This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, January 9th, 2026.

We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand.

Today we take a deep rest for another successful CES in the bag.

And Jason, this guy right here, shares his thoughts on the state of smart glasses at the event.

Yes, indeed.

I'm Jason Howell.

I'm Hwin-Witt-Dow.

Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

Yeah, so I thought, and actually Tom thought this too, we were chatting in Discord prior to the show.

You know, today is like, I think C s is officially still going on but it you know

if you've ever been it starts to kind of clear out before friday because even though friday is a

full day of c es the show floor people start packing it up pretty early and so it it starts to

quickly fill like a shell of its former self and so you know i came

back yesterday i think a lot of people leaving yesterday and as a result the news kind of

environment the news atmosphere is pretty much a vacuum right now we've got plenty of news we're

going to talk about,

but I thought we would kind of spend this top of the show block talking about kind of a little bit of, I guess, a post-mortem

because we've been talking on the show all week

about the consumer electronic show and the news that was breaking there

and everything.

And I kind of went into

CES with a little bit of a mission on my end to really kind of get a better sense of what

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