Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S25 on January 22
In what was an otherwise uneventful CES 2025 press conference, Samsung on Monday announced January 22 as the date for its next Unpacked event. The timing lines up with earlier reporting.
The event, which is being livestreamed through Samsung's site, will almost certainly serve as a launching p
Toyota is ‘exploring rockets’ and has made its first investment into Interstellar Technologies
Japanese automaker Toyota is “exploring rockets,” chairman Akio Toyoda announced onstage at CES 2025 on Monday, while hinting at the idea of moving people through space.
The rocketry mention on the CES 2025 stage came while Toyoda was in the middle of explaining how he views his compan
Samsung says its home robot, Ballie, will roll out the first half of 2025
Tech companies love rolling a robot out onstage. These systems serve as shorthand for consumer electronics brands branching out into a more bleeding-edge category. On occasion we get an Amazon Astro or Sony Aibo that actually hit the market in some form. More often than not, however, the robots onl
Consumer tech spending will break records in 2025 if Trump's tariffs don't squash it, CTA predicts
American consumers will spend a record-breaking $537 billion on new apps, devices, and gadgets in 2025, according to the new one-year forecast from the Consumer Technology Association.
But there's a catch, warned the CTA's futurist Brian Comiskey onstage Monday at the group’s enormou
Toyota’s Woven City is open for business and looking for startups
Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda revealed Monday at CES 2025 his vision for a living laboratory chock-full of startups and technology. His message: Woven City — a prototype city on a 175-acre site at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan — is open for business and searching for inventors.
“To
Washington sues T-Mobile over 2021 data breach that spilled 79 million customer records
The U.S. state of Washington has sued T-Mobile over allegations the phone giant failed to secure the personal data of millions of state residents prior to an August 2021 data breach, which went on to affect more than 79 million customers across the United States.
In a statement announcing the laws
Meta appoints UFC’s president to its board
Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors, the company announced Monday: UFC president and CEO Dana White, European investment company Exor CEO John Elkann, and tech investor and entrepreneur Charlie Songhurst.
In a press release, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that White, Elk
Toyota is teaching robot arms to fold t-shirts the Japanese way
Monday's Toyota CES press conference was all about Woven City, the carmaker's planned community at the base of Mount Fuji. Robotics will undoubtedly play a major role in the company's bid to automate as much of the 2,000-person city as possible, including autonomous cars and drones desi
Flying Flea electric motorcycles will feature connected services powered by Qualcomm
Flying Flea is the latest electric two-wheeler manufacturer to embrace the connected vehicle trend. At CES 2025, Flying Flea shared plans to integrate some of Qualcomm's Snapdragon products into its upcoming line of motorcycles, bringing connected capabilities like voice assistance, smartphone-
AMD unveils new chips for laptops, desktops, and gaming handhelds at CES 2025
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, AMD unveiled a slew of new chips destined for devices ranging from desktops to gaming handhelds.
AMD is riding high coming into this year’s CES. The company commanded a 28.7% share of the desktop CPU segment in Q3 2024, up 9.6 percentage points compared to the same
Bluesky bump from X exodus is slowing down, data shows
Social network and X competitor Bluesky’s massive growth slowed in December in the U.S., after having surged from 9+ million in September to north of 20 million users in November.
The slowdown is based on an analysis of web traffic and mobile app daily active users by analytics firm Simil
Google unveils an AI-powered TV that summarizes the news for you at CES 2025
Long gone are the days of simply watching the news.
Google unveiled the latest version of its TV operating system at CES 2025 on Monday. It uses the company’s Gemini AI assistant to summarize the biggest news of the day for you. By asking Gemini to play your “News Brief,” the AI
Trucks VC launches $70M fund to find the next great batch of transportation startups
Trucks Venture Capital co-founder Reilly Brennan has spent more than a decade looking for — and investing in — entrepreneurs building the future of transportation, including autonomous vehicle tech, electric air taxis, EV charger maintenance, mobility data platforms, and more.
Now, Brennan alo
Google is forming a new team to build AI that can simulate the physical world
Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world.
Tim Brooks — one of the co-leads on OpenAI's video generator, Sora, who left for Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, in October — will lead the new team, he announced in a post on X. It