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Android Wear 2.0 review: new capabilities, such as Android Pay and installing apps locally, make devices more useful, but bugs can spoil the experience — Are Android Wear 2.0 and two new watches from LG enough to get you to care about smartwatches? — Are you wearing a smartwatch? Not likely.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Pinterest debuts Lens in beta, a search tool which identifies real-world objects and suggests related products — New, more visual search — Pinterest today introduced Lens, a new visual search tool that uses machine vision to detect objects in the real world and suggest related items on the service.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple has hired Timothy D. Twerdahl, director of Amazon's Fire TV business, as VP of Apple TV product marketing; Twerdahl worked at Netflix and Roku in the past — Former Amazon executive also held roles at Netflix and Roku — The hire lets company to beef up team seeking content deals
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Facebook expands Safety Check to help people offer community aid like food and shelter, now live in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Saudi Arabia — Facebook wants to connect those in need with people who have shelter or food to offer. — Facebook is expanding Safety Check … | Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
The New York Times partners with Spotify to give readers who buy one-year digital subscription unlimited access to Spotify's premium tier — Joint online news and music subscription costs $5 per week — Publisher seeking to maintain momentum after subscriber surge
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Flipboard debuts personalized Smart Magazines, which aggregate stories on various topics, available today — Flipboard is releasing a big update today, which introduces “Smart Magazines” — a new way for people to find news stories and other content tied to their interests.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft debuts Azure IP Advantage, a new program to provide customers with access to 10K Microsoft patents to help fight “baseless patent lawsuits” — Microsoft's new Azure IP Advantage program is providing Microsoft cloud users with access to 10,000 Microsoft patents to help them fight ‘baseless patent lawsuits.’
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Smart home startup Brilliant launches Control, a $199 5-inch wall-mounted hub for controlling appliances, available for pre-order today — One of the biggest challenges facing smart home gadgets is the light switch. Light switches are dead simple. They work instantly. And everyone knows how to use them.| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus VR pop-ups in Best Buys after a steep decline in consumer demos after Christmas — Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus virtual reality demo stations at Best Buy locations across the US, Business Insider has learned.
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| Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Priceline Group buys European travel search firm Momondo for $550M, its largest acquisition since purchasing OpenTable for $2.6B in 2014 — Momondo Group CEO Hugo Burge in the company's London headquarters. The Priceline Group acquired the group of metasearch sites in an all-cash deal. Momondo Group| John Hopewell / Variety: |
EU agrees to cross-border access to streaming and digital content services, like video-on-demand, online TV, music, and online games, starting 2018 — So-called ‘portability’ rules the first piece in the European Commission's Digital Single Market strategy, and the least contentious
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Tweets: @garethsoye, @footballlaw, @dsmeu, and @dsmeu
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify partners with AccuWeather to launch Climatune, which generates playlists based on the weather and the mood it creates — The weather and its many faces have served as an inspiration for many musicians, who have crooned about the London fog, the Sun coming out, stormy weather and the clothes you wear for a season.
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