The Morning After: What to expect at CES 2026

CES 2026 is right astir nan corner, and nan pre-show hype cycle/ early reveals suggest, yes, there’s going to beryllium an atrocious batch of AI-powered insert-product-category-here alongside, thankfully, immoderate awesome announcements from nan likes of Intel, Sony and NVIDIA.

Intel is yet unveiling its Panther Lake (Core Ultra Series 3) chips. The first chips built connected Intel’s 2nm process could connection a 50 percent capacity boost, which is sorely needed amid aggravated competition. NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang is taking nan shape for a keynote expected to characteristic a batch of AI hype, while AMD’s Lisa Su will apt antagonistic pinch caller Ryzen 9000-series chips and nan latest connected AI upscaling tech.

Over nan years, CES has consistently been the show for TV invention and heady next-gen displays. This year, we’ll beryllium talking a batch astir Micro RGB. LG is introducing a caller Micro RGB Evo sheet pinch complete 1,000 dimming zones, while Samsung plans to motorboat a afloat scope of Micro RGB TVs from 55 inches to 115 inches. In 2025, Sony introduced a caller RGB LED sheet that uses individual Mini LED backlights successful red, greenish and bluish to nutrient moreover brighter, much meticulous colors. The institution has trademarked “True RGB,” which could go what Sony calls its rotation connected RGB displays.

We’ll beryllium covering each nan keynotes, property conferences and large reveals successful person. And figuring which of nan 100s of AI-branded devices and gadgets are worthy reporting on.

I’m besides taking bets connected nan astir niche personage appearance/endorsement astatine CES 2026. We’ve seen 50 Cent, Big Bird, Martha Stewart, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Guillermo del Toro, Justin Bieber and will.i.am (multiple times), truthful who will subordinate this pantheon of stars?

— Mat Smith

The different large stories this morning

Samsung’s 2 caller speakers will present crisp audio while blending into your decor

The Music Studio 5 and 7 will beryllium connected show astatine CES 2026.

It isn’t conscionable TVs pinch Samsung. The institution has already teased a brace of caller understated speakers. Likely inspired by nan Samsung Frame, nan caller Wi-Fi speakers, called nan Music Studio 5 and 7, blend into your surviving room. The Music Studio 5 has a four-inch woofer and dual tweeters, pinch a built-in waveguide to present amended sound. The Music Studio 7 comes pinch a 3.1.1-channel spatial audio pinch top-, front-, left- and right-firing speakers. No prices yet. Expect to perceive much astatine CES itself aliases erstwhile nan speakers get successful stores. And arsenic nan property image supra suggests, we can't hold to beryllium stoically successful beforehand of one, pinch a solid of h2o (?).

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Xiaomi’s 17 Ultra Leica Edition smartphone has a manual zoom ring

And a 1-inch sensor, 200MP telephoto camera and 3,500 nit display.

Xiaomi’s latest smartphone is erstwhile again a spec beast. It features a 1-inch sensor 50MP f/1.67 main camera and 1/1.4-inch 200MP periscope telephoto camera. And it besides has an absorbing caller mechanical feature: a manual zoom ring. This surrounds nan rear camera unit.

Both nan regular Xiaomi 17 Ultra and Leica version travel pinch a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC pinch up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB of UFS 4.1 storage, on pinch a 6.9-inch 120Hz AMOLED show that tin deed up to 3,500 nits of highest brightness.

But nan camera features are nan standout elements. The 17 Ultra by Leica adds immoderate very, well, Leica touches: a two-tone finish, reddish dot position awesome connected nan front, textured edges and movie simulations, for illustration Leica’s Monopan 50 achromatic and white. Xiaomi says nan zoom ringing “[eliminates] nan request for tedious surface taps... and tin observe displacements arsenic mini arsenic 0.03mm.” It tin besides beryllium reprogrammed for manual focus.

Xiaomi’s 17 Ultra by Leica and nan regular 17 Ultra commencement astatine CNY 7,999 ($1,140) and CNY 6,999 ($995), connected par pinch nan latest high-end Pixel 10s and Galaxy S25s.

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You whitethorn soon beryllium capable to alteration your Gmail address

A Google support page successful Hindi says nan characteristic is ‘gradually rolling retired to each users.’

A Google support page successful Hindi indicates nan expertise to alteration your Gmail reside mightiness beryllium coming. The characteristic would let you to switch your existent @gmail.com reside pinch another. Your aged reside would stay progressive arsenic an othername connected nan account, and each your information would instrumentality around, unaffected. The support page (translated) says “the expertise to alteration your Google Account email reside is gradually rolling retired to each users.”

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