Rollable laptops, twice-folding phones, and a ‘longevity station.’ This is the CES tech we come back for.
Former Polygon staffers Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah are launching a new publication called Mothership, “which aims to analyze games specifically through the lens of gender and identity.”
It launches on January 26th, but they published a YouTube Short and a blog post explaining what the site’s all about.
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A Waymo made the unfortunate decision to drive on light rail tracks in Phoenix with a passenger inside while a train was approaching. The passenger made the right call to abandon the robotaxis, even if it meant getting out in the middle of traffic. Valley Metro, which oversees light rail service, says there were no significant delays as a result of the incident. This comes a few weeks after a blackout caused a massive Waymo traffic jam in San Francisco.
GDU Technology’s Li Lei says she’s not sure whether it might truly hurt her company. “It’s really hard to tell because they’re changing drone policy all the time,” she tells me at CES. Also, GDU mostly sells in China. But it just recently expanded in the US, and now its just-announced flagship P300 won’t come here.
While shows produced with generative AI can still be submitted for Emmy consideration, the Television Academy has updated its rules to reserve the right to inquire about whether the technology was used in a production.
“The core of our recognition remains centered on human storytelling,” the organization said.
The charge is related to the automaker’s plans to reduce some of its EV production in the face of cooling demand and a less hospitable regulatory environment. It comes a week after Ford said it would take a similar financial hit on its EV investments, and a few months after GM took a $1.6 billion writedown on EVs. When will the EV bloodletting end?
Real people died while Trump treated war like a meme stock.
The next flagship model from Chinese startup DeepSeek “makes breakthroughs handling extremely long coding prompts,” according to The Information, and DeepSeek’s internal benchmarks put it ahead of Anthropic and OpenAI’s models in coding.
DeepSeek V4 could arrive “in the coming weeks,” around a year after DeepSeek’s previous R1 reasoning model launched on January 20th, 2025.
Stellantis is discontinuing its plug-in hybrid lineup for Jeep and Chrysler, as the automaker pivots away from electrification to gas guzzlers and extended-range electric vehicles. It’s kind of a surprising move, given the sales momentum around hybrids these days in the face of slowing demand for EVs. But when you recall that Jeep’s 4xe lineup has been plagued by recalls, including one recently for a high-voltage battery defect that poses a risk for fire, than it starts to make a little more sense.
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said in a press conference that “a single crew member on board the [ISS] experienced a medical situation and is now stable,” but NASA is playing it safe and bringing Crew-11 home early.
A spacewalk was postponed on Wednesday due to the same unspecified medical concerns.
Smart lights that know where they’re placed in a room, wild designs for next-gen routers, and a glowing inedible donut.
As the gap in performance shrinks, and there’s less to separate the best from the rest, how will manufacturers react?
15 years ago, j5create made a cable that magically let you drag and drop between PCs and Macs. Now, it’s got a $70 USB-C astronaut dongle that wirelessly links Windows PCs with iPads here at CES. You can send files, mirror displays, and beam your mouse and keyboard. I can’t vouch for latency yet — Wi-Fi reliability at CES is kind of crap.
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When I wasn’t looking at huge phones at CES I managed to track down a small one: the ikko MindOne Pro. It offers a 4-inch OLED panel and a 50-megapixel camera that flips up for selfies. The MindOne Pro will ship with Android 15 as well as a proprietary OS with AI apps that you can also use as a kind of focus mode. It’s in late stages of Kickstarter funding with shipping promised for February.
If you have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription, you can now play the 2005 GameCube release as part of the Switch 2’s collection of GameCube classics, according to a press release. Here’s Nintendo’s Japanese trailer for the launch. (I haven’t seen an English one yet.)
The Brolan ClearX uses “sensors” (no one could tell me what sort, though) and AI to detect what material your shoes are made from and select the appropriate cleaning and drying cycle, with “micro-nano bubble technology” to help clean. Is it too late to add this to my dubious AI roundup?
Local news reports that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent has shot and wounded two people on the east side of the city. Portland has been an ongoing target of ire from the Trump administration.
An ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good yesterday in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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We knew that Obsidian’s fantasy RPG was getting a major update soon, and during the New Game Plus livestream the studio also confirmed a nice surprise: the game is coming to the PS5 on February 17th. You can check out the full reveal below.
Unlike the consumer-facing ChatGPT Health announced Wednesday, the new OpenAI for Healthcare products launching today are designed do things like create reusable templates for discharge summaries and patient instructions, or analyze medical evidence to apply to specific patients.
ChatGPT for Healthcare is already being used by healthcare organizations like Boston Children’s Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
In a lawsuit spotted by Aftermath, Sega claims that someone with the username Ziodyne uploaded the Persona 3 Reload and Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey albums to Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon before the company had a chance to offer them on the music streaming services.
Sega accuses Ziodyne of receiving “significant revenue and profits from his unauthorized sales” of its music, and is seeking $60,000 in damages, Aftermath reports.
After February 9th, it will discontinue support for the button that has let Microsoft 365 users send Word docs from within the app to devices like the Scribe for reading and annotation, ever since it was added in 2023.
You can still send Word documents to your Kindle, but you’ll need to use Amazon’s official Send to Kindle tool via its website instead.
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This is Soramatex from Sora Materials. They wouldn’t tell me what it is, save that it uses carbon powder, which makes it sound like maybe it’s graphene aerogel — which, to be clear, already exists and can get even lighter. But it’s not every day I get to touch impossibly light lab material! (YouTube version here.)
As part of a partnership between TikTok and FIFA, select media partners can livestream “parts of” World Cup matches as well as “post more curated clips and access special content produced by FIFA for TikTok.”
External GPUs are rad but many need work — maybe they’ll take off now we’re throwing AI dollars at them? Gigabyte, Plugable, and newcomer Ugreen aren’t even calling them “eGPUs” anymore here at CES. Guess I can’t complain unless AI companies buy them all up.
