Consumer Electronics & Product Reviews

A crowd gathered around some guy at CES who had stuck an antenna in a potato and said it was 5G enabled. That was a joke. If he had said that it was an AI-assisted superfood that learned from you every time you ate it, people probably would have placed orders for it. Continue Reading →

The fun continues at CES® 2020! This morning, we hosted more than a thousand of the coolest people in Las Vegas at our Innovation Series Summit, where our friends from Facebook, Samsung, The CW, Google, and Westwood One spoke about working together, as well as their visions for the future. There were more exciting announcements Continue Reading →

The CES® 2020 show floor is officially open, and there's no more exciting place to be in the world right now than Las Vegas. Continue Reading →

Our team has been walking the floor at CES® 2020 for the past two days, and we've seen so many exciting things already. Here are some of our biggest takeaways so far. Continue Reading →

We got to Las Vegas yesterday and took a self-driving Lyft from the Wynn to the Convention Center – super fun! CES 2020 officially starts on Tuesday, but the convention center is already buzzing with excitement. There were so many amazing booths and exhibits being set up, we decided to go “backstage” to see what we could see. Continue Reading →

Amazon, Google, Apple, and the Zigbee Alliance announced a new partnership called Project Connected Home over IP. It will create a new smart home standard so their products can work together. Sadly, we won’t see a draft specification until late next year. But the good news is that the partnership is announced and there will be a spec and open source materials, too. Continue Reading →

If you've ever played Pokémon Go, you know that Pikachu was just pasted on top of whatever you pointed your camera at. About a year ago, Pokémon Go creator Niantic announced that they had worked out how to let Pikachu hide behind real-world objects. The technique, called occlusion, was demonstrated in a video, not on an actual device. Yesterday, Google announced the tools to solve the problem. Continue Reading →

Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo has a track record of accurate predictions. His recent investor note focuses on what the 2020 and 2021 lines of iPhones might look like, and one prediction stands out: Kuo believes that there will be at least one completely wireless iPhone in the 2021 line-up. No Lightning port, no USB-C port, no place to plug in cables of any kind. Continue Reading →

In engineering parlance, getting closer to the "edge" means bringing computational resources closer to the user. To do that, you need a bunch of stuff to line up. In an ideal world, you'd combine powerful cloud resources and a low-latency high bandwidth network. That's exactly what Amazon and Verizon plan to do. Continue Reading →

Best Buy shares are up today after the company's earnings beat expectations. Corie Barry, Best Buy's CEO said, "We are delivering on our purpose to enrich lives through technology by providing customers the products and solutions they want and need, combined with fast and convenient fulfillment.” Continue Reading →