CES 2026: Part Six (Thursday)

January 8, 2026

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: Casual live chat from CES open bar—rowdy tech media roast session with rotating guests, drinks, tacos, and unfiltered rants.
The Key Players:
- Ed Zitron (Host): Cynical tech podcaster running "Better Offline," skewers industry hype.
- Devindra Hardwar (Engadget): Tech reviewer dropping Dell tea and AI skepticism.
- Chloe Radcliffe (Comedian/Actress): Stand-up firecracker adding millennial angst and wearable shade.
- Matt Binder (Mashable) & Edward Ongweso Jr. (Tech Bubble Newsletter): Banter kings fueling AI bubble takedowns and generational beef.
The Vibe: Fun, irreverent, intensely cynical—hilarious tech takedowns mixed with doomer predictions, comedy sketches, and heartfelt millennial therapy.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

This CES dispatch roasts failing tech trends, AI grift, and growth-obsessed companies amid looming shortages.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Panel at CES with Chloe Radcliffe, Devindra Hardawar, Matt Binder**
2 (02:53) **Dell's Rebranding Disaster and XPS Redemption**
3 (06:50) **Dell's AI Push and Copilot+ Flop**
4 (08:17) **CES Absurdities and Wearables Critique**
5 (11:59) **Pebble's Note-Taking Ring Deep Dive**
6 (20:00) **Millennial Task Aversion and Generational Rant**
7 (34:05) **Tech Companies' Desperation for Next Big Thing**

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Show Notes

Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor.

In Thursday’s first episode, Ed is joined by Devindra Hardawar of Engadget, actress and standup comedian Chloe Radlciffe, Edward Ongweso of the Tech Bubble Newsletter and Matt Binder of Mashable to talk about the anti-consumer electronics show, how AI buying up all the RAM is going to make computing unaffordable, Dell’s quasi-reversal on AI, why you should be buying all your tech used, and why it’s time to use tech to tell people you love their stuff.

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Devindra Hardawar:
https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/devindra-hardawar/
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Matt Binder: https://mashable.com/author/matt-binder

Chloe Radcliffe:

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https://punchup.live/chloeradcliffe

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