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Sony debuts Xperia XZ Premium and Xperia XZs phones with 4GB RAM, 19MP cameras, and IP68 ratings; 64GB XZs on sale April 5 for $699; XZ Premium's price is TBD — Sony announced today at MWC 2017 that it's bringing two new premium phones to the US market: the Xperia XZ Premium and Xperia XZs.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Xperia XZ Premium hands-on: slightly outdated design, but a powerhouse with Snapdragon 835, 3,230mAh battery, 5.5-inch 4K LCD screen, 960FPS ultrafast camera — All the pixels, top-of-the-line SoC, and camera that can shoot almost 1000 FPS. — BARCELONA, Spain—Mobile World Congress is well underway …
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Lenovo launches Tab 4, Tab 4 Plus series of Android tablets in 8- and 10-inch editions, starting at $109 and $199, and a $199 10-inch Miix 320 Windows 2-in-1 — If it wasn't already clear that Lenovo is trying to cover every conceivable tablet niche, it is now.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo launches new Yoga 720 laptops with fingerprint readers, up to 16GB RAM, 4K displays, and stylus support; 13-inch model starts at $860, 15-inch at $1,100 — Lenovo is unveiling its latest Yoga laptops at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. Unlike the series 900 Yoga laptops …
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Twitch will start selling games worldwide this spring; partnered streamers get 5% of each sale originating on their channel while game creators get 70% — It already dominates video game streaming, but Twitch is now getting into a new market: video game selling.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Comcast to launch YouTube app on its Xfinity X1 set-top platform later this year; terms of the deal with Google are not being released — Cable operator inks distribution deal with Google-owned video platform — Comcast plans to launch a YouTube video app on the Xfinity X1 set-top platform …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon Studios wins its first-ever Oscars with best foreign language film for “The Salesman” and best original screenplay for “Manchester by the Sea” — Amazon Studios won its first-ever Academy Awards on Sunday night, taking home three Oscar statues …
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Sony has sold 915K PlayStation VR headsets as of February 19, four months after it went on sale, according to Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Andrew House — SAN MATEO, Calif. — There are plenty of people who are skeptical about virtual reality, a technology some have heralded …
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| Brian Sullivan / CNBC: |
Source: SoftBank is close to finalizing a deal to invest more than $3B in WeWork, putting the startup's valuation above $20B if deal closes — SoftBank is close to finalizing an investment in WeWork, a source close to the transaction tells CNBC. The deal is expected to be worth over $3 billion.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Meet Bernard Coleman III, Uber's diversity officer since January; sources say he's fast tracking the company's first diversity report after recent scandal — The new diversity officer at the car-hailing phenom is working to quickly get out a new diversity report.
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HomeHero, which raised $23M, exits home care industry, blames regulatory changes in part, and raises questions about viability of venture-backed home care — HomeHero hangs up its cape, says goodbye (for now...) — In September, 2016 my family held funeral proceedings in Los Angeles … | Eliana Johnson / Politico: |
A look at Peter Thiel's deep involvement with the Trump transition, with associates from Thiel's firms helping staff agencies and a close aide appointed to NSC — Billionaire iconoclast Peter Thiel's fingerprints are all over the administration. — In early December, the name of a candidate …
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Silicon Valley Business … and Vanity Fair. Tweets: @politico, @elianayjohnson, and @elianayjohnson
| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Lenovo will integrate Amazon Alexa into a variety of Motorola devices including smartphones, starting with an Alexa “Mod” for the Moto Z — Lenovo and Amazon are partnering to integrate Alexa into Moto smartphones, and the first product will be an Alexa “Mod” attachment for the Moto Z smartphone
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