i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. here at the 2016 international consumer getting some early peeks at products and news before the show floor opens. at the las vegas convention center, companies are still putting the finishing 3 touches on their booths. here you see intel's booth, with these massive glowing body statues all around. it appears there's a big focus around health tech and how gadgets can better you as a human being. it's a trend 're seeing repeated by a few companies this year - and yes, that means more things you can strap to your body. "(source: garmin: 00;47;01 - 01;01;16) garmin unveiled a pair of smart glasses called the varia vision. it is similar to google glass, but it's for bikers. it clips on to your existing sunglasses, and a color screen hangs over your right eye to show you performance data and turn- by-turn directions. it ships in march and costs $400 dollars."the garmin headset does make sense for bicyclists, but not all tech teased so far seems as useful. samsung's korean flickr account pu

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. just as ces began to wind down, a new social app launched friday, getting techies worked up. it's called peach, and there are only two reasons it got so much attention live. reason 1) it was created by the founder of vine, which is a collection of looping video clips run by twitter that's a hit with all the youngin's. and reason number 2) the icon of the peach looks like an erotic butt. the peach emoji has transformed our digital communication to represent a butt, and this is a very butty- looking peach. so maybe you will feel inclined to use this network to post butt jokes. or photos of butts. or you can also share doodles -- doodles of butts, if you so desire. i fear that this is the key to appealing to a younger generation. anotheheperk of peach is that it's more private for just sharing with people you know. to follow someone's feed, you have to know their username or phone number, but once your network starts to grow, it suggests want to add. this reminds me of path, a network th

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet advances to 3 make our lives cooler, it also gives retailers new ways to gather data on us while we shop. every year in new york, the national retail federation puts on a big expo where we learn how stores are using new technology -- and well, just get ady to have your body scanned and profiled in seconds. "microsoft technology is being used inside this junk food vending machine. you've seen vending machines before with interactive touch screens, but this one also comes with two cameras on top: a kinect sensor and a webcam, which is used to scan your face. why does a machine want to scan me if i just want some candy? because companies are hungry for data. they can tell i'm a woman in my 30s and what was on the screen when i walked by and what time of day people by certain foods. so the next time they can lure someone like me in again with an animation or 3 game to play. these vending machines with eyes are now in several hundred universities and malls, exploting your

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. gopro action cameras can now send a live stream of their video to periscope, which is owned by twitter. that means in your twitter feed, you may come recording on their gopro. but there are some restrictions. anyone can see it, but to broadcast you need to have an iphone and one of the newer gopros, the hero4 black or silver camera. the 3 periscope app lets you 3 switch betweeeeshowing the iphone view or the gopro view, and the footage is still sved locally on the camera even while broadcasting in real time. a few xgames athletes will be streaming live this week from aspen and buttermilk mountain, and you can catch it on gopro's twitter account. but this also means you can expect people to be streaming drones. so do we call those dronecasts?and speaking of casting, those of you with the new apple tv should now have a software update to get the be able to stream your favorite video podcasts from your living room - like cnet update, of course. it never made much sense why you couldn't g

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. most of the hype around virtual reality centers around gaming -- but there are so many other possibilities for this medium that we are just begining to explore. the dali museum in st. petersburg florida blended virtual reality with art and willllake visitors on a trip inside the mind of salvador dali with its latest exhibit. 00:36-01:39)3 the experience is called dreams of dali, and programmers brought to life the landscape of one of his earlier paintings, the archeological reminiscence of millet's angelus, from 1935. i put on an oculus rift headset to jump in, and began to explore these ancient monumental ruins in a moonlit landscape. but the designers of the also put other pieces of dali's work inside of the ruins, so visitors may have a few unexpected surprises.but in virtual reality, it all feels very close, giving it just the right amount of creepy feeling. you stararto feelelou're lost inside this warped dali world. but how d d you create something that dalili would approve? lea

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. 3 it's another day at the consumer electronics show in las vegas, and the tech news train keeps rolling on. the convention center show floor has been swarming with people checking out the future gadgets of 2016, and one of the trends we're seeing is a focus around health and new ways to track fitness. fitbit is a popular fitness tracking brand that showcased a new watch called the blaze. it still tracks the same activity, but now has a color screen that you can snap into different bands and cases to fit your style. it also links to your phone for some reminders, and it includes some pre-installed workout cocohing rograms. it comes out in march for $2$2.but while fitbitwas showing off this new gadget, it also was hit with a class action lawsuit from users that claim its heart rate monitors are inaccurate, and that the devices don't count every beat - some claim it only counts half of your beats per minute. with questions of accuracy in fitness trackers, maybe

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. 3 it's been a busy few days here at ces, also known as the consumer electronics show. we've seen interesting developments in smart home appliances, car tech, health trackers, and virtual reality. but now that the show is winding down, we're able to step back and think about the products that stood out and were really just so different. and - dare i say - could change the future. when it comes to televisions, you expect to see thingsgshat are bigger and brighter and thinner, but l llet us touch a o-led television that you could roll up like a piece of paper and slip into your bag. we're still a few years away from making this a realistic portable tv, because you'd need to power it wirelessly and somehow have inputs for all your cable or streaming things.the future of tv could also be made up of a bunch of smaller displays that fofo one giant image. samsung showed a concept screen that snaps together in different aspect ratios. that lets you build a larger tv t

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. "hey folks, as many of you in the u.s. have probably heard by storm coming to the east ast withth record snowfall projected in some areas. ***the washington post named it snowzilla. here in new york, your cnet update crew is stocking up on the storm esntials -- bread, canned food, and pointless apps to drain our battery as we dull the pain of being trapped inside all weekend. but storm or no storm, if you're looking to spice up your mobile life, here are some new apps to try out. ***""if you have trouble waking up in the morning, microsoft created something a bit bizzare to get you moving. android users can download the mimicker alarm. (source: microsoft: 00;47;19 - 01;04;16) it makes you play a short game to prove you are awake. using microsoft's facial recognition and machine learning powers, the app will ask you to make a certain type of facial expression before it deems you awake. other challenges include taking a photo of something in the house of a certain color, or verbally repeating a tongue twister. ***""musicians

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. right now, to get internet at home, most people sign up for some sort of wired broadband service to be installed, like something from your r cable or phone provider. or you could connect to a cellular network to get online. but 3 there's a company that is launching a whole new concept that cuts out the cable and phone companies. it's called starry internet. it uses millimeter waves to send broadband to your home at super fast speeds, up to one gigabit, which is 10 times the average home broadband speed. what are millimeter waves? it's what those airpororbody scanning machines use, it's an extremely high frequency. so how much is the service? well no one knows! the company isn't saying. it'll begin but even if you don't get the starry service, you can try this friendly wi-fi hub called a starry station, which costs $350 dollars it works with any internet service. it's got a touchscreen with some real handy controls.(video from starry 01:09-01:29)you can n e the healththf the connection

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. it appears that 2016 will be the year of virtual reality, and google is hungry to rule the vr space. the company has created a division just to focus on virtual reality products, and the guy who used to run gmail and google docs is now in charge of vr. google already dabbles in vr with its cardboard headset, and it worked with gopro to create a rig for creating 360-degree videos. it's called jump. google is likely amping up its efforts because it doesn't want to be left in facebook's virtual headset, which just began taking preorders, costing $600 dollars and shipping in march. (video from google 00:55-01:37) expect vr to be a big talking point in may during google's annual i/o developers conference. it takes place on may 18. this event has gone on for ten years -- and it's where we check out software updates and see google's biggest ideas on display. i/o is where google glass made its debut.car talk is likely to also be a focus of the event, and the location this year is the shorelin

i'm bridget carey, this is your cnet update.***2015 was a 3 little strange if you think about it. microsoft gave us windows 10 but never a windows 9. amazon created little buttons you press for more toilet paper. and google isn't really just google anymore, it's alphabab? aside from the odd, there were innovations that made a big impact. here are the top five tech stories from 2015 that are going to shape 2016.***number 5 - usb type c. you'll soon be saying goodbye to the typical usb port, as laptops, tablets and type-c. it's a faster port that can transfer por and data, and it fits no matter which way you 3 plug it in. in apple's new 12- inch macbook, there's only one usb-c port, and nothing else. ***don't hate me for this, but i'm putting apple watch on the list at number 4. yes, there were smartwatches in previous years, but when apple got involved, it changed the conversation. we now have luxury fashion brands like swatch, tag hoyer, gucci, and ssil jumping into the smartwatch space.***number 3: : meerkat ananperiscope. when meerkat march,h,t was an overnight sensation. live b

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. the international consumer electronics show continues to roll along, and here at the las vegas convention center, the show floor has opened, with companies demoing their latest innovations for 2016. the media gets some early peaks at products, and so far the stars of the show are the large home appliances. we're in the dawn n of the smart home age, and companies are showing off how mundane washing machines and family hub refrigerator by samsung. it brings a new meaning to netflix and chill when you have a giant 21- and-a-half-inch screen on the door. we got a closer look and there's more to this fridge than just throwing a tablet on the front. you can use this screen to purchase groceries with a new mastercard app. just make a list of what you need and when you're ready, it'll deliver your order from freshdirect or shoprite. just be careful on giving your kids the pin number for ordering or you may end up with 17 cartons of ice cream and oreos. the fridge also has cameras inside the d

i'm bridget carey. this is your cnet update. google's artificial intelligence division deepmind created a computer that achieved what no one thought a computer could do -- beat a human at the most complicated board game, the ancient chinese game of go. this is such an impressive breakthrough because go is unlike any other game for a computer to process. computers began to beat humans at games back in 1952 with tic-tac-toe, (video from google 00:35-01:44) then it mastered checkers in 1994. and in 97 ibm's deep blue won at chess against champion garry kasparov. and in all those situations, the computer is using a brute force method of computing - it is looking at every single possible move to calculate the best play. but a computer cannot do that with go. this 25-hundred-year-old game of black and white stones has too many options to consider all possible moves. the goal is to board than your opponent, but there are more possible positions than there are atoms in the universe. that's 10 to the power of 170. so the artifical intell

i'm jeff bakalar, filling in for bridget carey on assignment. this is your cnet update. the first devices with amazon's dash replenishement service have arrived. these are smart devices like a printer or purell dispenser that 3 can automatically order more ink or purell juice when they're closing to running out. amazon plans to sell more smart replenishment devices soon, like a britta water pitcher that orders more filters and a smart door lock that orders more batteries. what product do you wish had auto replenishment? be sure to sound off on twitter or in the comments. i'd love for that to order me more hi-chews.skype has rolled out a real-time translation service that works over its super popular video chat feature. now skype calls involving parties who speak different languages can have a much easier time communicating. brilliant, i mean, think of the applications: talking to your airbnb host from a different country or international business meetings. skype says the service has seen a 400 percent increase in calls since the service first launched.verizon is getting

coming to you from the cnet stage at the las vegas convention center, i'm bridget carey.

from our studios in new york, i'm bridget carey 3 "weather on the ones brought to you by window world" 3 winter weather advisories are in effect through this evening for southern parts of siouxland. expect freezing drizzle and areas of freezing fog this morning and 1-3" of snow through tonight. winds will be breezy creating blowing snow across the area. tomorrow skies will start to clear with a high in upper 20s the rest of the e week calls for a big warm up and clearing skies with temperatures reaching the mid 40s by friday. as we head into the weekend there is a slight chance for light rain/snow mix on saturday.the first alert weather team is keeping a very