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CES 2026: Part Five (Wednesday)

January 8, 2026·2h 12m·6-min readconversationaltechnology
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CES 2025 is a circus of vaporware, AI slop, and robotic absurdity, where the most talked-about innovations either don’t work, can’t be bought, or shouldn’t exist—while the few genuinely useful ideas are buried under a mountain of chatbot-wrapped nonsense.


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