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Samsung's 2018 and 2019 TV models will be able to access iTunes content directly via a dedicated app and support Apple's AirPlay 2 wireless streaming standard — Coming to all 2018 and 2019 TVs along with AirPlay 2 — Samsung's 2018 and 2019 range of televisions will be able to access …
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 2060 desktop graphics card for $349 available beginning January 15, brings GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs to gaming laptops — Nvidia head Jensen Huang took the stage at a packed CES keynote briefing dedicated specifically to the company's gaming technology.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Samsung announces Notebook Odyssey gaming laptop with Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics and a 15.6-inch 1080p display at 144Hz with G-Sync support — Almost every PC maker has tried their hands at gaming laptops, but what's surprising about Samsung is that it's never quite gotten it right.
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HP announces Chromebook 14, its first AMD-based Chromebook with a 14" screen, AMD A4/A6 CPU, integrated Radeon R4/R5 GPU, and 4GB of RAM, starting at $269 — HP's new Chromebooks for CES 2019 include the first-ever AMD processor powered model, the HP Chromebook 14 (db0020nr).
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
CES 2018 tech updates: Nvidia's 65" 4K HDR gaming monitors delayed, Sony's Aibo slowly shipping, Intel processors with AMD graphics facing low adoption — But sometimes, companies surprise us by actually shipping them, too. — Today, on the eve of CES 2019, let's see what happened to last year's most intriguing new technologies.
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What to expect at CES 2019: foldable devices, 5G phones and laptops, phone displays with hole-punch cameras, and 8K TVs — CES 2019 is upon us, and The Verge is headed back to Las Vegas to bring you all of the news from the gadget-filled electronics show next week.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Withings unveils $129 Move ECG smartwatch with activity and sleep tracking, and ECG monitoring that is awaiting FDA clearance, available in Q2 2019 — The analog-faced smartwatch uses three electrodes to measure ECGs. — Withings has had a tumultuous couple of years.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
NSA to open source its GHIDRA reverse engineering tool that breaks down executable files into assembly code that can be analyzed by humans — GHIDRA is written in Java and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. — The US National Security Agency will release a free reverse engineering tool …
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| Adrian Zmudzinski / Cointelegraph.com News: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken says it has received 475 law enforcement inquiries in 2018 compared to 160 in 2017; 315 of the inquiries came from US agencies — Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has received nearly three times more law enforcement inquiries in 2018 than in 2017, the exhange reported in a tweet Jan. 5.
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| Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: |
Netflix has released about 345 original series, movies, and other productions in 2018, which comes to an estimated 90,000 minutes or 1,500 hours of content — Netflix released a ridiculous amount of original programming in 2018. How ridiculous? By Quartz's measure … | The Economist: |
Masayoshi Son believes Arm's chip blueprints could someday be in 1,000 internet-connected devices per human; his strategy for Arm is revenue growth, not profit — The British company's pre-eminent position in chip design helps him predict tech's future — On the outskirts of Cambridge … | Janosch Delcker / Politico: |
A look at Finland's strategy to become a leader in practical AI applications, starting with a grassroots program to teach 1% of its population the basics of AI — Inside Finland's plan to train its population in artificial intelligence. — HELSINKI — Jaana Partanen is not your typical AI programming geek.
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