2026-01-07

Lego Smart Play hands-on: Using Smart Brick technology to get kids to play together

Lego’s Smart Play system announced at CES 2026 earlier this week is a new embrace of digital technology that we haven’t seen from the company before. While the demo Lego gave at its press conferen [...]

2026-01-07

Lego Smart Play hands-on: Using technology to get kids to play together

Lego’s new Smart Play system, announced at CES earlier this week, is an embrace of digital technology the likes of which we haven’t seen from the company before. And while the demonstration it gav [...]

2026-01-07

At CES 2026, Sony Honda Mobility's latest Afeela 1 still feels woefully out of date

It's been six years since Sony first rolled out its prototype car at CES 2020. It was called the  Vision-S back then, and I remember everyone endlessly debating just how serious the consumer ele [...]

2026-01-07

Who decides the best AI?

The AI industry has become adept at measuring itself. Benchmarks improve, model scores rise, and every new release arrives with a list of metrics meant to signal progress. And yet, somewhere between t [...]

2026-01-06

The 10 best communities for aging gracefully in America, according to AARP

These communities offer retired Americans better access to healthcare, walkable neighborhoods, social engagement, and safety [...]

2026-01-06

Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses

Meta has been experimenting with EMG technology for years. In 2025, the company commercialized it for the first time in its Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, which users control via a dedicated neural ban [...]

2026-01-06

Meta has delayed the international rollout of its display glasses

Meta is pausing release of its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses to the UK, France, Italy and Canada due to "unprecedented demand and limited inventory," the company said on Monday at CES 2026. [...]

2026-01-06

Big stages, smaller impact.

For years, the tech industry equated success with scale. Bigger stages, larger crowds, more logos, more panels, more noise. Five thousand people became ten thousand. Ten thousand became the goal. Some [...]

2026-01-06

All the laptops that caught our eye at CES 2026

CES remains a key stage for laptop makers to lay out their plans for the year ahead. At CES 2026, that meant new flagship productivity machines, reconsidered gaming notebooks and solid incremental upd [...]