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Did you think I was kidding when I said I'd see you again tomorrow? When the

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dealer offers more tech news, I always say hit. AMD showed up to CES this year

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and chose violence against itself. The company announced the Ryzen 7 9850 X3D,

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the new fastest gaming CPU, which is kind of awkward because the CPU is

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taking that illustrious title from the 9800 X3D, which is also an AMD chip. The

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company claims about 7% uplift in performance over the already fast 9800

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X3D. Very meh. And it's pretty much meh

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across the entire road map this year. But hey, FPS is actually FPS. Any port

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in a storm. Laptops did not get left out. AMD refreshed their laptop CPU

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lineup with the Ryzen AI 400 series, including business-focused silicon

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that's supposed to make spreadsheet crunching enterprise class, which I

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think means your boss won't yell at you for using Teams on 25 separate Chrome

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tabs. Of course, it wouldn't be CES without AI being duct taped onto

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everything. AMD unveiled the Ryzen AI Halo for developers, a mini PC designed

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specifically for AI development jam-packed with their latest Ryzen AI

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Max Plus CPUs to compete against NVIDIA's DGX Spark. They also released

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the Ryzen AI P100 series, an embedded processor range made specifically for

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physical AI. Because if there's one takeaway from CES 2026, it's that even

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your fridge will have an LLM by Q3. Great. I've I've always wanted a fridge

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that can hallucinate. Stupid sexy fridge. Intel's CES spotlight has been

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on its Core Ultra Series 3 chips, codenamed Panther Lake. Wow. Why did you

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guys write that in there? The first major PC processors built on

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Intel's new 18A process node, aimed at boosting AI, graphics, and general

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performance along with efficiency in laptops and handhelds. Panther Lake's

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top SKUs pack up to 16 CPU cores and 12

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XE3 GPU cores, with Intel claiming up to 60% better multi-threaded performance

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and battery life that can push around 27 hours in certain scenarios, all while

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underscoring Intel's pushback toward being full-stack in-house silicon maker.

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But James, what about the gaming, James?

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Tell us about the gaming. All right, all right, calm down.

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Unfortunately, Intel didn't show off the rumored Arc B770 GPUs at CES, but they

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did unveil XeSS 3, the newest version of

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their upscaler that supports multi-frame generation. On top of that, they

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unveiled the new Intel Arc B390 integrated graphics found in the

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higher-end X7 and X9 chips, a major upgrade on past iGPUs. Intel's claiming

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strong gaming performance here, about 73% faster on average than AMD's Radeon

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890M in early demos,

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and performance sometimes even rivaling discrete laptop GPUs. Plus, it's going

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to use the aforementioned XeSS 3, so the sky's the limit for this little guy.

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We're really rooting for him. Apparently, Intel's working on hardware-specific variants of their

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chips for handhelds, which had some outlets claiming that Intel murdered AMD

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with its Arc B390 mobile graphics. It's so crazy that Intel has transformed from

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the superpowered villain into the scrappy underdog I find myself rooting

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for. They're like the Piccolo of the tech world. They're probably raising NVIDIA's son, Gohan. Speaking of NVIDIA,

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they mostly doubled down on software and display tech, showing off big DLSS 4.5

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upgrades and unveiling G-Sync Pulsar gaming monitors. DLSS 4.5 is the next

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evolution of NVIDIA's AI upscaling and frame gen tech, rolling out a sharper

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second-gen transformer model with cleaner edges and less ghosting. Plus, a

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new dynamic 6X frame generation mode

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designed to push busting refresh rates like 240 Hz at 4K. Full 6X frame gen is

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coming later this spring on RTX 50 series cards, while the improved super

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resolution is already landing on all RTX GPUs via a new driver update. NVIDIA

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says over 250 games and apps support DLSS frame generation right now. Over in

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monitor land, NVIDIA's G-Sync Pulsar displays are launching around tomorrow,

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packing variable refresh rate plus innovative backlight strobes and

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adaptive brightness tech to drastically cut motion blur and give clarity

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equivalent to that of a monitor with four times its base refresh rate. You

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got it? G-Sync Pulsar is debuting with partners like Acer, AOC, Asus, and MSI.

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roaming fees piling up while hauling loads through new places. It'll be great

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for trucking hot new tech to display at CES 2026 in Vegas. I stay connected. No

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techlink at checkout, y'all. I think the Quick Bits are up to something. I caught

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them trying to sneak into Riley's luggage. They're so quirky. They just love them. Laptops. It wouldn't be CES

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without oodles of laptop announcements. Some are powerful, some are innovative,

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and some are just a little wacky. For example, Asus has teamed up with Kojima

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Productions on the limited edition ROG Flow out with Death Stranding-themed

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art, but probably won't help you bottle your pee. That's a Death Stranding

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thing. Other laptop highlights include Samsung's Galaxy Book 6 series, which

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they claim has an up to 30-hour battery life, Acer's Swift Edge with a giant

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haptic trackpad, and Schenker's semi-modular Panther Lake Element 16

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that's made to be easy to upgrade and keep for the long haul. Oh god,

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FRAMEWORK, LOOK OUT! THEY'RE COMING for you! LEGO is also modular, and they showed up

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to CES this year to show off their new LEGO Smart Play system, a platform that

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packs serious tech into regular old LEGO bricks. At the center is a

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standard-looking 2x4 smart brick hiding a tiny custom 4.1 mm ASIC, complete with

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sensors, RGB LEDs, a speaker, wireless radios, and inductive charging. Using

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magnetic smart tags and a low-latency BrickNet mesh, builds can react to

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movement and interaction in real time with synthesized sound effects. The best

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part? The whole thing runs without needing a connection to a cloud server,

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and it gets its firmware updates via a companion app. They specifically didn't

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want AI. They leave that to the fridges. Amazon

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rocked up to CES with a snazzy new trailer from Ring. Literally, a trailer.

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A literal trailer. A Ring mobile security trailer. It's a solar-powered

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LTE-equipped surveillance system with six cameras attached to it that allows

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for full 360° coverage basically anywhere you want to park it. Alongside

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that, they also rolled out new Elite multi-camera systems, a Sidewalk

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connected car alarm, and a lot of smart sensors, all conveniently stitched

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together by Amazon Sidewalk. All in all, it seems like most of this would be

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genuinely useful, as long as you're cool with your neighborhood being one big

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mesh network for Amazon and Ring that you are automatically opted into.

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Remember the Chaos Communication Congress? Well, another hacker torched a

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white supremacist dating site, literally described as Tinder for Nazis, live on

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stage at that same event while dressed as the Pink Ranger. Using an AI chatbot

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trained to flirt using {quote} traditional values, the hacker known as

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Martha Root lured users into chatting, harvested data, then ran a Python script

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to delete WhiteDate and other related platforms in real time. The audience

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cheered as the servers vanished to the shadow realm. Yeah. Get this LLM in my

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fridge. And CES 2026 has had a wild mix

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of health tech. For example, C2's longevity mirror that scans your face

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and gives a quick snapshot of your health outlook. Mirror, mirror on the

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wall, should I give 911 a call? We also got Lexy's autofocus smart glasses that

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automatically change their prescription, alongside Allergen Alerts' Pocket Mini

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Lab that tests food for things like gluten and common allergens in minutes,

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so you can eat out more safely. I've been looking for an excuse to eat out

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more safely. For the diabetics, there's Abbott's Libre Sense app that predicts

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how foods will affect your glucose in real time. Still, the best health tech

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at CES has got to be Moore's taint band-aid, which aims to track sexual

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performance and sensations with a small wearable, turning intimate data into

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app-based feedback. Probably not the only feedback you're getting fed.

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You know what I'm saying? Sex. And you should plant your taint back in your

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chair tomorrow for even more CES coverage. I have to go have a

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conversation with the Quick Bits about some of their frankly frightening recent

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behaviors. We get it, you wanted to go to Vegas, but you got to grow up

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eventually, you know? Running away, smelling Riley's underwear. Come on,

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guys.