CES 2026 buzzword of the show: Humanoids

Humanoid robots stole the show at the annual CES tech conference in Las Vegas last week, where they dealt cards, folded laundry, poured coffee, tended bar, played table tennis, moved warehouse totes and performed martial arts.
Humanoids are part of the larger trend of physical AI, which is the embodiment of artificial intelligence. Physical AI at CES 2026 also included autonomous vehicles and robots for vacuuming carpets, mopping floors, cleaning pools and mowing lawns, among other chores.
Humanoid robot demonstrations attracted big crowds to exhibitors such as Agility Robotics, Hyundai, LG Electronics and Unitree Robotics. And Mobileye made headlines with its $900 million purchase of Mentee Robotics.
Consumer electronics vendors big and small at CES 2026 showed off a kaleidoscope of devices, ranging from the practical to the bizarre. They spanned cinema-style televisions and AI-enabled cooking appliances to furry robotic pets, generative-AI art displays and even sex toys.
The four-day conference ran Jan. 6-9 after two days of media events. This year's show attracted more than 148,000 attendees and featured over 4,100 exhibitors. CES 2026 also drew more than 6,900 news media, content creators and industry analysts.
Consumer electronics makers such as LG Electronics and Samsung showed off smart devices for the living room, kitchen, laundry room and bathroom. Big tech firms Nvidia, AMD and others touted their latest technology advancements.
Companies not usually considered tech firms at CES 2026 included beauty giant L'Oreal and toymaker Lego.

CES buzzwords through the years:

2010: Green
2011: Smart
2012: Ultra
2013: Super
2014: Curved
2015: Wearable
2016: HDR (high dynamic range)
2017: Voice
2018: AI (artificial intelligence)
2019: 5G
2020: Streaming
2021: Pandemic
2022: Metaverse
2023: Augmented reality
2024: Generative artificial intelligence (or GenAI)
2025: Agentic AI
2026: Humanoids

Photos: LG Electronics robot Cloid folds laundry (LG); Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics introduced its latest Atlas robot (Hyundai); Mobileye announced its acquisition of Mentee Robotics (Mobileye); and Agility Robotics robot Digit moves totes in fulfillment center (Agility Robotics).

Related articles and press releases:

Humanoid Robots Captivate Crowds At CES 2026 Tech Trade Show (Investor s Business Daily; Jan. 9, 2026)

CES 2026: The Future is Here (Consumer Technology Association; Jan. 9, 2026)

LG Electronics Presents LG CLOiD Home Robot to Demonstrate "Zero Labor Home" at CES 2026 (LG; Jan. 4, 2026)

Hyundai Motor Group Announces AI Robotics Strategy to Lead Human-Centered Robotics Era at CES 2026 (Hyundai; Jan. 5, 2026)

Boston Dynamics Unveils New Atlas Robot to Revolutionize Industry (Boston Dynamics; Jan. 5, 2026)

Mobileye To Acquire Mentee Robotics to Accelerate Physical AI Leadership (Mobileye; Jan. 6, 2026)

Top 20 celebrities and public figures predicted to die in 2026

For the second year in a row, contestants at the dead pool website Stiffs.com have chosen actor Dick Van Dyke as the public figure most likely to die in 2026.
Other notables in the top 10 include former U.S. President Joe Biden and current President Donald Trump, though the inclusion of the latter is probably just wishful thinking.
The annual list contains the usual geriatrics and those suffering health problems.
Of the top 20 public figures marked for death in 2025 by Stiffs.com, only two met the grim reaper. They were actress June Lockhart and actor Gene Hackman.
What follows are the top 20 public figures (with their ages) predicted to die in 2026, according to Stiffs.com.

1. Dick Van Dyke, 100, actor
2. Mel Brooks, 99, comedian, writer, actor, director
3. Eva Marie Saint, 101, actress
4. Alan Greenspan. 99, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve
5. David Attenborough, 99, broadcaster and naturalist
6. Clint Eastwood, 95, actor and director
7. Gene Shalit, 99, film critic for NBC's "The Today Show"
8. Joe Biden, 83, former U.S. president
9. Buzz Aldrin, 95, U.S. astronaut
10. Donald Trump, 79, current U.S. president
11. Noam Chomsky, 97, academic and social critic
12. Yoko Ono, 92, Japanese multimedia artist and peace activist
13. Bruce Willis, 70, actor
14. Joanne Woodward, 95, actress
15. Doc Severinsen, 98, jazz trumpeter and band leader
16. Marv Levy, 100, pro football coach
17. Willie Nelson, 92, singer and songwriter
18. Tippi Hedren, 95, actress
19. Harvey Weinstein, 73, film producer and convicted sex offender
20. Rupert Murdoch, 94, media mogul

Here are some notable younger public figures predicted to die this year by multiple Stiffs.com dead-pool players:

22. Eric Dane, 53, actor
46. Michael J. Fox, 64, actor
56. Andy Dick, 60, comedian and actor
74. Celine Dion, 57, singer
90. Randy Moss, 48, football player
92. Britney Spears, 44, singer
103. Christina Applegate, 54, actress
124. Charlie Sheen, 60, actor
139. Sean Combs, aka P. Diddy, 56, rapper, music producer and accused sex offender
155. Amanda Bynes, 39, actress

Photo: Donald Trump mugshot from Aug. 24, 2023, at the Fulton County jail in Georgia.

The most controversial U.S. magazine covers of 2025

The most controversial U.S. magazine covers this year hit on such hot button issues as artificial intelligence, racial politics and the second term of President Donald Trump. Others were controversial just because of the ick factor.

Time magazine pissed off liberals by choosing the billionaire tech executives behind the AI megatrend as its Persons of the Year. They included Tesla leader Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta Platforms head Mark Zuckerberg. Time dubbed them the “Architects of AI.”
The magazine cover photo illustration put the AI executives on a steel beam like the famous 1932 photograph “Lunch atop a Skyscraper.”
“Nothing says ‘person of the year’ like replacing Depression-era workers with the billionaires making our skills obsolete,” writer Rhea Nayyar said in an article for Hyperallergic.
Time’s cover image “feel like a desecration of history,” Creative Bloq said.
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel tore into Time magazine’s 2025 Person of the Year cover, calling the eight-person lineup of tech CEOs “the eight dorks of the apocalypse.” (See articles by New York Post and Fox News.)
Wired magazine did a similar cover with AI executives this year but chose to imitate a different well-known work of art: “Dogs Playing Poker” by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.

In January, critics slammed New York Magazine for its cover image, which cropped black people out of a photo of a pro-Trump party to go with a story that claimed the crowd was almost entirely white.
See articles by New York Post, Daily Mail, the Hollywood Reporter, Fox News and SMU’s the Daily Campus.

Time magazine (again) stirred up controversy with its Feb. 24 cover showing tech entrepreneur Elon Musk sitting behind the U.S. president’s desk. The cover story was designed to imply that Musk had undue influence over Trump.
The Root said “Time Magazine’s new Elon Musk cover should scare the hell out of us.”
See other articles by CNN, NBC News and Mediaite.

Time magazine (yet again) angered Trump with its Oct. 10 cover photo, which “disappeared” his hair. It also drew attention to his wrinkled neck. In a social media post, Trump said the picture might be “the Worst of All Time.” (See articles by USA Today, the Hill, Fox News, People, Daily Beast and New York Post.)
After the uproar, Time changed the cover to a more flattering photo. (See articles by Deadline, TMZ, the Independent and Daily Beast.)

Miami-based rapper JT got fans talking with the cover photo for CultedXO magazine. She was photographed sporting ridiculously large lips. The concept for her photo spread was to send a message: “The story is f*ck how people view me,” she said.
(See articles by The Shade Room, Pink World Station and Instagram.)

In the yuck category of magazine covers was a digital cover for Sound Advice from the March issue of Interview magazine. It featured a photo of American record producer Benny Blanco with two feet in his face. The feet presumably belonged to his then-fiancé, now wife, singer Selena Gomez.
(See article by Parade.)

A different kind of ick was a September cover of Us magazine that featured 73-year-old football coach Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson.
(See articles by Marca, Awful Announcing and the Spun.)

Actress Sadie Sink raised eyebrows with her eyebrows and strange look on the cover of Teen Vogue. (See article by Parade.)

The Hollywood Reporter faced criticism for its magazine cover depicting actress Blake Lively slinging a mobile phone at director Justin Baldoni. The two are embroiled in a bitter legal battle. Lively’s spokesperson called the cover image and accompanying story “sexist” and “offensive.”
(See articles by the Daily Mail, GB News, the Independent and the Daily Mail again.)

And finally Vogue faced a backlash for its June cover featuring Lauren Sánchez in her bridal dress for her wedding to Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos. Haters complained about celebrating the nuptials of the ultrawealthy.
(See articles by Radar and Daily Beast.)

The most controversial foreign magazine covers of 2025

Trump derangement syndrome, or TDS, played a role in some of the most controversial foreign magazine covers of 2025.

The Indian government reportedly tried to block the distribution of an issue of Indian weekly magazine Vikatan, which featured an unflattering cover of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The cover was a cartoon of Modi in handcuffs alongside U.S. President Donald Trump. The cover was a response to reports that Indians were being deported from the U.S. in handcuffs.
See article by the Daily Cartoonist.

British satirical magazine Private Eye went viral with a cover that took aim Trump’s supposed adulation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
See article by HuffPost.

The Economist cover about Trump’s first 100 days of his second term also went viral. It featured an image of a wounded and bandaged symbolic eagle under the headline “Only 1,361 Days To Go.” The magazine is counting down the days until Trump leaves office.
See articles by BuzzFeed and HuffPost.

In May, the Vietmanese government banned an issue of the Economist that featured an illustration of Vietnam’s top leader, Communist party General Secretary To Lam, on its cover.
The image showed Lam with stars on his eyes, alongside the headline “The man with a plan for Vietnam,” with the subhead: “A Communist party hard man has to rescue Asia’s great success story.”
See articles by the Guardian and Reuters.

An Irish government-funded magazine, Comhar, sparked outrage with its July cover. The cover image showed a presumably Israeli couple in swimwear lying on a beach next to a bloodied amputee with barbed wire dividing them. Jewish symbols dotted the wire that split the amputee from the bathers, prompting backlash from Jewish community groups. The article comes amid the armed conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
See article by the Jewish Chronicle.

And finally, Glamour UK caused controversy when it named nine males with transgender identities among its “women of the year.”
British political commentator Piers Morgan said in a post on X that the issue was “beyond parody even by ludicrous woke virtue-signaling standards.”
See articles by Fox News and the Sunday Times.

The most provocative nude and skin-baring magazine covers of 2025

This year saw its usual share of attention-grabbing magazine covers featuring scantily clad or naked models, actresses and singers. What follows is a rundown of the notable nude and skin-baring magazine covers in 2025.

Singer Sabrina Carpenter wore nothing but thigh-high stockings and butt-grazing blond hair extensions while gracing the cover of Rolling Stone’s Summer Double Issue in June.
See articles by Page Six, People and Cosmopolitan.

Model Angelina Kendall wore just red pumps and red shades for the M magazine cover in March.
See article by Le Monde.

Socialite Kim Kardashian wore body paint for her ample top along with a pair of dark trousers for the Re-Edition winter 2025-26 issue in November.
See article in The Sporting News.

Influencer Bhad Bhabie was mostly naked on the cover of King Kong magazine in October.
See article by Perez Hilton.

Actress Zoe Saldana wore a sheer dress that exposed her nipples on the cover of the February issue of Harper's Bazaar.
See articles by Harper’s Bazaar and The Zoe Report.

Blackpink singer Jennie covered her bare breasts with white floral props for the cover of HOMME Girls in April.
See articles by Koreaboo and Times Now News.

Model Laiza de Moura was pictured wearing a revealing top on the cover of Vogue Portugal in March.
See article by Anne of Carversville and Cover Junkie.

Singer Miley Cyrus posed naked for the cover of Perfect magazine in August.
See articles by Fox News, Parade and InStyle.

Not to be outdone, Miley’s sister Noah Cyrus wore a revealing sheer outfit for the cover of Shadowplay Magazine in September.
See article by Parade.

Singer Doja Cat suffered a nip slip on the digital cover of V magazine issue 155 in June.
See articles by V magazine and Fashion Gone Rogue.

And finally ageless supermodel Elle Macpherson showed off some side boob on the cover of Maxim magazine’s summer 2025 issue in June.
See article by Maxim.

Funny Christmas porn movie titles – all new!

The perverts in the adult video industry can take a wholesome, innocent thing like Christmas and turn it into a raunchy sex fest. Just check out this list of real porn movie titles compiled for your amusement mostly from the Internet Adult Film Database.
The last time I assembled such a list was December 2021. These are all new.

12 Girls of Christmas (2018)
All I Want for Christmas is a Revenge Bang (2014)
All I Want For Christmas Is My Friend’s Dad Up My Ass (2018)
All I Want for Christmas is Pussy (2014)
Can’t Wait For Santa to Cum (2020)
Christmas Spunknog (2014)
Cockin' Around The Christmas Tree (2021)
Filthy Santa and the Ho Ho Hoes (2019)
Have Yourself A Merry Cock – Mrs. Santa Fucked At Christmas Eve (2014)
Hoe Hoe Hoe – Santa Is Cumming (2024)
How The Dick Stole Christmas (2022)
How The Grinch Fucked Xmas (2008)
I’ll Be Hole for Christmas (2022)
Jingle Bell Cuck (2024)
Jingle My Bells – A Christmas Threesome (2023)
Mom’s Christmas Stuffing (2015)
Santa’s Cumming Down Her Chimney (2019)
Santa’s Twerkshop (2017)
Shopping for Xmas Trees and Gets a Huge Oak (2017)
Sucking Santa’s Candy Cane (2022)
Sweet Christmas Pie (2023)
Taste My Christmas Cookie (2020)
The Tits That Saved XXX-mas (2003)
Tits the Season (2024)
Twat The Night Before Christmas (2021)

Previous articles in series:

Funniest Christmas porn movie titles (Dec. 11, 2018)

Top 30 funniest Christmas porn movie titles (Dec. 7, 2010)

Post-apocalyptic TV series alive and well

To date, there have been 91 post-apocalyptic TV series and miniseries. Of those, nine are still in production.
This year brought “The Eternaut” on Netflix and “Pluribus” on Apple TV.
“The Eternaut” from Argentina takes place after a mysterious snowfall kills most of the population. It turns out to be the first wave of an attack by extraterrestrial invaders.
“Pluribus” is set after an alien virus transforms most of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind that nevertheless seeks to assimilate those with immunity.
Meanwhile, the second season of “Fallout” will premiere on Dec. 17 on Amazon Prime Video. It has been renewed for a third season and its creators think it could last five or six seasons.

Related article:

Comprehensive list of live-action post-apocalyptic TV series (Updated Dec. 14, 2025)