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I'm Ed Zittron,

and it's time for the better offline CS experience. We're back for our second goddamn year.

Welcome to this year's incredible coverage of the Las Vegas-based consumer

electronic show and I'm sitting in the Palazzo Hotel, and we've

got a fully stocked bar, tacos, and the love and warmth that only comes from the power of friendship. We're going to be here all week bringing you the news and views from the ends of the tech industry's largest conference each day with a rotating cast of incredible people across multiple 30-minute blocks. My bartender Phil Broughton will keep me liquid, my producer Matt Asowski will keep me sane and my editor Matt Hughes will feed me stories along with my guests

from the show floor and my own goddamn eyes. Now our first contestants are of course the wonderful

Mr. Edward on Guasso Jr. Hello my friends. How are you doing? And he writes the wonderful

Tech Bubble newsletter and of course David Roth of Defector,

who's joining us today. Hey, how's it going? Hell yeah. And Matt Binder of Mashabal. Welcome back, Matt. Hey, it's great to be here. This is like an annual thing now. Two years in a row is annual. Yeah. It counts. It counts. So today, I thought the show floor was open, and it wasn't. But that just meant that Ed, David and I went to watch the Jensen Huang CES keynote. And I must say, I have watched some shit in my time. And I was, I was quite, I was quite bored, but not because I didn't understand. I was bored because I did understand. I was sitting there just doing, what, no, what? There were things he said during it that did not make sense. Yeah, you were bored and upset, and I was bored and bored. Which is an important distinction. I'm right of the thing. Now, for those of you who actually want content about the keynote, don't expect that. Don't expect that. Don't not expect that at all because Jensen

Huang did not actually announce anything new. Six new chips, Vera Rubin GPU, they're all,

every single thing he announced today was either three or six months old. Even the video of

the dorky robot inside, this thing called the Omniverse. The Omniverse, by the way, and Ed is just looking at me.

Just like, just like, oh God.

The Omnibus is Invidia's little simulation space for robots.

An imagination station.

Yes.

And yeah, they spent half the thing talking about, as David put it, what would the things that would be nice if they existed.

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