The battle for home assistant domination is heating up on the Las Vegas Strip. Google Home and Amazon Alexa are the stars at CES 2018.
Cheddar CEO Jon Steinberg gives a preview of what to expect at this year's CES. Cheddar is going live from the conference all day.
In other retail news, people are shopping again in big numbers. Consumer confidence hit a 17-year-high in November. Major retailers like Target and Macy's reported major sales gains over the holiday season.
Senate Democrats have blocked legislation to regulate a form of cryptocurrency after arguing that the bill needed stronger protections.
The World Video Game Hall of Fame has four new inductees.
Skype users are scrambling to find an alternative after Microsoft shut down the pioneering internet phone service which let people make cheap long distance calls and chat with other users. Google Voice lets users make calls from a smartphone or a desktop web browser but it's only available to people in the U.S. Viber users can call phone numbers but can't get a number to receive calls. Zoom offers phone options too. You could get a number from a low cost virtual carrier or try other internet phone services. Microsoft says some Skype features will migrate to Teams, but its Teams Phone feature is only for businesses.
The U.S. Justice Department is doubling down on its attempt to break up Google.
French police have rescued the father of a wealthy cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a nighttime raid.
OpenAI is reversing course and said Monday its nonprofit will continue to control the business that makes ChatGPT.
