In a rainy desert, thousands of people gather in a convention center and hotel conference rooms to look at gadgets as part of a yearly ritual. What will 2018's gathering bring us? So far, we've seen a massive, beautiful 8K TV with no content to support it, a number of weird devices with Google Assistant or Alexa built in, and Will.i.am, lurking in the shadows of the Venetian, waiting to acquire more startups with the $117 million someone (un)wisely gave him. CES has arrived. |