Early January is here at last and El Kaiser and J.D. are ready to explore all the unique creations launched on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And as with last year’s round-up, the specifications and features on the Kohler Intelligent Toilet amaze. This week’s episode also features a look at recent technology news and a rave review for the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse film. Jump into 2019 with Episode 297!

Links to Stories on This Week’s Show

• No, Samsung isn’t pre-installing Facebook on your phone (The Next Web)
• How a Russian firm helped catch an alleged NSA data thief (POLITICO)
• Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook (Science Advances)
• People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds (The Verge)
• Microsoft adds more mobile, scheduling capabilities to Teams for firstline workers (ZDNet)
• Three new ways Microsoft Teams empowers Firstline Workers to achieve more (Microsoft 365
• AT&T promises nationwide 5G in early 2020 — using sub-6GHz spectrum (VentureBeat)
• Pick up where you left off on Search (Google Keyword blog)
• Building a Better World Wide Web (Chromium Blog)
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• Instagram now lets you regram your posts to multiple accounts (TechCrunch)
• Tim Cook: Apple wearables revenue is already exceeding peak iPod sales (CNBC)
• Twitter will livestream some NBA game footage for the first time (Recode)

Consumer Electronics Show 2019

• CES 2019: It’s the Year of Virtual Assistants and 5G (The New York Times)
• CES 2019: Bread robots, bendy phones, talking toilets and everything else from day 1 (The Independent)
• Hey Google, what’s new with the Assistant at CES this year? (Google)
• Self-rolling suitcases and roll-up TVs: CES 2019’s craziest and coolest gadgets (The Washington Post)
• The weirdest gadgets from CES 2019 (TechRadar)
• Weird CES: The bizarre things we didn’t expect to see (Android Authority)
• The Best Smart Toilets of CES 2019. Yup, We Said Smart Toilets (Digital Trends)
• Kohler’s smart toilet promises a ‘fully-immersive experience’ (The Verge)
• Numi 2.0 Intelligent toilet with KOHLER Konnect (Kohler)