{"id":16791,"date":"2021-12-15T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=16791"},"modified":"2021-12-23T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:29:31","slug":"tech-show-ces-s-gains-15000-sign-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/tech-show-ces-s-gains-15000-sign-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech show CES Gains 15,000 Sign-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 15,000 people have registered to attend the global tech trade show CES in person in the last 10 days, the organizer said on Friday, which could be a good sign for in-person events despite global fears triggered by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 1,900 companies have pledged to attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, about 50% from pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Omicron variant was first discovered in South Africa and Hong Kong in November, sparking global concern and a new spate of travel restrictions, reducing the likelihood that the growing momentum for travel would continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Electronics giants such as Sony Electronics and industry executives like General Motors Co&#8217;s CEO Mary Barra plan to travel to Las Vegas for the event, although some major technology companies such as Nvidia Corp currently have a largely virtual presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All participants must present proof of full COVID-19 vaccination in order to be admitted to the show, which will take place from January 5 to 8.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-59638308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 15,000 people have registered to attend the global tech trade show CES in person in the last 10 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16826,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions\/16826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}