Consumer Electronics & Product Reviews

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the tech giant has unlawfully monopolized the smartphone market to the detriment of consumers, developers, and competitors. Continue Reading →

Announced at NVIDIA's GTC conference, Project GR00T – named with a nod to the Marvel character – is focused on creating a foundational model for general-purpose humanoid robots. Continue Reading →

Apple's acquisition of DarwinAI, a Canadian AI startup, telegraphs a strategy ahead of the company's major generative AI updates slated for iOS 18. Continue Reading →

If you've been wondering when Apple will have an answer to ChatGPT and the generative AI craze, we may finally have a clue. Continue Reading →

I love the Apple Vision Pro. It is the first truly inspiring portal to the augmented reality world we are evolving into. That said, a fair number of like-minded early adopters are returning their devices (inside the 14-day return window) for the same reasons every other AR/VR device is sitting on the "tech graveyard" shelf in my office: it's not ready for daily use. Continue Reading →

Google has integrated its emerging Bard and Duet generative AI platforms into a unified service named Gemini. This platform is designed to serve as an all-encompassing tool that merges the capabilities of an assistant, chatbot, and search engine, potentially revolutionizing how users interact with Google's offerings. Continue Reading →

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, "Eternal You" is a documentary that explores the emerging (and slightly unsettling) business of "thanabots" (thanatology meets robotics), where AI models are trained to resurrect those who've shuffled off this mortal coil. Continue Reading →

Greetings from Las Vegas. CES begins tonight with opening keynotes, but there have already been a bunch of press events. I got to touch and feel the GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker with Active Smoke Filtration that I wrote about the other day. It looks pretty awesome. Continue Reading →

Foreshadowing CES shows yet to come, Google's DeepMind has introduced three new robotic training tools: AutoRT, SARA-RT, and RT-Trajectory. Continue Reading →

People have been asking me what I'm most excited about heading into CES. Well… Continue Reading →