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HP Pushes PC-in-a-Keyboard for Businesses With Hot Desks

Tuesday at 18:41 PM, via Slashdot

HP this week announced the EliteBoard G1a at CES 2026, a Windows computer built into a full-size 93-key desktop keyboard that the company is marketing to businesses where employees use hot desks and need a portable computing environment they can carry between workstations. The device connects to a USB-C monitor for both video output and power delivery over a single cable, and HP includes a...

‘NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court’

Tuesday at 18:01 PM, via Slashdot

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed S4505, a law that requires websites to display warnings claiming that features like algorithmic feeds, push notifications, infinite scroll, like counts, and autoplay cause addiction — despite, as TechDirt argues, the absence of scientific consensus supporting such claims. State Senator Andrew Gounardes sponsored the legislation. The law’s constitutional...

Razer Thinks You’d Rather Have AI Headphones Instead of Glasses

Tuesday at 17:20 PM, via Slashdot

Razer today unveiled Project Motoko, a concept pair of over-ear headphones equipped with dual cameras that the gaming peripherals company believes could serve as an alternative to the smart glasses that have proliferated across the wearable AI market. The headphones feature two 4K cameras positioned on the earcups along with near and far field microphones, all powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon...

Microsoft Office Is Now ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot App’

Tuesday at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

Longtime reader joshuark shares a report: As spotted by Bluesky user DodgerFanLA, going to Office.com now greets you with the following helpful explainer: “The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share, and collaborate all in one place with your favorite apps now including Copilot.*” Never has an asterisk been more relevant to me than following the words “your favorite...

Stratechery Pushes Back on AI Capital Dystopia Predictions

Tuesday at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

Stratechery’s Ben Thompson has published a lengthy rebuttal to Dwarkesh Patel and Philip Trammell’s widely discussed winter break essay “Capital in the 22nd Century,” arguing that even in a world where AI can perform all human jobs, people will still prefer human-created content and human connection. Patel and Trammell’s thesis draws on Thomas Piketty’s work to argue that once AI renders...

Disney+ Unveils The Official Trailer For FX’s “The Beauty,

Tuesday at 15:21 PM, via Tech Financials

Disney+ unveiled the official trailer for FX’s “The Beauty,” a new international thriller from executive producer Ryan Murphy. FX’s “The Beauty” will premiere on Thursday, 22 January on Disney+ in South Africa, launching with the first three episodes. New episodes of the 11-episode first season will debut weekly on Thursdays, with two episodes releasing in each of the […]

iStore problems in South Africa

Tuesday at 15:10 PM, via MyBroadband

Dozens of people have reported issues with customer service, delayed deliveries and refunds, and warranty disputes at popular South African Apple product retailer iStore in the past few weeks.

VW Brings Back Physical Buttons

Tuesday at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: Volkswagen is making a drastic change to its interiors, or at least the interiors of its electric vehicles. The automaker recently unveiled a new cockpit generation with the refreshed ID. Polo — the diminutive electric hatchback that the brand sells in Europe — that now comes with physical buttons. […] The steering wheel gets new clusters of buttons...

Ortho-Design: The South African Biotech Betting Boldly On Local Innovation

Tuesday at 14:12 PM, via Tech Financials

Orthopaedic devices are rarely associated with African innovation, and Ortho-Design wants to change that narrative.  Moving from a strong engineering idea to a scalable business that designs and manufactures orthopaedic tools for South Africa and beyond. Proving that world-class medical technology does not have to arrive in a box from somewhere else. Founded by engineer […]

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