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LG shows off a functional Open webOS-based smartwatch with Audi car integration at CES — Exclusive: The hottest smartwatch of CES isn't running Android Wear — it's Open webOS — We bring you the inside look at the most mysterious timepiece of CES 2015| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Samsung expects fourth-quarter profit to drop 37 percent from year ago — Decline in quarter would mark fifth consecutive quarterly drop for the world's largest maker of smartphones. — Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that it expects its fourth-quarter earnings report to show a decline …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
FBI Director: Sony's ‘Sloppy’ North Korean Hackers Revealed Their IP Addresses — The Obama administration has been tightlipped about its controversial naming of the North Korean government as the definitive source of the hack that eviscerated Sony Pictures Entertainment late last year.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon is building an end-to-end platform for hardware startups, part of an effort to become their main sales channel — Amazon Secretly Working on New Platform for Inventors — Amazon sells most of the name-brand electronics you can think of. Now, it appears, it wants to be the place …
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Facebook says video posts per person have increased 75% globally, 94% in US since last year — What the Shift to Video Means for Creators — We're increasingly seeing a shift towards visual content on Facebook, especially with video. In just one year, the number of video posts per person …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Super cookies allow sites to track users using most popular browsers even in privacy mode — Browsing in privacy mode? Super Cookies can track you anyway — For years, Chrome, Firefox, and virtually all other browsers have offered a setting that doesn't save or refer to website cookies, browsing history, or temporary files.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Kantar: Apple's share of smartphones up in nearly all markets on strength of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus for the three months ending November 2014 — Apple's Bigger iPhones Dent Android's Sales Momentum — Apple's newest iPhones, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, have put a spring in iOS' smartphone sales figures …
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Evernote lays off 20 employees globally in a partial restructuring — The company says it's making moves to improve its revenues in 2015 — Evernote, makers of software and hardware for enhancing your intelligence, has laid off about 20 employees in offices around the globe, The Verge has learned.| Andrew Watts / Medium: |
A 19-year-old college student describes how and why his demographic uses the various social media platforms — A Teenager's View on Social Media — Written by an actual teen — I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience …
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| Sean Portnoy / ZDNet: |
Intel Compute Stick: quad-core CPU, built in Wi-Fi, on board storage; plugs into any HDMI display, ships with Windows for $149, or Linux for $89, avail. March — CES 2015: Intel introduces Compute Stick with Atom quad-core CPU — Summary:The PC-on-a-stick will come pre-loaded with Windows 8.1 for $149 … | Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Riot building a dedicated network for League of Legends traffic, should be ready end of March — Riot working with ISPs for dedicated League of Legends network — Company expects hardware to be finished by end of March, but service provider agreements could take longer| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Twitter Returns Bing Translator To TweetDeck — Users of the platform can now access translations of tweets in foreign languages again. — Twitter on-again-off-again relationship with Bing Translator is on again. — The company recently returned the feature to TweetDeck … Sponsor Posts
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