I was surprised that these… work pretty dang well. My biggest gripe about open-ear buds is that they're rotten for loud city commutes. Cue a pedantic audiophile pointing out that the whole premise of open-ear buds is to not block out sound. Yes, yes. But the unfortunate truth is that often means if you want open-ear buds for one situation, you'll have to buy a second pair for when the train is screeching along the subway tracks while the local mariachi band starts busking in your car.So I was intrigued when Shokz reached out to say at CES 2026, its new $249.95 OpenFit Pro buds would have "noise cancellation."Technically, the correct term is noise reduction. Active noise cancellation req …Read the full story at The Verge.

I'm not sure about you, but personally, I love a gaming laptop. There's just something about companies packing powerful hardware into a thin but durable shell that turns them into a real marvel of engineering. Plus, laptops are a lot easier to carry around, which is always a bonus.

Nvidia is bringing a new set of G-Sync Pulsar monitors to the market this week that will automatically adjust brightness and color based on the ambient lighting in a room. Much like a modern laptop, these new monitors have a built-in light sensor that measures the brightness and color temperature of an environment to enable a screen to automatically adapt to different times of day."In bright daylight conditions it increases brightness and shifts to a color that's cooler in temperature," says Michael McSorley, product marketing manager at Nvidia, in a briefing with The Verge. "At night, or in darker rooms, it reduces brightness and uses war …Read the full story at The Verge.

It's CES 2026 time, and as usual, this comes with a plethora of announcements from almost every tech-related company under the sun. Nvidia is no stranger to making big reveals at CES, but this time around, the big news are more software-related.

The SmartVoice Air Fryer responds to over 1,000 voice commands. | Image: IAI Smart A new line of small appliances and devices from IAI Smart, billed as Emerson Smart products, are now available that will let you operate fans, heaters, smart plugs, and air fryers with your voice - with no apps, Wi-Fi, or smart home connection at all.Using the company's SmartVoice technology, the devices react to wake-up words for verbal commands, using built-in microphones. Most of the appliances will also offer a built-in speaker so that they can react audibly to the commands. IAI Smart emphasizes the ease of use that this offers. "Our guiding principle is simple: make smart home technology easier for everyone," said Jason Jiang, CEO of …Read the full story at The Verge.

Look at how confident Bosch’s anti-theft features make you. | Image: Bosch Stolen electric bikes built around Bosch motors will be harder to sell, service, and ride at the end of January. That's when Bosch is rolling a new digital theft feature that lets owners mark the bike as stolen in the Bosch Flow app - no subscription required. Bosch rolled out a similar feature for expensive Bosch batteries last year, but it stupidly required a subscription to Flow Plus. "If an e-bike or a battery is marked as stolen, it can be identified as such throughout the entire digital ecosystem of Bosch eBike Systems," says the company in a press release. "This makes reselling the e-bike difficult and increases the chances of the o …Read the full story at The Verge.

Nvidia is announcing its next major update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) feature at CES today. DLSS 4.5 includes Nvidia's second-generation Super Resolution transformer model and a new 6x Multi Frame Generation mode for RTX 50-series GPUs that uses AI to generate up to five additional frames for every single rendered one.DLSS 4.5 will be available for all RTX GPUs today, but will run the fastest on Nvidia's latest RTX 40- and 50-series cards. The latest transformer model is designed to improve image quality overall and reduce some of the artifacting that we saw with DLSS 4."This second-generation model is our most sophistica …Read the full story at The Verge.

Most "all-in-one" PCs are just a mini PC inside of a screen. Well, get ready for the HP EliteBoard G1a, which is PC guts tucked inside of a keyboard. Among various other things, the company announced it at CES 2026. If you've grown tired of being attached to a monitor while choosing a keyboard, now it can be the other way around.

The DeskMate doesn’t have its own display, it just uses your iPhone’s. CES is packed with AI companions and assistant robots this year, but the DeskMate from Loona is a clever take on the idea: it's a desktop charging hub, with three USB-C ports, one USB-A, and a MagSafe pad, that automatically activates an AI companion app when you attach your iPhone to the wireless charger.What's unique about the DeskMate is that by using your phone, it takes advantage of tech you already have. It doesn't need its own display, camera, or microphone, because the iPhone provides them (and it is, for now, iPhone-only). By providing charging too, it might replace a charger that's already on your desk, rather than adding to the …Read the full story at The Verge.

AMD has been busy working on ways to get more from its AM5 platform for gamers, and CES 2026 is proving to be the launchpad for its new world's fastest gaming CPU, replacing the already brilliant Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Meet the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, and as the SKU implies, this is a slightly uprated 9800X3D with some beefier specs to better handle more demanding games. As well as the new gaming chip, AMD rolled out an entire stack of AI-focused CPUs.

Power in a slim and lightweight package is what most people look for in a laptop. Unfortunately, when you put the two together, you'll often get a price that's hard to afford. And while it'll be worth the price, we always recommend buying something like this when it's on sale.

Nvidia's RTX 5080 rollout for its GeForce Now cloud gaming service is now complete, so it's ready to announce some additional features for subscribers. In the coming months, Nvidia is planning to launch native GeForce Now apps for Linux and Amazon's Fire TV devices, alongside flight control support for its cloud gaming service.The native Linux app is a highly requested feature for GeForce Now, especially as subscribers have had to rely on unofficial apps or browser tweaks to get access to the service. A beta of GeForce Now for Linux will be available initially for Ubuntu 24.04 and newer soon, nearly a year after Nvidia made it easier to ac …Read the full story at The Verge.