Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday. January 14th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Event sharing comes to stories. What this year's CES says about where consumer tech is at the moment,

and then a bunch of stories about what that means for the future in different ways, including wireless chips that suck power from the air and the

dilemma that voice assistance posed for the modern office.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Facebook is apparently testing a new stories feature for event sharing in iOS and Android for users in the US, Brazil, and Mexico.

The stories will come with stickers that will reveal event details,

as well as togles for marking people as interested or going to a given event right there in the story.

Also, group chat in messenger is fully integrated.

Event sharing in stories though?

Well, it actually makes sense, according to Nick Slat at The Verge.

Quote, as young users abandon the platform for the Hipper Instagram and the site's reputation keeps taking a hit,

one key feature has remained absolutely vital. Events.

Facebook is still the best place to organize a calendar of social events,

birthdays, concerts, and other real world meetups thanks to the existing social

graph on Facebook and the fact that businesses and event organizers still largely treat it as the preeminent promotion platform.

For an older user like myself, the event related features are why I'm still using Facebook

Beyond Messenger.

So it makes sense then that Facebook would turn to events as the next destination for its

stories product. Now that CES is all wrapped up, let's do a sort of wrap up of CES in a macro way, but also in one very specific focused way.

I'm not sure how many years he's done this.

I think he did it last year also,

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