{"id":17152,"date":"2021-12-23T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=17152"},"modified":"2022-01-06T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:22:57","slug":"big-tech-cancel-in-person-participation-at-ces-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/big-tech-cancel-in-person-participation-at-ces-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Cancel In-person Participation At CES Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazon, Facebook and Twitter are among the tech giants cancelling their participation in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in early January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes amid growing concerns about the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which is said to be more transmissible than previous variants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But other companies, including Google and self-drive unit Waymo, are still physically attending the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CES will run for four days from January 5, with strict health protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only fully vaccinated attendees are welcome to attend the event, and organizers recommend a COVID-19 test prior to departure for Las Vegas and another within 24 hours of entering one of the venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A digital event will coincide with the physical, giving online participants access to conference sessions, keynote speeches and networking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CES is one of the most notable events in the tech industry, where companies showcase the latest gadgets and discuss trends, attracting nearly 200,000 visitors a year and taking place in a major US city.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-59756383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon, Facebook and Twitter are among the tech giants cancelling their participation in the Consumer Electronics Show in early January.<\/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":[57,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152","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=17152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17185,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152\/revisions\/17185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}