Anna Washenko

Contributing Reporter

Anna has been a freelance writer for more than a decade. In that time, she's covered everything from electronics to esports, from marketing to magic. Her tech and entertainment reporting has appeared on Ars Technica, Mashable, Digital Trends, and more. She especially loves playing, making, and geeking out over video games.

Articles by Anna Washenko

Acer goes big on the haptic trackpad for CES with the Swift 16 AI laptop
Acer has a handful of laptop updates at this year's CES show.
TCL unveils its X11L SQD-Mini LED TVs at CES 2026
TCL introduced the next entry in its flagship line of mini LED televisions during CES.
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X2 Plus chip at CES
CES tends to bring a wave of news from chipmakers, and Qualcomm has used this year's event to announce the Snapdragon X2 Plus laptop processor.
JBL launches a trio of gaming headsets for CES
JBL has added three new gaming headsets to its JBL Quantum product lineup for 2026.
The best rice cooker for 2026
Get excellent rice every time for all of your katsus, curries, burritos and more.
Airloom will showcase its new approach to wind power at CES
Airloom says its technology offers savings over horizontal axis wind turbines for powering operations like data centers.
Samsung unveils its new $200 Galaxy A17 5G smartphone, arriving in January
Samsung will have two new inexpensive mobile devices arriving on the US market next month.
Nintendo has huge discounts on Switch 2 games in its holiday sale
Nintendo is in a giving state of mind this season, offering some holiday deals on games, including a few recent Switch 2 titles.
Call of Duty co-creator Vince Zampella killed in a car crash
Game developer Vince Zampella, known for his work on many popular first-person shooter franchises, has died.
Google’s NotebookLM introduces Data Tables feature
Google's latest addition to its NotebookLM artificial intelligence research platform is a feature called Data Tables.
LG will let you delete the previously unremovable Microsoft Copilot shortcut on its smart TVs
A rep from LG said that the company "will take steps to allow users to delete the shortcut icon if they wish."
Trump Mobile's T1 still doesn't exist, but the company is now selling refurbished phones
The T1 smartphone from Trump Mobile remains non-existent vaporware, but the company is still finding new ways to take people's money.
Dolby and LG introduce a modular home audio system for CES 2026
The LG Sound Suite features a modular lineup that can be combined in more than two dozen different configurations.
China reportedly has a prototype EUV machine built by ex-ASML employees
Reuters reports that scientists in China have created a prototype of a machine that could eventually be used to produce semiconductor chips capable of powering AI.
Astronomers find mysterious lemon-shaped exoplanet with NASA's Webb telescope
Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned up a doozy.
NYT Games has a year-in-review thing now too
The New York Times is getting in on the year-end roundup bandwagon.
YouTube is letting creators make playable games with a Gemini 3 tool
Google's at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in their lives.
LG will debut its first Micro RGB television at CES
LG is getting in on one of the newest trends for televisions with the introduction of Micro RGB.
LG quietly added an unremovable Microsoft Copilot app to TVs
The latest place you may find Microsoft Copilot is on your LG smart television, whether you want it or not.
Ford is rebooting the F-150 Lightning as an EREV with a gas generator
Ford announced that it will stop making the current F-150 Lightning EV model and change it to a hybrid.

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