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CES 2025 has officially kicked off, and amidst all the news about new graphics cards and very expensive EVs , home and pet owners should be pleasantly surprised by LG's AeroCatTower. Every cat owner knows the struggle of finding functional feline furniture that's not an eyesore, and this sleek cat tower solves that problem. Part sleek air purifier, part feline-friendly perch, this futuristic gadget not only cleans the air but doubles as a weight-monitoring throne for your furry overlord. SEE ALSO: CES 2025 live updates: Here's what we know, from Nvidia to John Deere announcements Unveiled at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the AeroCatTower stood out from the typical CES lineup. The demo setup featured a delightfully bizarre scene: a stuffed cat (decidedly creepy) and two more furry stand-ins (mercifully less creepy) lounging around the device. Per the reps at the booth, the tower's air-purifying abilities adjust when the cat is sitting on it. When your furry ...

Govee, maker of all manner of smart lights, has a new product it showed off at CES 2025 that creates a quirky new product category. The Gaming Pixel Light displays still or animated pixel art set to 8-bit soundtracks. In addition, it can also display weather updates, sports schedules, Bitcoin prices and so on with its retro display. But it wouldn’t be a CES gadget without AI something or other stuffed inside: perhaps unsurprisingly, the Gaming Pixel Light also has a companion app that lets you generate AI pixel art from text prompts. We got to take a look at both the Pixel Light and a Govee x JBL collaboration during Unveiled at CES and can confirm they are adorable and mesmerizing, respectively. As the product name suggests, the Gaming Pixel Light is marketed as a (desktop or wall-mounted) lighting companion for gamers. But it could work for anyone who wants a groovy ambiance or fun conversation piece in their home. The light comes in two sizes, a rectangle and a square and both...

CES 2025 is here! The Consumer Electronics Show is the world’s biggest annual tech conference. Big Tech companies and small startups alike make the trek to Las Vegas, Nevada every January to debut the latest consumer products and tech innovations of the future. This year, we’re seeing plenty of AI products as well as some big announcements in both the television and computing power space. Companies like LG and Nvidia are debuting some interesting innovations . Tech powerhouses like Samsung and Sony are bringing their own new products to showcase. And, of course, countless startups will be putting their hardware and software in the spotlight for the first time, hoping to be discovered. Mashable is on the ground live at CES 2025! We’re covering all the wildest and most important developments this week, so please keep checking back in with us. Want to submit a product you represent for our teams’ consideration as we identify the Best of CES? Here’s more info on how to do it . This...

"Dude, you're getting a Dell" is about to be more apt than ever. Dell announced a sweeping overhaul of its AI-powered PC portfolio at CES 2025 Monday. More than just a next-generation refresh, the company's upcoming fleet of laptops and desktops will feature new hardware, new designs, and new names under the same all-encompassing brand. Dell PCs now fall into three categories called Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each representing a different use case: everyday tasks, business, or demanding apps, respectively. Within each category, individual variants are further differentiated by three subcategories representing varying degrees of configurability. There will be starter-level base models, mid-range Plus models for "scalable performance," and high-end Premium models for "the ultimate in mobility and design," according to a Dell press release. Credit: Dell This rework marks a major shakeup for Dell's PC naming schema, which has used...

Users aren't particularly happy with Apple 's Enhanced Visual Search opt-in. Enhanced Visual Search is a tool Apple uses to match users' photos with landmarks and points of interest. The feature is similar to visual lookup and is intended to make it easier for users to find specific photos. It is automatically enabled on Apple Photos on iPhones using iOS 18 and Macs using macOS Sequoia. Users appear to be concerned not with Enhanced Visual Search itself — which has been a feature for some time — but with its automatic activation. SEE ALSO: Apple Intelligence already needs more iPhone storage space than it used to "Opt-in by default to make sure every clueless user will never take the steps to shut it down. Typical shitty corpo movement, so common that I'll use it as a reminder to check all my privacy options in every service," one user wrote on Reddit in a post that received more than 1,600 upvotes . According to Apple's Photos & Privacy, the...

The 82nd Golden Globes has rolled out the red carpet this Sunday night, with this year's nominees in TV and film gathering at the awards' annual spot, the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, the event is being broadcast live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. But who will take home the gold? SEE ALSO: How to watch the Golden Globes live this weekend with or without cable Jacques Audiard's Cannes-winning musical Emilia Pérez led the pack in nominations with 10, while awarded chef series The Bear topped the TV nominations with five — awards favourite Shōgun got four, as did Hulu's crime comedy Only Murders In the Building . Other favourites for the night included Sean Baker's exquisite Mikey Madison-led film Anora , Brady Corbet's post-WWII immigrant epic The Brutalist , Jon M. Chu's gravity-defying Wicked , Coralie Fargeat's bold body horror The Substance , and Edward Berger's Vatican thriller Concla...

Smart lighting company Govee has a new product that creates a quirky new product category. The Gaming Pixel Light displays still or animated pixel art set to 8-bit soundtracks. It can also show you weather updates, sports schedules and Bitcoin prices on its retro display. But it wouldn’t be a CES 2025 gizmo without AI something or other stuffed inside, so you won’t be surprised to learn that its companion app lets you generate AI pixel art from text prompts. As the product name suggests, the Gaming Pixel Light is marketed as a (desktop or wall-mounted) lighting companion for gamers. But it could work for anyone who wants a groovy ambiance or fun conversation piece in their home. The light has over 150 preset scenes, or you can create your own — manually or with the app’s AI chatbot . You can also control it with Alexa or Google Assistant . Govee You can use it for still or animated pixel art, and it supports image and GIF uploads to give you more options to play with. Its anim...

People with kids, rejoice. That's because Roborock is releasing a robot vacuum that can help clear up all the little socks they leave all over the place. Announced at CES 2025 , the Roborock Saros Z70 is a pretty normal-looking circular robot vacuum, except for the part where a big robot arm is jutting out of it. Roborock says it will launch in the first half of 2025, but didn't include any pricing info. Look at this little guy. Credit: Roborock SEE ALSO: These are the best self-emptying robot vacuums that make life easier The arm is officially called OmniGrip, which Roborock insists is the "first-of-its-kind mass-produced foldable robotic arm" on a robot vacuum. It can allegedly take care of small items under 300g in size, like tissue paper, socks, and small towels. It's not really clear what the device does with these things, but apparently it can also clean hard-to-reach areas. SEE ALSO: CES 2025: Mashable's guide on what to expect I don...

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands , the New York Times ' elevated word-search game. Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections . If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle,...