CES 2018: Funniest tweets when the lights went out

The the power went out at CES and we had a field day tracking the Twitter activity. Some brands were taking advantage of the opportunity to get some extra marketing points out there while some attendees were sweating because their mobile devices reportedly were locked in safe charging stations with zero access.

There will definitely be stories told to many in years to come. We can just see the t-shirts now...

"I survived CES with Mophie"

"Someone went to CES and all they brought me back was this t-shirt...a REAL t-shirt. It wasn't all for the 'gram after all!"

Well, here are some of the funniest tweets that came out of the CES 2018 power outage:

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CES 2018: Google and Amazon assistants heading into a two way race

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

What is evident from this year's International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is that smart assistants are emerging to be the biggest story from the show. Not only has Amazon's Alexa assistant transcended speakers, thermostats and is now comng to PCs and even cars.

Google and its Google Assistant is omniscient in Las Vegas this year. Not only is Google Assistant coming to various third-party headphones it's ramping up the range of functionality with one million actions, which are like Alexa's Skills or, to put it simply, services and apps that they can link to or processes that you can enable.

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CES 2018: Chinese startup Ryze Tech uses DJI & Intel technology for US$99 drone

Drones are getting cheaper but not fast enough. Drone maker DJI’s cheapest model is the US$499 Spark. So if newbie drone operators want to play around with one, it’s going hurt the wallet a bit, especially if you end up damaging the machine. That’s where the likes of this new drone from Ryze Tech could help newbies, especially the younger crowd, to get used to flying one of these machines. The Tello is a US$99 drone that comes in at just 80 grams but it features a camera that can record 360-degree video and stream live footage to a tablet or to an unspecified number of third-party virtual reality headsets. It has a 13-minute flight time and can take 5-megapixel photos.

The Tello comes with a number of nifty features you might have seen on other more expensive drones, including automatic takeoff and landing as well as hover in places more consistently or respond to hand gestures. The Tello is able to do this with the help of Intel’s vision processing chip Movidius Myriad 2 VPU and DJI’s flight stabilization tech. Having these technologies will help the younger audience Ryze Tech wants to target not think too much about flying but focusing on capturing videos or programming flight patterns with the help of simple coding tool Scratch. The Tello is expected to launch in March, whether it’ll make its way here is something we can’t say.

Source: The Verge

We might still get a ‘Green Lantern Corps’ movie

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Even with the recent shakeup in the DC film universe, it seems we might still have a Green Lantern Corps movie in our future. But whether that’ll happen anytime soon, David Goyer is a bit cautious about saying when. Goyer spoke to IGN during the 2018 winter Television Critics Association press tour and said the movie was “still in the works.” As for when we can expect updates on the film, Goyer had this to say, “I don't know. Who knows, especially with what's currently going on with the DC universe? There's obviously a whole recalibration happening with that right now.” He is talking about the reported reorganization happening within DC Films following the underwhelming performance of Justice League in the box office.