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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple's marketing priorities are driving the pace of software releases at the expense of quality — Apple has lost the functional high ground — Apple's hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has taken such a nosedive in the last few years that I'm deeply concerned for its future.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Cast will offer direct streaming from apps to Sony, LG, and Denon audio products this spring — What will be hot in consumer electronics and computing in 2015? Read VB's full coverage of International CES 2015 to find out. — At CES today, Google announced Google Cast for audio …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Nest adds 15 new partners, now integrates with smartlocks, lighting and home appliances — Nest's thermostat gets smarter with support for more third-party devices — Nest is today announcing a handful of new additions to the company's “Works with Nest” program, a designation given …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Asked to Remove 345 Million “Pirate” Links in 2014 — In the hope of steering prospective customers away from pirate sites, copyright holders are overloading Google with DMCA takedown notices. — These requests have increased dramatically over the years.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP unveils its 5K monitor, available in March for $1299, alongside curved, 4K, and 3D displays — HP intros a slew of monitors, including curved, 5K and 3D models — HP just announced a boatload of new monitors here at CES and impressively, they seem to combine every big tech buzzword from the past few years.
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| Andy Weir / Neowin: |
Microsoft's new Nokia phone can go for a month without being recharged, costs just $29 — A few weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled the first smartphone to be launched under its own brand, the Lumia 535. The company is phasing out the Nokia brand from its smartphone range, under terms agreed … | Brian Barrett / Gizmodo: |
Parrot's New In-Dash System Gives Any Dumb Car Apple or Android Brains — While Apple CarPlay and Android Auto promise to make your car's in-dash system infinitely more bearable in the not so distant future, you're still stuck in the unfortunate position of having to choose between one or the other.
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| Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times: |
How Megan Smith is trying to bring her Silicon Valley sensibility to the White House as US CTO — Her Task Is to Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks — WASHINGTON — President Obama's top technology adviser cringes when she hears highly educated adults say how bad they are at science and math …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Intel begins shipping 14nm “Cherry Trail” chips for tablets — Next-gen Atom SoCs refine the CPU and provide a big boost to the GPU. — In addition to the new Broadwell chips it's announcing today, Intel is also sharing a little information on “Cherry Trail,” its new SoCs for Windows and Android tablets.
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| Gordon Mah Ung / PC World: |
Lenovo announces new Broadwell-powered ThinkPad X1 Carbon, refreshed X, T, L, and E series laptops, “ThinkPad Stack” peripherals — ThinkPads get Broadwell and break the 100 million mark — Lenovo says it's crossed a huge milestone with its ThinkPad line that's impressive … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Nvidia's new Tegra X1 chip features an 8-core 64-bit CPU and a 256-core Maxwell-based GPU, powers Drive CX/PX car computers — Nvidia announces Tegra X1 SoC with Maxwell-based GPU [Updated] — LAS VEGAS, NEVADA—Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took to the stage this evening to kick off the company's CES.
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| Geoffrey Smith / Fortune: |
Tencent launches first online-only private bank WeBank in China — Tencent leads new wave of private, online Chinese banks — China's stock market may have opened 2015 with a roar, the wild rally in Shanghai continuing with a stunning 3.6% rise Monday. — But away from the noise …
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PC World, Financial Times, The Verge, GeekTime, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse and memeburn. Tweets: @verge
| Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
PlayStation Now all-you-can play subscriptions hit next week for $20 a month, $45 for three months — Sony plans to launch PlayStation Now, its PS3 game streaming service, for the PlayStation 4 on Jan. 13 in the U.S. and Canada for $19.99 a month or $44.99 for three months, the company announced this morning.Sponsor Posts
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