Clips showing driverless delivery vans in China pushing through roadworks, rough streets and traffic obstacles have gone viral online, turning the autonomous vehicles into a bit of a meme.
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China’s driverless delivery vans have gone viral online, turning the autonomous vehicles into a bit of a meme.

Dexerto

Driverless delivery vans in China go viral for all the wrong reasons by causing chaos on roads - Dexerto

IKEA is giving its viral 'donut lamp' a smart makeover. Announced today at CES 2026, the IKEA Varmblixt is the latest smart home release from the iconic furniture brand, and I think it's going to bec… [+2156 chars]

IKEA's viral 'donut lamp' just got a smart update at CES, and it's sweeter than ever

Tom's Guide

'What makes this lamp unique is that switching between colors is not a sudden change, but a very smooth journey' — IKEA just released a smart version of one of its most iconic products - Tom's Guide

Here are Monday's biggest calls on Wall Street.

CNBC

Here are Monday's biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, Palantir, Zoom, Microsoft, Roku, Netflix & more - CNBC

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The Switch 2 has been the subject of much debate since its launch last year, with many speculating that the current economy might necessitate a price increase … [+1502 chars]

But current memory prices are not an immediate concern

Nintendo Life

Nintendo's President Remains Coy On Potential Price Increases - Nintendo Life

Pocketpair has announced Palworld Official Card Game, which is, yes, an official card game based on the developer's monster catching survival game, Palworld.
It's coming on 30th July in collaboratio… [+1760 chars]

Pocketpair has announced Palworld Official Card Game, which is, yes, an official card game based on the developer's monster catching survival game, Palworld.

Eurogamer.net

Palworld is getting an official card game this summer - Eurogamer

Innosilicon has delivered its LPDDR6/5X Combo PHY plus controller IP to a top-tier customer, marking a commercial deployment of a domestic LPDDR6 interface IP. The company claims the subsystem suppor… [+1240 chars]

China's Innosilicon LPDDR6/5X IP is now shipping to first customers Innosilicon has delivered its LPDDR6/5X Combo PHY plus controller IP to a "top-tier"

Videocardz.com

Innosilicon is now shipping LPDDR6 memory to first customers, targets 14.4Gbps - VideoCardz.com

With the first expedition window for Arc Raiders concluded in December, Embark Studios has revealed that just over a million players opted in to reset their characters in exchange for various rewards… [+2616 chars]

Arc Raiders' design director has spoken about the game's expedition system, and how the team is looking to improve it.

As roughly one-in-ten Arc Raiders players reset their characters, Embark Studios is looking for new ways to incentivise expeditions - Eurogamer

Big sizes, big resolution, and big ideas.

Ars Technica

The most fascinating monitors at CES 2026 - Ars Technica

At some point today, EA will turn the Anthem servers off, rendering BioWare's multiplayer online shooter inaccessible and unplayable, presumably forever. And fond farewells have already started to po… [+2991 chars]

Exactly when it'll be switched off remains unclear.

"A sad end to a sad story" - fond Anthem farewells begin as BioWare's Destiny-like game reaches last day of operation - Eurogamer

Samsung officially debuted the Galaxy Crew 2026 content creator program. The announcement follows the program’s reveal on January 9.
Samsung also had Galaxy Crew in 2024 and 2025, with 20 and 60 mem… [+1492 chars]

For the first time, Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S26 has surfaced on Geekbench with the Exynos 2600 processor. The first listing alone revealed the phone’s graphics capabilities, backed by Samsung Xclipse 960 GPU. This listing is important because it’s the first…

Sammyfans.com

Galaxy S26 with Exynos 2600 makes first Geekbench appearance – Global entry confirmed? - Sammy Fans

Whatever I may be thinking of, I am always at the same time more or less aware of myself, of my personal existence. At the same time it is I who am aware; so that the total self of me, being as it we… [+30368 chars]

In order to better understand our human nature, we must attempt to build a robot capable of robust subjective experiences

Aeon.co

Why the best way to understand the self is to build a robot one - Aeon

It's been almost 10 years since we first stepped foot in Ubisoft's extraction shooter, The Division
 yeah, I know and it looks like the developer will celebrate by giving fans a chance to replay the… [+2614 chars]

It's been almost 10 years since we first stepped foot in Ubisoft's extraction shooter, The Division — yeah, I know — and it looks like the developer will celebrate by giving fans a chance to replay the experience in "definitive edition" form.

It Looks Like The Division Definitive Edition Is On the Way, 10 Years After Its Initial Release - IGN

Inspired by this work, Ivan Maksymov, a research fellow at Charles Sturt University's Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Institute in Bathurst, Australia, developed a model that combined quant… [+1164 chars]

Our eyes can frequently play tricks on us, but scientists have discovered that some artificial intelligence can fall for the same illusions.

BBC News

AI can now 'see' optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains? - BBC

Maxis has emphasised its "values have not changed" following the $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts by an investor consortium, which includes the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund.
In a bl… [+1435 chars]

Developer provides update on Sims franchise, maintaining "single-player PC and console experiences will always be a part of its future"

GamesIndustry.biz

Maxis stresses "values have not changed" following $55bn EA acquisition - GamesIndustry.biz

Welcome back to another week with LinkedIn Games. Last week’s puzzles were fun, but a bit easy most times. This week starts off pretty easily as well, but let’s hope it gets harder later. Still, here… [+3436 chars]

It's time for another week of LinkedIn Games. The puzzles are starting off the week super easy. As always, here are the answers.

Fandomwire.com

All LinkedIn Games Solutions for Today (January 12, 2026) - FandomWire

<ul><li>Google is testing a Playback speed option in Google Photos, offering speed options from 0.25x to 2x.</li><li>Users may also gain the ability to hide date labels for a cleaner, uninterrupted g… [+1662 chars]

Google Photos could soon allow users to adjust the video playback speed, and even allow date separators to be toggled off for a cleaner view.

Android Authority

Google Photos may finally add a long-awaited video playback feature - Android Authority

Mashable

Replace dozens of AI subscriptions with one $75 lifetime purchase - Mashable

Outside of the typical "fixes", the latest kernel code does include Logitech MX Anywhere 3S HID++ support for enabling high resolution scrolling and other extra functionality. That HID++ support for … [+823 chars]

In addition to Linus Torvalds doing some vibe coding and more with his new 'AudioNoise' project this week, Linux 6.19 kernel development ticked back up with the holidays having passed

Phoronix

Linux 6.19-rc5 Brings Fix For Newer NVIDIA GPUs, Logitech HID++ For Anywhere 3S & Fixes - Phoronix

The first set of information about the Galaxy S27 series has started to emerge. The Galaxy S26 Ultra won't bring any major camera hardware improvements, but it looks like the Galaxy S27 Ultra will. I… [+1248 chars]

The first set of information about the Galaxy S27 series has started to emerge. The Galaxy S26 Ultra won't bring any major camera hardware improvements, but it looks like the Galaxy S27 Ultra will. It could use a newer sensor for the primary camera, and its n…

SamMobile

Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra camera details surface for the first time - SamMobile

The Supermicro SYS-E403-14B-FRN2T is an IoT server that comes in a neat form factor. Over the past few years, we have featured the Supermicro E403 platforms a few times, but we have never reviewed on… [+2229 chars]

In our Supermicro SYS-E403-14B-FRN2T review, we take a look at what might be the coolest edge server featuring Intel Xeon 6 and NICs or GPUs

Technology