Hardware

In the world of annual refresh cycles, there's always been a big question mark around what to do with all of the old tech we too readily abandon. There are a number of options for disposing and recycling these objects that often contain rare earth and sometimes harmful material. The concept of

LG spent a good chunk of its CES press conference talking about its lineup of TVs for 2021. You can expect bigger, slimmer and brighter TVs. I'm not going to list the specifications of new models. But there are a few new features that are worth mentioning. LG doesn't use Android TV for the

As CES starts in earnest today, I anticipate we'll be seeing a lot of hardware focused on remote work. PC sales saw a nice spike last year, even as smartphone sales continued to slip. There was a lot of adapting that needed to be done, moving from offices to virtual work places, and now we'

Leave it to Lenovo to give the world a swiveling all-in-one. It's kind of the company's M.O. — not always the most necessary or practical, but never not interesting. When it comes to fairly staid product categories like this, I’m all for trying something a little weird. And hey,

Happy almost CES! Sure, the year's biggest consumer electronics show hasn't officially kicked off, but, well, what do such arbitrary signposts really mean in a year like 2021, right? Samsung just dropped what's almost certainly one of its biggest pieces of news for the show, with the ar

The U.K.’s competition and markets regulator is seeking views on Nvidia’s takeover of Arm Holdings as it prepares to kick off formal oversight of potential competition impacts of the deal. The U.S.-based chipmaker’s $40 billion purchase of the U.K.-based chip designer, announced l

Any teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District who needs a second monitor can request one free of charge from Two Screens for Teachers, the nonprofit that recently extended a similar privilege to Seattle educators. If you’re a teacher in SF, you can sign up here. Having a second mon

Dell’s latest monitors reflect the growing need for simple, solid solutions to video conferencing needs, with a clever pop-up camera and a perhaps too clever by half Teams integration. The new displays integrate a number of advanced features — but they’re still made strictly with offi

Coral reefs all over the world are struggling to survive, with hundreds of millions of people and tens of billions of dollars in business that rely on them at risk — on top of the fundamental tragedy of losing such a crucial ecosystem. Coral Vita aims to modernize both coral restoration technique

There's a decent chance you missed the news back in May — there was, after all, a lot going on at the time. General Electric sold off its more than 100-year-old GE Lighting division to smart home company Savant. Today, the division's new owner is announcing a key rebranding effort, si

After a dismal year, the global smartphone market will slowly start recovering in 2021, predicts TrendForce. But Huawei won't benefit and, in fact, will fall out of the research firm's list of the world's top six smartphone makers by production volume. In 2020, global smartphone product

It's been a strange year for sleep. For me, levels have fluctuated between too little and too much, but have — more often than not — tended toward the former. 2020 gave most of us no shortage of excuses for sleep deprivation, from personal stresses to larger societal concerns. And,

You don't need Qoobo in your life. Nobody needs Qoobo, exactly. In fact, first reactions tend to range from befuddlement to bemusement. The robotic cat pillow doesn't make a ton of sense on the face of it — in part because Qoobo has no face. The handful of times I've interacted with t

For obvious reasons, many of us are spending the final week of 2020 looking forward. Samsung is hoping some folks are looking far enough ahead to reserve a spot in line for its still-unannounced Galaxy S21 handset (not an official name, mind, but probably a safe guess). If you're on the Samsung