Week in Tech: The Year of the Robot?
TechStuff
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4.3 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Would you live in a zero labor home – with a robot? This week, the latest trends and gadgets coming out of CES in Las Vegas and what Karah learned about consenting to biometric surveillance at a Wegmans. Then, Oz takes us to a peptide rave and Karah unveils how influencers and OnlyFans models are getting US visas — they can thank John Lennon.
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Additional Reading:
- What to expect at CES 2026 | The Verge
- NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces | Gothamist
- Chinese Peptides Are The Latest Biohacking Trend In The Tech World | New York Times
- Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas | Financial Times
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:17.7 | From kaleidoscope and IHart podcast, this is Tech Stuff'm osvaloshin and i'm kara price today we've |
| 0:24.2 | got two big stories to break down for you first it's silicon valley's westminster dog show |
| 0:29.5 | journalists tech nerds industry insiders are in Vegas this week to check out the consumer |
| 0:34.9 | electronics show then is your grocery store spying on you? |
| 0:39.7 | And then a few other things that caught our eye this week, including Silicon Valley's |
| 0:44.1 | new rave culture fueled by Chinese peptides, and the exceptionally creative influencers and |
| 0:50.0 | only fans models getting U.S. visas? |
| 0:53.1 | All of that on the Week in Tech. |
| 0:55.0 | It's Friday, January 9th. |
| 1:01.2 | Hello, Kara. |
| 1:02.4 | Hi, Ozzy. |
| 1:03.4 | How are you? |
| 1:04.2 | Very good. |
| 1:04.8 | Happy New Year to you, too. |
| 1:07.6 | So it's our first week in tech of the year. |
| 1:10.2 | Yes, it is. I'm very excited. Right before the holidays, people like to do roundups, the best of the year that went by. At the start of the year, people like to do, what's going to happen? What's going to happen? You know what my tech prediction is? What? I'm going to be addicted to my phone in 2027. That's not a prediction. That's a guarantee. |
| 1:28.5 | That's a prophecy. |
| 1:29.4 | I do actually have one big prediction for you. |
| 1:31.6 | Tell me. |
| 1:32.7 | So I think that people are going to look back at 2026 as the year that AI really entered the physical world. |
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