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Lenovo launches $129 Alexa-powered Smart Assistant speaker, VR-ready Legion gaming notebooks, and updated 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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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Amazon partners with three Chinese manufacturers to launch Amazon Fire-powered 4K TVs, to be sold online and in select retail stores later this year — Amazon is now making its own TV — sort of, anyway: The e-commerce giant has teamed up with Seiki, Westinghouse and Element Electronics …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Amazon pushes Alexa-everywhere strategy at CES, with integrations for Dish's Hopper DVR, Whirlpool appliances, Lenovo assistant devices, more — A bevy of vendors are integrating Amazon's Alexa digital assistant technology. Artificial intelligence matters, but distribution, developers, and integration may matter more.
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| Mark Walton / Ars Technica UK: |
Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: minimal improvements mean high-end desktop CPU performance remains at a standstill — With identical performance to Skylake, Intel brings desktop performance to a standstill. — The Intel Core i7-7700K is what happens when a chip company stops trying.
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| 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 …
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Mollie Ruiz-Hopper / Windows Blog: |
Acer debuts new high-end PCs including a 21-inch curved-screen gaming laptop with GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, eye tracking, 7th-gen Intel i7, 64GB RAM, $9K price tag — Ahead of CES 2017, Acer announced an impressive new lineup of Windows 10 PCs focused on performance and entertainment.
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| Alaina Yee / PCWorld: |
HP unveils 34-inch Envy with 3440x1440 IPS curved display, Intel i7 Kaby Lake CPU, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, and AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU, starting at $1,730 — All-in-ones could be a lot sleeker than they are. Most current designs squeeze every component into the display section …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel takes 15% stake in HERE to develop autonomous positioning systems based on Intel tech; terms undisclosed but stake worth $390M at 2015 HERE sale valuation — Here, the mapping and location services company once owned by Nokia and sold for €2.5 billion to a car-maker consortium of Audi …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Asus debuts the compact VR-ready VivoPC X desktop with i5 Kaby Lake, Nvidia GTX 1060, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, coming in March for $799 — One of the big drawbacks of VR is having to set up a headset close to a big and powerful gaming PC. Asus is trying to address that with a compact desktop PC that's designed …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Dell updates Inspiron 15 7000 gaming laptop and Alienware's 13-inch, 15-inch, 17-inch models with Intel's Kaby Lake chips — Dell is launching four new gaming laptops today based on Intel's newest Kaby Lake processors. — The Round Rock, Texas-based company unveiled the laptops at CES 2017 …
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Thanks:@mspoonauer| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Dish's AirTV set-top box provides 4K streaming for Sling TV, Netflix, and YouTube, also has 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.
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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 … Sponsor Posts
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