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Jada Jones/ZDNET While walking through the evening shows at CES 2025, I was on the hunt for the latest audio products. While passing a booth, I thought I spotted a new pair of over-ear headphones, but to my surprise, they were actually advanced ear cleaners. They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but this takes it to another level. The Bebird EarSight Flow ear cleaner uses small pods of water placed in…

Maria Diaz/ZDNET 2025 just began, and it’s already shaping up to be a great year for robot vacuums. We’re seeing unparalleled innovation in this category at the Computer Electronics Show (CES), with futuristic technology coming to store shelves near you this year, including robotic arms and robots that can climb stairs.  Also: CES 2025: The 15 most impressive products so far As I roam the halls of CES this year, it’s becoming clear that robot vacuums…

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Is the art and science of prompt engineering, the refinement of instructions for generative AI, a good thing or a bad thing? Surprisingly, there isn’t universal agreement.  Prompt engineering emerged by 2024 as an increasingly important user interface tool after the runaway success of ChatGPT in 2022 and 2023. The realization that shaping and crafting instructions for large language models and related technologies could achieve better or worse results made prompt…

Jack Wallen/ZDNET I have two MacBook Pros. My daily driver is an M1 version and the other is a 2017 edition with an Intel CPU. The M1 laptop works like a champ and will probably continue to do so for a few more years.  However, the Intel-powered MacBook had pretty much become a paperweight. As usual, I upgrade apps and OSes when a new version arrives. Little did I know how much havoc upgrading to…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET My NYC apartment is far from a smart home, mostly because of the lack of space, and, as a result, a lack of things to optimize. However, I did opt for smart light bulbs to control my lights with an Alexa command or my phone. That’s why, when I passed the Lotus booth at the Computer Electronics Show (CES), I knew I had to stop by.  Also: CES 2025: The 15 most impressive…

However, AWS did point out that it plans to make its Thailand data center “flexible enough to efficiently run GPUs (graphics processing units) for traditional workloads or AI and machine learning models.” And AWS isn’t the only cloud services provider that is ramping up its investments into AI-enabled data centers. Rival cloud service providers are all investing in either upgrading or opening new data centers to capture a larger chunk of business from developers and…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET It’s not often that we see smartphone announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), not when Mobile World Congress (MWC), the trade show dedicated specifically to handsets, is always just a month away. But that also means that the few smartphone releases that do take place in Las Vegas, such as TCL’s new 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G, get a little more spotlight than usual. A fairly simple device The TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G,…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET The biggest week in tech is here: the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). ZDNET is on the ground in Las Vegas and also keeping a virtual eye on the products and concepts that debuted on the show all week long. Also: The best CES 2025 products you can buy right now So far, we’ve seen announcements from big names like Samsung, Abbott, and Dell, as well as new and innovative brands with cool…

Jada Jones/ZDNET Smart glasses are all the rage at CES 2025, and most provide some AI-powered assistant, translation service, or connection to your other personal gadgets. But these smart glasses from EssilorLuxxotica, named Nuance Audio, include hearing aids to help people improve both their hearing and vision at the same time. Also: CES 2025: The 15 most impressive products so far When I first heard of the Nuance Audio hearing glasses, I expected the microphones…