CES 2025 day 1 live blog: ROG, Audio-technica, Lenovo, and more

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025 has officially kicked off in Las Vegas, Nevada. Though technically we did get a lot of news yesterday, it was more for members of the media to get sneak peeks. Some big announcements we got were Samsung’s 37-inch 4K gaming monitor, Withings’ Omnia smart mirror, AMD’s Ryzen 9 995OX3D processor, and Hisense’s massive 116-inch TriChroma LED TV.

There’s going to be plenty more new tech shown off today and even tomorrow, so stay tuned for live updates.

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