Month: January 2025
Engadget Podcast: We’ve survived two days of CES 2025
In this bonus episode, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss the latest innovations in robot vacuums, new AI PC hardware from AMD and Intel, and Dell’s decision to nuke its PC brands in favor of Apple-esque “Dell Pro” and “Dell Pro Max” branding. (Note: We recorded this episode before NVIDIA announced its new RTX 5000 GPUs, but we’ll have more to say on that soon!)
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Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Cherlynn LowMusic: Dale North
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Devindra: [00:00:00] What’s up everyone, this is Devindra Hardwar, Senior Editor at Engadget.
Cherlynn: I’m Deputy Editor Cherlynn Low.
Devindra: We are here what is this, the beginning of night one of CES officially?
Cherlynn: I guess, yeah. I
Devindra: guess we have already suffered through basically day minus one. Minus
Cherlynn: one and today’s zero.
Devindra: One thing I want our listeners to understand is that we have already seen a lot of things we kind of know where the CES is headed. And, I think this is a cursed show Cherlynn. How do you feel about that? For all of us. For our
Cherlynn: team. Yeah, I think I mean, Devindra, I’ll let you speak to your situation, but we’ve had team members who have fallen deathly ill.
We have also, like, people who have completely had to miss their flights, international flights. It’s been quite Engadget team, but we have a really, really good team of people. Everyone’s got great attitudes and, like, our spirits are high. Okay. You want to just get the stuff going. So, yeah, no, and Devindra, you have been struggling a little [00:01:00] bit.
Devindra: So, yeah, update here is I basically threw my back out the the day before I had to fly. So, I kind of was mentally just preparing how to fly without caring much and just being really easy on my back. But, you know, I survived. And
Cherlynn: sitting in a plane for as long as you did couldn’t help either, right?
Probably didn’t help.
Devindra: Thankfully I did a smart thing and I bought a Comfort Plus upgrade with my points ahead of time. And I was like, I was going to be chill on the flight and it turned out that was just necessary. Yeah, so CS is officially beginning. We have seen we’ve just went through CS Unveiled yesterday.
A lot of embargoes and news came out today too. You know, some of the biggest news we’ve seen. Dell’s rebrand away from its own PC names. To Dell, Dell Pro, Dell Pro Max. There’s some new hardware from Intel and AMD. Yay! that they showed off and, you know, just kind of a typical CS stuff. What were the weird things you saw, Cherlynn, at at Unveiled?
Because you were there amidst all the weird gadgets.
Cherlynn: Yeah, and to be clear, given Devindra’s [00:02:00] injury, we are, we are having Devindra stay in place where he is, you know, able to recover a little bit. So, Devindra wasn’t at Unveiled with me, so I’m going to tell you about all these funny things we saw at Unveiled.
Somehow the most intriguing thing so far is the trend of Putting things in your mouth at CES Unveiled.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Cherlynn: So, we have like, at least two things that are saliva detecting devices. Uh huh, huh. Or like, you put a drop of saliva or you put your like, a stick in your mouth or something. We
Devindra: are not going to call this the Hawktwa CES, let’s not do that.
Dan
Cherlynn: Cooper definitely not coming up with a story based around that. But the idea is that using your saliva. Companies can tell how much cortisol or other types like progesterone types of things, hormones are inside your Or in you, right? And so it’s a bit to help with burnout a bit to help with like stress and health and then there is It’s the salt spoon that everyone was licking at CES on day one.
That
Devindra: doesn’t seem like a good [00:03:00] idea at a, at a conference. It
Cherlynn: was so, yeah, everyone’s felt like it was, initially it seemed a little icky, but the booth was so crowded I went over and it turns out they actually had like individual disposable versions of this spoon, the salt spoon per its name. It’s a gadget that will mimic or simulate the, the flavor of umami or salt made by a company called Kirin.
Devindra: Okay.
Cherlynn: Which I believe makes some kind of condiment. That’s the,
Devindra: they’re a soy sauce company. Exactly.
Cherlynn: And so, it’s the idea that like, people want to live healthier, eat better, and not have such a high sodium diet. So, but they still crave this taste. We love it. We
Devindra: love umami. Exactly. Why don’t
Cherlynn: we, why don’t we use electric on your tongue?
Devindra: That is some dystopian, I hope the story about this is how it’s made. That is very dystopian. That’s very like, you know, Soylent Green or something where we’re not really eating food, but we’re feeling these sort of like electrical impulses of food.
Cherlynn: Triggering your tongue to feel like it’s tasting something.
Just to feel alive. That’s horrible. I know. I, it’s, it’s, you asked me weird. And I was like, yeah, that [00:04:00] is pretty horrifying. But I’m very intrigued. I almost, so I was kind of waiting in line, but it was so crowded always. And I had so much other stuff to check out that, I didn’t really get around to it.
There were other things, I think, that turned up that, as unveiled, that were very interesting. Our team saw a stringless guitar. There were, like, about a zillion robots that all kind of look very weird. And then, lots of mirrors that you can, like, stand in front of and scan yourself. And, finally, I think, the Stern Pinball Machine of the Year is themed Dungeons Dragons.
Okay.
Devindra: Really, just really hitting the nerd market perfectly. We did see Roborock’s flagship new robot vacuum and that thing looks cool because they just added an arm to it. Like it has an extendable arm that can pick up socks and small things from the floor. And I am really interested in seeing the race between Roomba all these other companies.
I think was one of the first to do like, okay, self cleaning. We’re going to dump your vacuum into this bigger container than the vacuum [00:05:00] can keep going. Now everybody’s doing that. Then Roomba and others people started doing like combo mops. And now it’s just like, we’re getting appendages. We’re getting, I think one can climb stairs.
I saw news about that.
Cherlynn: So Carissa is on the robot vacuum for us, I guess. And she got a chance to check out the, yeah, the Roborock I can’t remember the actual. name, how it’s pronounced, Safi or Safu Z70 and it we have a video on the article on our website as well as on our Twitter. It’s
Devindra: the Saros Z70, yeah.
Cherlynn: So close, that was so close. And yeah, that video shows the robot’s arm kind of coming out of its round disc like body and then picking up a sock that was in front of it. And not only that, I thought it would just pick it up and then like, wipe and then move away and put it back down. No, it took it to a basket nearby, like a laundry basket almost, And placed it in there.
So basically
Devindra: we’re almost there. We’re almost there to real robot helpers.
Cherlynn: So close. This thing is very close. Who knew Roborock of all companies would do it. I was like,
Devindra: it’s a, it’s really interesting to watch because Roborock, I think, yeah, it’s a [00:06:00] Chinese company and these folks, like, especially when they’re doing robotic stuff, like they’re just barreling forward because they can invest more in R& D and stuff.
I want, I’ve said this before. I want something that can like unload my dishwasher,
Cherlynn: which is the
Devindra: process that I think like
Cherlynn: my dishwashing unloading therapy.
Devindra: You know load it up clean the kitchen just like a real rosy robot situation. That’s what I need
Cherlynn: I mean the other robot vacuum that you’re talking about that can climb upstairs.
I believe is the dreamy And yeah, it’s interesting to see or I was like why why would we need a robot vacuum that can climb upstairs? But I guess there are actual functional uses for the x50 robot I don’t know, man. 1, 700 just for it to, like, climb.
Devindra: I think this is a bad idea. This is a bad idea, because Generally, you want your robot to be on one floor.
Yeah! Once you have stairs in the equation, then, like, it could fall. There could be all sorts of issues. To me, that’s not super useful. I’ve been room building for a while, and only recently with two floors. You pick it up, and you move it to another floor when you need to. If you’re super [00:07:00] bougie, you have more than one Roomba.
You have a Roomba port per floor. Or you have
Cherlynn: the cheap one on the floor that doesn’t matter as much as the expensive one in the place that matters. And they’re
Devindra: cheap Roombas. You could get a refurb Roomba for like 200, 300 bucks.
Cherlynn: Yeah.
Devindra: Relatively, that’s relatively cheap compared to how much they used to cost.
Cherlynn: Well, this one, I mean, I guess the, the shtick with this dreamy robot is that it climbs up like a human. So it’s not like sort of propelling itself up in some strange way, going up on an incline, getting his rollers. It’s like, God, some kind of like climbing mechanic. That’s like. Bipedal? Is it bipedal? Is it like
Devindra: I have to take a closer look.
The
Cherlynn: video looks like wild and I’m in such a CES fever dream that like, I have forgotten what it looks like. So much
Devindra: stuff. Another thing I want to talk about, the TVs seem like, it seems like wireless TVs are morbid thing right now. Like LG and Samsung are fully doing it. All their flagships have wireless boxes.
They say the lag is pretty good for gaming. I would have to, I would have to see that to see how much it works. But I do think that’s a good pain point for a lot of [00:08:00] people. People hate Wires. Moving behind their TVs. They hate, like, if you’re mounting a TV, you have to, like, figure out where all the wires are going to go.
So there’s that that company Displace, which last year had the suction TV with the battery, which I think I called it vaporware last year. I don’t think they actually shipped any. This year they’re back. They have a soundbar. They say they’re going to actually ship stuff. I don’t believe it. But, they’re back.
They’re here.
Cherlynn: Is one year enough time to see if the TV that will stick itself to your wall has fallen off yet? You know what I mean? Like, is it time to call it safe if it hasn’t fallen off in a year? Or should we give it another year? I don’t know.
Devindra: It’s my whole thing about trusting gadgets and trusting devices, I will not trust it.
Multi thousand dollar device that is just hanging by my wall by suction cup.
Cherlynn: It’s like one thing if it falls off and hurts itself, it’s another if it like takes down my wall with it, right? Like, and my bed and my glass table or something. So yeah, there’s a lot of stuff to be concerned about, I think.
Devindra: Boy AIPC is still a running theme this year.
AMD was really big on a whole bunch of [00:09:00] new chips. They announced the Ryzen AI Max chip, which they say is going to be in Halo products, Halo Copilot Plus PCs. It’s supposed to be really powerful. It has more graphics than their other ones. They also say it does better rendering, like 3D rendering, better than Intel’s chips.
Because AMD’s graphics tend to be better. They have like built in Radeon cores. So, you know, they’re kind of killing it. Intel was just like, hey We have AI chips too. They’re coming to gaming desktops. They’re coming to other things.
Speaker 3: Yeah,
Devindra: they have core PC, core AI laptop chips that will be coming to gaming laptops as well.
So, that’s a thing. You know, the good thing about CES is that you can see people and talk to people. So, I had a good chat with Pavan Davaluri, who is like the head of Windows and Surface devices from Microsoft. That was an off the record chat, but I can say it was good to have. That conversation to see what they’re thinking about AI PCs.
Hopefully we’ll have him on for another section of the gadget podcast, [00:10:00] but I guess like CS is happening. Like when news is happening, these companies are taking it seriously. We’re talking to high level people. So it feels like a CS of your, I’d say, despite being so cursed early on,
Speaker 3: I guess,
Devindra: yeah, like stuff, it feels legitimate and real in a way that hasn’t for the past couple of years.
But I mean, for
Cherlynn: you, maybe two part of it is the return to the physical. Yes. Right, because it’s been a while. And I think that my general sense is that interest in CES might have waned. I think this year too you know, we’ve, we’ve had different observations about shows from the recent years and this year feels even more like it is something you could, it’s like commoditizing things for the sake of commoditizing things a little bit and more than ever actually.
And it’s very much like the Radio Shack show a little bit. But you know, I would say, I don’t want to give away what we’re working on. So I would say like, we’re, Come to Engadget. com come to our social media channels where we’ve got a lot of videos going up We’ve actually are bringing back our youtube channel for a little bit And the live blog we I am in [00:11:00] live blog hell every day for a little bit but it is a fun time because live blogs allow me to be a bit more I think personal with our audience Which is fun like this podcast But I do want to shout out like to your point like amd and intel Both have made their announcements as of the time.
We’re recording this but We still don’t know technically what NVIDIA is going to announce. And Nvidia has one of the, I wanna say the most hyped keynotes or speeches, this CES mm-hmm . What are you thinking that they’ll do for CES?
Devindra: I mean, for the keynote, they typically hype up their AI projects or robotics projects.
And honestly, things that we don’t typically report news on because it’s kind of pie in the sky stuff that will only exist for a car manufacturers or something. They don’t really touch consumers. We will eventually hear, most likely, about the new GeForce RTX GPUs. Maybe not tonight, but I have a good sense like sometime this week, NVIDIA will make that announcement.
And that is the thing people are really waiting to see. And I think AMD sensed that a bit too. They briefly teased some information about the RDNA 4 [00:12:00] GPUs. Yeah, AMD also teased their RX 9070 GPUs. And that’s interesting too, just the name is interesting. Because you know, AMD’s used to follow a fully different Radeon naming scheme.
Now they’re kind of aligning with what NVIDIA’s doing. So, this Radeon RX 9070 will be comparable to whatever NVIDIA announces as a 5070 video card. Okay. So, it should make shopping a little easier. So there’s that. The RDNA 4 technology is going to have AI upscaling, which is a thing we’ve knocked AMD against before.
Because their fidelity affects a super resolution for stuff. But just couldn’t compete with NVIDIA NVIDIA’s DLSS, so they’re gonna have an answer to that. But again, just like, brief teases the news post I wrote is like the bare minimum we can even write because they didn’t have much information.
They’re just like, yeah, we will have new video cards, we will have new
Cherlynn: graphics. Is it claiming a spot,
Devindra: right? Like, kinda? Yeah. Basically. Whereas I think NVIDIA’s gonna come here and show off new hardware, new actual things, so. We shall see.
Cherlynn: Yeah.
Devindra: And I want to do maybe one or two [00:13:00] more of these episodes, just like recapping where we are Oh, throughout the show?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we are using the DJI mic 2, or mic mini, so we can like sit down and record anywhere. Yep. We’re at our breakfast nook right now. In
Cherlynn: the hotel.
Devindra: Yeah. And maybe you’ll hear more ambient noise than normal, but it, this is a really good way to have conversations. Yeah, it’s fast. We hope to have some interviews from folks up soon too.
With other
Cherlynn: members of the team. You’ll hear more than just the two of us. I think, I promise you they all sound amazing and lovely. I’m trying to think of like, whether there’s anything else that’s of note in the news that we’ve seen so far, because to your point, right, CES is in full swing, really. And we’ve been
Devindra: like, headstabbed.
Just like, so much stuff. Sherilyn’s been managing so much of the like, practical stuff and the scheduling stuff. Yeah, I’ve had like a pile of embargoes. All of us, like, all the team
Cherlynn: has had piles of embargoes, which is like, it is, like, to your point, kind of a return to form in that sense, but also feels like we’ve been covering this endlessly every CES.
We saw a few I don’t know. Lots of AI that [00:14:00] doesn’t really need to be AI. We saw a lot of pet tech. We saw a lot of smart home. Man, send us your thoughts, really, so far as we are chugging along the show. Podcast at Engadget. com would be a great place to drop them. Oh my gosh LG’s got all these weird products that I think we talked about even ahead of coming to CES.
Where like, yes it’s slapdick 2070 inch screen on a microwave, but then recently we found out what, it was a projector that looks like a stand fan or something? That’s actually
Devindra: kind of cool. Yeah, we gotta get some video of that stuff.
Cherlynn: Yeah, so plenty, plenty to look out
Devindra: for. Of the stories we’ve produced, I do want to shout out the stuff Sam and I did around Dell’s rebranding.
I wrote about Dell rebranding all of its PCs to sound more like Apple, so check out that post. But Sam had a really good rant called Dell killing the XPS name is an unforced error. And that whole story is wild because Dell’s basically obliterating all of its brand names. They’re just going to be Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max.
And to both of us, that sounds very Apple y. Wait, can I insert
Cherlynn: myself a little bit here? Because it’s not just Dell, Dell Pro, Dell Pro Max. [00:15:00] After I read both of your posts, it is the sub tiers that makes no sense. Like if they simplified it truly, it would just be Dell, Dell Pro, Dell Pro Max. Fine. But no, it would be Dell, Dell Pro, and then under each, there might be the premium label and the plus label.
So it could be the Dell Pro Plus. Yep. But versus the Dell non pro premium. So the Dell premium is still worse than the Dell Pro Plus?
Devindra: Yes.
Cherlynn: My goodness. What? And then you throw in the numbers. There’s numbers. They’re coming back. Some of the numbers
Devindra: are coming back. The desktops are kind of ridiculous because at the event Sam and I were at, they showed off The Dell Pro Max Micro and the Dell Pro Max Mini, which you have the same name within your name.
You are conflicting what this device actually is, and I find that to be completely ridiculous. So, check out Sam and my rant about that thing. I also did a video up on YouTube, and for once, the YouTube commentators seem to be on our side. Yes, they’re right.
Cherlynn: They are right. We are right, and Dell [00:16:00] is not right.
And so I am glad you pointed it out. It seemed like a lot of people resonated with that story on our side as well. It’s a whole
Devindra: thing. And I will say I don’t miss like the, I don’t miss a lot of the brands like Inspiron and whatever, but it’s more like XPS. Getting rid of XPS seems like a mistake. Falling in the footsteps of Apple seems like a really weak move.
Cherlynn: Of all the things to do because look, I covered HP’s pivot to one brand as well when that happened last year. And HP had a good sense to just, when they say simplify, they mean. Simplify to their own brand. So they did Omnibook, right? Which is not Pro Max. Fine. It’s their own name. For Dell to tell you that they’re not copying Apple, and I’m not saying they did say that to you, but like, they more or less suggested that these are industry terms.
They did say that
Speaker 3: to me. But
Cherlynn: like, if HP can do so without invoking the terms Pro and Max, why can’t you, Dell?
Devindra: That’s basically what I asked Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell, at this event where Dell. com. He was there to announce this whole thing and they were asking [00:17:00] questions from the audience. So yeah, I shot my hand up and I was like, my direct question to him was, what does Dell have to gain by copying Apple?
And Michael Dell did not look too pleased.
Cherlynn: Of course he did. He
Devindra: I mean for him too, it’s like, oh, now my names are all Dell, Dell, Dell. So it’s like better for him and his ego. Yeah, yeah, his
Cherlynn: name, yeah, yeah. And I
Devindra: feel like that may be part of it, but I’ve talked to a lot of people at Dell, like Other people, people working within the PC design stuff and nobody was excited about this change.
Of course
Speaker 3: not, why? Because
Devindra: their babies are all gone. Like the people who work on Inspiron and Precision and everything, the brands they devote their lives to are gone. And now they have to live with these new brands and I don’t know if people are going to be as excited. So anyway, that’s going to be a long ongoing story.
Check out our coverage in all of its many forms. I think that’s going to be one of the big takeaways from the CS. Del sort of, just shooting itself in the foot here. And nobody seems to like it except Del, except Michael Del.
Cherlynn: Yeah. I want to quickly shout out that the Samsung press conference just wrapped and we learned two things of note.
One, that the [00:18:00] Bali rolling robot is going to actually retail this year, they say. But they did say that last year too. And then we don’t know a price yet. We just know it’s going to be the first half of the year is what they said on stage. And then the second thing is they announced the dates of Galaxy Unpacked.
It will happen? January 22nd. So thanks a lot, Samsung, because right after CES, some of us will be heading straight into preparation for Samsung Galaxy S8. Let
Devindra: Cherlynn take a break. That’s the message of this year. Never,
Cherlynn: never happening. Alright, we
Devindra: will, we’ll be back with more updates about CES. Drop us an email, folks, podcastinggadget.
com. No live stream this week, because we are here, but you’ll get a bunch of episodes from us. And check out our social channels, too. A lot of fun videos are going up. Send us
Cherlynn: music recommendations! Oh
Devindra: yeah, maybe we should just open up a playlist and have people add songs to it. Anyway, we’re out folks, thank you.
Cherlynn: Bye!
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In this bonus episode, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss the latest innovations in robot vacuums, new AI PC hardware from AMD and Intel, and Dell’s decision to nuke its PC brands in favor of Apple-esque “Dell Pro” and “Dell Pro Max” branding. (Note: We recorded this episode before NVIDIA announced its new RTX 5000 GPUs, but we’ll have more to say on that soon!)
Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you’ve got suggestions or topics you’d like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments! And be sure to check out our other podcast, Engadget News!
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Credits
Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Cherlynn Low
Music: Dale North
Transcript
Devindra: [00:00:00] What’s up everyone, this is Devindra Hardwar, Senior Editor at Engadget.
Cherlynn: I’m Deputy Editor Cherlynn Low.
Devindra: We are here what is this, the beginning of night one of CES officially?
Cherlynn: I guess, yeah. I
Devindra: guess we have already suffered through basically day minus one. Minus
Cherlynn: one and today’s zero.
Devindra: One thing I want our listeners to understand is that we have already seen a lot of things we kind of know where the CES is headed. And, I think this is a cursed show Cherlynn. How do you feel about that? For all of us. For our
Cherlynn: team. Yeah, I think I mean, Devindra, I’ll let you speak to your situation, but we’ve had team members who have fallen deathly ill.
We have also, like, people who have completely had to miss their flights, international flights. It’s been quite Engadget team, but we have a really, really good team of people. Everyone’s got great attitudes and, like, our spirits are high. Okay. You want to just get the stuff going. So, yeah, no, and Devindra, you have been struggling a little [00:01:00] bit.
Devindra: So, yeah, update here is I basically threw my back out the the day before I had to fly. So, I kind of was mentally just preparing how to fly without caring much and just being really easy on my back. But, you know, I survived. And
Cherlynn: sitting in a plane for as long as you did couldn’t help either, right?
Probably didn’t help.
Devindra: Thankfully I did a smart thing and I bought a Comfort Plus upgrade with my points ahead of time. And I was like, I was going to be chill on the flight and it turned out that was just necessary. Yeah, so CS is officially beginning. We have seen we’ve just went through CS Unveiled yesterday.
A lot of embargoes and news came out today too. You know, some of the biggest news we’ve seen. Dell’s rebrand away from its own PC names. To Dell, Dell Pro, Dell Pro Max. There’s some new hardware from Intel and AMD. Yay! that they showed off and, you know, just kind of a typical CS stuff. What were the weird things you saw, Cherlynn, at at Unveiled?
Because you were there amidst all the weird gadgets.
Cherlynn: Yeah, and to be clear, given Devindra’s [00:02:00] injury, we are, we are having Devindra stay in place where he is, you know, able to recover a little bit. So, Devindra wasn’t at Unveiled with me, so I’m going to tell you about all these funny things we saw at Unveiled.
Somehow the most intriguing thing so far is the trend of Putting things in your mouth at CES Unveiled.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Cherlynn: So, we have like, at least two things that are saliva detecting devices. Uh huh, huh. Or like, you put a drop of saliva or you put your like, a stick in your mouth or something. We
Devindra: are not going to call this the Hawktwa CES, let’s not do that.
Dan
Cherlynn: Cooper definitely not coming up with a story based around that. But the idea is that using your saliva. Companies can tell how much cortisol or other types like progesterone types of things, hormones are inside your Or in you, right? And so it’s a bit to help with burnout a bit to help with like stress and health and then there is It’s the salt spoon that everyone was licking at CES on day one.
That
Devindra: doesn’t seem like a good [00:03:00] idea at a, at a conference. It
Cherlynn: was so, yeah, everyone’s felt like it was, initially it seemed a little icky, but the booth was so crowded I went over and it turns out they actually had like individual disposable versions of this spoon, the salt spoon per its name. It’s a gadget that will mimic or simulate the, the flavor of umami or salt made by a company called Kirin.
Devindra: Okay.
Cherlynn: Which I believe makes some kind of condiment. That’s the,
Devindra: they’re a soy sauce company. Exactly.
Cherlynn: And so, it’s the idea that like, people want to live healthier, eat better, and not have such a high sodium diet. So, but they still crave this taste. We love it. We
Devindra: love umami. Exactly. Why don’t
Cherlynn: we, why don’t we use electric on your tongue?
Devindra: That is some dystopian, I hope the story about this is how it’s made. That is very dystopian. That’s very like, you know, Soylent Green or something where we’re not really eating food, but we’re feeling these sort of like electrical impulses of food.
Cherlynn: Triggering your tongue to feel like it’s tasting something.
Just to feel alive. That’s horrible. I know. I, it’s, it’s, you asked me weird. And I was like, yeah, that [00:04:00] is pretty horrifying. But I’m very intrigued. I almost, so I was kind of waiting in line, but it was so crowded always. And I had so much other stuff to check out that, I didn’t really get around to it.
There were other things, I think, that turned up that, as unveiled, that were very interesting. Our team saw a stringless guitar. There were, like, about a zillion robots that all kind of look very weird. And then, lots of mirrors that you can, like, stand in front of and scan yourself. And, finally, I think, the Stern Pinball Machine of the Year is themed Dungeons Dragons.
Okay.
Devindra: Really, just really hitting the nerd market perfectly. We did see Roborock’s flagship new robot vacuum and that thing looks cool because they just added an arm to it. Like it has an extendable arm that can pick up socks and small things from the floor. And I am really interested in seeing the race between Roomba all these other companies.
I think was one of the first to do like, okay, self cleaning. We’re going to dump your vacuum into this bigger container than the vacuum [00:05:00] can keep going. Now everybody’s doing that. Then Roomba and others people started doing like combo mops. And now it’s just like, we’re getting appendages. We’re getting, I think one can climb stairs.
I saw news about that.
Cherlynn: So Carissa is on the robot vacuum for us, I guess. And she got a chance to check out the, yeah, the Roborock I can’t remember the actual. name, how it’s pronounced, Safi or Safu Z70 and it we have a video on the article on our website as well as on our Twitter. It’s
Devindra: the Saros Z70, yeah.
Cherlynn: So close, that was so close. And yeah, that video shows the robot’s arm kind of coming out of its round disc like body and then picking up a sock that was in front of it. And not only that, I thought it would just pick it up and then like, wipe and then move away and put it back down. No, it took it to a basket nearby, like a laundry basket almost, And placed it in there.
So basically
Devindra: we’re almost there. We’re almost there to real robot helpers.
Cherlynn: So close. This thing is very close. Who knew Roborock of all companies would do it. I was like,
Devindra: it’s a, it’s really interesting to watch because Roborock, I think, yeah, it’s a [00:06:00] Chinese company and these folks, like, especially when they’re doing robotic stuff, like they’re just barreling forward because they can invest more in R& D and stuff.
I want, I’ve said this before. I want something that can like unload my dishwasher,
Cherlynn: which is the
Devindra: process that I think like
Cherlynn: my dishwashing unloading therapy.
Devindra: You know load it up clean the kitchen just like a real rosy robot situation. That’s what I need
Cherlynn: I mean the other robot vacuum that you’re talking about that can climb upstairs.
I believe is the dreamy And yeah, it’s interesting to see or I was like why why would we need a robot vacuum that can climb upstairs? But I guess there are actual functional uses for the x50 robot I don’t know, man. 1, 700 just for it to, like, climb.
Devindra: I think this is a bad idea. This is a bad idea, because Generally, you want your robot to be on one floor.
Yeah! Once you have stairs in the equation, then, like, it could fall. There could be all sorts of issues. To me, that’s not super useful. I’ve been room building for a while, and only recently with two floors. You pick it up, and you move it to another floor when you need to. If you’re super [00:07:00] bougie, you have more than one Roomba.
You have a Roomba port per floor. Or you have
Cherlynn: the cheap one on the floor that doesn’t matter as much as the expensive one in the place that matters. And they’re
Devindra: cheap Roombas. You could get a refurb Roomba for like 200, 300 bucks.
Cherlynn: Yeah.
Devindra: Relatively, that’s relatively cheap compared to how much they used to cost.
Cherlynn: Well, this one, I mean, I guess the, the shtick with this dreamy robot is that it climbs up like a human. So it’s not like sort of propelling itself up in some strange way, going up on an incline, getting his rollers. It’s like, God, some kind of like climbing mechanic. That’s like. Bipedal? Is it bipedal? Is it like
Devindra: I have to take a closer look.
The
Cherlynn: video looks like wild and I’m in such a CES fever dream that like, I have forgotten what it looks like. So much
Devindra: stuff. Another thing I want to talk about, the TVs seem like, it seems like wireless TVs are morbid thing right now. Like LG and Samsung are fully doing it. All their flagships have wireless boxes.
They say the lag is pretty good for gaming. I would have to, I would have to see that to see how much it works. But I do think that’s a good pain point for a lot of [00:08:00] people. People hate Wires. Moving behind their TVs. They hate, like, if you’re mounting a TV, you have to, like, figure out where all the wires are going to go.
So there’s that that company Displace, which last year had the suction TV with the battery, which I think I called it vaporware last year. I don’t think they actually shipped any. This year they’re back. They have a soundbar. They say they’re going to actually ship stuff. I don’t believe it. But, they’re back.
They’re here.
Cherlynn: Is one year enough time to see if the TV that will stick itself to your wall has fallen off yet? You know what I mean? Like, is it time to call it safe if it hasn’t fallen off in a year? Or should we give it another year? I don’t know.
Devindra: It’s my whole thing about trusting gadgets and trusting devices, I will not trust it.
Multi thousand dollar device that is just hanging by my wall by suction cup.
Cherlynn: It’s like one thing if it falls off and hurts itself, it’s another if it like takes down my wall with it, right? Like, and my bed and my glass table or something. So yeah, there’s a lot of stuff to be concerned about, I think.
Devindra: Boy AIPC is still a running theme this year.
AMD was really big on a whole bunch of [00:09:00] new chips. They announced the Ryzen AI Max chip, which they say is going to be in Halo products, Halo Copilot Plus PCs. It’s supposed to be really powerful. It has more graphics than their other ones. They also say it does better rendering, like 3D rendering, better than Intel’s chips.
Because AMD’s graphics tend to be better. They have like built in Radeon cores. So, you know, they’re kind of killing it. Intel was just like, hey We have AI chips too. They’re coming to gaming desktops. They’re coming to other things.
Speaker 3: Yeah,
Devindra: they have core PC, core AI laptop chips that will be coming to gaming laptops as well.
So, that’s a thing. You know, the good thing about CES is that you can see people and talk to people. So, I had a good chat with Pavan Davaluri, who is like the head of Windows and Surface devices from Microsoft. That was an off the record chat, but I can say it was good to have. That conversation to see what they’re thinking about AI PCs.
Hopefully we’ll have him on for another section of the gadget podcast, [00:10:00] but I guess like CS is happening. Like when news is happening, these companies are taking it seriously. We’re talking to high level people. So it feels like a CS of your, I’d say, despite being so cursed early on,
Speaker 3: I guess,
Devindra: yeah, like stuff, it feels legitimate and real in a way that hasn’t for the past couple of years.
But I mean, for
Cherlynn: you, maybe two part of it is the return to the physical. Yes. Right, because it’s been a while. And I think that my general sense is that interest in CES might have waned. I think this year too you know, we’ve, we’ve had different observations about shows from the recent years and this year feels even more like it is something you could, it’s like commoditizing things for the sake of commoditizing things a little bit and more than ever actually.
And it’s very much like the Radio Shack show a little bit. But you know, I would say, I don’t want to give away what we’re working on. So I would say like, we’re, Come to Engadget. com come to our social media channels where we’ve got a lot of videos going up We’ve actually are bringing back our youtube channel for a little bit And the live blog we I am in [00:11:00] live blog hell every day for a little bit but it is a fun time because live blogs allow me to be a bit more I think personal with our audience Which is fun like this podcast But I do want to shout out like to your point like amd and intel Both have made their announcements as of the time.
We’re recording this but We still don’t know technically what NVIDIA is going to announce. And Nvidia has one of the, I wanna say the most hyped keynotes or speeches, this CES mm-hmm . What are you thinking that they’ll do for CES?
Devindra: I mean, for the keynote, they typically hype up their AI projects or robotics projects.
And honestly, things that we don’t typically report news on because it’s kind of pie in the sky stuff that will only exist for a car manufacturers or something. They don’t really touch consumers. We will eventually hear, most likely, about the new GeForce RTX GPUs. Maybe not tonight, but I have a good sense like sometime this week, NVIDIA will make that announcement.
And that is the thing people are really waiting to see. And I think AMD sensed that a bit too. They briefly teased some information about the RDNA 4 [00:12:00] GPUs. Yeah, AMD also teased their RX 9070 GPUs. And that’s interesting too, just the name is interesting. Because you know, AMD’s used to follow a fully different Radeon naming scheme.
Now they’re kind of aligning with what NVIDIA’s doing. So, this Radeon RX 9070 will be comparable to whatever NVIDIA announces as a 5070 video card. Okay. So, it should make shopping a little easier. So there’s that. The RDNA 4 technology is going to have AI upscaling, which is a thing we’ve knocked AMD against before.
Because their fidelity affects a super resolution for stuff. But just couldn’t compete with NVIDIA NVIDIA’s DLSS, so they’re gonna have an answer to that. But again, just like, brief teases the news post I wrote is like the bare minimum we can even write because they didn’t have much information.
They’re just like, yeah, we will have new video cards, we will have new
Cherlynn: graphics. Is it claiming a spot,
Devindra: right? Like, kinda? Yeah. Basically. Whereas I think NVIDIA’s gonna come here and show off new hardware, new actual things, so. We shall see.
Cherlynn: Yeah.
Devindra: And I want to do maybe one or two [00:13:00] more of these episodes, just like recapping where we are Oh, throughout the show?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we are using the DJI mic 2, or mic mini, so we can like sit down and record anywhere. Yep. We’re at our breakfast nook right now. In
Cherlynn: the hotel.
Devindra: Yeah. And maybe you’ll hear more ambient noise than normal, but it, this is a really good way to have conversations. Yeah, it’s fast. We hope to have some interviews from folks up soon too.
With other
Cherlynn: members of the team. You’ll hear more than just the two of us. I think, I promise you they all sound amazing and lovely. I’m trying to think of like, whether there’s anything else that’s of note in the news that we’ve seen so far, because to your point, right, CES is in full swing, really. And we’ve been
Devindra: like, headstabbed.
Just like, so much stuff. Sherilyn’s been managing so much of the like, practical stuff and the scheduling stuff. Yeah, I’ve had like a pile of embargoes. All of us, like, all the team
Cherlynn: has had piles of embargoes, which is like, it is, like, to your point, kind of a return to form in that sense, but also feels like we’ve been covering this endlessly every CES.
We saw a few I don’t know. Lots of AI that [00:14:00] doesn’t really need to be AI. We saw a lot of pet tech. We saw a lot of smart home. Man, send us your thoughts, really, so far as we are chugging along the show. Podcast at Engadget. com would be a great place to drop them. Oh my gosh LG’s got all these weird products that I think we talked about even ahead of coming to CES.
Where like, yes it’s slapdick 2070 inch screen on a microwave, but then recently we found out what, it was a projector that looks like a stand fan or something? That’s actually
Devindra: kind of cool. Yeah, we gotta get some video of that stuff.
Cherlynn: Yeah, so plenty, plenty to look out
Devindra: for. Of the stories we’ve produced, I do want to shout out the stuff Sam and I did around Dell’s rebranding.
I wrote about Dell rebranding all of its PCs to sound more like Apple, so check out that post. But Sam had a really good rant called Dell killing the XPS name is an unforced error. And that whole story is wild because Dell’s basically obliterating all of its brand names. They’re just going to be Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max.
And to both of us, that sounds very Apple y. Wait, can I insert
Cherlynn: myself a little bit here? Because it’s not just Dell, Dell Pro, Dell Pro Max. [00:15:00] After I read both of your posts, it is the sub tiers that makes no sense. Like if they simplified it truly, it would just be Dell, Dell Pro, Dell Pro Max. Fine. But no, it would be Dell, Dell Pro, and then under each, there might be the premium label and the plus label.
So it could be the Dell Pro Plus. Yep. But versus the Dell non pro premium. So the Dell premium is still worse than the Dell Pro Plus?
Devindra: Yes.
Cherlynn: My goodness. What? And then you throw in the numbers. There’s numbers. They’re coming back. Some of the numbers
Devindra: are coming back. The desktops are kind of ridiculous because at the event Sam and I were at, they showed off The Dell Pro Max Micro and the Dell Pro Max Mini, which you have the same name within your name.
You are conflicting what this device actually is, and I find that to be completely ridiculous. So, check out Sam and my rant about that thing. I also did a video up on YouTube, and for once, the YouTube commentators seem to be on our side. Yes, they’re right.
Cherlynn: They are right. We are right, and Dell [00:16:00] is not right.
And so I am glad you pointed it out. It seemed like a lot of people resonated with that story on our side as well. It’s a whole
Devindra: thing. And I will say I don’t miss like the, I don’t miss a lot of the brands like Inspiron and whatever, but it’s more like XPS. Getting rid of XPS seems like a mistake. Falling in the footsteps of Apple seems like a really weak move.
Cherlynn: Of all the things to do because look, I covered HP’s pivot to one brand as well when that happened last year. And HP had a good sense to just, when they say simplify, they mean. Simplify to their own brand. So they did Omnibook, right? Which is not Pro Max. Fine. It’s their own name. For Dell to tell you that they’re not copying Apple, and I’m not saying they did say that to you, but like, they more or less suggested that these are industry terms.
They did say that
Speaker 3: to me. But
Cherlynn: like, if HP can do so without invoking the terms Pro and Max, why can’t you, Dell?
Devindra: That’s basically what I asked Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell, at this event where Dell. com. He was there to announce this whole thing and they were asking [00:17:00] questions from the audience. So yeah, I shot my hand up and I was like, my direct question to him was, what does Dell have to gain by copying Apple?
And Michael Dell did not look too pleased.
Cherlynn: Of course he did. He
Devindra: I mean for him too, it’s like, oh, now my names are all Dell, Dell, Dell. So it’s like better for him and his ego. Yeah, yeah, his
Cherlynn: name, yeah, yeah. And I
Devindra: feel like that may be part of it, but I’ve talked to a lot of people at Dell, like Other people, people working within the PC design stuff and nobody was excited about this change.
Of course
Speaker 3: not, why? Because
Devindra: their babies are all gone. Like the people who work on Inspiron and Precision and everything, the brands they devote their lives to are gone. And now they have to live with these new brands and I don’t know if people are going to be as excited. So anyway, that’s going to be a long ongoing story.
Check out our coverage in all of its many forms. I think that’s going to be one of the big takeaways from the CS. Del sort of, just shooting itself in the foot here. And nobody seems to like it except Del, except Michael Del.
Cherlynn: Yeah. I want to quickly shout out that the Samsung press conference just wrapped and we learned two things of note.
One, that the [00:18:00] Bali rolling robot is going to actually retail this year, they say. But they did say that last year too. And then we don’t know a price yet. We just know it’s going to be the first half of the year is what they said on stage. And then the second thing is they announced the dates of Galaxy Unpacked.
It will happen? January 22nd. So thanks a lot, Samsung, because right after CES, some of us will be heading straight into preparation for Samsung Galaxy S8. Let
Devindra: Cherlynn take a break. That’s the message of this year. Never,
Cherlynn: never happening. Alright, we
Devindra: will, we’ll be back with more updates about CES. Drop us an email, folks, podcastinggadget.
com. No live stream this week, because we are here, but you’ll get a bunch of episodes from us. And check out our social channels, too. A lot of fun videos are going up. Send us
Cherlynn: music recommendations! Oh
Devindra: yeah, maybe we should just open up a playlist and have people add songs to it. Anyway, we’re out folks, thank you.
Cherlynn: Bye!
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/engadget-podcast-weve-survived-two-days-of-ces-2025-052543789.html?src=rss
Machine hunters rejoice, a Horizon: Zero Dawn movie is coming
Sony announced at CES 2025 that Guerrilla Games’ open-world adventure game “Horizon: Zero Dawn” is being adapted into a film.
If you’ve spent hours hunting brutal Ravagers, climbing towering Tallnecks, and figuring out how to bring down a colossal Thunderjaw, you might want to hear this tidbit of news: a Horizon: Zero Dawn movie is coming.
The film adaptation of Guerrilla Games’ lauded 2017 open-world adventure game was announced by Asad Qizilbash, head of PlayStation Productions, during Sony’s CES 2025 keynote on Monday. Already a cinematic wonder, Horizon: Zero Dawn follows machine-hunting protagonist Aloy (voiced by Ashly Burch) through a wild, beautiful, future America overrun with aggressive mechanical dinosaurs.
“I’m excited to be able to reveal for the first time here today, Columbia Pictures and PlayStation Productions are at the early stages of developing a film adaptation of the award-winning Horizon: Zero Dawn,” Qizilbash said. “Just imagine, Aloy’s beloved origin story set in a vibrant, far-future world filled with the giant machines, brought to you for the first time on the big screen.”
It’s really the only information revealed at present, though we’re thinking that a) it will be expensive and b) the role of Aloy will be one of the more hotly contested roles Hollywood has on the books — especially as the Horizon: Zero Dawn game has a sequel. Though while seeing a live action takedown of a Sawtooth will inevitably be epic, one thing PlayStation and Columbia will have to keep in mind is the backlash Horizon: Zero Dawn received for Native American cultural appropriation.
The Horizon: Zero Dawn film is one of a number of adaptations announced by Sony at CES, including film productions of Helldivers 2 and Until Dawn, and an anime series based on Ghost of Tsushima — not to mention the release window for The Last of Us Season 2. It isn’t surprising that Sony is leaning hard into more video game adaptations, with the likes of Arcane, Fallout, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, and more all hitting out of the park last year.
Mashable is on the ground live at CES 2025! We’re covering all the wildest and most important developments this week, so please keep checking back in with us. Want to submit a product you represent for our teams’ consideration as we identify the Best of CES? Here’s more info on how to do it.
Everything you missed on Day One of CES 2025
CES 2025 has begun, which means a whole fleet of new gadgets has been unleashed onto the world. As usual, team Engadget has battled jet lag, sleep deprivation and the static shocks of those horrible casino carpets to bring you all the news that’s fit to print.
But if you’re too busy to keep your browser locked on the site (or our handy dandy liveblog) then here’s a recap. This may not be everything we covered, but it’s a rundown of the biggest, most important and generally interesting news for your delectation.
There was a strong showing from the biggest names in the PC space, with Intel showing off its latest crop of Arrow Lake chips. These are AI and gaming-friendly slices of silicon that should pop up in PCs and laptops from major manufacturers in the next three months.
Speaking of which, Dell turned up to the show to announce it was killing off the bulk of its brands in favor of copying Apple’s naming strategy. Rather than XPS, Inspiron and Latitude, you’ll have Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Max — which in Sam and Devindra’s minds, is a massive unforced error.
On AMD’s side of the chip war, it announced the new Ryzen Z2, which will power the next crop of gaming handhelds. The rumor mill was suggesting the Z2 would sit at the heart of Valve’s next Steam Deck, which Valve moved quickly to kibosh.
But on the subject of handhelds, Acer wanted to show off its supersized Steam Deck rival, the Nitro Blaze 11. As the name implies, it’s packing an 11-inch display, kickstand and detachable controllers, like a Switch that got out of its cage and found your secret stash of human growth hormone.
Samsung rocked up at the show to flaunt the Galaxy Book5 Pro with Intel’s new Arrow Lake chips. But its real focus was on its new range of home entertainment gear, including its new soundbars and 8K Neo QLED screens, which is also what you’ll find inside its new Frame Pro TVs.
CES isn’t a mobile-friendly show, but Samsung did announce that its first Unpacked keynote of 2025 will drop on January 22. But, psh, whatever: The real Samsung mobile device news we are about is that its ball-shaped robot, Ballie, will go on sale later this year.
On the subject of things scuttling around your floors, plenty of companies are trying to find a way to make their robovacs stand out. Dreame’s X50 can avoid getting stuck on tricky door thresholds since it can vault obstacles as tall as… 6cm, via its “ProLeap System.” Given most robovacs can run aground on a threshold between one room and another, it’s a useful feature.
Roborock’s Saros Z70, meanwhile, has a little robotic arm in its lid that can pick up and move small objects found in its way. As a parent whose kids have some sort of obsession with leaving their socks in obtuse places, I already want one.
Speaking of things I want, despite my longstanding hatred of AI, I’m quite partial to the idea of Halliday’s AI Glasses. They’re designed to help you navigate life, proactively answering your questions, helping you remember key information and generally giving your tired brain a rest.
Yukai Engineering is also looking to tend to your tired brain, with its Mirumi robot designed to make you smile. The theory being if you’re feeling low, it’ll stare at you until you have a brief moment of bemused joy that’ll kick you out of your funk.
It wouldn’t be CES without an appearance by will.i.am, who LG recently appointed as its new Chief Being will.i.am Officer. The company was showing off its new TVs and soundbars, as well as its new will.i.am-infused xboom speakers with built-in boom, boom and pow.
Moving onto the bodily fluids part of our presentation: two different companies turned up to Las Vegas with saliva-testing gadgets asking consumers to spit on that thing to monitor their stress. cortiSense and Hormometer are two products that’ll monitor the cortisol (the “stress hormone”) levels in your saliva.
Day one rounded out with press conferences from a couple of heavy hitters: Sony and NVIDIA. Sony showed off very little in the way of consumer electronics, instead giving us a (eye-wateringly expensive) price for the car it’s making with Honda and then talking about broadcast stuff for an hour. Hey, at least we have a date for The Last of Us season two. As for NVIDIA, CEO Jensen Huang talked about AI for 30 minutes, then announced some (eye-wateringly expensive) new GPUs, then talked for AI for about 30 minutes. Thrilling stuff! This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/everything-you-missed-on-day-one-of-ces-2025-050018086.html?src=rss
CES 2025 has begun, which means a whole fleet of new gadgets has been unleashed onto the world. As usual, team Engadget has battled jet lag, sleep deprivation and the static shocks of those horrible casino carpets to bring you all the news that’s fit to print.
But if you’re too busy to keep your browser locked on the site (or our handy dandy liveblog) then here’s a recap. This may not be everything we covered, but it’s a rundown of the biggest, most important and generally interesting news for your delectation.
There was a strong showing from the biggest names in the PC space, with Intel showing off its latest crop of Arrow Lake chips. These are AI and gaming-friendly slices of silicon that should pop up in PCs and laptops from major manufacturers in the next three months.
Speaking of which, Dell turned up to the show to announce it was killing off the bulk of its brands in favor of copying Apple’s naming strategy. Rather than XPS, Inspiron and Latitude, you’ll have Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Max — which in Sam and Devindra’s minds, is a massive unforced error.
On AMD’s side of the chip war, it announced the new Ryzen Z2, which will power the next crop of gaming handhelds. The rumor mill was suggesting the Z2 would sit at the heart of Valve’s next Steam Deck, which Valve moved quickly to kibosh.
But on the subject of handhelds, Acer wanted to show off its supersized Steam Deck rival, the Nitro Blaze 11. As the name implies, it’s packing an 11-inch display, kickstand and detachable controllers, like a Switch that got out of its cage and found your secret stash of human growth hormone.
Samsung rocked up at the show to flaunt the Galaxy Book5 Pro with Intel’s new Arrow Lake chips. But its real focus was on its new range of home entertainment gear, including its new soundbars and 8K Neo QLED screens, which is also what you’ll find inside its new Frame Pro TVs.
CES isn’t a mobile-friendly show, but Samsung did announce that its first Unpacked keynote of 2025 will drop on January 22. But, psh, whatever: The real Samsung mobile device news we are about is that its ball-shaped robot, Ballie, will go on sale later this year.
On the subject of things scuttling around your floors, plenty of companies are trying to find a way to make their robovacs stand out. Dreame’s X50 can avoid getting stuck on tricky door thresholds since it can vault obstacles as tall as… 6cm, via its “ProLeap System.” Given most robovacs can run aground on a threshold between one room and another, it’s a useful feature.
Roborock’s Saros Z70, meanwhile, has a little robotic arm in its lid that can pick up and move small objects found in its way. As a parent whose kids have some sort of obsession with leaving their socks in obtuse places, I already want one.
Speaking of things I want, despite my longstanding hatred of AI, I’m quite partial to the idea of Halliday’s AI Glasses. They’re designed to help you navigate life, proactively answering your questions, helping you remember key information and generally giving your tired brain a rest.
Yukai Engineering is also looking to tend to your tired brain, with its Mirumi robot designed to make you smile. The theory being if you’re feeling low, it’ll stare at you until you have a brief moment of bemused joy that’ll kick you out of your funk.
It wouldn’t be CES without an appearance by will.i.am, who LG recently appointed as its new Chief Being will.i.am Officer. The company was showing off its new TVs and soundbars, as well as its new will.i.am-infused xboom speakers with built-in boom, boom and pow.
Moving onto the bodily fluids part of our presentation: two different companies turned up to Las Vegas with saliva-testing gadgets asking consumers to spit on that thing to monitor their stress. cortiSense and Hormometer are two products that’ll monitor the cortisol (the “stress hormone”) levels in your saliva.
Day one rounded out with press conferences from a couple of heavy hitters: Sony and NVIDIA. Sony showed off very little in the way of consumer electronics, instead giving us a (eye-wateringly expensive) price for the car it’s making with Honda and then talking about broadcast stuff for an hour. Hey, at least we have a date for The Last of Us season two. As for NVIDIA, CEO Jensen Huang talked about AI for 30 minutes, then announced some (eye-wateringly expensive) new GPUs, then talked for AI for about 30 minutes. Thrilling stuff!
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/everything-you-missed-on-day-one-of-ces-2025-050018086.html?src=rss
Whale TV Rolls Out Updated TV OS With AI-Powered Recs, Voice Assistant
The new Whale OS 10 takes on Google TV with user profiles.
The new Whale OS 10 takes on Google TV with user profiles.
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How to watch Arsenal vs. Newcastle United online for free
Watch Arsenal vs. Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup for free from anywhere in the world.
TL;DR: Live stream Arsenal vs. Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup for free on ITVX. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.
The Carabao Cup might not be the ultimate priority for the top teams, but the chance to take home a trophy is always something to take seriously. And we’re at the semi-final stage now, so the remaining four teams have a significant chance of winning the competition.
If you want to watch Arsenal vs. Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.
When is Arsenal vs. Newcastle United?
Arsenal vs. Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup starts at 8 p.m. GMT on Jan. 7. This fixture takes place at the Emirates Stadium.
How to watch Arsenal vs. Newcastle United for free
Arsenal vs. Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup is available to live stream for free on ITVX.
ITVX is geo-restricted to the UK, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These handy tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in the UK, meaning you can unblock ITVX from anywhere in the world.
Access a free live stream of Arsenal vs. Newcastle United by following these simple steps:
Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)
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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but most do offer free-trials or money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Arsenal vs. Newcastle United without committing with your cash. This isn’t a long-term solution, but it does give you enough time to stream the semi-final matchup before recovering your investment.
What is the best VPN for ITVX?
ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport on ITVX, for a number of reasons:
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Fast connection speeds free from throttling
Up to eight simultaneous connections
30-day money-back guarantee
A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $99.95 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. This plan also includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee.
Stream Arsenal vs. Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup for free with ExpressVPN.
How to watch New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka 2nd ODI online for free
Live stream New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka 2nd ODI for free from anywhere in the world.
TL;DR: Live stream New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka 2nd ODI for free on TVNZ+. Access this free streaming site from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.
New Zealand suffered a defeat against England in their last Test match series, but that disappointment can be left in 2024. The Black Caps are looking to bounce back with a ODI series victory over Sri Lanka. They won the first match by eight wickets, so they can finish off the visitors with a win at Seddon Park.
If you want to watch New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka (2nd ODI) for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.
When is New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka (2nd ODI)?
The 2nd ODI between New Zealand and Sri Lanka takes place on Jan. 8. This ODI takes place at Seddon Park.
How to watch New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka for free
New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka (2nd ODI) is available to live stream for free on TVNZ+.
TVNZ+ is geo-restricted to New Zealand, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in New Zealand, meaning you can access a free live stream of New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka from anywhere in the world.
Live stream New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka by following these simple steps:
Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)
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Open up the app and connect to a server in New Zealand
Visit TVNZ+
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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but most do offer free-trials or money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka (2nd ODI) without committing with your cash. This clearly isn’t a long-term solution, but it does give you enough time to live stream this Test series before recovering your investment.
What is the best VPN for TVNZ+?
ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live cricket on TVNZ+, for a number of reasons:
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Fast connection speeds free from throttling
Up to eight simultaneous connections
30-day money-back guarantee
A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $99.95 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. This plan also includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee.
Live stream New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka (2nd ODI) for free with ExpressVPN.
Nvidia is bringing a native GeForce Now app to Steam Deck
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Nvidia plans to release a native GeForce Now app for Steam Deck “later this year,” according to a blog post. It’s already relatively straightforward to get Nvidia’s cloud gaming service set up on Steam Deck thanks to a special script from Nvidia, but a native app should be easier to install and will support up to 4K resolution and 60 fps with HDR when connected to a TV.
Nvidia also plans to bring GeForce Now to some major VR headsets later this month, including the Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 and 3S, and Pico “virtual- and mixed-reality devices.” When GeForce Now version 2.0.70 is available, people using those headsets will be able to access an “extensive library of games” they can stream by visiting play.geforcenow.com in their browser.
The company also says that two major titles from Microsoft will be available on GeForce Now when they come out this year: Avowed, which launches February 18th, and DOOM: The Dark Ages, which is set to be available sometime this year.
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Nvidia plans to release a native GeForce Now app for Steam Deck “later this year,” according to a blog post. It’s already relatively straightforward to get Nvidia’s cloud gaming service set up on Steam Deck thanks to a special script from Nvidia, but a native app should be easier to install and will support up to 4K resolution and 60 fps with HDR when connected to a TV.
Nvidia also plans to bring GeForce Now to some major VR headsets later this month, including the Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 and 3S, and Pico “virtual- and mixed-reality devices.” When GeForce Now version 2.0.70 is available, people using those headsets will be able to access an “extensive library of games” they can stream by visiting play.geforcenow.com in their browser.
The company also says that two major titles from Microsoft will be available on GeForce Now when they come out this year: Avowed, which launches February 18th, and DOOM: The Dark Ages, which is set to be available sometime this year.