• Nvidia launches powerful new Rubin chip architecture

    January 5, 2026

    Today at the Consumer Electronics show, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially launched the company’s new Rubin computing architecture, which he described as the state of the art in AI hardware. The new architecture is currently in production and is expected to ramp up further in the second half of the year. “Vera Rubin is designed to address this fundamental challenge that we have: The amount of computation necessary for AI is skyrocketing.” Huang told the audience. “Today, I can tell you that Vera Rubin is in full production.” The Rubin architecture, which was first announced in 2024, is the latest…

  • Viral Reddit post critical of food delivery apps may have been AI-generated

    January 5, 2026

    A viral Reddit post purportedly from an employee of a “major food delivery app” may actually be an AI-generated hoax, The Verge reports. The post itself, and an image of an employee ID card the poster, u/trowaway_whistleblow, shared with The Verge, where both flagged as being likely AI-generated when run through online AI detectors and AI assistants like Gemini and Claude. Given the inflammatory nature of the post, it’s not hard to see why it received over 80,000 upvotes in the four days it’s been up in r/confession. The post includes a series of striking claims about the unnamed food…

  • Offshore wind developers sue Trump administration for halting $25B in projects

    January 5, 2026

    Three offshore wind developers are suing the Trump administration after the Department of the Interior halted five projects worth a total of $25 billion on December 22. If completed, the projects would generate a total of 6 gigawatts of electricity. Two lawsuits were filed Thursday and Friday last week by Ørsted and Equinor, which are developing the 704 megawatt Revolution Wind and the 2 gigawatt Empire Wind, respectively. Another was filed on December 23 by Dominion Energy, which is building a 2.6 gigawatt farm off the coast of Virginia. Revolution Wind is nearly 90% complete, while Empire Wind and Coastal Virginia…

  • TCL unveils its X11L SQD-Mini LED TVs at CES 2026

    January 5, 2026

    TCL introduced the next entry in its flagship line of televisions during CES. The X11L SQD-Mini LED Series is available for pre-order now in three sizes. But like much of the gear on show in Las Vegas this week, it doesn’t come cheap. The 75-inch model of the X11L costs $7,000, the 85-inch option is $8,000 and the 98-inch model goes for $10,000. That’s more than double the costs of the QD-Mini LED TV the brand unveiled at last year’s CES. The most notable addition in TCL’s latest screen is the company’s new Deep Color System. This tech leverages Super Quantum…

  • LEGO SMART Bricks introduce a new way to build — and they don’t require screens

    January 5, 2026

    LEGO announced its new SMART Play system at CES on Monday, adding interactive, responsive LEGOs to the famously analog franchise. The SMART Play system includes a 2×4 brick, SMART Tag tiles, and SMART Minifigures. The SMART Bricks and Minifigures can sense nearby SMART Tags, which are 2×2 studless tiles with unique digital IDs that tell the Bricks and Minifigures how to act. If the SMART Tag comes in a set for building a helicopter, for example, then the Smart Brick will light up and make propeller sounds that would help bring a helicopter to life. Its built-in accelerometer would make…

  • BMW rebrands Alpina after taking full control

    January 5, 2026

    Alpina is dead, long live BMW Alpina! BMW originally bought Alpina in 2022, but a condition of the sale was for the tuner to continue to operating independently until the end of 2025. Now that all the New Year’s fireworks have been exploded, the BMW Group is taking full control of the tuner, which has been rechristened BMW Alpina, and will live alongside BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce as a standalone brand. 2023 Alpina B5 GT The company has revealed BMW Alpina’s new word mark, which is based on a 1970s design. The work mark will be used in the centre…

  • How to watch the Hyundai CES 2026 press conference live

    January 5, 2026

    CES has long felt like a full-on auto show, but the car-centric energy seems somewhat muted at CES 2026. Sure, the Afeela electric vehicle from the Sony-Honda joint venture is returning to the show floor, but with the Trump administration yanking most EV incentives from the market, the industry isn’t offering a full-court press of new vehicles in Las Vegas this year. That includes Hyundai. While the company’s Mobis subsidiary will present “more than 30 mobility convergence technologies” during CES week — including its Holographic Windshield Display — we’re hearing the Korean auto giant will instead use its press conference…

  • Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

    January 5, 2026

    A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live on stage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online. The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by Martha Root — dressed as Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers — deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real-time at the end of a talk at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.  Root gave the talk alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, who wrote an article about the hacked sites for the German weekly paper Die Zeit in October.  As of…

  • What are Micro RGB TVs and why are they everywhere at CES 2026?

    January 5, 2026

    Micro RGB TVs first arrived with little fanfare and a confusing name, so you may have mistaken it for other panel tech or not even noticed. That is not likely to be the case this year, though — it’s the hot new “luxury” display technology and is at . So why do we even need these new TVs and how are they different from OLED, Micro LED and Mini LED models? Here’s how it works and how it compares. A brief history of flat panel display tech To better understand Micro RGB, it helps to see how flat panel display…

  • China’s Hesai will double production as lidar sensor industry shakes out

    January 5, 2026

    Chinese lidar maker Hesai announced plans on Monday to double its production capacity from 2 million units to 4 million units this year, as it looks to corner the global market for the laser-based sensors. That would be well up from the 1-million-plus unit mark that Hesai hit in 2025. Hesai’s push to grab more market share comes just one month after leading U.S. lidar-maker Luminar filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That company is not expected to continue operating once its bankruptcy plan is approved, though it is looking to sell the lidar business. Hesai has raised hundreds of millions…