statue of liberty. eiffel tower. egyptian pyramid. venetian canals. fairy tale castle. why travel the world to see them when you can get them all in one place? and that city is... both: ..las vegas. it's such a bizarre place, isn't it? yes, this is where people come to gamble, shop, eat, party, and. .. geek out! that's because, as well as the hotels, is this, the massive las vegas convention center where, at the start of each new year, the latest tech trends are laid bare. yeah, january in vegas means ces, the consumer electronics show. it is big, it's flashy, it's over the top. i can't think why they hold it here. so are you ready to

get stuck into 2025? raring to go. understated it is not. and across the giant sprawling halls and countless extended spaces and showrooms, you'll find all the new tech for your home, phone, face, lap and stomach, and enough future—gazing to make your head spin. there are big names, small start—ups, and even the occasional roving one—man band, or bot, trying to sell their wares. red ronin, everybody. this guy made this costume. so what i do for a living is i make mascots. who would you sell these to? just... whoever has enough money. have a fun weekend. aaah! dance beats. everyone�*s making a noise about something. ces is an assault on the senses. it really is.

and it can be hard to know which way to look to find the next big thing. especially seeing as that big thing could actually be quite small. here it is. nvidia's mini ai supercomputer was the talk of the show. we'll have more later on the company, whose involvement in al has taken it a long way from its roots in video games. talking of which, let's play. there's plenty of new gaming gear here, and i have to say, few things sum up ces better than two blokes in suits in a vr simulator. for the serious gamer, and the serious streamer, there are plenty of set—ups to salivate over. yeah, it'sjust like my set—up at home. aah! for those who don't want to sit still, well, there's the gtm gaming rig, which i think you'll

need a fair bit of room in your house for. what's amazing is i'm not actually feeling particularly motion sick. that being said, i'm glad i had such a light las vegas breakfast this morning. and then there's the roto vr chair, which may definitely put you in a spin. ah! ha—ha—ha! i'm iron man! so the idea is, as i turn my head, my body follows, which is something you don't get in normal vr, where your body can feel that you're just sitting still and therefore you can feel a bit motion sick. and for those who want to feel even more, why not strap yourself into one of these? i'm wearing the tactsuit pro. it's a tactile suit. basically, i can feel what happens in the game through vibrations here, and also in these tactsleeves and on the visor, which means, apparently, if i get hit

in the head, i'll know about it. yeah, i can feel that in my face. he chuckles. right, i'm now going to try punching someone, so if the cameraman�*s there, move. he chuckles. ican. i can feel vibrations in my arm every time i hit the dummy. as usual, the biggest and brightest displays here were made of displays with a big emphasis this year on oled screens, which can be transparent, very thin and very flexible. and the world's biggest manufacturer of them, samsung, was showing where it thought that bendability may take us in the future. screen squeaks. oh, and if you're worried that those foldable screens may be less robust than the normal solid displays, well, oledog here is putting his foot

down and saying, "no, they're very stompable, thank you." there you are, conclusive proof that your foldable phone can survive a ninja kick from a robot dog. i hope that answers your question. not that oled is the only screen tech in town, mind you. micro leds may be lower resolution, but they are very bright and effective, at least from a distance. and it turns out they're also, well, notjust flexible, but stretchable too. watch what happens when the shark pushes its nose into this bulging concept design. a sharkjumping out of your tv, do you really think that'll catch on? yeah, you may be right, but i was told the same technology could actually be used to make physical buttons pop up on your smartphone so you can feel what you're pressing. more useful and less stressful than a shark attack in your living room.

although there's plenty of tech on the show floor to keep track of those stress levels. ooh, nice link to your bit there. thanks. every year at ces, health tech is absolutely massive. this time round, though, the focus is really on prevention and bringing all of our data together in one place. withings devices have been monitoring our health for years, but here's a proof of concept, a way of pulling together all of that health data, and then using a large language model to interpret to each of us as individuals what we should glean from it. and here you've got the withings technology from their scales built into the ground. automated voice: more good news, your temperature is also i in the healthy range.

i'll walk you through what you're seeing to help make sense of it. of course, the whole system will be personalised for you with your data. so what it's saying at the moment is all just quite generic, because it's one setting. and the idea is that you might be able to talk back and forth. score is 75 out of 100. if there are readings that are relevant, you could send them to your doctor. if this was something you were to have in your home, possibly not even presented like this because it's huge, it could be in a tablet or smartphone, then every day you could have analysis of this sort of data. and it's large language models that make this possible, that mean that you can actually have this sort of conversation. but of course, for many, it could actuallyjust cause some anxiety, especially if you're told that you need a doctor's appointment. that's why collecting the right data, seeing how it all interacts with each other, and spotting the patterns that emerge are key. and new types of data are making it into the mix, too, like ways of quantifying hormones rather than just monitoring their effect.

and that's what eli is really focusing on. right now, they have test kits available to be able to track cortisol and progesterone levels, but soon they're going to be working with other hormones as well. all of the data will be stored on your mobile, so you'll start to be able to see those precious patterns and understand how the hormones are interacting with each other. we've created the hormometer. similarly to how the thermometer enables to measure temperature, we measure hormones in saliva. currently we have two hormones, cortisol and progesterone. we already have more along the way, and our vision is really to enable to test multiple hormones to enable people to take their health in their own hands. this could be really useful for women who want to understand a drop in progesterone, orfor people who want to know how stress is affecting them. i tried the hormometer to assess my levels of what's commonly referred to as the stress hormone, cortisol. you need to be doing this at least twice a day, twice a month, and the app

will suggest lifestyle changes if needed. longer term, the aim is to sync information from wearables too. and 20 minutes later, i can find out how stressful, or not, i'm finding ces. novel ways of collecting data were aplenty. the toilet tracker seamlessly checking its findings. the noninvasive blood glucose monitor using light instead of needles. and booth after booth of smart rings, reinforcing the message that prediction and prevention are the mission and that digital doctoring is the future. there were also old dogs doing new tricks. no, not that one — that's jennie, the robotic puppy — but the humble blood pressure cuff. combined with a pulse pressure monitor and some algorithms, conneqt aims to predict your risk of hardening arteries and heart disease. there's been a lot of talk of menopause and perimenopause recently, but most tracking

that can be done involves just logging how you're feeling. here, though, may be a way to quantify it. this device is called peri, and through four sensors in it it's taking a lot of readings, and its algorithms are correlating hot flushes based on your actual biological data. i know all of this tracking can seem rather exhausting. so how about what you can do in your sleep? now, i'm notjust talking about the regular monitoring of your slumber, but this concept smart bed has a whole host of devices that can sync to it, plus lidar sensors which aim to be able to monitor your heart rate and sleep activity. so whilst you're having a nice snooze, not only is there some aromatherapy available, also the right lighting to wake you up in the morning, but it can monitor your movement. and for anybody at risk of falling, it can also, through its platform, contact the emergency services if anything goes wrong during the night. the mattress itself can also be moved around

into all sorts of positions to fit you perfectly. comfy. night—night. the site —— prime minister keir starmer announces new action plan for the uk to become a world leader in artificial intelligence. the plan includes creating ai growth zones which will get faster planning decisions and extra investment infrastructure. the government also wants to increase uk computing power 20 fold by 2030. the uk's competition watchdog has launched an investigation into google search and search advertising services. google processes 90% of all general search queries in the uk and the competition and markets authority is looking closely where consumers and businesses are getting a fair deal. the investigation will also examine whether the

company leverages its dominant position to unfairly promote its own shopping and travel services over those competitors. finally, two lunar landers built by private companies have left the earth aboard a space x rocket as part of a rideshare to the moon. the falcon nine took off from the kennedy space centre in florida, carrying landers belonging to america's firefly aerospace and japan's space. the landers will eventually separate once they reach the moon's orbit and conduct independent exploration. are you excited to be in las vegas? cheering. in his trademark black leather, the boss of nvidia, jensen huang, has no problem packing an arena. do you like myjacket? audience: yeah!

huang, who founded the trillion—dollar chip company that helped power an ai revolution, made a slew of announcements. but it was these highly detailed computer graphics — well, more like what made them possible — that stole the show. here it is — our brand—new geforce rtx 50 series, blackwell architecture. the gpu isjust a beast. yep, it's ai. namely, nvidia's new blackwell ai chip, also known as a graphics processing unit or gpu. they'll still be found at data centres, but they're now coming to a laptop near you, delivering these movie—like images for gamers, developers and content creators, huang said. many in the audience were impressed. previously, when we looked at all these kind of graphics, we think of them as pre—rendered, as some, like,

disney—grade or, like, dreamworks—grade animation studio, but now they can do this in real time. in addition to promoting nvidia's latest products, jensen huang also seemed keen to promote ai in general at a time when many consumers still don't see the use case for it in their own lives. it used to be ask a question, answers start spewing out. in the future, you ask a question, a whole bunch of models are going to be working in the background. huang is describing agentic ai, a term used to describe the automation of everyday tasks. the plan is for nvidia's new chip to power its rise. people are going to have agents that schedule, that plan travel, that book vacations, that shop, that plan meals, everything you can imagine, that plan their exercise, that manage their finances. agentive ai really is about automating doing jobs so people can do more thought—provoking, more detailed,

more strategic work. we'll be hearing more about agentic aland its impact over the coming months. but for now, nvidia is continuing to do what it's done so well in recent years — transform and disrupt the tech market. in recent years, vehicle technology has become one of the biggest parts of ces. and 2025 is no different. so let's go and see what's driving innovation at this year's show. companies from all over the world, big and small, came to showcase the latest developments in self—driving tech, in—car entertainment, wayfinding, and so much more. but despite the struggles the industry has faced recently, self—driving vehicles were still a major element of this year's show.

this is the zoox, and it's a fully autonomous ride—hailing vehicle. while i've been here at ces, i've seen these driving up and down the las vegas strip, and as you can tell, they're pretty distinctive. you can see them coming from quite a way off. they're currently being used here in las vegas, and later this year they're being rolled out to san francisco and other parts of the us. pretty cool. regulatory difficulties and high costs continue to dog the development and uptake of personal aerial vehicles. but that didn't seem to stop them being one of this year's biggest attractions. so this is the xpeng vertical take—off and landing vehicle, or better known to you and me as a flying car, and it's fully autonomous. but if, like me, the reason you don't have one of these yet

is because you haven't got anywhere to land it, i've got something special to show you. come over here. this is a land—based aircraft carrier. it's the ground mothership for the flying car. and it can store it in the back over here. and it can even charge it up. so now you've not really got any excuse not to have one. xpeng say that the ground vehicle is driveable under a regular driving licence and can charge the aerial craft, which has a range of around i,000km, up to six times while stored in the back. the design team have made enormous effort in making it look sleek, modern and minimal. and the seating configuration consists of a two—plus—two. ok, so you can get four people in here. yeah, four. plus the aircraft. xpeng claim they already have 3,000 orders for their vehicle. though with much more certification still needed and a cost of around us $300,000, it remains to be seen how popular take—up will be.

most of the interest here at ces is around car tech, but if four wheels aren't your thing, how about two? it's a flying bike. the skyrider x1 is supposedly not just fully autonomous, but also amphibious and has a claimed 25—minute flight time. don't worry, though, if something goes wrong, it comes with a built—in emergency parachute. as always at ces, the glitz and glimpses of the future are often overtaken in the real world by the more mundane issues of regulation and logistics, and so a healthy dose of pessimism is needed once the excitement wears off. it may be some time yet before you see these vehicles on our streets or in our skies. that was paul. now, in a show this huge,

it really is a challenge to get noticed. some companies put on big flashy stands like this one. some make big announcements at big keynote presentations, and some get big celebrity names involved to draw in the crowds. in the past, we've met will, stevie, sigourney, will, paul, fiddy, eliza, will, mickey, and...will, to name but a few. and this year, lg has launched a new range of speakers developed in collaboration with. . .well, will. it's only will. i.am. how are you doing, man? how are you? good to see you, buddy. will has fine—tuned the sound of these smart speakers and earbuds. and, i mean, he's fine—tuned every sound. all the bips and bops, the bloop, bloop, bloops. it turns out, making a bloop, if you really care like i care, you put more time in a bloop than making a beat.

spencer laughs. so these are the sounds it makes when you press the buttons, yeah? yes, yes. right, ok. those are the bleeps and bloops, technical term. i thought it was going to be like, oh, i'll have this done in, like, a couple of hours. dude, these bleeps and bloops took two days to fine—tune them. boom. we are bringing cutting—edge technology and amazing creative visions together with lg xboom. our goal with the new xboom series was never about duplicating what already existed. it's about reimagining what a speaker is supposed to be. i kind of know the answer to this, but i want to hear you phrase it. how important are the fine details of every piece of music that you write? cos, you know, people listen to music on cheap headphones and they listen on their speakers. it could be said that

those details are lost. so do you think it's still important to, you know, fine—tune every piece of every track that you do? or has everything changed because consumers have changed? no, no, no. the majority of the listening is being done on a phone speaker. people hear a song, they're like... when i'm making music, you mix the music on amazing speakers, ok speakers, bluetooth speakers. you have to keep all the speakers in mind. the music scene is facing a big change at the moment. in the last couple of years, generative ai has been the talk of the town, and it can not only have conversations with us and create new pictures and videos, it can also create music. enter a description of a song and the style you want, and websites like suno will produce fully—formed songs with coherent lyrics and, i have to say, decent tunes within seconds. ijust discovered suno, so ai music. what do you, as an artist, think about that?

because i can put in a prompt and it comes up with something that's, i would say, better than the middle level of music that i could buy. that's my uneducated opinion. but how do you feel about... well, wait till you hear udio. no, i've heard udio, right. so how do you feel about that? well, it doesn't take away why i make music. mm. you know, i make music to let out my emotions. it's more therapy for me. right. so, regardless if somebody can hit a prompt and something awesome comes out, that's great. that doesn't stop me from making music. yeah. that doesn't. .. that's not daunting to me. like, oh, my gosh, you can do that. like, that's cool, bro. yeah. go at it. udio is great. i think the folks that are concerned are the folks that have always been insecure about their creative abilities. so what? did prince and his awesomeness keep me from wanting to make music cos prince is the most ultimate, amazing artist that ever walked earth?

did that tell me like, hey, hey, hey, prince is here, don't make music? no. that was like, wow, prince inspired me. i want to make music. let me try to come close. michael jackson, he's the greatest. did that stop me from wanting to make music cos michaeljackson did? one could be like, bad english accent: ” �* ., michaeljackson was "human and so was prince." i didn't know you were australian. no, i'm not australian! i'm from battersea! you no...! you muppet! listen, thank you so much for your time. all right, man. thank you. appreciate it. let's go. and that is it from us from ces for this week. however, there is so much to see and do here, we couldn't possibly fit it into one programme, so we will be back next week. i mightjust stay here for seven days doing this. think of me, won't you? thanks for watching and we'll see you soon.

hello there! it's looking pretty chilly as we head into this weekend. we're importing some colder air to the south of the uk from the near continent around this large area of high pressure, which has brought pretty benign weather for the past week or so. a lot of dry weather continues into this weekend. like i mentioned, it will be turning colder, and there will be some morning mist and fog, some dense fog around, which could linger through the day for england and wales. this big area of high pressure is bringing the fine, unsettled weather, but we've got this plume of colder air to the south of us being drawn up on a very gentle southerly breeze. so for saturday then, it's a cloudy start for many. some sunshine from the word go

for northern scotland. more of a breeze around northern and western areas through the irish sea, so that will help break up the cloud here. so we should see some sunshine for parts of wales, northern england, northern ireland, northern scotland. but i think for large parts of central, southern and eastern england, it will stay rather grey and gloomy, with some murkiness and only 4—5 degrees, it will feel quite cold. but a little less cold across the north west of scotland. but with that colder air in place, saturday night will be a cold one. we'll see, ithink, a bit more of a widespread frost and some dense mist and fog patches across england and wales. very little change to the pressure pattern as we head through sunday, but this weather front will try to edge into northwestern areas, but it won't get far because it's bumping up against high pressure. so a cold, frosty start with some fog around, which could be slow to clear for england, certainly central and eastern parts. the best of the sunshine, again, across northern and western areas. this weather front will bring some rain to western scotland and northern ireland into the afternoon. temperatures here 10 degrees where we have some less cold air, but for most, it's a chilly day, 3—8 celsius.

sunday night much the same, rather cloudy, a few gaps in the cloud, allowing temperatures to fall where we see the gaps. this is where we're going to see frost down to —2, —3 degrees, but less cold for western scotland and northern ireland as that weather front moves in. the weather front moves away. we stay in a benign pressure pattern though, through monday and tuesday. but from midweek, we start to see high pressure retreating and that will allow lower pressure to begin to move in off the atlantic. so there are some changes to the weather as we push towards the end of the new week. so, the short term, it remains quite cloudy and cool with limited sunshine, and then it's more unsettled and a little less cold by the end of the week.

live from washington. this is bbc news. the israeli cabinet votes to approve the gaza ceasefire and hostage agreement after a meeting that lasted more than six hours. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the first hostages "are expected to be released as early as sunday". but deadly israeli air strikes continue in gaza — the civil defence agency says 116 palestinians have been killed since the deal was announced.

welcome to a bbc news special programme on the gaza ceasefire deal which the israeli cabinet has approved this evening. it's the first phase of a a deal which, if implemented in full, will end the 15 month war in gaza. their meeting lasted more than six hours, with some ministers who threatened to resign arguing the agreement rewards hamas. the first hostages are due to be released as early as sunday. in return, israel says it will release dozens of palestinian prisoners. they include some detainees as young as 16. hamas will return 33 israeli hostages over six weeks. these pictures are from egypt where trucks are waiting to bring aid into gaza. under the deal israel will allow 600 trucks into gaza every day — that's 12 times more than at the moment. our international editorjeremy bowen has this report