The Consumer Electronics Show was first time organized 50 years ago, in New York, with 117 exhibitors and 17,500 visitors, at that time as a trade show for transistor radios and black-and-white television. But the interest increased for many industries. More than 170,000 people are expected to attend CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week.
There are about 3,800 exhibitors on over 2.5 million square feet. CES 2017 will showcase technology to all attendees from Thursday through Sunday. About 138 automotive-related companies will be at the show, most of them offering test drive. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV plans to reveal a new vehicle at CES this year. Autonomous driving becomes a trend and artificial intelligence developers for autos will be there to expose the latest news. The Web-connected gadgets have become a central part of the show in the last years and now it will be the same. Cujo LLC and eBlocker each are scheduled to promote devices that block hackers and provide privacy to people using devices on a home-internet connection. Health related products made using advanced research and special technologies will be also presented on the show. Humanoid robots with voice command, drones, VR devices, special displays. hardware and software for special needs are prepared to meet consumers at CES.

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10:30 a.m.
Democrats say President Barack Obama is making the case for keeping his health care law.
Obama made a rare trip to the Capitol on Wednesday to meet with House and Senate Democrats.
New York Rep. Louise Slaughter says Obama focused on how well the law is working, and on how many letters he’s gotten in support of it.
She calls it «a very nostalgic speech. »
Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin says Obama’s message is that the individual parts of the law are popular, and that repealing it would affect all Americans.
«We need to personalize this,» Cardin says — echoing the president.
Republicans promise to move quickly to repeal the law, but they’ve failed to coalesce around a replacement.
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10 a.m.
Once he’s sworn in, President-elect Donald Trump will move swiftly to undo Democratic President Barack Obama’s policies.
That’s the message from Vice President-elect Mike Pence to House Republicans at a Capitol Hill strategy session Wednesday.
On Jan. 20, Trump will use his power through executive orders to target the health care law and other policies.
New York Rep. Chris Collins and Missouri Rep. Ann Wagner specifically mentioned health care, though it’s unclear what changes could be made through executive order on the nearly 7-year-old law.
Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold says Pence told the GOP: «What can be done with a pen and a phone can be undone with a pen and a phone. »
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9:40 a.m.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a closed-door briefing Thursday for members to learn more about the Obama administration’s response to suspected Russian interference in the 2016 election and harassment of U. S. diplomats.
Also, U. S. intelligence officials, including national intelligence director James Clapper, are set to testify Thursday in an open session by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
President Barack Obama struck back at Moscow last week with a set of punishments targeting Russia’s leading spy agencies that the U. S. has accused of meddling in the presidential campaign. The U. S. also kicked out 35 Russian diplomats in response to what the White House says has been Russia’s harassment of American envoys.
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9:30 a.m.
President Barack Obama is at the Capitol to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat the Republican drive to dismantle his health care overhaul.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence is meeting with GOP lawmakers to discuss the best way to send Obama’s cherished law to its graveyard and replace it with — well, something.
The separate strategy sessions come on the second day of the new GOP-led Congress.
In 16 days, Republican Donald Trump replaces Obama at the White House, putting the party’s longtime goal of annulling much of the 2010 health care overhaul within reach.

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President-elect Donald Trump lodged another unprecedented assault on U. S. intelligence agencies Wednesday, promoting the credibility of WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange at their expense.
Trump has been highly critical of the government’s assessment that Russia intervened in the November election, using WikiLeaks to release hacked Democratic emails.
On Twitter on Wednesday, Trump cited Assange’s assertions mocking the intelligence community’s conclusions that Russians were responsible for stealing the emails of top Hillary Clinton advisor John Podesta .
Assange gave an interview to Fox News host Sean Hannity, who has in the past called for trying him on espionage charges, echoing other Republicans and many in the intelligence community who say his airing of sensitive documents has put U. S. lives and strategic interests at risk. U. S. officials have said Assange is under criminal investigation.
Assange’s backers, including some on the far left, have praised him at times for scrutinizing U. S. actions abroad and in the war on terrorism.
Hannity, Trump’s biggest supporter in the media, has praised Assange since Trump began complaining that the conclusion about Russian meddling in the election was wrong. He flew to London to interview Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy, airing their conversation Tuesday. Assange has lived in the embassy for more than four years, fleeing sexual assault accusations in Sweden.
Trump also quoted Assange’s criticism of the media as dishonest, amplifying that critique in his own words.
The praise for Assange on Wednesday came less than a day after Trump ridiculed U. S. intelligence.

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Tech industry insiders are descending on Las Vegas this week to check out the latest in gadgets and innovation at the biggest showcase of the year — CES 2017 , the Consumer Technology Association’s International Consumer Electronics Show.
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a variety of creative tech gadgets were on display, from rollable TV screens to a drone yo…
Every year, CES offers a first glimpse at technology we’ll all be buzzing about in the near future, and this year’s show — the event’s 50th anniversary exhibition — promises to be the biggest yet.
The exhibits occupy up to 2.6 million net square feet over three venue spaces. There are 24 product categories at show this year, with about 200,000 people expected to flood the show’s floors this year, CNET reports. Media preview access begins today and the show officially runs from January 5 through the 8th.
Here’s just some of what you can expect to see, from the latest in high-end TVs to the next generation of self-driving cars and everything in between.
As has been the trend, TV screens keep getting larger and larger. This year, companies like Samsung and Sony will face more competition from companies like Hisense out of China with large screen TVs showing off LCD-based tech that is poised to take on OLED , the current gold-standard for picture quality, CNET’s John Falcone wrote.
LG’s OLED TVs are seen as leaders of the pack, and they’ll continue to try to stay at the top.
Similarly, 4K resolution will be in demand as television-makers continue efforts to make home entertainment the most sensorially appealing experience possible for consumers. Why leave home to go to a movie theater when you can get dazzling picture and sound quality from the comfort of your couch?
Beyond TVs themselves, streaming video services and devices are increasingly important to the tech-savvy audience, with Android TV, Chromecast, and Roku TV — just to name a few — having a presence at the show.
At the end of 2016, when offering predictions about the year ahead, CNET’s Dan Ackerman told CBS News that we should “expect to see a ton of developments in terms of automatic tech and car tech.”
While Uber’s early experiment with self-driving cars in San Francisco took a stumble at the end of last year, interest in the technology is clearly growing. Expect to see a lot more about autonomous vehicles at CES.
Uber is at odds with California regulators after incidents last week involving its self-driving vehicles. The two sides met Wednesday to discuss…
CNET’s Wayne Cunningham writes that we will see displays of self-driving cars and related technology from both traditional automakers and technology companies. He predicts the self-driving trend “looks ready to blow up” this year.
Hyundai will show off its progress on self-driving vehicles, while car tech supplier Delphi will be promoting some of its innovations for companies like Audi and computer vision-processing company Mobileye, Cunningham reports.
On the electric car side, last year, car manufacturer Faraday showed off a concept car, but Cunningham reports that the company looks like it will debut its first production car this year. A more traditional company like Chrysler will get in the game, with a “plug-in” fully electric variation of its Pacifica minivan expected to be on display.
Virtual reality technology was the big story in past years at CES, and while VR headsets have finally hit the mainstream market, they have not yet infiltrated people’s daily lives as much as some futurists predicted. VR and augmented reality (AR) tech will still have a place this year, despite not necessarily setting the consumer space on fire.
“Expect to see more products and services building on the mass-market acceptance and familiarity in this category that 2016 products like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PlayStation Now and Pokemon Go helped pioneer,” writes CNET ’s Falcone.
Hello, Siri , Alexa and Cortana. CES 2017 will again shine a spotlight on digital personal assistants and the internet-connected devices that give them a starring role.
This year is seeing something of a turf war emerge between the various assistants and the devices that bring them into our homes.
Falcone reports that we can expect to see a wide range of companies play up how much something like Amazon’e Alexa-running Echo device will make day-to-day life easier by way of their own products. Similarly, Google Home, Apple’s Siri-running HomeKit, and Microsoft’s Cortana will all be seen and heard, even though their masterminds, tech giants Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, do not have official spots in the CES lineup.
Samsung, which will be one of the show’s biggest exhibitors, could also showcase its Viv assistant, as we continue to move into a “Jetsons”-like future of smart, connected homes and the devices and digital assistants that aim to infiltrate all aspects of life.
At a pre-show panel on Tuesday, Shawn Dubravac, chief economist of the Consumer Technology Association, predicted huge growth in voice-activated systems in the year ahead. According to the Associated Press, he said they’re expected to double to 10 million in 2017.
CES can also be seen as something of a window to the future — not just a showcase of current consumer technology, but an opportunity for tech fanatics and cultural gurus to divine where trends are heading and how we will live our lives and interact with the world around us in the years ahead.
One trend Falcone highlighted is that CES 2017 will offer a big platform for Chinese companies, as the country continues to develop its role in the tech world.
“China has long been a manufacturing hub for the consumer electronics world, but the CES show floor has seen a rise of China-based brands in recent years, too,” he wrote. “Look for companies such as Xiaomi , TCL, Hisense, LeEco and Huawei to use the spotlight of the CES show to give their brands a bigger halo as they look to further expand outside of their home market.”
Tech titans like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos met with Donald Trump in New York Wednesday. Many of the tech leaders did not suppo…
Perhaps more crucially, the show could reflect how tech responds to a changing political world.
“In some ways, the CES show floor is really just a distraction from the real action of the show, which takes place in bars, restaurants, hotel suites and blackjack tables as companies wine and dine prospective clients, partners and — yes — journalists, swapping all manner of information both on and off the record,” Falcone wrote.
Tech leaders are scrambling to come to grips with how the administration of President-elect Donald Trump will interact with the tech world and impact the regulations that shape their industry. Just looking at a company like Twitter being excluded from the president-elect’s recent “tech summit” at Trump Tower, and Trump’s efforts to push Apple to manufacture iPhones in the U. S. instead of China, could be a preview of things to come. This political sea-change will have CES attendees talking about a lot more than just gadgets this year, Falcone predicted.

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