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These are the main technology trends from CES 2026, the world's largest technology event | Beehiiv publishes its annual report on newsletters | Recommended by: Eduardo Jover

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January 09, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes

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Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.

Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:

  • ✈️ The 52 destinations recommended by The New York Times for travel in 2026

  • 📱These are the main technology trends from CES 2026, the world's largest technology event

  • 📧 Beehiiv publishes its annual report on newsletters

  • ⏭️ In brief

  • 🤔 Express Quiz

  • 💡Recommended by: Eduardo Jover

✈️ The 52 destinations recommended by The New York Times for travel in 2026

Every year, The New York Times Travel section produces a multimedia special in which it recommends 52 places around the world to visit during the following twelve months.

This year's 2026 edition has just been published. You can visit it free of charge through the following link, courtesy of On the Net Today:

This year's list begins with various locations in the United States, which in 2026 will celebrate its 250th anniversary as a nation.

The recommendations also include the new Bandhavgarh tiger reserve (India), Barcelona's Poblenou neighborhood as an example of urban reinvention, the Italian city of Assisi on the 800th anniversary of Saint Francis's death, exhibitions dedicated to the painter Joaquín Sorolla to be held in Madrid and Seville, Iceland to witness the solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, and the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, among other destinations.

A comprehensive reference to the special has been published on the NYT Instagram account.

Users can create their list of places they have already visited and destinations they would like to visit.

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📱These are the main technology trends from CES 2026, the world's largest technology event

This week—from January 6 to 9, 2026—a new edition of CES®, the world's largest technology event, is taking place in Las Vegas (United States). 

This gathering, organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), has become the main annual meeting for the consumer technology industry and the premier showcase where companies from around the world present their most innovative technological advances and products.

CES showcases companies including manufacturers, developers and suppliers of consumer technology hardware, content, technology delivery systems and more. This year, CES features more than 4,100 participating companies showcasing their products and services in areas such as artificial intelligence, digital health, accessibility, energy, business solutions, immersive entertainment, mobility, and robotics, among others.

According to the organizers themselves, these are the main trends to watch this year:

  • AI: Expect more AI agents, digital twins, and AI on devices to enhance productivity, customer experiences, and medical advancements. 

  • Digital Health: From AI-driven precision medicine to the rise of wearables and telehealth, CES will convene the entire health ecosystem to drive the next wave of digital health breakthroughs. 

  • Energy: With the growth of high-power demand technologies like AI, quantum, and cloud, we need to create more energy. CES will showcase solar, wind power, nuclear, and other alternatives.

  • Enterprise: Enterprise tech will transform the way businesses enhance productivity, ensure safety, and secure their systems.

  • Mobility: CES will showcase mobility across air, land, and sea with the latest innovation across the agricultural, auto, construction, industrial, and marine tech sectors. Innovation will focus on automation, connectivity, and energy.

  • Robotics: Robotics improve efficiency, safety, and accessibility across industries, making homes smarter, enhancing agricultural production, and improving safety and operations in factories.

Additionally, prominent business leaders from the industry participate in an extensive conference program that can be followed live or viewed on demand afterward.

And here is all the information organized by the dozens of topics covered at CES:

Every year, the CES Innovation Awards are also presented, recognizing innovation across multiple categories.

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📧 Beehiiv publishes its annual report on newsletters

The newsletter platform Beehiiv, which we use to publish this newsletter, has released its 2026 annual report on the state of newsletters, reviewing the main trends in the sector based on the use of its platform throughout 2025, and forecasting what may happen in 2026.

The report, written by Tyler Denk (CEO of Beehiiv), Kanishka, and Taylor Cromwell, notes that "if 2025 was the year newsletters proved their staying power, 2026 will be the year they become central to the content economy."

Beehiiv believes that "while all social platforms face algorithm volatility, changing content policies, and AI-controlled feeds, email will continue doing what it has always done: reliably reaching audiences who subscribe through creator-owned distribution." Thus, newsletters are a "more predictable" and "more measurable" platform, based on user permission, and over which creators have greater control.

The report presents growth and monetization data from Beehiiv newsletters. The authors spoke with founders, operators, and newsletter experts to understand what the next phase of this sector will be.

These are some of the many data points the report provides:

  • Newsletter publishers on Beehiiv sent 28 billion emails in 2025, nearly double the previous year, reaching 255 million unique readers

  • The average open rate was 41.24%

  • The average click-through rate was 3.23%

  • The most common sending frequency is weekly (46.67%). 27.15% of newsletters are monthly, and 1.37% are daily.

  • Paid subscriptions were the revenue stream that generated the most income: $19M in 2025 compared to $8M the previous year, representing a 138% increase, driven by niche creators delivering specialized expertise.

  • Since Beehiiv's inception, more than 46 billion emails have been sent through this newsletter platform, reaching over 425 million unique readers. As for revenue, the global figure exceeds $45 million. In total, Beehiiv has had more than 130,000 newsletter publishers.

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⏭️ In brief

🤔 Express Quiz

The global recorded music market reached a record figure of $29.6 billion in 2024. The main driver of revenue growth was streaming, which accounted for 69% of total revenues, reaching $20.4 billion, according to figures from IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).

In what year did streaming revenues surpass for the first time those generated by physical format sales, primarily CDs?

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In the quiz from the previous edition, we asked who was the inventor of email. The correct answer was Ray Tomlinson, the computer engineer who in 1971 developed, within the ARPANET project (the precursor network to the internet), a system that allowed messages to be sent between users on different computers connected to the same network.

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