The battle for home assistant domination is heating up on the Las Vegas Strip. Google Home and Amazon Alexa are the stars at CES 2018.
Cheddar CEO Jon Steinberg gives a preview of what to expect at this year's CES. Cheddar is going live from the conference all day.
In other retail news, people are shopping again in big numbers. Consumer confidence hit a 17-year-high in November. Major retailers like Target and Macy's reported major sales gains over the holiday season.
China has restricted exports of high-tech metals gallium and germanium, which are critical to making chips, in response to the U.S. blocking them from access to advanced chips.
Technology has changed the way people do everyday tasks, including grocery shopping. Cheddar News took a peek at a smarter way to shop with an AI-powered shopping cart.
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.