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If you’re off-roading, it’s a neat idea to use your engine to top up your battery, which prompted Bluetti to launch the Charger. You could hook it to your alternator and draw off energy as you drove to make sure you turned up to your campsite with full batteries. But if you’re also toting around solar panels on your roof, then it’s a shame you can’t also use that power to top up. This omission is what prompted Bluetti to turn up to CES 2026 with the Charger 2, which will take power from your engine and your solar panels…

BOSTON — Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown is one of the most physical stars in the NBA, and he’s been reaping the benefits of that forcefulness all season long. However, during a 114-110 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night, Brown was rarely rewarded for his runs to the rim.Even though the 2024 NBA Finals MVP finished with a game-high 33 points, he attempted just 4 free throws in 34 minutes, with his first one coming halfway through the third quarter. Brown didn’t want to let the lack of calls bother him, but he admitted that his frustration persisted.”I…

If you’ve been following last year’s smart ring drama, you may have seen that the number of health-tracking rings you can buy has shrunk since October 21.As we reported in August, the US International Trade Commission ruled in favor of Oura in a patent case in which Oura alleged that its competitors RingConn and Ultrahuman had infringed on the company’s patent for a smart ring that tracks health and fitness stats. Oura’s victory subsequently led to RingConn and Ultrahuman being banned from importing new rings into the US.The lawsuit was bad news for both Oura competitors, and especially Ultrahuman, which…

Tokyo editor and creative Kazumi Asamura Hayashi is the new head of editorial content of Vogue Japan, effective January 29. Her appointment follows that of Soichiro Fujiwara as managing director of Condé Nast Japan, who will join the company in March 2026, marking a new phase for the organization’s leadership in the market.“Kazumi is a bold, intuitive editor, with an eye shaped by her previous experiences in culture and the arts. She truly understands how fashion intersects with identity, creativity, and the world at large. I believe she is the right leader to guide Vogue Japan into its next chapter,…

This story contains descriptions of explicit sexual content and sexual violence.Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has drawn outrage and calls for investigation after being used to flood X with “undressed” images of women and sexualized images of what appear to be minors. However, that’s not the only way people have been using the AI to generate sexualized images. Grok’s website and app, which are are separate from X, include sophisticated video generation that is not available on X and is being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is vastly more explicit than images created by…

The Atlanta Hawks are trading Trae Young to the Washington Wizards, according to ESPN. The Wizards will send CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert to Atlanta in the deal. There is reportedly no draft compensation in the deal. The trade marks the end of Young’s seven-plus-season tenure with the Hawks. The man who drafted him for the Hawks, Travis Schlenk, is currently the vice president of player personnel for the Wizards, so the two will now reunite in Washington and attempt to finish what they started in Atlanta.Young’s tenure with the Hawks began with quite a bit of promise. In just…

Waymo has spent the past three years refining and testing a minivan-like vehicle made by Chinese automaker Zeekr. And now, before this robotaxi joins Waymo’s official commercial fleet, it’s getting a new name, the company told TechCrunch. The Zeekr RT robotaxi will now be named Ojai (pronounced “oh-hi”) — after the village in the Topatopa Mountains above Los Angeles that is known for its arts community and focus on wellness. Waymo’s official explanation, per spokesperson Chris Bonelli, is that the company determined the U.S. public isn’t familiar with the Zeekr brand. That branding may even carry through to the rider…

Headquarters of Samsung in Mountain View, California, on October 28, 2018. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesSouth Korea’s Samsung Electronics expects its profits to triple in the final three months of last year, reaching a record high, as memory prices surge amid booming demand tied to artificial intelligence. The world’s largest memory chipmaker estimated that operating profit reached 20 trillion won and consolidated sales of about 93 trillion won in the fourth quarter, according to an earnings guidance released Thursday. The profit projections mark a significant improvement from a year earlier and would surpass Samsung’s long-standing record of 17.6 trillion…

Ford’s new AI-powered voice assistant will be rolling out to customers later this year, the company’s top software executive said at CES today. And in 2028, the automaker will introduce a hands-free, eyes-off Level 3 autonomous driving feature as part of its more affordable (and hopefully more profitable) Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform, set to launch in 2027.Most importantly, Ford said it would be developing a lot of the core technology around these products in-house in order to reduce costs and retain greater control over. Mind you, the company isn’t creating its own large-language models or designing its own silicon,…

The Atlanta Hawks are trading four-time All-Star Trae Young to the Washington Wizards for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert, sources told ESPN.The trade ends Young’s stint as the face of the Hawks franchise after seven-plus seasons and sends the 27-year-old to his preferred destination in the nation’s capital to be the lead guard for the Wizards. Top Washington officials Michael Winger and Will Dawkins have searched for an anchor for their burgeoning young talent, and the franchise believes the trade is the next step in the organization’s development process amid a rebuild. It also reunites Young with the Wizards executive,…