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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to start selling SIM-free iPhone 6 & 6 Plus in the U.S. tomorrow — Apple will start selling fully unlocked, SIM-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models in the United States beginning tomorrow, January 6th, according to several sources. The unlocked iPhones will be available …
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G 4 Games, MacRumors, The Next Web, BGR, iMore, TUAW, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com and InvestorPlace
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Dish announces Sling TV: stream channels like ESPN, CNN, and TNT over the internet for $20 per month without a cable subscription — You Can Finally Get ESPN on the Web, for $20 a Month — Lots of people say they want to ditch cable TV for the Web, but can't because they want to watch sports …
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Dish, CNET, The Verge, Xbox Wire, The Verge, DailyFinance.com, GeekWire, VatorNews, Gigaom, SiliconANGLE, Android Police, Ars Technica, The Technology Chronicles, VentureBeat, PC World, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Gizmodo, BGR, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile, SiliconBeat, GamePolitics blogs, UPROXX, Business Insider, Windows Phone Central, Electronista, iMore, MacDailyNews, Phandroid, Lifehacker and Dan Rayburn
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Broadwell U arrives: Faster laptop CPUs and GPUs from Core i7 to Celeron — Intel's staggered Broadwell rollout continues with 17 new laptop chips. — Intel promised us more chips based on the new Broadwell architecture in early 2015, and today it's delivering on that promise.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces — Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps.
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Wit.ai, Re/code, GeekWire, ZDNet, AllFacebook, Business Insider, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, The Next Web, Engadget, Forbes, Benzinga and Mashable. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@ryanlawler
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificates to block in-flight YouTube streaming, says no user info collected — Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificate to users visiting YouTube — Gogo has been caught issuing a fake digital certificate for YouTube, a practice that in theory could allow …
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Neowin, ReadWrite, Gogo Concourse, The Verge, Gigaom, PandoDaily, The Daily Dot, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Techdirt, theWHIR.com, Tnooz and DSLreports
| 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 fallen so much in the last few years that I'm deeply concerned for its future.
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Bitsplitting.org, Daring Fireball, Business Insider, Valleywag, TUAW, ignorethecode.net, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune and 9to5Mac
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Lenovo enters the smart fitness band game with e-ink, water-resistant Vibe Band VB10 — LAS VEGAS — Fitness band meets smartwatch: yeah, it's a well-trodden formula. Lenovo, however, hasn't made a splash into wearables before. The Vibe Band VB10, debuted at the 2015 International CES in Las Vegas … | 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.| Hayden Dingman / PC World: |
Asus announces Transformer Book Chi family of Surface-like Windows 8.1 tablets that start at $300 — Asus' Transformer Book Chi line offers a cheap alternative to the Surface Pro — Asus' Transformer Book Chi line offers a cheap alternative to the Surface Pro
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VentureBeat, Gizmodo, CNET, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, TechRadar.com, The Tech Report, TechnoBuffalo and Pocket-lint
| Gordon Mah Ung / PC World: |
HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC — HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC — Late last year, HP kicked off the Windows war against Google's Chromebooks with its $200 Streambook 11, and now the company is back again to tackle Chromeboxes with its Stream Mini PC.
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HP, Engadget, eWeek, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Neowin, Gizmodo, The Verge, VentureBeat and SlashGear. Thanks:@bradchacos
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC launches new complaints site after old site crumbled under load of net neutrality comments — FCC makes it easier to complain about cable, Internet, and phone providers — The Federal Communications Commission is still plagued by an ancient IT infrastructure despite being the government agency …
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The Verge, DSLreports, The Hill, FCC.gov, Gizmodo, Consumerist and FedScoop
| Lynn La / CNET: |
LG G Flex 2: curved smartphone with 5.5-inch screen and Snapdragon 810 coming to Korea this month, AT&T and Sprint later this year — LG G Flex 2: Second-gen curved smartphone features 5.5-inch screen, Snapdragon 810 and ‘self-healing’ capabilities (hands-on)| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Gogoro lays foundation for a smart battery swapping infrastructure with a new electric scooter — After Raising $150 Million In Stealth Mode, What The Heck Is Gogoro? — In 2011, Gogoro raised $50 million. Three years later, another $100 million. And yet, no one seems to have any idea what the heck Gogoro does.
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The Verge, GeekWire, PR Newswire, Engadget, CNET, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Re/code and Business Insider
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Cast for audio lets you stream music from apps like Pandora and Rdio to compatible speakers, coming this spring — 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?| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Netflix's Recommended TV program will help you find the best TV for streaming — A lot of what we watch on TV nowadays comes streaming in from the internet, but not every TV is cut out to do that well out of the box. In an attempt to make sure that viewers have a good experience …
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Netflix, GeekWire, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Re/code, Engadget and Gigaom
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Garmin announces three wildly different smartwatches: Fenix 3, Epix, and Vivoactive — If smartwatches and fitness trackers were extraordinarily hot topics last year, they've only gotten hotter going into 2015. A few products have tried to walk the line between both categories with a single … | Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
AT&T is the first US carrier to support WebRTC — WebRTC will allow AT&T customers to make calls and video chat using their AT&T numbers in the browser — During its annual Developer Summit held the day before CES officially begins, AT&T announced it will be the first carrier in the US …
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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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Nest, Businessweek, Android Police, Telegraph, VentureBeat, BGR, 9to5Google, WebProNews, The Zuli Blog, Gigaom and SlashGear
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba Competitor Wanda E-commerce Raises $161M At $3B Valuation — China-based Wanda E-commerce, which hopes to position itself as a rival against Alibaba, has raised one billion RMB (about $161 million) in funding from investment funds Centec Networks and Xude Rendao.
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PandoDaily, PR Newswire UK, Fast Company and Variety
| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
TapSense announces platform for contextual ads on Apple Watch as developers scramble to deliver ads through Watch SDK — TapSense Announces Platform to Bring Contextual Ads to Apple Watch — Amidst the new and upcoming product launches at this year's Consumer Electronics Show …
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TapSense, Reuters, AppleInsider, Business Insider, PC World, The Verge, WebProNews, Geek.com, ClickZ, Marketing Land, iMore and VentureBeat
| 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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Electronista and The Verge
| Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint: |
Plex to add new music streaming features, HD videos from Vevo to match your tracks — Plex has been busy of late, having introduced apps for consoles, including PS4 and Xbox One, and now it is refreshing the way its server software presents music files to make that experience better.
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The Next Web, PC Magazine, Connectedly, Ubergizmo and Android Authority
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