This week Tech TV Live hosts Pete Warren and Bill Mew discuss:

1) France rolls out Visio, and shuns Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other US tech

2) TikTok settles in a landmark social media addiction trial, but Meta and YouTube don’t

3) Robots dominated CES, but are they cute, creepy, crafty or confusing

From “data sovereignty” to “technology sovereignty”: The French government has announced the full rollout of Visio, a domestically developed video conferencing platform, to replace Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other non-European tools across all state administrations by 2027. The move is a strategic effort to regain control over critical digital infrastructure and reduce reliance on foreign, particularly US, software vendors. In a response Zoho founder and Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu described Big Tech as “the New East India company”

TikTok has reached a settlement to avoid it being involved in a landmark social media addiction trial – a matter of hours before jury selection was due to begin in California – but the trial involving Meta and YouTube will move forward nevertheless. Almost half of all British teenagers say they feel addicted to social media, according to research.

There were many robots at CES 2026: including cute companions, dancing humanoids, laundry-folding helpers and lots more. Are we ready for robots in our homes? Are these friendly humanoid ready to be genuine helpers and friends or are they simply trojan horses for tech firms that want to know more about us so as to target us better.