powerful integrated graphics ever made. Though AMD initially marketed it more to AI workloads with its tremendous complement of up to 128GB of RAM, it’s also inspired some unprecedented gaming designs – by far the most powerful […]

AMD Ryzen AI 400 official: Will these laptop chips maintain AMD’s lead?
AMD Ryzen AI 400 official: Will these laptop chips maintain AMD’s lead?

We were rightly skeptical of AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 “Strix Point” laptop chips in 2024. Now they’re in some of the very best laptops you can buy, arguably hitting the sweet spot of price, performance, and battery life. Today at CES, AMD is announcing its successor, the Ryzen AI 400 line – but there’s nothing […]

AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9850X3D makes the best gaming CPU even faster
AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9850X3D makes the best gaming CPU even faster

AMD is introducing an improved version of its popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor today at CES. The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D offers up the same 8-core / 16-thread CPU as the 9800X3D, running at even faster boost clocks. “We’ve fine-tuned our best gaming processor in the world and have increased the boost clocks to 5.6GHz,” […]

HP crammed an entire desktop computer into this keyboard
HP crammed an entire desktop computer into this keyboard

HP is announcing a new mini desktop computer at CES 2026, and the whole thing is housed in a compact keyboard. The Eliteboard G1a looks like a normal office keyboard with either a captive or detachable USB-C cable, but inside it is an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series chip, stereo speakers, RAM, storage, a fan, and […]

Alienware is working on new slim and cheaper gaming laptops
Alienware is working on new slim and cheaper gaming laptops

Dell-owned Alienware is looking to reach a wider swath of gamers, announcing at CES 2026 that it’s working on two new laptops: one with a lower, entry-level price and one with an ultra-slim chassis. There aren’t many details right now, as Alienware is only sharing some basic renders, and the behind-glass nonworking prototypes I saw […]

You can now take testosterone tests with a stick, your phone, and some spit
You can now take testosterone tests with a stick, your phone, and some spit

At last year’s CES, Eli Health announced the Hormometer – an at-home hormone test for cortisol that utilized saliva and a smartphone. For this year’s show, the company is back and expanding into testosterone and progesterone. Eli Health isn’t changing up how its Hormometer works. You still stick a thin cartridge attached to a wand […]

Keychron’s new mechanical keyboards offer ultralong battery life at wireless 8K polling rates
Keychron’s new mechanical keyboards offer ultralong battery life at wireless 8K polling rates

Keychron is announcing new Q Ultra and V Ultra mechanical keyboards at CES 2026. They’re Keychron’s first ZMK mechanical keyboards, an open-source firmware that’s more battery efficient than the popular QMK. Keychron claims its ZMK boards can last up to 660 hours in 2.4G wireless mode with a high-speed 8,000Hz polling rate – matching wired […]