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it's day two of our CES 2025 coverage

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and the tech news continues to pour in it feels neither pity nor shame only a

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cold compulsion to make AI like its

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whole thing Lenovo showed off the world's first laptop with a camera under

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the display the yoga slim 9i along with

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the world's first rollable laptop display in the thinkbook plus Gen 6 and

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some of the world's first Snapdragon X powered Min PCS running Windows on ARM

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but the biggest world's first to me which is what really matters get your

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own show is the world's first Steam OS handheld not made by Valve all of those

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leaks were surprisingly accurate but they couldn't have predicted its full

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name would be the Lenovo Legion go s 8

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in1 powered by Steam OS because it would

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be hard to predict someone choosing that uh it'll launch in May starting at 500

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bucks for the version with a last gen ryzen Z1 extreme but there will actually

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be a Windows version 2o which will launch in January with the newly

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announced ryzen Z2 go for 730 bucks but

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it'll come with 3 months of PC game pass and what I can only imagine is a

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desperate bribe from Microsoft no all of

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the gamers please don't switch to Steam OS it can't give you full screen ads

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like I can yeah that's we we don't want

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those huh both Steam OS and Windows

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version versions of the Legion go s will have a $600 tier as well with a ryzen Z2

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go later this year but if you want the beefiest option Lenovo did say a proper

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second gen Lenovo Legion go nons is in

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the works but that won't run Steam OS ah

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not so fast valve took this opportunity to announce that a Steam OS beta will be

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released this month that anyone can install on other handhelds handhelds

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like the GPD Win 4 maybe whose website

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made it sound like another official steam o handheld until valve told The

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Verge they did not work with GPD on official Steam OS support I feel like

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that was given away by the stretched out picture of Cat Mario on the website but

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I've been wrong before maybe you can install Steam OS on Acer's Nitro Blaze

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an 11-in handheld that's so massive I

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think the guy in this marketing image is just chuckling at

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it is this a joke we'll get back to see s news but first meta has announced it's

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shifting away from using third-party factchecking services in favor of a

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community notes style model on Facebook Instagram and threads in a video and

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blog post Mark Zuckerberg and meta's new PR Chief Joel Kaplan said their focus is

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now on restoring free expression for no

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particular current events related reason so they're also lifting restrictions on

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discussion of some sensitive topics that would have previously led to moderation

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interestingly multiple times meta's blog post specifically references rival

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social media site X run by Elon Musk the

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guy who was never actually going to fight Zuck in the ring but pretending

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was fun for a while I guess meta's new LAX moderation policy also applies to

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meta themselves because they took the liberty of serving an Instagram user

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with unsettling AI generated images of himself in his feed after he used a meta

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AI tool to edit a selfie meta apparently took that to mean he wants to be

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surprised by a fake image of himself reflecting on life in an endless Maze of

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mirrors where he's the main focus and he

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looks thrilled now back in September meta said their testing serving content

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in Facebook and Instagram feeds created by their AI just for you not of you

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which is the issue here meta told 404

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media that you can't opt out of seeing otherworldly versions of yourself in

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your feed but other platforms are experimenting with similar features so

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you may just have to get used to AI poking you like a toddler and saying hey

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uh look I drew a picture of you I don't care where are your parents and and and

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coming back to CES News for the quick bits these ones are a little different

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but hey that's okay yesterday I told you

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I'd cover some more NVIDIA stuff so here GeForce now is officially getting a

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native app for the steam deck later this year and expanded browser based support

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on various mixed reality headsets too so I guess Microsoft is right and all of

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those are an Xbox what no what what one

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thing from the note I didn't cover yesterday was Project digits a tiny

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$33,000 desktop computer powered by the company's Blackwell GPU and their 20

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core Grace CPU on a pretty standard looking mobile chip this is an ARM-based

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APU in a Mac Mini looking form factor

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could NVIDIA just Leap Frog qualcom and start their own RPC Revolution probably

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not with this these are meant for researchers and people comfortable

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plopping another $3,000 piece on top of the first one to run their AI waifu

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locally long distance is hard speaking of AI companions NVIDIA announced that

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generative AI powered NPCs called co-

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playay characters will drop soon in pubg

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and nraa blade point where they'll help you find loot and swear to loyally hold

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off bad guys so you can run away and heal if AI can't love then what is that

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oh you're not a gamer don't worry NVIDIA's project r2x desktop assistant

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is here to answer the question what if clippy was hot I found a hot AI girl and

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trapped her in my Monitor now because I feel like I'm neglecting them if I don't

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mention them there are a buttton of new laptop models on display at CES as usual

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updated gaming and lifestyle models from ASUS refreshed Elite books and a new

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Snapdragon X powered Omni Studio allinone from HP MSI had some pretty

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wild 18in gaming laptops to show off with lots of dragon related influences

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it's what the people want and Acer had a number of notebooks to show off but not

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all of them had a chassis made partially out of crushed oyster shells like the

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Aspire Vero 16 so that's the one that gets the mention I don't make the rules

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and you know what let's cover Sony's CES announcements which once again involved

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reminding everyone they're working on a car with Honda it's called the Aila do

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we remember this yes but since it's 2025

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5 it has to ship with an AI personal agent of course what is new is the

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shipping estimate of 2026 and the price

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it starts at

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$89,900 but hey but that comes with a

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three-year subscription to all the AI stuff which is at least uh Toyota

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corolla's worth Sony also gave their mysterious nextg XR headset a name Zin

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with with an X I guess the nicotine pouches aren aren't Big in Japan but

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good news you won't need the headset to enjoy Sony's future immersive

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entertainment concept a box covered in

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displays and sensory doohickeys that will drop you into the world of The Last

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of Us and even let you smell what Ellie smells turns out the clickers are just

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ripping it all the time it's mold and

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gas it's not it's not good and we're going to let it rip again tomorrow so

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come on back for more no it'll be it'll be Tech news that's not we're not RI

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okay that's disrespectful