• Intel is building a handheld gaming platform including a dedicated chip

    January 7, 2026

    Intel is looking to double down on gaming hardware with a new chip and platform for portable gaming devices. The platform will include hardware and software, Intel vice president and general manager of PC products, Daniel Rogers, announced at CES on Monday. It will be built off of the company’s Intel Core Series 3 processors, known as Panther Lake, which was announced last year and is now being rolled out in a variety of PCs. This future platform includes a chip specifically for handheld gaming devices, according to reporting from IGN, which was confirmed by TechCrunch. These Panther Lake chips…

  • Hyundai Inster deal sees $7000 slashed off baby EV

    January 7, 2026

    Hyundai Australia is advertising a new drive-away pricing offer for the pint-sized Inster electric vehicle (EV), with the base Standard Range receiving discounts of over $7000. This nationwide offer sees the Inster Standard Range priced from $35,990 drive-away, representing a saving of $7288 based on a NSW postcode. For reference, the MY26 Hyundai Inster Standard Range normally starts from $39,000 before on-road costs. While not explicitly stated by the Korean manufacturer, this significant price cut is no doubt in response to increasing competition from Chinese competition, with the BYD Atto 1 able to be bought from as little as $26,500…

  • The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable concept goes big wide at the touch of a button

    January 7, 2026

    Lenovo might have the most concept devices of any company at CES 2026, but the wildest and most interesting one is almost certainly the Legion Pro Rollable which features a 16-inch flexible display that can expand to not one but two different sizes. To make the Legion Pro Rollable, Lenovo started out with a standard Legion Pro 7i and kept the bottom half including all of its ports and support for an RTX 5090 GPU. But then the company went a bit crazy: Instead of replacing the notebook’s original 16-inch OLED screen with a rollable variant that extends upwards like…

  • The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026

    January 7, 2026

    While CES 2026 is full of tech giants unveiling their latest innovations, the real excitement comes from discovering unexpected, quirky gadgets that make you ask, “Who thought of this?” We’re here to spotlight the wildest products we’ve found so far at CES 2026, from an AI-powered panda that responds to your touch, to Razer’s holographic anime assistant, and plenty more weirdness that makes you do a double-take. An AI anime companion that watches you from your desk  Razer’s Project AVA, originally introduced last year as an esports AI coach, has evolved into something new: a 5.5-inch animated holographic desk companion…

  • Motorola just announced a foldable phone to rival Samsung and Google at CES

    January 7, 2026

    Motorola just announced its very first side-foldable smartphone, joining the ranks of the Pixel 10 Pro Fold and the Galaxy Z Fold 7. The Razr Fold boasts an impressive 6.6-inch external screen and an 8.1-inch flexible main display. The company hasn’t provided dimensions, so we don’t know how thick it is. We do know, however, that it’ll include support for the Moto Pen Ultra stylus. This is actually a fairly big deal, as Samsung dropped the feature for the Z Fold 7. Modern foldables basically double as tablets, so a stylus is always appreciated. Motorola There’s a robust camera system…

  • Meta’s Manus news is getting different receptions in Washington and Beijing

    January 7, 2026

    Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI assistant platform Manus is unsurprisingly caught in a regulatory tug-of-war — but not because of U.S. regulators. They appear assured that the deal is legitimate despite earlier misgivings about Benchmark’s investment in Manus. China’s regulators, however, are reportedly not quite as sanguine, according to the Financial Times. When Benchmark led a financing round for Manus earlier this year, the investment sparked immediate controversy. U.S. Senator John Cornyn complained about the deal on X, and the investment prompted inquiries from the U.S. Treasury Department around new rules restricting American investment in Chinese AI companies. The…

  • Flatlining sales hide widespread industry pressure

    January 7, 2026

    The number of car companies operating in Australia with year-on-year sales declines has gone up by 12.5 per cent. Two-thirds of all local auto brands have now reported a sales decline in 2025 compared with 2024, according to data provided by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and the Electric Vehicle Council. While 59 per cent of all brands that participate in the reporting saw negative overall sales in the 2024 calendar year, that number has now increased to more than 66 per cent in 2025. As reported earlier this week, new vehicle sales in Australia essentially flatlined in…

  • This game controller has a force feedback steering wheel lodged in the middle

    January 7, 2026

    Not everyone remembers the unique controllers that never quite made it. As third-party peripheral makers attempt to offer gamers something different to the likes of DualSense and Joy-Cons, they often have to go in a different direction. GameSir’s Swift Drive (apparently a working product name) is definitely that. And if you remember 1998’s for the PS1, there’s definitely some shared DNA. It features a compact steering wheel at the center of an otherwise typical controller design. It’s also got force feedback, tech usually found in (full-size!) steering wheel controllers. GameSir says it has a “high precision” Hall Effect encoder built…

  • McKinsey and General Catalyst execs say the era of ‘learn once, work forever’ is over

    January 7, 2026

    If there is one point of consensus among the CES 2026 keynote speakers, it is that AI is reshaping technology with a speed and scale unlike any previous technological revolution. In a live taping on Tuesday of the All-In podcast, co-host Jason Calacanis interviewed Bob Sternfels, Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company, and Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst. Their discussion focused on how AI is transforming investment strategies and the workforce. “The world has completely changed,” Taneja said about the unprecedented growth of AI companies. He noted that while it took Stripe about 12 years to reach a…

  • VFACTS: The models with the biggest sales drops in 2025

    January 7, 2026

    The Ford Ranger was the best-selling car in Australia in 2025, making it the third consecutive year it has taken the number-one spot after relegating the Toyota HiLux to second place in 2023. Yet despite that achievement, Ranger sales were down in 2025 and while Toyota remained the number-one brand overall, its sales were also down – even if only by a meagre 0.6 per cent. In a market that climbed – if you can call it that – by a mere 0.3 per cent, six of the top 10 brands recorded sales declines, while the top-five best-selling models, from…