CES, the world’s largest tech show, is quite something to behold. Or it would be if you could actually behold it in person. Almost inconceivably, the industry extravaganza spans the entire Las Vegas Convention Center, the nearby Sands Expo and a dozen or more hotels up and down the Strip. As WSJ best describes it, it is like a Disneyland for tech. This year, you can also see it all - however, only from the little screen through which you see pretty much everything else these days.

Worldwide school lockdowns due to Covid-19 pandemic spiked the value of game developers. The popular game platform Roblox which is focused mainly on children managed to raise $520 m private capital which rose the overall value of the firm to 29,5 billion dollars. That is a seven-fold increase compared to February, 2020, BBC reported.

Facebook has introduced major design changes of the social network platform in a bid to improve the interaction between users and promote policy of followers to replace the popular Like approach.

Samsung is set to lead the charge of 2021's releases with the presentation of its flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S21, confirmed to happen at its virtual event launch on 14 January. The Galaxy S21 has been hyping up the public in the past weeks, particularly towards the end of 2020 with its specs and teaser looks that were shared.

The software giant Microsoft Corp confirmed that it had found malicious software in its systems related to a hacking campaign admitted by US, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies.

European mobile operators are set to mull expected swap of China’s Huawei as key supplier of their emerging 5G systems with Samsung Electronics. Still the process is in early stage but its forecast to be a very difficult battle, Reuters reported.

The popular tech giant Google came under legal crossfire on renewed claims related to company’s advertising policy. This time the pressure comes from the US as the ad policy of the search engine and possible shady agreements aimed at monopoly were brought to court, BBC reported.

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday signed a partnership with IBM to combine “edge computing” with private 5G networks, the latest tie-up among big technology firms trying to help customers automate production.

Google services and websites such as YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs crashed for an hour on Monday. Google acknowledged the issues with Gmail, affecting both its business and personal services, and about an hour later said the problem was fixed for the “vast majority” of users.

From computers to headphones, Apple's prices just keep going up. And now, the company is selling headphones that will literally make you say, "No way I am not purchasing headphones at that price." If they do not cause you a heart attack first.