We strolled by Samsung’s enormous booth, hoping to get our hands on the 5G prototype phone that Samsung brought to CES 2019 in Las Vegas. And there we found it, trapped behind glass in its dock, so near yet so far away. At first glance, the phone doesn’t look like anything special. Again, it’s a prototype, not a …
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Last night, outside the exhibition hall at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, I had what can only be classified as a “CES moment.” Sprawled across the lobby were five candy-colored suitcases with ears. As I got closer, I noticed that ears wiggled back-and-forth whenever someone petted the suitcase. It turns out this was a Fravel suitcase designed to be …
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The graphics card wars are heating up, with Nvidia taking a shot at rival AMD during CES 2019. After AMD announced Radeon 7, its new 7-nanometer GPU designed to push PC gaming performance to the “bleeding edge,” Nvidia’s CEO decided to bite back. For context: the Radeon 7 is AMD’s big play, it’s the first GPU based on the 7nm …
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Want a doctor to take a peek inside your body? No need to leave your living room. Using the Butterfly iQ handheld ultrasound wand and an iPhone, you could take your own ultrasound as your doctor analyzes the imagery in real time during a video chat. It’s not a theory — it’s possible right now. At CES 2019 I saw …
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Amazon’s Fire TV may be moving into the lead among video streaming devices, with its lineup of products attracting “well over” 30 million active users, the company said Wednesday at CES. That’s up from the 25 million Amazon disclosed in October, suggesting growth of 5 million new accounts in three months. And Amazon expects the number to grow soon, too. …
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I loved watching Penn and Teller when I was young. Inexplicably, I threw up as a kid during one of their shows, and then I remember meeting them in the lobby and how they made me love magic. I still practice tricks and think about how magic bends reality. Penn Jillette also lost over a hundred pounds in 2016 after …
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At CES this year, there was one thing I was more excited to see than anything else: a robot I’ve been waiting to meet for almost three years. A little like a penguin, a little like a sloth, Lovot is a companion robot with big googly eyes and an even bigger AI-powered heart. It’s designed and built by Kaname Hayashi, …
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Apple and Samsung have done it again. In a week in which pretty much every tech company in the world is unveiling flashy new products, the two giants have managed to steal the limelight. This time, it was at CES 2019, the world’s biggest electronics show. The Las Vegas confab is the event that sets the stage for the coming year in …
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Google shouldn’t have to remove links about European citizens from search results across the whole of the internet, just in the European Union. That’s the recommendation of a top legal advisor to the EU’s Court of Justice. EU Advocate General Maciej Szpunar released an opinion Thursday saying searches made outside the EU shouldn’t be affected by the so-called right to …
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If you shoot a lot of high-definition content but tire of having to stop working to change SD cards, Lexar has a new, mammoth SD card that should make your job easier. Lexar unveiled The Professional 633x SDXC UHS-I, a memory card with the capacity to store 1 terabyte of photos and video, at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. One …
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