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CES opens amid gender row
The annual Las Vegas showcase of new technology, the Consumer Electronics Show, starts today, but its opening has been overshadowed by a failure to shake off criticisms about the diversity of its speaker line-up. All of its headline speakers for 2018 are men.
On Friday, CES’s organiser, the Consumer Technology Association, wrote a letter to its chief critic Gina Glantz, founder of the not-for-profit group Gender Avenger, promising to “redouble” effort