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Nvidia debuts $200 4K Shield TV with built in Google Assistant, and Nvidia Spot, a mic device to offer always-on listening, coming later this year for $50 — Nvidia has a new Shield streaming device that has 4K streaming capability, with built-in streaming support for 4K content via Netflix and other services.
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces GeForce Now, a cloud-based game streaming service coming to Macs and PCs in March priced from $25 for 20 hours of play — Nvidia's GeForce Now video game streaming service, previously exclusive to its own Android-based Shield devices, is coming to PC and Mac.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia partners with Audi to bring a self-driving AI car to market by 2020 — Nvidia announced several new partners for its efforts to bring autonomous cars to public roads in a production capacity today, but the biggest by far was Audi. Nvidia is working with the carmaker to bring its AI driving tech … | Ev Williams / Medium: |
Medium says it's laying off 50 employees, about a third of its staff, and closing its NY and DC offices, as it refocuses on a “less proven” means to pay writers — We've decided to make some major changes at Medium. — I'll start with the hard part: As of today …
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At least five publishing partners say they had no advance notice Medium would stop selling its native ad unit “Promoted Stories” — On Wednesday, Medium co-founder Evan Williams announced in a blog post that the publishing platform would abandon its strategy to sell native advertising …
| Sascha Prueter / Google: |
Google Assistant coming to TVs running Android 6.0+ in “coming months”, and to Android Wear 2.0 and Android-powered in-car infotainment systems “over time” — When we announced the Google Assistant, we said that we wanted to help you get things done across a number of different places, contexts and situations.
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Apple removed news apps made by The New York Times from its App Store in China, complying with what it vaguely described as a request from Chinese authorities — Apple, complying with what it said was a request from Chinese authorities, removed news apps created by The New York Times from its app store in China late last month.
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See also Mediagazer| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Samsung re-enters gaming with 15.6" and 17.3" Notebook Odysseys, with up to 32GB RAM and good portability, shipping this Feb. from $1,200 — Samsung makes perfectly nice PCs and all, but it's been years since we've seen it try to court the gamer market with a rig of their own.| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Samsung debuts two stylus-enabled 12.3" Chromebooks that run Android apps: ARM-based Plus, shipping in Feb. for $449, and Intel-based Pro, coming in Spring — Late last year, I lamented that Google didn't make Chromebooks a priority over the holiday season.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
With Alexa, Amazon is building the operating system of the home, a strategy that's more evident with each new Alexa-integrated device announcement — The concept of an operating system is pretty straightforward: it is a piece of software that manages a computer, making said computer's …
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| Apple: |
Developers earned $20B from App Store in 2016, up 40% from 2015; January 1, 2017 saw biggest single day sales of $240M — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced that the App Store welcomed 2017 with its busiest single day ever on New Year's Day, capping a record-breaking holiday season …
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| Keiko Morris / MarketWatch: |
Amazon says it will open a 4,000-square-foot store in Manhattan's Time Warner Center in New York in spring — Online retailing giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to open its first New York City bookstore in Manhattan's Time Warner Center, the company said late Wednesday.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
ASUS unveils 5.5-inch ZenFone 3 Zoom with dual-cameras, 5,000 mAh battery, on sale in February with pricing TBD — The phone has less optical zoom than its predecessor, but a a new, impressive 5,000 mAh battery — Asus has unveiled the ZenFone 3 Zoom — a successor to the ZenFone Zoom … | Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Huawei to start selling its 5.9-inch Mate 9 in the US on January 6 for $600 unlocked — Following Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 debacle, Huawei looks to please “phablet” smartphone fans with the Mate 9 in the US. — Huawei will launch its monstrous, 5.9-inch Huawei Mate 9 in the US starting January 6 …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Slack makes investments in 11 new bot makers as part of Slack Fund, including startups that integrate Salesforce, improve search, more — Slack announced today that it has invested in nearly a dozen new bot startups to bolster its Slack App Directory. — The team collaboration chat app …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
HTC announces TPCast, an add-on that makes Vive wireless, available Q2 for $249, and unveils Vive Tracker, a device that lets devs track objects in VR, more — After living through the VR frenzy of 2016, it's almost hard to believe that HTC's Vive Pre debuted at CES just a year ago.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Vine app to shutter January 17, will be replaced with Vine Camera app; users can download their Vines before shutdown date — Back in October, Twitter announced that it was shutting down the popular 6-second video sharing service Vine. After outcry from users, however … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
New PCs at CES prove the industry remains exciting: 2-in-1s like Dell's updated XPS 13, desktops like ASUS' VivoPC X, and new laptops like LG's Gram 14 — All the potential and possibilities of the modern Windows machine — It's a fascinating time to purchase a PC.
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| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
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