*A lightly annotated clipping service:*
**Consumer Products:** CES is happening in Las Vegas, where battle lines are being drawn and allegiances formed amid various platforms, with Amazon’s Alexa in a prominent position *([zdnet.com](http://www.zdnet.com/article/at-ces-2017-amazon-revs-alexa-everywhere-strategy/))*.
**Godfather Returns:** Brian Eno has released a great new ambient album, *Reflection*, and a quizzically expensive iOS app *([brian-eno.net](http://www.brian-eno.net/))*.
**DJ Revisionism:** And as Jonathan Soble writes in the [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/business/panasonic-technics-hiphop-turntable.html?ref=todayspaper), a relaunched Technics turntable is peculiarly detached from its hip-hop legacy *([nytimes.com](http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/business/panasonic-technics-hiphop-turntable.html?ref=todayspaper))*.
*This first appeared, in slightly different form, in the January 3, 2017, edition of the free Disquiet “This Week in Sound”email newsletter: [tinyletter.com/disquiet](http://tinyletter.com/disquiet).*