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I’ve seen plenty of smart retrofits and conversions for door locks and light switches. But ceiling fan conversions are harder to find and often clunky. At CES, my colleagues and I saw Hunter Fan unveil a new option: The smart line called HunterSmart, filled with options to make your existing home fans smarter. While HunterSmart includes a smart plug and light dimmer switch, what really caught my eye were the impressive voice controls for converting even the largest home ceiling fans into smart devices. If you love your existing setup, you can use the HunterSmart Smart Fan Upgrade Kit, which…

At CES 2026, Ikea spent its first-ever time at the tech event showing off a number of new products, including a new Bluetooth speaker it calls the Kallsup. It’s a teeny tiny cube that is, in every way that matters, far more of a delight than its $10 price tag lets on. It will be available in April in red, white, and green colors. The Kallsup is lightweight yet solid-feeling, a plastic box with speaker holes on one face, a USB-C port on the back for charging, and two buttons astride a small LED status light for power, playback, and…

Smart rings are evolving rapidly beyond the domain of health and wellness tracking. The likes of Samsung and Oura have focused on biosensing, while upstarts such as 7Ring are turning them into contactless payment devices. At CES 2026, a new wearable brand named Gyges Labs is showcasing another side of smart rings that essentially turns them into an AI-powered note-taking device.  What sets this one apart? Vocci Now, there is no dearth of AI-powered voice recorders out there. The Plaud Note is fairly powerful, and so is the brand’s wearable pendant geared at the same task. Gyges Labs’ Vocci smart…

Like past Core Ultra generations, the Core Ultra 3 chips use a chiplet-based approach, combining several distinct silicon tiles on a foundational “base tile” using Intel’s Foveros packaging technology. The compute tile houses the CPU cores and the neural processing unit (NPU), and it’s the piece that’s built using 18A—there are two version of this tile, one with a maximum of 16 CPU cores and one with 8. The platform controller tile, which handles most I/O, is still being built at TSMC, as is the high-end 12-core version of the graphics tile. A simpler four-core version of the graphics tile…

TL;DR Amazon has revealed an overhauled Fire TV user interface. The redesigned UI takes a page out of Google TV’s playbook by offering unified suggestions and a smart home panel. The new UI will start rolling out next month on select devices in the US. One of the most convenient things about the Google TV UI is that you can view streaming suggestions from various apps on your home screen. This means you don’t need to hop between specific apps. Now, Amazon has announced a Fire TV redesign that offers similar functionality.Amazon announced an upgraded Fire TV UI, and one…

Aamir Siddiqui / Android AuthorityTL;DR Xiaomi has launched the Redmi Note 15 5G, featuring a slim design and a curved display that is typically reserved for Pro-tier models. Key specs include a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 SoC, a 108MP primary camera, IP66 water resistance, and a 5,520mAh battery, all packed into this slim chassis. With phones set to become more expensive this year due to the RAM crisis, an increasing number of consumers are expected to turn to mid-range Android phones. It also makes sense, as these phones can serve most people’s needs just fine at a fraction of the…

Spills and pet messes can be a pain to clean up from your hard floors, but getting the right tool for the job can make life a little easier. And it’s even better when you can score a great deal. Right now, QVC has slashed 26% off the Shark Steam Pickup hard floor cleaning system — which comes with two brushrolls — slashing its price from $230 down to just $170. Plus, shipping is free. And if you’re a new customer to QVC, you’ll get an additional $15 off orders over $35 now through Jan. 9 when you use coupon…

AssembleDebug / Android AuthorityTL;DR Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro may have a third color option. In addition to the already-leaked black and white colorways, the Galaxy Buds 4 Pro may also come in an “Apricot” colorway. The special color appears limited to the Pro variant for now, with no hints for the regular model. Unlike its phones, which get updated every year, Samsung maintains a longer upgrade cycle for its premium wireless earbuds. The Galaxy Buds 3 series was released nearly 18 months ago, which means the Galaxy Buds 4 should arrive soon. Although we aren’t clear on the timeline…

“We will embed AI across every category, and every product, and every service, to deliver one seamless, unified AI experience.” Those were Samsung CEO, TM Roh’s opening words at the firm’s CES 2026 press conference. In short, if you buy a Samsung product, there’s no escaping its AI. Whether that’s on its phones, tablets or TVs, all the way through to smart devices and home appliances – Samsung is making sure AI will be there if you need it. Now this might seem like overkill. Do we seriously need an AI oven, and an AI washer/dryer, and an AI refrigerator?…

Asus has been playing with dual-screen laptop concepts for a while now, but its latest product is the most outrageous experiment yet. At CES 2026, the company unveiled the ROG Zephyrus Duo, a gaming laptop with two 16-inch OLED panels with up to a 120Hz refresh rate.  The big take Rocking the same external design as the mainstream ROG Zephyrus G gaming laptops, the dual-screen behemoth comes armed with a pair of 3K ROG Nebula HDR Display OLED touch panel. Asus also ships a magnetic keyboard accessory with this laptop, which can either be perched atop the base screen, or…