The Consumer Electronics Show is over for another year, leaving a pile of press releases, product releases and demo videos in its wake. El Kaiser and J.D.  discuss the highlights of the 2017 mega-gadgetfest, and sample a few other stories in the tech headlines this week. Also on the show, J.D. points NASA fans in the direction of the new movie Hidden Figures — and the apps and sites celebrating these inspiring women. Through hardships to the stars, indeed.

Links to This Week’s News Stories

• I have seen the future: Alexa controls everything (Ars Technica)

• All the cool new gadgets at CES 2017 (CNET)

• Battle of the CES 2017 coffee and tea robots (CNET)

• Nokia 6, Asus ZenFone AR and Other CES 2017 Launches, Vodafone’s Rs. 499 Plan, More News This Week (Gadgets360)

• Marissa Mayer is resigning from Yahoo’s board (Business Insider)

• After Verizon deal, Yahoo to become ‘Altaba’ and Marissa Mayer to step down from board (The New York Times)

• United State Securities and Exchange Commission Form 8-K

• Facebook is going to start showing ads in the middle of its videos and sharing the money with publishers (Recode)

• Cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified in St. Jude medical’s implantable cardiac devices and Merlin@home transmitter (FDA Safety Communication)

• Commission proposes high level of privacy rules for all electronic communications and updates data protection rules for EU institutions (EU Commission press release)

• Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10 (Windows blog)

• One place to manage your privacy (Microsoft)

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15002 for PC (Windows blog)

• Coming Soon to Windows 10 (Microsoft)

• Facebook, Google face strict EU privacy rules that could hit ad revenues (Ars Technica)

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