Game table, Galaxy Buds Pro, online privacy, high-tech masks, Samsung Galaxy S21, Bedazzler, classic toys and UFOs. With the Consumer Electronics Show in full swing, this was a big week for news. Look through all the headlines below and click to read the full stories.
Electronics
- First look at Facebook’s smart Ray-Bans coming ‘sooner rather than later’
- Samsung’s new Galaxy Chromebook 2 is a more affordable and boasts a QLED display
- JBL Bar 5.0 MultiBeam soundbar offers rare Amazon Multi-Room Music support
- Infinity Game Table hands-on: Touchscreen table gives classic board games new spin
- Netgear’s first WiFi 6E router offers plenty of bandwidth for streaming
- Tula Microphones releases portable USB-C mic with built-in noise cancellation
- LG’s latest 4K CineBeam laser projector adjusts to your room light
- Forget the MacBook Air, everyone’s talking about the new LG Gram
- Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro are out now for $200
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Privacy and Security
- Improve your online privacy with these 3 browser-based VPNs
- Mimecast says hackers abused one of its certificates to access Microsoft accounts
- Tech companies must explain data use, say Amazon, Google and Twitter privacy heads
- After US Capitol assault, a different cybersecurity threat emerges
- Iranian cyberspies behind major Christmas SMS spear-phishing campaign
- Nintendo uses copyright claims to take down Game & Watch hacking videos
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- CES 2021: Razer’s Project Hazel is a high-tech N95 mask for COVID-19 times that looks neat too
- Tech industry uncovers new ways to mask up against COVID-19 at CES 2021
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Software
- Tired of Alexa repeating everything you say? Do this to make it stop
- Microsoft fixes Defender zero-day in January 2021 Patch Tuesday
Technology
- Wi-Fi industry launches next-gen 6E certification, and new devices are up next
- Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo, but got laughed out of the room
- Hyundai confirms discussions about building a car with Apple
- Mercedes-Benz made a 56-inch ‘Hyperscreen’ for its EQS electric car
- Kohler’s new bathroom designs believe in big spenders and touchless tech
- FCC’s Ajit Pai says he won’t move forward on Section 230 rule-making
- NASA reveals how its SPHEREx space telescope will search for big bang clues
- NASA smallsat concepts will study galaxy evolution and exoplanets
- Samsung’s CES 2021 robots will clean your house and pour you a glass of wine
- CES 2021: These giant robots can disinfect classrooms and offices with UVC light
- Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson is leaving Microsoft for Qualtrics
- Intel’s Rocket Lake S CPUs are up to 19 percent faster than last year
- Intel’s 11th-gen H-series CPUs are made for ultraportable gaming laptops
- Apple M1 Macs helping kick-start a new Arm-based PC era, Arm CEO says
- Intel’s former tech chief Pat Gelsinger to replace CEO Bob Swan
- AT&T kills off the failed TV service formerly known as DirecTV Now
- Dropbox will lay off 315 employees, COO to step down
Phones
- The iPhone 13 rumor mill has already started. Here’s what we’re hearing
- Samsung Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, S21 Ultra on sale Jan. 29
- Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, S21 Ultra arrive Jan. 29 with new design, $200 price cut
- Samsung is ditching the microSD card slot on the Galaxy S21 line
Fun Stories
- When America Was Besotted With the Bedazzler
- An Australian Town’s Identity Rests on a Ship That May Not Exist
- Inside the World of British Brickophiles
- The Original Names of 10 Famous Fictional Characters
- How 10 Classic Toys Were Invented
- Meet the Photographer Hunting for the Scars of Soviet Rule
- Area 51 Alert: U.S. Intelligence Agencies Have Been Given 180 Days to Disclose All UFO Information
- 11 Hit Songs Musicians Have Refused to Play
- America’s Most Popular Pet Names of the Past 100 Years
- Why 1920s L.A. Went Wild for an 18th-Century Scottish Novelist
- Seeing America Through Its Roadside Signs
- The Empty Crypt Beneath the U.S. Capitol Rotunda
- Early Victorian Bathhouse Unearthed Beneath Manchester Parking Lot
- 8 Ways To Live a Really Long Time, According to The Oldest People Ever
- The Milwaukee Dogs That Learned to Sniff Out New Zealand Mud Snails
- 9 Weird Historical Ways to Ward Off a Plague
- How The Swingin’ Six Helped Introduce ZIP Codes to the American Public
- The CIA’s Entire Collection of Declassified UFO Documents Is Now Available to Download
- The Archaeologists Recreating the Sounds of the Stone Age
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