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Lenovo Smart Display makes Google Assistant a smart home sidekick
Lenovo's Smart Display line puts Google Assistant on 8- and 10-inch touchscreen. The result is a smart home sidekick with AI features tied to all the major Google services.

Google unleashes 'smart displays' loaded with Google Assistant (take that, Echo Show)
Just announced at CES: Google Assistant smart displays from Lenovo, JBL, LG and Sony, plus more Assistant-driven smart speakers and TVs, and Android Auto support.

The HTC Vive Pro's upgrades make the Vive finally feel complete
HTC's Vive Pro boasts "78 percent more pixels" and more, as VR's second generation of hardware heats up.

The wild Asus ROG Bezel-Free Kit uses light refraction to make monitor edges vanish
Attention multi-monitor gamers: The Asus ROG Bezel-Free Kit makes those ugly edges invisible.

Amazon's Alexa app headed to Windows PCs, exposing Cortana's smart-home weakness
Major PC makers like Asus, Acer, and HP will use Amazon's Alexa digital assistant, highlighting Microsoft's weakness in natural language and smart-home control.

D-Link's McAfee-powered AC2600 router aims for network-wide protection
D-Link's DIR-2680 comes with McAfee's embedded security platform to secure your home devices at the network level.

D-Link introduces its first 802.11ax routers
The IEEE 802.11ax standard that promises to deliver more bandwidth and better traffic management on saturated home networks.

The Nest x Yale Lock emerges, starts shipping in March
After years of anticipation, Yale is finally ready to ship the Nest x Yale Lock in March, with pre-orders opening in February.

Nvidia GeForce Experience's FreeStyle feature adds Instagram-like filters to your games
The Nvidia FreeStyle tool lets GeForce Experience change the look at feel of your PC games.

Nvidia's free GeForce Now beta lets you stream games from the cloud to your crappy PC
It's later than expected, but GeForce Now for PCs is ready to turn cheap laptops into full-blown gaming rigs.

D-Link’s latest COVR whole-home Wi-Fi systems look a lot more like whole-home Wi-Fi systems
The company’s first efforts in this space were much more conventional.

HP's updated Spectre x360 15 lets you pick your poison: Radeon or GeForce
HP's flagship Spectre x360 15 laptop offers a luxurious choice: The latest Intel Kaby Lake G with Radeon Vega, or a GeForce option.

HP's Spectre x360 will offer the CPU option of Intel's Kaby Lake G part, which has the semi-custom AMD Radeon Vega discrete GPU. We look closer at this sleek, sculpted laptop with all the fixings.

HTC Vive Pro Hands-on at CES 2018
In this video Gordon walks us through his experience trying out the new headset with Archiact's Evasion.

Samsung Notebook 9 Pen Hands-on
Samsung's Notebook 9 Pen wants to make it easy for you to write, draw, and interact with your PC using the integrated pen. We try it out at CES.

Meet Nvidia's BFGDs: Massive 4K, 120Hz G-Sync HDR displays bigger than your TV
Nvidia's G-Sync HDR-equipped "Big Format Gaming Displays" are bigger than your TV and pack every bell and whistle you could ask for.

AMD drops prices on Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and Threadripper, upping the value war with Intel
Some of those Black Friday prices on Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and Threadripper just got permanent

AMD reveals Ryzen 2, Threadripper 2, 7nm Navi, and more in CES blockbuster
Ryzen 2. Threadripper 2. Navi at 7nm. And that's just the beginning. AMD lays out plans for the next two years of CPUs and GPUs, and rolls out APUs and a mobile discrete GPU.