Smart rings, pig butchering scams, BeamO, Windows 11 Paint, smart bed, Galaxy S24, eTH, Monopoly and flying circuses. Check out the new products, find ways to keep yourself safe and learn new tips and tricks with all the content included in this week’s news.

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• Samsung’s S95D OLED is the best TV of CES 2024 and best in the world right now
• This monster 4-port travel adapter can charge all of your tech, at home or on the go
• This Smart Ring Shines: Evie Ring Survived My CES Test
• CES 2024 Hands On: LG’s Fresh, Featherweight, and Big-Screen Gram Pro Laptops Add OLED and Intel Core Ultra
• The ASUS AirVision M1 glasses give you big virtual screens in a travel-friendly package
• Apple will remove Blood Oxygen app from Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 to evade US import ban
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition Review
• Garmin Vivoactive 5 Review: Apple Watch SE Gets a Run for Its Money
• Samsung announces a render of its new fitness device, the Galaxy Ring

• Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm
• Actor paid to pose as crypto CEO “deeply sorry” about $1.3 billion scam
• U.S. Air Force Cyber Analyst Arrested for Alleged Role in NFT Scheme
• Is Your Vacation Rental a Scam? Look For These 3 Red Flags
• The Best Password Managers for 2024
• Don’t Engage: ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams Start With a Text, End in Financial Ruin
• New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling

• ID of five subtypes of Alzheimer’s has huge implications for treatment
• The New BeamO Is a Stethoscope and Thermometer, and It Looks Like a Game Stick
• Experimental ultrasound treatment targeting brains in trials to help those with Alzheimer’s, drug addiction

• Microsoft Is Bringing the Windows 11 Weather Experience to Windows 10
• Those Games turns crappy mobile game ads into actually good puzzles
• Shortcuts, Hotkeys, Macros, Oh My: How to Remap Your Keyboard
• Microsoft Debuts Copilot Pro, a More Powerful AI Assistant for $20 Per Month
• Windows 11 Paint has its own AI image generator tool – here’s how to use it
• Google Maps finally adds Waze’s in-tunnel navigation feature

• Yashica’s Night Vision Camera Sees What Your Eyes Can’t
• Iridium Revives Satellite-to-Phone Service Plans With ‘Project Stardust’
• The PlantPetz Smart Pot Turns Ho-Hum Plants Into Lively, Dancing Friends
• Alexa just got three new generative AI skills – here’s how to try them
• Here’s Everything to Know About Prompt Engineering
• This Smart Bed Adjusts to Your Body With AI Sensors and Strings
• Starlink Mini Dish Coming Later This Year, Elon Musk Says
• New solid state battery charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles
• OpenAI Changes Its Stance, Announces That It Is Working With the Pentagon
• Some Fire TV users can now simply ask Alexa to create AI-generated images
• AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
• Amazon reportedly unsatisfied with a paid version of Alexa, faces internal conflict

• SpaceX’s Cellular Starlink Successfully Beams First Text Messages to Phones
• “Such signal, much wow”: Starlink’s first texts via “cellphone towers in space”
• CES 2024: Asus ROG Phone 8 Puts the Smackdown on Mobile Gamers
• First Look: The OnePlus 12 Has a Snapgragon 8 Gen 3, Charges in Under an Hour
• Verizon won’t stop charging $3.30 “Telco Recovery” fee, may raise it again
• Apple tops Samsung for first time in global smartphone shipments
• Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro Review: A Gaming Smartphone That Remembers It’s a Phone
• Every Samsung product announced at Unpacked 2024: Galaxy AI, S24 Ultra, Smart Ring
• Everything Samsung announced at its Galaxy S24 event today
• Hands On: The Samsung Galaxy S24 Is All About AI
• The 9 Most Promising AI Features in the Samsung Galaxy S24
• iPhone owners get $92 payouts from Apple in phone-throttling settlement

• Hertz is selling 20,000 EVs and replacing them with gas-powered vehicles
• Meet the eTH, an expandable electric RV that turns into an off-grid luxury mini-home
• This AI-enabled e-bike uses ChatGPT to give you a smarter ride
• ‘Don’t Buy a Tesla’: Chicago’s EV Drivers Struggle With Sub-Zero Temperatures
• Starlink Coming to John Deere Equipment to Help Connect Rural Farmers

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

• The Hidden Worlds of Monopoly
• Do You Speak Chicken?
• The Surprising Roots of Ancient Rome’s Gladiator Fights
• The Furniture Fraud That Threw the French Antiques World Into a Furor
• The Life and Death of the American Mall
• A Murderous Gravestone Grudge Carved a New Law Into Stone
• A San Francisco Airport Site Is Crawling With Snakes—And That’s a Good Thing
• Saving the Hogs of Ossabaw Island
• Flying Circuses Led to the First Aerial Maps of Earth

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