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Satechi Consumer electronics brand Satechi, known for its popular vegan leather MagSafe gear, chargers, and more, unveiled two new products to their lineup this Tuesday at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The annual trade show is where tech brands from across the world launch their newest innovations for convening fans, experts, and industry leaders.  Also: CES 2025: What is it, what to expect, and how to tune in Satechi is charging into chargers this…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The OnePlus 13 is a snappy, nearly no-compromise phone that starts at $899. A Snapdragon 8 Elite, paired with a 6,000mAh battery and 80W fast charging, is a recipe for endurance success. IP69 is almost excessive, but you’ll appreciate it when least expected. It’s not often that I review a smartphone in the first few weeks of January and feel confident in calling it a “Phone of the Year” contender. But the…

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Lenovo unveiled an unexpected new laptop alongside its fleet of new devices at CES 2025: a 14-inch laptop with a “rollable” display that extends upwards over 16 inches, and it works better than I initially assumed.  The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 looks like a normal 14-inch device on the surface, but hit a button on the keyboard, and the display starts growing upward. Once it’s fully extended, the screen measure 16.7 inches, which…

Two notable outages On December 30, Neustar, a U.S. based technology service provider headquartered in Sterling, VA, experienced an outage that impacted multiple downstream providers, as well as Neustar customers within multiple regions, including the U.S., Mexico, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, the U.K., Spain, Romania, Germany, Luxembourg, France, Costa Rica, Ireland, Japan, India, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. The outage, lasting a total of one hour and 40 minutes, was first observed around 2:00 PM EST…

Higher capacity throughout the network means less congestion. It’s old-think, they say, to assume that if you have faster LAN connections to users and servers, you’ll admit more traffic and congest trunks. “Applications determine traffic,” one CIO pointed out. “The network doesn’t suck data into it at the interface. Applications push it.” Faster connections mean less congestion, which means fewer complaints, and more alternate paths to take without traffic delay and loss, which also reduces…

Ultrahuman/ZDNET The Ultrahuman Ring Air is one of the more competitive smart rings on the market for its sleep and activity scoring algorithms, endless features for tracking a user’s health, and regular app updates. When I tested it out last year, I wrote that it rivals wearables from Oura, the smart ring industry’s top dog.  Now, Ultrahuman is taking its wearable to another level with the release of the Ultrahuman Ring Rare line, “the world’s…

Withings/ZDNET Withings just unveiled a feature that could take the guesswork out of a patient’s heart health scares and worries: the Cardio Check-up. It’s an in-app service with a Withings+ subscription that collects heart data through one of Withings’ proprietary wearables, shares that data with users, and connects them to board-certified cardiologists. Within 24 hours, a cardiologist could answer questions and provide feedback to the user on the data submitted. Also: CES 2025: The 8 most…

Ugreen/ZDNET Chargers have slowly been getting more and more powerful, and the switch from older silicon transistors to more efficient gallium nitride technology has spurred things along dramatically to the point where premium hardware maker Ugreen has used CES 2025 as the venue to unveil the world’s first 500W charger. Currently, Ugreen has a 300W Nexode USB charger. Also: How I turned the Starlink Mini into an almost perfect off-grid internet solution Yes, you read…

Jada Jones/ZDNET Shokz, the company known for producing industry-leading open-ear headphones, announced two new headphones during CES 2025. The OpenFit 2 and OpenMeet headline the company’s CES presence, offering upgraded features and new concepts.  Also: CES 2025: ZDNET’s 8 most impressive products we’ve seen so far The OpenFit 2 are true wireless open-ear headphones, debuting with upgrades to connectivity, comfort, battery life, and functionality. Most notably, the OpenFit 2 boast 11 hours of continuous battery…