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CES 2026: Part Two (Tuesday)
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 01/07/2026 · 2h 1m
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Free PR advice: Tech journalists at CES are not the optimum audience for Dry January pitches.
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Here's Ep 2 of Better Offline's CES coverage - I'm joined by @niedermeyer.online, @henrytcasey.net, @edwardongwesojr.com and @bishonentype.bsky.social to talk wireless TVs, useless smart glasses, and the big lie of consumer robotics.
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Here's Ep 1 of Better Offline's CES Coverage - I'm joined by Robert Evans, Ed Ongweso Jr., David Roth, Scott Stein, Lisa Eadicicco and Matt Binder to talk NVIDIA's tepid press conference, LLMs in TVs, smart glasses, and Robert's exoskeleton. open.spotify.com/episode/1a5P... linktr.ee/betteroffline
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My GopherCon talk was just posted!
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GopherCon 2025: Porting the TypeScript Compiler to Go for a 10x Speedup V2 - Jake Bailey
YouTube video by Gopher Academy
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- Lenovo’s AI strategy matters more than you may think
- Weird scenes from the CES show floor
- What folks here are saying about the weird Nvidia keynote yesterday
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Lenovo’s AI strategy matters more than you think
My chat with the PC giant's head of AI product. Also: My quick jaunt through the CES show floor.
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Hey #microsky #microbiome nerds!
My collaborator Spencer Diamond is hiring a postdoc. You get to work with a lot of awesome microbiome data, including rumen microbiome data. Spencer's a great guy to work with and has taught me a lot.
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Postdoc - Microbiome - Innovative Genomics Institute
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Lenovo's new all-in-one PC has a really interesting design. It has a transparent light bar at the bottom of the display that can sync to video content or change when you get notifications www.theverge.com/news/852….
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Lenovo’s new All-in-One PC can sync its lighting to your notifications
A flashy new design
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Lenovo’s new concept rollable could be the ideal gaming laptop. It has an OLED screen that extends horizontally from a 16-inch to a 24-inch display www.theverge.com/tech/852….
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Lenovo’s new concept rollable could be the ideal gaming laptop
Gamers may have a new grail laptop.
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Lenovo’s second SteamOS handheld is the Legion Go 2. Lenovo plans to begin selling a SteamOS version in June starting at $1,199 www.theverge.com/tech/853….
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Lenovo’s second SteamOS handheld is the Legion Go 2
Lenovo continues its Valve experiment.
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Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under fire for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent.
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Musk's AI chatbot faces global backlash over sexualized images of women and children
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under fire for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent.
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If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
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Can You Optimize Love?
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i think @sarahp.bsky.social found the coolest thing at CES techcrunch.com/storyline/ce...
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CES 2026: Follow live for the first official day with Ring, Mobileye, Siemens, robots, AI, and more
CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and reporters on the ground to cover the news, scout out the interesting, weird,...
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Great piece of @justinhendrix.bsky.social interviewing @riana.bsky.social about the nonconsensual undressing Grok has been doing (and continues to fuel)
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The Policy Implications of Grok's 'Mass Digital Undressing Spree' | TechPolicy.Press
A conversation with Riana Pfefferkorn, a policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.
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Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?
One of the most common refrains we hear from age verification proponents is that online ID checks are nothing new. After all, you show your ID at bars and liquor stores all the time, right? And it’s true that many places…
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Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?
One of the most common refrains we hear from age verification proponents is that online ID checks are nothing new. After all, you show your ID at bars and liquor stores all the time, right? And it’s true that many places age-restrict access in-person to various goods and services, such as tobacco, alcohol, firearms, lottery tickets, and even tattoos and body piercings.
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DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."
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Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
"What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."
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If you're confused by the whole Micro RGB TV thing this year, @stevedent.bsky.social wrote up a great explainer www.engadget.com/home/hom….
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What are Micro RGB TVs and why are they everywhere at CES 2026?
Why do we even need Micro RGB TVs and how are they different from OLED, Micro LED and Mini LED models
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soooo - now you're helping Amazon make money even if you didn't want to? www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/a... by Annie R. Palmer at @cnbc.com
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Amazon's AI shopping tool sparks backlash from online retailers that didn't want websites scraped
Some businesses have objected to their products being sold on Amazon through the "Shop Direct" feature without their permission.
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This Italian FB page that posts Catholic AI slop shared a new deepfake where the lips of the statue of Mary also (unintentionally) briefly move to mouth the same words the deepfake nun is saying.
stuff of nightmares.
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Would you let this thing into your house? www.engadget.com/home/dre….
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Dreame's latest robot vacuum concept has slightly terrifying legs that can climb full-size stairs
This year at CES 2026, Dreame is showing off a prototype of the Cyber X robot vacuum that can climb up and down an entire flight of stairs.
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AI systems monetize attention, shape emotion, and blur the line between suggestion and control, writes Courtney C. Radsch. There is still time, barely, to design systems that invite diversity of thought rather than collapse it into averages and subject it to algorithmic manipulation, she writes.
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The Battle for Cognitive Liberty in the Age of Corporate AI | TechPolicy.Press
AI systems monetize attention, shape emotion, and blur the line between suggestion and control, writes Courtney C. Radsch.
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“One of the most striking aspects of this case is the extent to which stalkerware companies like pcTattletale operate out in the open,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @techcrunch.com. “I hope that this case changes the risk calculus for makers of stalkerware.”
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Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch
Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct Michigan-based spyware company.
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company that creates deepfake CSAM raises $20 billion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/0….
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Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion
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Chuck Schumer’s Ridiculous Strategy For Trump’s Illegal War: Hope Republicans Come To Their Senses
I've criticized Chuck Schumer plenty over the years, generally for being bad on tech policy, but also for not understanding the moment we’re living through. Yes, he’s the leader of a minority party…
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Chuck Schumer’s Ridiculous Strategy For Trump’s Illegal War: Hope Republicans Come To Their Senses
I've criticized Chuck Schumer plenty over the years, generally for being bad on tech policy, but also for not understanding the moment we’re living through. Yes, he’s the leader of a minority party with zero power, but that doesn’t mean he’s powerless. Yet he acts as if he is. And if he can't figure that out, it's time for someone else to do it.
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On Monday, CFA, a group of hundreds of consumer-focused nonprofits, publicly called for both state and federal action against #xAI. Sending a letter signed by a handful of organizations to the Federal Trade Commission and US attorneys general. @theverge.com
@benwinters.bsky.social
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Grok is undressing children — can the law stop it?
Sexualized AI images violate consent and boundaries, but legal consequences can be elusive.
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