Now playing: Watch this: Meet the coolest laptops of CES 2017 9:11 There seems to be two big ways to get some attention for your new PC at CES 2017. One is to make a bold, powerful gaming system like the triple-screen Project Valerie from Razer. The other is to bring a new two-in-one hybrid …
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CES 2017 has been a whirlwind of gadgets, cars and Alexa-integrated appliances. If you can’t be in Las Vegas to take it all in — and trust me, it’s a lot to absorb — there’s no better way to experience the tech of today, tomorrow and possibly never than through video. For the armchair attendee, the CNET TV has spent …
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Now playing: Watch this: The coolest TV tech of CES 2017 17:51 For the last week I’ve been staring into the future of TVs, and it’s hella bright. CES 2017 is over, and now we know all about the year’s newest, biggest sets. I saw many, many inches of screen real estate, all of it in 4K resolution and most …
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Now playing: Watch this: Robots everywhere at CES 2017 19:07 CES 2017 will always be remembered as the show where we met our future robot overlords — and were foolishly disarmed by how darn cute they were. Even when, back in December, we predicted the robots were coming, we didn’t realize quite how many bots we would encounter. The droids …
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It’s been a full year since CNET saw a big dose of adult entertainment delivered via a VR headset. Naughty America, one of several studios delivering wraparound 3D video content for VR, is back in Las Vegas and CES with a meeting room and demos of its films. Not much has changed, based on a quick demo I tried. It …
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Gaming laptops were once the Rodney Dangerfield of computers — they got no respect. Many were much more expensive than comparable desktop gaming rigs, despite having worse performance and less flexibility. Worse, many were laptops in name only, with back-breakingly big bodies, and some of the worst design elements ever pulled from the adolescent sci-fi fantasy look book. Over the …
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For game seven of the World Series this past November, StubHub sold millions of dollars of tickets in just the two hours prior to the first pitch. A third of the folks there, who witnessed the Chicago Cubs snap a 108-year championship drought, got their seats through the online ticketing site. It’s stats like these that show StubHub is great …
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Now playing: Watch this: The Asus ZenFone AR is ahead of the curve 1:35 CES may be lean on phones this year, but the 17 we saw pointed out some trends that will help define handsets through 2017, especially as we head into next month’s Mobile World Congress, the phone world’s best and biggest show. Biggest trends AI will be …
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I felt like a dancer in the dark of a Las Vegas patio lounge, ducking, swooping, leaning and spinning. But I was actually trying to get a closer look at the Red Ranger. I was testing the full-motion tracking capabilities of Qualcomm’s mobile VR headset during a demo at CES 2017. Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 835 processor is designed for headsets …
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One of President-elect Donald Trump’s key campaign promises could have a plot twist. During the campaign, the reality star turned politician guaranteed that the US would build a southern border wall and force Mexico to pay for it. On Friday, he changed his tune on who would be stuck with the bill. Social Cues is our look at what’s trending …
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