Here are the most important parts of Nissan's CES 2017 keynote
After seemingly stalling out in the public eye for a while, Google's self-driving car plans appear to be accelerating.
Strongly.
John Krafcik, CEO of the company's newly created Waymo division, has just shown off the company's autonomous Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan at the Detroit Auto Show. In fact, whether Google's autonomous efforts really ever paused in the first place remains an open question, because from the looks of the progress that Krafcik has outlined, things may have remained "all systems go" all along.
Yes, Alexa is everywhere. You have only to look at our CES 2017 Smart Home Scoreboard to see how Amazon has married its virtual assistant to cars, refrigerators, televisions and robots.
Alexa's momentum isn't surprising given the amount of hype over the last year. For Alexa's competition, Google Assistant is still new as a smart home assistant, and Apple is sticking to its slow-burn approach to growing Siri and its iOS HomeKit platform. That's why our Scoreboard has a loose quality breakdown. I didn't want to simply hand Amazon a prize for supporting yet another smart plug.
Things started off swimmingly at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, broadcast live on NBC from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. Not only did the youthful stars of Netflix's creepy, 1980s-set series "Stranger Things" make an appearance, their late pal Barb took a splashy role early.