Episode 195: Ringing in 2025 with Android XR, CES Highlights, and Pioneering Tech Advances

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News

Google announces Android XR, a new OS for headsets and smart glasses
Qualcomm wins a legal battle over Arm chip licensing
UK watchdog launches inquiry into IBM's HashiCorp acquisition
Meta will appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, as Nick Clegg steps down
Home Assistant Voice
TRMNL
CES 2025

Nvidia

Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits

AMD

AMD announces next-gen Radeon RX 9070-series GPUs with AI-powered FSR 4 upscaling
AMD announces ‘Fire Range’ and Ryzen AI Max, its most potent laptop chips yet
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D is ‘the world’s best processor for gamers and creators’

Other

Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision



Rumours

iPhone SE 4 could be branded as iPhone 16E: Here’s why that makes sense
M5 Pro chip could separate CPU and GPU in ‘server grade’ chips




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