The Weekly Tech Rant

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

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Welcome to the WTR with your hosts, Jay and Karl, delving into the latest tech news, gadgets, games, and films!

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In This Episode:

    • 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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