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This is the Daily Tech News CES briefing for Tuesday, January 8th, 2025. To give you a complete look at the news coming out of CES, I'll be doing these shorter briefings each morning, followed by our

regular DTNS live discussions in a separate episode later in the day.

Some of you have told me you've been enjoying this. Thank you. I hope it's not too confusing

to have two different versions of things going on. And we've got a little bit of a change coming

to the distribution method, but we're going to keep these briefings coming publicly and on Patreon for everybody starting next week.

More about that later in the day, though. I'm Tom Merritt. Let's start with the big story.

This is kind of a trends piece for me out of CES. We've seen a lot of trends at CES.

AI has not been quite as marketing heavy as we would have thought.

There's a lot of solar stuff here, but the matter smart home standard is considered a little

slow moving. And I've noticed a trait here at CES that I think will give people who are

looking forward to matter becoming adopted everywhere, a little bit of hope. A lot of folks consider it a failure. I think that's too hasty. I think of it as similar to Bluetooth or even

USB. You may not remember or you may be too young to know, but those moved slow at adoption,

but obviously now they are essential. No one doubts Bluetooth or USB. You might complain about

how it works, but you know it does.

You know it's out there.

One aspect of standards like that is they have small moves in their early days that have big effects.

One for USB was thumb drives.

One for Bluetooth was headphones.

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