Month: January 2024
CES 2024 was all about interoperability beyond the smart home
Last year, you couldn’t mention CES without bringing up Matter. It was a pivotal year for the smart home standard, as big names like Samsung, GE, and Amazon promised better interoperability between their devices and a world of sensors, appliances, and accessories. But that promise largely started and ended with…
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“Thousand times brighter than OLED”: How cheap material bound to revolutionize solar panels could one day also make your laptop display finally readable in bright sunlight
The ULTRA-LUX project, led by technology company Imec, has developed a new type of light-emitting diode (LED) – known as perovskite LEDs (PeLED) – that might one day consign OLED displays to history. Some of the best TVs and the best laptops today use OLED (organic LED) technology in their…
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These are apparently the best tech firms to work for – and Apple only just makes the list
Job evalutation site Glassdoor has released its list of the “best places to work” for 2024, with a number of tech firms managing to break into the top spots. There was particular interest for Nvidia, which was named as the second best company overall, and Apple, which managed to claim…
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Infinix brought wireless charging tech to CES that can juice up your devices from eight inches away
It's been a while since we saw over-the-air wireless charging demos from the likes of Oppo and Xiaomi, so CES 2024 caught us by surprise when we came across a new one from another Chinese mobile brand, Infinix. This "AirCharge" tech uses low-frequency magnetic resonance to deliver up to 25W…
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The Morning After: Introducing the Best of CES 2024
It’s the end of our CES coverage, wrapping up the week with more deep dives from the tech show and introducing our Best of CES 2024 winners. This year, rather than award specific category prizes, possibly in categories lacking competition (or anything good enough), we’ve announced a group of winners…
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Purple just dropped a ridiculous $400 discount on its Original mattress – this deal won’t stick around
Right now you can buy the Purple mattress at the lowest price we’ve seen it at in the past year. There’s up to $400 off at Purple, with the full $400 off the queen size, bringing the price down to $999, which matches the lowest price we ever see on…
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