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Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one — Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one — LAS VEGAS—Lenovo announced several new desktop PCs at CES. And in a move that's sure to give Microsoft heartburn …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo's latest Miix 2 tablets use magnets to convert into a laptop — Lenovo has used the Consumer Electronics Show to showcase its latest Windows 8-inspired designs previously, and this year is no different. The top PC maker is refining its Yoga range, but it's also taking a slightly different approach to detachable laptops.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
How Mark Zuckerberg turned around Facebook by prioritizing mobile ad revenues — Profitable Learning Curve for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — In Taking Facebook Public, Reshaping It Around Mobile Phones, Chief Gained Focus on Bottom Line … MENLO PARK, Calif.— Mark Zuckerberg needed help.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Roku Moves Beyond The Box, Partnering With Hisense And TCL To Introduce Roku TVs — Who would have thought that streaming set-top box manufacturer Roku would actually introduce a TV before Apple? Well, it looks likely that's going to happen, thanks to partnerships with Hisense and TCL …
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The Official Roku Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Gizmodo, USA Today, Re/code, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, Digits, Engadget, The Verge, Gigaom, Variety and Fast Company. Tweets: @jank0
| Kwame Opam / The Verge: |
Nvidia debuts 192-core Tegra K1 processor — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, after nearly a year of promising outsized computing power for so-called future “superphones,” took the stage at CES today to unveil the company's latest mobile processor for Android. The 192 CUDA-core Tegra K1 … | Felix Salmon / Reuters: |
Netflix can't afford content you want, so it scours a limited library for things you may like — Netflix's dumbed-down algorithms — Alexis Madrigal has a rollicking investigation into Netflix's movie genres — all 76,897 of them, from category #1 (African-American Crime Documentaries) …
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| Phil Libin / Evernote Blog: |
Evernote CEO promises improved software quality, stability, and simplicity in 2014 — On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014 — I got the wrong sort of birthday present yesterday: a sincerely-written post by Jason Kincaid lamenting a perceived decline in the quality of Evernote software over the past few months.
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| Fred Ehrsam / Re/code: |
Bitcoin will hold value if it remains the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership — Bitcoin Is Good — We read with interest Paul Krugman's recent article in the New York Times, humorously titled “Bitcoin Is Evil.” Perhaps the most important part of the article is where Dr. Krugman remarks:| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Holy Tech Batman! — Can The European Commission Be A Startup Super Hero? — What is to be done with Europe? As The New York Times wrote just two days ago, there are not enough people in Europe qualified to fill all the technology jobs available. At the same time, Europe is not producing … Thanks:@mikebutcher
| Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
A family's three generations show a tradition of reinvention in Silicon Valley — Silicon Valley Lost, And Found — Silicon Valley is a place that is just as much about people reinventing themselves as it is about people reinventing industries. — As a new year turns …
Tweets: @evelynrusli, @davidlee, @ryan, @stevesilberman, @pmarca and @nickbilton
| Michael Calore / Wired: |
LaCie Debuts Fuel, a Take-Anywhere Wireless Drive for Mobiles — Mac or Windows, Red Sox or Yankees, Bruce or Prince — no matter what our allegiances, we all have one thing in common. We are all data-storage junkies. We hoard 32GB USB sticks and we drool over Thunderbolt hard drives like they're sports cars.| Owen Thomas / ReadWrite: |
CBS Tests Twitter Rules By Placing Film Critic's Tweet In An Ad — On Saturday, the print edition of the New York Times carried a full-page ad for the movie Inside Llewyn Davis with a single tweet by A.O. Scott, a film critic for the newspaper. — While he tweeted the words of praise …
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