More from Wednesday’s top tech news: Sony’s Afeela EV and Amazon is laying off 18,000
In a 10th-anniversary celebration post to keep the hype train at a steady hum in anticipation of the HBO premiere of its The Last Of Us adaptation,
Neil Druckmann said that the multiplayer game will incorporate Naughty Dog’s signature approach to storytelling (so expect it to try to make you cry by killing a cute but fungi-fied creature) and that they would have more to share about the game later this year.
For now, fans can content themselves with The Last Of Us Part 1 launching on PC on March 3rd and The Last Of Us’ HBO premiere on January 15th.
We’ve already got some details on LG’s 2023 OLED TVs, but that was just the beginning of LG’s TV announcements ahead of CES 2023.
LG’s press conference starts today at 11AM ET, and we’re bound to see more TVs, home entertainment products, and the usual assortment of home appliances. You can tune into LG’s live stream at 11AM ET / 8AM PT in the YouTube stream below.
Nvidia’s ‘unlaunched’ 12GB RTX 4080 returns with a $100 price drop and decent 1440p and 4K performance.
The CES madness in Las Vegas has begun, Twitter is broken in Australia, and someone else has probably scored 50 or more points in an NBA game since I started writing this.
You can keep up with all the CES stories in our stream, and below, I’ve listed times for some of the events we expect to have news from today. Keep an eye on the front page here; if there are live streams available, we’ll post them so you can follow along.
LG: 11AM ET / 8AM PT
Samsung: 5PM ET / 2PM PT
Sony: 8PM ET / 5PM PT
AMD: 9:30PM ET / 6:30PM PT
BMW: 11PM ET / 8PM PT
Elon Musk’s $44 billion hobby has been up and down for over 12 hours in Australia and New Zealand, according to Downdetector. Users are reporting slow load times when the site does actually load, causing some to fire up a VPN to access Twitter through the US.
We weren’t impressed by the $900 original, but the 2023 Freestyle has a neat little trick called Smart Edge Blending that automatically stitches the images of two projectors into a single ultra-wide display with a 21:9 aspect ratio.
Only catch? If buying one Freestyle wasn’t worth it, who’d actually buy two?
Our roundup has more details about the refreshed Freestyle and the rest of Samsung’s new TV lineup.
