From PC World: Has your Google smart speaker been giving you the silent treatment lately? Join the club.

Over the past several days, owners of Google’s Nest and Nest Hub devices have been reporting that Google Assistant has stopped responding to basic commands such as “What’s the weather” and...

From CNET: Hisense has unveiled its latest laser TV, the U9Q. It includes streaming TV onboard as well as a Dolby Atmos soundsystem.

The TV uses Hisense's proprietary TriChroma triple-laser light engine, which the company says can exceed the BT.2020 color space, has 5,000 lumens and a 5,000:1...

From The Verge: Tesla’s production and delivery numbers for 2024 are out, and the numbers are pretty sobering.

The premiere EV company in the US produced 1.77 million cars this year, a drop of about 4 percent compared to the previous year, and delivered 1.79 million vehicles this year, or about 1...

From PC Mag: Kia is recalling 22,883 units of its EV9 electric SUVs in the US.

The recall was announced after Kia found that some seat bolts for the second and third rows in the 2024-2025 models were missing. The error occurred at the Kia Autoland Gwangmyeong assembly plant in Korea and impacted...

From PC World: Electronics manufacturers love to tout “world’s first” in their marketing. Take LG’s newest OLED monitor, for example. It isn’t the first display with 5K resolution, nor the first that can bend from flat to curved. (That one goes to the Corsair Xeneon Flex.) But it is the first...

From Lexar Press Release: Lexar, a leading global brand of flash memory solutions, is excited to announce their upcoming lineup to be shared at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. One spotlight of the show will be their Professional Workflow series which includes a 6-bay docking station, a portable 2-bay docking...

From G.Skill Press Release: G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd, the world’s leading brand of performance overclock memory and PC components, is thrilled to release new low CAS latency memory kits featuring AMD EXPO overclock profile for the new AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors and performance...

From Tom's Hardware: The upcoming Ryzen AI MAX 395+ from AMD's Ryzen 300 or Zen 5 family of APUs has emerged at Geekbench with performance that's largely identical to the desktop Ryzen 9 7950X processor — at least in short bursts. The 395+ is seen powering the upcoming ROG Flow Z13 laptop from Asus...

From The Verge: LG has announced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Pro laptop lineup, adding cloud-based and on-device AI-powered features that go beyond its current Gram laptops.

The 16-inch Gram Pro will also be the first Copilot Plus PC in the LG Gram lineup and is further distinguished...

From PC Mag: A China-backed threat actor accessed workstations and unclassified documents of US Treasury Department employees, The New York Times reports.

In a letter to Senate Banking Committee leaders on Monday, Treasury said it was notified of the cyberattack on Dec. 8 by BeyondTrust, a third...