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Panasonic's back with a vengeance, and they've brought the big guns. Their new Z95B OLED TV is turning heads at CES 2025 with a four-layer tandem OLED panel that puts other "bright" OLEDs to shame. No micro-lens array trickery here – just pure, unadulterated photon firepower. Oh, and it's got a built-in Dolby Atmos speaker array tuned by Technics. Soundbar companies, you might want to start sweating.

Why it matters: This isn't just another incremental TV upgrade. Panasonic's pulling off some serious panel wizardry that could shift the entire high-end TV landscape. If they can mass-produce these multi-layer OLEDs at scale, we might be looking at the next big leap in display tech.

The kicker? Panasonic's using this as their triumphant return to the US TV market. Talk about coming in hot.

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Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 is bringing scrolls back in style with its rollable display. It's either the future of laptops or the world's most over-engineered fidget toy. Either way, I want one.

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WhatsApp's testing a dedicated AI chatbot tab. Because what every messaging app needs is an AI to judge your emoji choices and autocomplete your breakup texts.

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• Smart glasses are getting... actually smart? Rokid's adding displays, Nuance is sneaking in hearing aids, and suddenly "wearable computing" doesn't sound like a punchline anymore. Read more
• Tesla's Model Y refresh brings back the turn signal stalk. Elon finally realized sometimes the old ways are the best ways. Revolutionary! Read more
• The US government wants to protect your Robux. Because nothing says "cutting-edge financial regulation" like worrying about virtual currency in Roblox. Read more

If AI can now write most of our code, are we transitioning from software engineers to "AI prompt engineers"? And if so, how long until an AI can write better prompts than us?

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