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Lenovo launches VR-ready Legion gaming notebooks and the $129 Alexa-powered Smart Assistant speaker, updates Thinkpad X1 workstations and Miix detachables — Channeling its inner gamer who simultaneously wants a smarter home. — LAS VEGAS—Lenovo prepared a few surprises for its CES lineup.
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Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1 starts at $1K, has compact fanless design, fingerprint reader, support for optional stylus, and decent battery life of about 8.5 hours — Pros / Most compact 2-in-1 with 13-inch screen; Comfortable keyboard; Vibrant InfinityEdge display; Impressive audio …
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Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years, after a 125% climb during 2016 — Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent climb in 2016.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Qualcomm inadvertently reveals ASUS ZenFone AR, Tango-enabled and Daydream-ready, and powered by Snapdragon 821 — Qualcomm has inadvertently published a press release today about the yet-to-be-announced ASUS ZenFone AR. Billed as the world's first device to be both Tango-enabled and Daydream-ready … | Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
Japanese insurance company to replace 34 claim staff with IBM Watson Explorer in January for $1.7M up front, $128K/year, saving $1.1M /year in employee salaries — Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce … | The Verge: |
What to expect at CES 2017: a deluge of wireless audio and VR devices, drones, TVs, and self-driving cars — TVs, drones, and self-driving cars invade Las Vegas — It's that time again: the holidays are over, a fresh year is on the calendar, and it's time for the annual gadget bacchanalia …
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PitchBook: non-tech firms spent ~$10B acquiring VC-backed US startups in 2016, nearly double the amount from 2015 and the highest total in at least five years — Silicon Valley upstarts are courted by retail, manufacturing companies seeking new growth — In late 2015, a commuter-shuttle … | Matthew Humphries / PC Magazine: |
Researchers: ID codes printed on boarding passes, luggage tags for ~90% of flights let hackers access travelers' personal info, steal reservations, more — Booking a flight has become a simple process thanks to the Internet, and once you have flights secured you can relax, right?| Lyndal Rowlands / Inter Press Service: |
Governments around the world shut down the internet more than 50 times in 2016 — Governments around the world shut down the internet more than 50 times in 2016 - suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech. — In the worst cases internet shutdowns have been associated … | Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Dish's AirTV set-top box provides 4K streaming for Sling TV, Netflix, and YouTube, includes an over-the-air antenna for live TV — Finding quality 4K content is still rather difficult, but that isn't keeping hardware manufacturers from building devices to support the format.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Twitter's managing director for Greater China, Kathy Chen, leaves after 8 months — Kathy Chen follows others out the door of the social communications company. — Twitter lost yet another top exec with the departure of Kathy Chen, its managing director in Greater China.
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