The New Shokz OpenFit Pro Buds Have Noise Reduction, but That's Not Why I Like Them

Shokz's new flagship ear-hook style open earbuds, launching at CES 2026, are its first earbuds with noise reduction. Here are my early hands-on impressions after testing them for a few days. [...]

Resident Evil Village and Star Wars Outlaws join January's Game Pass additions

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the first batch of incoming Game Pass titles for 2026. Star Wars Outlaws and Resident Evil Village headline the first wave of the January lineup.If you (perhaps wisely) [...]

What to expect at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026

Samsung’s 2025 was filled with new foldables, an ultra-thin new form factor and the launch of Google's XR platform. After making some announcements at CES 2026, the company is expected to host [...]

China weighs curbing overseas access to its top AI models

China’s open AI models have been a gift to developers everywhere. Now Beijing may pull them back in. Chinese officials have discussed limiting who outside the country can use the nation’s best AI [...]

Zhipu AI's GLM-Image uses "semantic tokens" to teach AI the difference between a face and a font

Zhipu AI's new open image model combines an autoregressive language model with a diffusion decoder. The 16-billion-parameter model is designed to excel at rendering text in images and handling kn [...]

Google's new commerce framework cranks up the heat on 'agentic shopping'

To further push the limits of consumerism, Google has launched a new open standard for agentic commerce that's called Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). In brief, it's a framework that combi [...]

Klipsch Atlas HP-1 hands-on: A return to hi-fi headphones at CES 2026

Klipsch hasn’t debuted new headphones in years, but that’s going to change in 2026. At CES, Klipsch announced the upcoming Atlas hi-fi series that includes wireless and both closed and semi-open b [...]

WheelMove gives manual wheelchairs the power and height to handle rough terrain

French startup WheelMove demonstrated a compact motorized wheelchair add-on at CES 2026 that not only acts as a power-assist device, but can also lift up a chair's small front wheels so it can ri [...]

Throne, from the co-founder of Whoop, uses computer vision to study your poop

Throne has rocked up to CES 2026 to show off its forthcoming toilet computer which uses computer vision to study your poop. It hangs from the side of the bowl and has a camera and microphone to track [...]