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CES 2018: Tech trends to watch for in 2018

Smart cars and smart homes -- which combine voice recognition and artificial intelligence -- are likely to be at the forefront of next week’s Consumer Electronic Show, one of the largest tech conventions in the world.

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Amazon, Google cut speaker prices in market share contest: Analysts

Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google both discounted their virtual assistant speakers so deeply over the holiday shopping season that they likely lost a few dollars per unit, highlighting a sharply different strategy from Apple Inc as it prepares its HomePod speaker, analysts said.