what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas unless it's the annual Consumer
Electronic Show because we're going to tell you every scandalous detail sorry
Vegas we covered the show's earliest news on Monday but the news just kept on
coming led by Samsung who introduced the world's first transparent micro LED
display which reportedly looks like a futuristic hologram compared to
transparent OLED and LCD displays those
are like VHS now they're so old though unlike LG's transparent OLED which is
coming out later this year there's no timeline for when Samsung's see-through
super display will find its way into a retail product making it essentially a
demo Samsung also showed off its new flex in and out flip concept still
working on the name Flex in and flip out what have it's the obvious do a back
bend and punch somebody it's a phone that folds both forward and backwards
like an overenthusiastic yoga instructor as for ideas that are making the leap
from concept to actual product Samsung
is reintroducing its 2020 Bali concept
an adorable little Home Companion robot that follows users around their house
though Samsung has made a few changes it now has wheels instead of getting around
like the bb-8 ball Droid from Star Wars and it's roughly the size of a bowling
ball why does it still need to be shaped like a ball if it's and if you're
worried about your little Droid getting lonely you could maybe get Samsung's new
bespoke jetbot combo its first
combination Robot vacuum and mop which
detects stains and avoids objects using onboard AI what back in the day we used
to call an algorithm it's all I know
moving on to ASUS their CES presentation was all about screens screens screens
they launched an update to the Zenbook Duo laptop that features a detachable
keyboard and two full-sized 14in 3K OLED
displays grafted together in a stunning dis display of mans huis though notably
at a much lower price point than past laptops with a similar form factor ASUS
also announced updates to its Rog zephrus G14 and g16 which will have the
latest processors and Graphics in a thinner lighter format as well as a new
lineup of monitors including ASUS's dual mode OLED that can switch between 240 HZ
at 4K and 480 HZ at 1080p in case you
don't necessarily want a laptop with two big screens fulltime they've also got a
17-in portable OLED monitor the Zen screen fold which comes with a built-in
stand and can be used either vertically or horizontally but for the Marie condos
of the gaming World ASUS unveiled a fair number of cable-free components
specifically the upcoming RTX 4000 Super Series graphics cards and z790
motherboards but they weren't done yet the company premiered its own version of
the nuck the first one since Intel nuked
the knck last year as well as the thinner lighter and harder Rog Phone 8
the 8 Pro and the 8 Pro Edition the brand new ASUS Zen Wi-Fi mesh Network
systems are using Cutting Edge Wi-Fi 7 technology and finally ASUS debuted its
new air Vision M1 smart glasses which are designed to help users efficiently
multitask you can both wear a poor man's
Apple Vision Pro and look like a huge
dork next up we finally saw some real
wacky products from the tech industry's resident Goofer Lenovo have you seen
their videos they're hilarious I'm a big fan true to form Lenovo unveiled the
thinkbook plus Gen 5 hybrid a detachable
two-in-one laptop that runs both Windows and Android
simultaneously Lenovo you kill me this thing is essentially a Snapdragon 8 plus
gen 1 powered Android tablet paired with a keyboard dock that's also a full Intel
Core Ultra 7 power powered Windows PC
when docked you can switch OSS with a button or stream One OS to the other if
you want to prove to your friends that Lenovo is the funniest laptop maker they
already believe you though to support your point you could also show them the
company's mechanical energy harvesting combo a keyboard and mouse that will
both work for around half an hour if you spin the keyboard's dial or turn the
literal crank on the bottom of the mouse for a few minutes it's just a proof of
concept which is like the tech industry version of a human saying it's just a
joke after realizing what they just said sounded kind of unhinged wow can't wait
to use these peripherals with a PC that requires far more power to run speaking
of power Lenovo also kept the external Graphics enclosure dream alive with the
thinkbook graphics extension which will only work with thinkbook laptops thanks
to its proprietary connector based on the oculink protocol why cuz it's one
and a half times faster than Thunderbolt 4 and it's weird that's CES
baby speaking of laptops Lenovo updated
their whole lineup including the legion 7 I thinkbook 13x Gen 4 thinkbook 16p
Gen 5 and even the thinkbook 14 Gen 6
plus I Lenovo we do think you're funny
okay but that's trying a bit too hard stop doing a bit just be yourself Lenovo
also announced Avatar Master an app apparently designed to make you a vtuber
avatar so when you're game is interrupted by a zoom call for work your
boss won't see the Cheeto dust all over your face finally an app for for that
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testing you well done Razer kind of disappointed me this year instead of an
overpriced gas mask or a triple screened laptop the wackiest thing they
introduced was project Esther the world's first HD haptics gaming cushion
2 years after they launched a haptic gaming chair but I guess now you can
experience explosions Heartbeats And even footsteps on the chair you can
afford now your enemy's position can be given away by the clap of your ass
cheeks my magnum opus also apparently they updated the
Razer Blade 14 and 16 with AI or whatever but all I can think about is
how Razer envisions a future where your reaction time in valorent is determined
by the shake of your cake that should give you some ideas for next year Razer
you're welcome Intel's CES keynote was a
half-hour snoozefest interview with CEO
Pat the smolder gilinger where he talked
generically about how AI is cool and can
be a force of good which isn't to say that Intel has nothing interesting
coming out next year their new hyper efficient aerol Lake and lunar Lake
processors are coming out for desktop and laptop platform and should triple AI
performance compared to their meteor Lake predecessors Intel has also changed
their mind and will be bringing support for their performance boosting
application Optimizer feature to 12th and 13th gen CPUs as well as 14th gen
and Intel announced it will be creating AI enhanced s so's designed specifically
for AO the new Chips will first be installed in EV cars from Zer which is
either an automotive brand or an offshoot of grinder exclusively for
dudes named Zeke Google's CES updates were somewhat modest as is tradition the
Chrome browser and a number of other apps are coming to some vehicles with
Android automotive starting with certain Volvo and pstar models while EV owners
with Android automotive will be able to share battery info with Google Maps so
they can find out if they'll make it to Grandma's house in one charge Google
also took their relationship with Samsung to the next level by merging
Android's nearby share and Samsung's Quick Share feature into one it
massively expands the ability to share content between Android devices you
don't know how nearby share or Quick Share work good news you can Google it
on your Volvo in non CES News open aai
released a public response to the New York Times saying that their copyright
lawsuit against open aai and Microsoft is without Merit but adding that they'd
still like to partner with the outlet in the future my ex is a liar but I'd still
like to get back together so you're telling me there's a chance open AI say
says that the newspaper had to manipulate prompts in order to get J GPT
to spit out verbatim sections of content it was trained on which is otherwise a
rare bug open AI has also recently expressed that it would be impossible to
train helpful AI models without using some amount of copyrighted material
simply because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression
and most public domain material is at least a century old I however would
absolutely love to see an llm that talks like Queen Victoria and has no idea what
germ theory is and twitch is laying off over 500 employees around 35% of its
total estimated staff in addition to the 400 employees cut in March 2023 which
comes out to a loss of around half of their total staff in less than a year
CEO Dan Clancy described the layoffs as an attempt to WR size the company which
despite cost cutting and sustainability efforts is still much bigger than than
it needs to be given the size of their business for the unfamiliar right sizing
is a lot like downsizing because it is downsizing they just don't use that word
and the word I want to use is please as in please come back on Friday for some
more Tech news cuz we're going to talk about the weird stuff at CES and that's
going to be it's going to get wacky in here okay