Month: January 2025
Savant’s new ‘Smart Budget’ system lets you control your home’s electrical load
At CES this week, Savant Systems announced Savant Smart Budget, a feature of its Smart Power system of modular relays and equipment that integrates with your existing circuit breaker box. If you’re already at the limits of your breaker box’s capacity, Smart Budget lets you get around that with automated…
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CES 2025: BMW’s vision-spanning Panoramic iDrive will make sure you never miss another navigation prompt
At a surprisingly star-studded event this morning, BMW showed off the final form of its long-awaited and long-teased Panoramic iDrive system. It's a combination of an oddly angular touchscreen, a windshield-spanning heads-up display, and an LLM-powered AI assistant. The big news? It's coming to every future BMW. Comedians Tim Meadows…
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Honda Zero is ready to blast off with all-new sedan and SUV EVs
At CES in Las Vegas today, Honda showed off its promised new battery-electric Honda Zero prototypes. The first is an SUV based on its Space-Hub concept, called the Honda 0 SUV. The second is a sedan based on its Saloon concept, called the Honda 0 Saloon. Honda says the two…
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I think the title of the world’s most powerful mini PC has been claimed by HP and yes, it’s an AMD workstation
The Z2 Mini G1a is what HP calls a compact Next Gen AI PC Its top model comes with a Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 teamed with 128GB LPDDR5X 30 of them can fit in a 42U rack tower The HP Z2 Mini G1a Workstation Desktop PC is an advanced…
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ASUS unveiled the Zenbook A14 at CES 2025 and it’s the MacBook Air competitor I’ve been dreaming of
I knew I had found my favorite computer of CES 2025 early last December, long before I had a chance to see what most other PC makers were cooking up. It comes from ASUS and it’s the new Zenbook A14, a system that the company had joked about calling the…
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Tesla’s remote parking feature under investigation after over a dozen crashes
The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Tesla’s “Actual Smart Summon” remote parking feature after several crash incidents were reported. NHTSA says it has received reports of 16 incidents involving Tesla’s smart summon feature in 2016-2025 Model S and X vehicles as well as 2017-2025 Model 3s…
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