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LG has just unveiled its fleet of 2025 OLED evo TVs including its new flagship G5 series, with up to a huge 165Hz refresh rate, ready for big-screen gaming on NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 32GB graphics card.

The new M5 series is the latest to use LG's in-house Zero Connect Box, which is a wireless link between your TV and your PC, gaming consoles, streaming boxes, and other external devices. LG will have its new M5 OLED available in 65-inch, 77-inch, 83-inch, and a monster 97-inch depending on your budget... the M5 series OLED TVs will have up to a 144Hz refresh rate.

LG's new G5 series OLED is even brighter, with the company boasting about its new Brightness Booster Ultimate technology that "enhances light control architecture and light-boosting algorithms to achieve brightness three times higher than conventional OLED models". It's not the brightness that has my heart, but the huge 165Hz refresh rate, something LG is also proud of as it's an industry first for a huge TV.

Current Backyard has just unveiled its new Model P Smart Pizza Oven at CES 2025, an all-electric smart pizza oven that can be used both indoors and outdoors, has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and costs just $599. Check it out:

The company says its new Model P smart pizza oven can reach a maximum temperature of 850F, of which is the temperature that can cook a Neapolitan-style pizza in two minutes. Current Backyard says that the internal design of its new smart pizza oven uses an algorithm alongside top-mounted graphite and under-stone circular calrod elements to ensure uniform heating across the pizza.

Current Backyard also says that the construction used also eliminates the need for their future smart pizza oven owners to rotate their pizzas while they're cooling, with a cordierite cooking stone helping with the even doneness, which helps to get that delicious crispy crust.

SK hynix plans to show off prototypes of its new AI memory chips at CES 2025 this week, with the tease of 16-Hi HBM3E memory that stacks 16 x DDR5 DRAM chips on top of one another, for up to 48GB HBM3E capacity.

SK hynix will indeed showcase its new 16-Hi HBM3E memory chips at CES 2025, with the highest capacity of up to 48GB. The new 16-Hi HBM3E memory chips started making waves in November 2024 when SK hynix said they were in development, with confidence that the yields would be as good as 12-layer HBM3E which is the most advanced model in mass production.

SK hynix's new 16-Hi HBM3E memory chips will be manufactured using an advanced mass reflow-molded underfill process, enabling the 16-layer stack while effectively controlling chip warpage and maximizing thermal performance. SK hynix has also said that in order to hit 20-layer stacks with the process without hybrid bonding, a next-generation technology for bonding stacked chips.

Elden Ring: Nightreign, which was surprise unveiled during The Game Awards 2024, will be extremely different than any other Soulsborne, or FromSoftware title.

For those that don't know, Nightreign will be strictly focussing on co-op gaming experience, as players won't be able to kill each other, there won't be any summons either for assistance with bosses, no invasions, and now recently confirmed by IGN Japan, no player messages. According to Nightreign's director Junya Ishizaki, players will still be able to see the ghosts of other players, but the ability to leave messages on the floor for other players to find has been removed from Nightreign.

But why? According to the game director the ability to leave Soapstone messages was removed due to the developers believing players won't have enough time to both read and write messages. Ishizaki states that each session will be approximately 40 minutes in length, and that given the nature of the session, players won't need to leave messages or read messages from other players. Soapstone messages are easily one of the biggest community aspects of Soulsborne games, as it gives players ways to assist other players with hints, informative messages, and, of course, trolls.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 has been rumored to sport an incredible 32GB of GDDR7 memory, but now it's been confirmed thanks to Inno3D.

The folks over at VideoCardz have the scoop on Inno3D's upcoming flagship GeForce RTX 5090 iChill X3 graphics card, a chunky 3.5-slot card that will keep that huge GB202 and massive amount of GDDR7 memory nice and cool. We only have a single picture to go by, with no shot of the power connector setup, but you can see that it says 32GB GDRR7 memory on the box.

NVIDIA's flagship ultra-enthusiast GeForce RTX 5090 will feature the GB202 GPU with the full 21,760 CUDA cores (and the first GeForce GPU to sport over 20,000 CUDA cores). We'll have 32GB of ultra-fast GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit memory bus and 1.79TB/sec of memory bandwidth, at a 575W TDP.

The world of robotic vacuum cleaners is still evolving, and at CES 2025 a company has unveiled a new roomba that comes with a robotic arm designed to help clean up household rubbish.

The company Roborock has unveiled the Saros Z70, which will be debuting at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. The new robotic vacuum cleaner has already been demoed to select publications that report the arm does work as advertised, meaning its capable of picking up items such as socks, rubbish, etc, but it's unfortunately extremely slow at completing the task.

The Verge reports the Saros Z70 arm takes approximately 1 minute to pick up and move an item in its way. Additionally, the publication reports the arm is only capable of picking up specific items, which currently are socks, tissues, small towels, and sandals that weigh under 300 grams. Roborock said that more items will be added to the list of items the Saros Z70 is capable of picking up, but the company didn't give specifics on if the total weight of the item would be increased.

Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S25 smartphones are expected to see the South Korean firm move into the warm harms of processor competitor Qualcomm, using its new Snapdragon 8 Elite processor over its in-house Exynos 2400.

Not only is Samsung using its competitors' processor but it's also using its competitors' RAM with rumors swirling that the Galaxy S25 smartphones will use LPDDR5 memory from US-based Micron. In some recent Galaxy S25 benchmarks that turned up on Geekbench, the chip inside has a single score of 2986 points and 9355 points in multi-corer results.

The chip inside of the Galaxy S25 tested had its first 6 corers clocking in at 3.53GHz, while the other 2 corers clocked at a faster 4.47GHz. The information from the Geekbench run show Samsung's next-gen Galaxy S25 smartphone running a Qualcomm Arm-based processor (at least for the international model), while the international model of the Galaxy S24 used Samsung's in-house Exynos 2400 processor, the new Galaxy S25 is a full shift into the world of Snapdragon chips.

NVIDIA will kick off its CES 2025 press conference unveiling the next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs, a host of updates on AI, and hopefully a tease of their Arm-based AI PC processor, and I'm sure oh-so-much more... all of which you'll be able to watch from the comfort of your chair at home... and right here when the CES 2025 presentation begins.

The NVIDIA CES 2025 keynote will take place at the Mandalay Bay Michelob ULTRA Arena between 6:30 and 7:30pm PST, where we'll be on the ground gathering you all of the new products and announcements. The big one here is NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" desktop graphics cards, and the RTX 50 series Laptop GPUs that will power a new wave of next-gen gaming laptops.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will take the stage at CES 2025 unveiling the company's new graphics cards and other products and advancements -- DLSS 4, new ray tracing technologies -- and what I'm sure is going to be a mountain about AI. The company has over 90% of the AI GPU market share, and has ballooned into the most valuable company in the world overtaking Apple at over $3.3 trillion.

Intel's next-generation Nova Lake and Razer Lake CPU architectures have appeared in the Linux kernel, teasing the company's next-generation architectures.

The next-gen Intel Nova Lake (NVL-S) should end up being the Core Ultra 400 series for the desktop, while Razer Lake (RZL-M) will be bound for next-gen laptops. We should expect Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUs to be made on Intel's new in-house 14A process node, or TSMC's new 2nm process node, but we'll see how that rolls out throughout 2025.

In a recent Dell leak, we saw Intel's next-gen Nova Lake-H processors confirmed with 20W, 40W, and 80W TDP options, but other than that, we don't know much about Intel's next-gen desktop CPU platform. In other leaks, we heard that the Arrow Lake-S Refresh was reportedly cancelled, with Nova Lake succeeding Arrow Lake.

Corsair is preparing the groundwork for next-gen graphics cards and PC gaming, with the unveiling of its new "Next-Gen GPU Ready" program detailing the products the company has that are ready for NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs.

In a newly-posted video and website, Corsair explains that they're ready for the world of Blackwell gaming GPUs with PSU, chassis, and cooling products that are next-gen GPU-ready. Corsair is helping PC gamers choose their next products wisely, preparing the world for up to 600W of power out of NVIDIA's new ultra-enthusiast flagship GeForce RTX 5090 32GB graphics card.

Corsair seems to have let slip that NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs will use the new 12V-2x6 power connector, with the latest ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 power supplies shipping with the new 12V-2x6 power connector, which has been designed with NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs in mind.

Samsung has just teased its not one, but two new Odyssey OLED gaming monitors with a 4K 240Hz OLED and 1440p 500Hz OLED offerings, check them out:

The new Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 gaming monitor features a 27-inch 4K OLED panel with an impressive pixel density of 165 PPI, and an uber-smooth refresh rate of 240Hz that the company says with this level of pixel density and screen smoothness, gives game creators and players new levels of detail and picture quality.

The second new OLED gaming monitor is the Odyssey OLED G6 which Samsung says is the first-ever OLED screen with a 500Hz refresh rate and 2560 x 1440 (1440p) resolution. The lighting-fast speed and ultra-smooth gameplay unleashes the potential for gamers who demand the best to gain a winning edge from their new gaming monitor.

AMD is preparing to take the enthusiast laptop CPU battle to Intel's doorstep at CES 2025 with the introduction of its new Ryzen 9 9955X3D processor.

AMD's new Ryzen 9000HX series "Fire Range" enthusiast laptop processors will be led by the new flagship Ryzen 9 9955X3D processor, introducing X3D V-Cache to mobile processors. The new Fire Range APU will be different to AMD's Strix Point, Strix Halo, and Krackan Point APUs as Fire Range is aiming for the high-performance premium laptop market.

in a new post by leaked Golden Pig Upgrade on Weibo, we're learning that AMD's new flagship Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processor will go head-to-head with the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX and Core Ultra 7 255HX processors, which will reportedly not have many improvements at all. The Ryzen 9 9955HX3D will be the first mobile CPU from AMD that will enjoy that additional L3 cache.

Acer is reportedly preparing its new NITRO Blaze 11 and NITRO Blaze 8 gaming handhelds for CES 2025, rocking AMD's new Strix Point APU inside.

In a new report from VideoCardz, we're learning that Acer's new NITRO Blaze 11 and Blaze 8 gaming handhelds will be powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APU, which is a BIG upgrade over the Ryzen 7 8840U "Hawk Point" APUs inside of Acer's current-gen NITRO Blaze 7 gaming handheld.

ASUS has its ROG Alloy, Valve with its Steam Deck, Lenovo with the Legion GO, ZOTAC and its ZONE handheld, and even MSI and its Claw are all on the market with various gaming handhelds, but Acer was late to the game with its NITRO Blaze 7. Things could change with the new Strix Point APU-powered NITRO Blaze 11 and Blaze 8 handhelds, offering far more CPU and GPU power than the current-gen designs.

DIY-APE has just teased its new concept 50-pin power cable, ready to deliver a monster 1500W of power through a single connector directly into the motherboard: no cables for the GPU are needed. This is hopefully what we see out of BTF 3.0 in the near future:

The DIY-APE team works with companies like ASUS, MaxSun, and others on new innovative backside designs, with their latest design featuring a 50-pin connector driving up to 1500W of power into the motherboard. With a monstrous 1500W of power over a single cable, there's no need for power cables for the CPU, GPU, and other power-hungry components. It's all fed into the motherboard with a single 1500W connector.

The 1500W power connector prototype was used on an Intel LGA 1851 motherboard, sporting an extra-long connector found on the backside of the motherboard. This prototype interface replaces traditional 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS power connectors, as well as 16-pin connectors being fed into higher-end GPUs like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series, and soon RTX 50 series GPUs.

GIGABYTE has just unveiled two new QD-OLED gaming monitors, with the AORUS FO24Q5P featuring a huge 500Hz refresh rate and new DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR20 bandwidth support. Check it out:

The new AORUS FO24Q5P QD-OLED gaming monitor features a 27-inch QD-OLED panel with an industry-leading 500Hz refresh rate and VESA ClearMR 21000 standard. We've also got VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification and DP2.1a UHBR20 that provides a huge 80Gbps of bandwidth -- 1.4x higher than DP1.4 -- ready for next-gen GPUs and next-gen 500Hz gaming on the PC.

GIGABYTE's second QD-OLED gaming monitor is the MO27U2 with a 27-inch 4K panel at the glorious 240Hz refresh rate, with a razer-sharp 166 PPI density. Both of GIGABYTE's new QD-OLED gaming monitors feature their in-house OLED Care, an AI-based panel protection system designed to prevent burn-in and extend display longevity.

With the new year having arrived, the prospect of Windows 10 support running out has become more concrete - it happens in October 2025 - and that has prompted ESET to issue a warning not to hang around in mulling your upgrade path from Microsoft's older OS.

The Slovakian security firm - which makes a popular antivirus app, and other security software besides - penned a blog post on the urgency to move away from Windows 10, as spotted by Neowin.

Thorsten Urbanski, Director of Marketing and Communication at ESET DACH (based in Essen, Germany), tells us:

SpaceX is making some big upgrades to its Starship test flight program, with the next flight to test payload deployment for the first time ever, and will launch new Starlink satellites into space.

These new model spacecraft will travel on the same trajectory as the upper stage aka Starship, and will splash down into the Indian Ocean. The new V3 satellites will be the first-ever payload that Starship flies, as SpaceX has been using its Falcon 9 rocket to get Starlink satellites into space, but that changes with this new Starship launch and the next-gen V3 satellites.

The new V3 satellites are reportedly much heavier than the current V2 Mini spacecraft, but Starship has an insane amount of payload capacity, making it far easier to strap in 60 x V3 satellites per Starship launch, adding 60Tbps capacity to the Starlink network each time. Each V3 Starlink satellite has 1Tbps of downlink speed, and 160Gbps of upload capacity, which is an upgrade of 10x the downlink speed, and 24x the uplink capacity compared to SpaceX's current-gen V2 Mini satellites.

NVIDIA is ramping up to CES 2025 with GeForce Giveaways, with the one today being the GeForce 8800 Ultra, the first CUDA GPU, signed by CEO Jensen Huang and is being given away on X. Check out the post below:

All you have to do is comment on the post on X with #GeForceGreats and you're in the running, where you will get the GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics card signed by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra used the G80 GPU architecture that supported DirectX 10 at the time.

The G80 GPU had 128 CUDA cores, a GPU clock of a blistering (for at the time) 612MHz, and 768MB of GDDR3 memory on a 384-bit memory bus providing up to 103.7GB/sec of memory bandwidth. Just look at those specs compared to the about-to-be-launched GeForce RTX 5090 that will have 20,000+ CUDA cores, and 32GB of GDDR7 memory.

ZOWIE has just announced its new XL2586X+ esports gaming monitor, rocking the latest Fast-TN panel we have a superior refresh rate of 600Hz (up from 540Hz on their last gaming monitor).

The new ZOWIE XL2586X+ esports gaming monitor features auto game mode through XL Setting to Share software, and even industrial-grade bearings for precise height adjustment. ZOWIE has a mission to lead the FPS field by providing competitive gamers with top-tier equipment, and the XL2586X+ esports gaming monitor is no exception with its 600Hz refresh rate.

ZOWIE is using the new Fast-TN panel that improves conductivity with faster liquid crystal response that suppresses ghosting more efficiently. Not only do we have the blistering-fast 600Hz refresh rate, but the new ZOWIE XL2586X+ esports gaming monitor features new vivid color film that enhances color performance by 35% which makes enemy targets stand out more clearly, minimizing color washout that is commonly seen in regular TN panels.

Pimax has just teased the design and specs of its upcoming Pimax Dream Air VR headset, in a beautiful small-and-thin headset that rocks an 8K panel offering 27 million pixels, head, hand, and eye-tracking, integrated spatial audio, DisplayPort connectivity, and a self-adjusting backstrap. Check it out:

The new Pimax Dream Air is a PCVR headset, borrowing a bunch of components from the previously announced Crystal Super, including the micro-OLED panels and pancake lenses, but crams it into a small form factor headset. There's a new design language, which signals the small form factor era for Pimax.

The company says that while the Crystal Super excels as the ultimate PCVR headset for seated simulation experiences like flight and racing games, the new Pimax Dream Air is tailored to active VR users, with its portability and lightweight design perfect for VRChat, room-scale VR, and entertainment on-the-go.