MSI has buttoned-up Venture and Venture Pro business notebooks for CES to go with its gaming laptops. They come in 14- to 17-inch sizes, with older Intel Meteor Lake chips or AMD’s Ryzen AI 7 350. The Venture Pros get discrete 40-series GPUs.
MSI usually means business when it comes to specs, but I guess it makes exceptions for business.
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The G-Assist System Assistant, initially revealed in June 2024, can help users “control a broad range of PC settings, from optimizing game and system settings, charting frame rates and other key performance statistics, to controlling select peripherals settings such as lighting — all via basic voice or text commands,” according to a blog post.
The 200W wireless speaker also puts on a beat-synced light show and includes two wireless mics with vocal enhancement and reverb effects to improve your next karaoke performance.
The Anker brand also announced a smaller 140W Soundcore Boom 2 Pro speaker at CES that’s dustproof, waterproof, and floats, so it can join you in the pool, not just beside it.
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The company is bringing the convenience of retractable charging cables to more devices including a new 25,000mAh power bank with up to 165W of total power delivery. The $99.99 charger has an 8.66-inch USB-C cable that transforms into a carrying strap, a 27.2-inch cable that fully retracts inside, and a small screen displaying how much power each connected device is using.
Valve just squashed its second Steam Deck-adjacent rumor in one day. “We’re not currently working with GPD on official SteamOS support,” Valve designer Lawrence Yang tells The Verge.
GPD said it planned to offer SteamOS on its Win 4 handheld, “with system adaptation provided by Valve.” Ayaneo once claimed to have SteamOS too. We’re expecting Lenovo to announce the first third-party SteamOS handheld this week.
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The venue normally fits 12,000 people, but Nvidia says it’s cramming in as many 14,000 by filling the center of the arena, too — where myself, fellow press, and analysts are seated. The screen is massive. You can watch the keynote here or on YouTube starting at 6:40PM PT — it’s running a little late.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is about to hold a keynote at CES that’s going to be full of GPUs and AI. We’re expecting a two-hour keynote that will delve into the latest AI announcements from Nvidia, new RTX 50-series GPUs, DLSS 4, and much more. You can tune in for all the news, below.
It's not the longest line I've ever seen, but it is glacial; crowds already stretched through the casino halls 2.5 hours before the keynote. Metal detectors are coming up. A sea of people behind and in front. Interest in Nvidia and its stock price are at record highs right now.
It's co-developed with Tencent, it's called the Sunday Dragon, and it's absolutely huge with an 11-inch autostereoscopic screen (like the Nintendo 3DS but massive). I nearly dropped it trying to remove its detachable controllers.
The 3D popped to life just fine for me, and while the heft gave me pause, the grips are sculpted nicely. Lunar Lake inside.
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A Reddit user noticed that after using Meta’s AI tools to edit a selfie, Instagram made posts featuring AI-generated versions of themselves, as reported by 404 Media. Meta says it’s a test of a feature that puts AI-generated content for your Facebook and Instagram feeds.
For the ultimate in multitasking, this “Indoor Garden” from LG is a grow light, accent light, and a speaker all in one.
It’s still a concept product, but it can auto water your garden while it grows and also play it some tunes from the 120 watt, 4.1 channel sound system.