Month: January 2025
Kudos to Lenovo for shipping its new flagship ThinkPad X9 laptops with 100% recycled (and replaceable) cobalt cell batteries
World’s largest PC vendor joins Apple and Dell in extensively reusing cobalt in new devices New Lenovo ThinkPad X9 14 and X9 15 are powered by Intel’s latest Core Ultra 7 CPU (Series 2) Despite their flagship status, both still only use PCIe 4.0 Lenovo has announced its latest premium…
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Las Vegas police release ChatGPT logs from the suspect in the Cybertruck explosion
They confirmed that the suspect, an active duty soldier in the US Army named Matthew Livelsberger, had a “possible manifesto” saved on his phone, in addition to an email to a podcaster and other letters. They also showed video evidence of him preparing for the explosion by pouring fuel onto…
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Microsoft is combining ‘the best of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds
Xbox chief Phil Spencer has been dropping hints about an Xbox handheld for months, but what about Windows handheld gaming PCs? Jason Ronald, Microsoft’s VP of “Next Generation,” tells The Verge that we should expect to see the Windows handheld gaming experience change within this calendar year. Ronald was a…
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Sam Altman’s sister files sexual abuse lawsuit against him — his family says it’s ‘utterly untrue’
Ann Altman has filed a lawsuit against her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, alleging that he sexually abused her throughout childhood over a period of nearly a decade. The rest of the Altman family immediately pushed back on the lawsuit, saying the allegations are “utterly untrue” and stem from “mental…
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Panasonic announces its 2025 TV lineup, led by a brighter flagship OLED TV with a new Prime Video Calibrated Mode
Panasonic reveals its 2025 TV lineup The range is headlined by the flagship Z95B OLED TV The lineup includes the W95B mini-LED and W70B LED TVs Panasonic has revealed its 2025 TV lineup at CES 2025. The reveal consists of three TVs – the flagship Z95B, the W95B mini-LED, and…
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At CES 2025 I toured the Haus.me microhaus Pro, a self-contained living pod you can put just about anywhere
We may no longer be at the height of the tiny home craze, but the idea of a resource-light, efficiently built home that can be plonked down just about anywhere still appeals. Today at CES, I got to tour the 2025 model of the microhaus Pro from California-based Haus.me. It…
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