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January 6, 2014, 1:05 PM

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Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

Google Teams With GM, Honda, and Audi to Bring Android to Cars — That kid—the one in the back of the SUV with the iPad—is the automotive industry's worst enemy. He's also the reason some of the world's biggest automakers are working with Google to bring its Android software into vehicle infotainment systems.

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

How Mark Zuckerberg turned around Facebook by prioritizing mobile ad revenues — Profitable Learning Curve for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — In Taking Facebook Public, Reshaping It Around Mobile Phones, Chief Gained Focus on Bottom Line … MENLO PARK, Calif.— Mark Zuckerberg needed help.

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Mariella Moon / Engadget:

LG Lifeband touch and Heart Rate Monitor earphones aim to help you keep fit — Televisions aren't the only thing LG brought to CES this year — it's lugged along a couple of wearable fitness devices, too. In fact, we've already seen one of them. The company's FuelBand competitor showcased …

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Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Sponsored Data: AT&T will now let companies buy out your data charges for specific videos and apps — Today at CES, AT&T announced a new service called Sponsored Data, offering a way for companies to pick up the tab for 4G data usage whenever particular products or services are being used.

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay plans own P2P network accessed via browser-like client to circumvent censorship — How The Pirate Bay Plans to Beat Censorship For Good — Over the past few years The Pirate Bay has had to deal with its fair share of censorship, mostly through court-ordered blockades.

More: Inquirer, The Verge, Guardian, Geek.com and Softpedia News

Rich McCormick / The Verge:

T-Mobile to buy unused Verizon spectrum in deal worth over $3 billion — T-Mobile has agreed to buy 700 MHz A-block spectrum from Verizon Wireless for $2.365 billion. The sale will also see T-Mobile transfer certain AWS and PCS spectrum licenses with a value of around $950 million to Verizon …

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Michael Brown / PC World:

Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one — Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one — LAS VEGAS—Lenovo announced several new desktop PCs at CES. And in a move that's sure to give Microsoft heartburn …

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Michael Brown / PC World:

Lenovo's mobile CES portfolio: A new ThinkPad X1 Carbon, fresh convertibles, and tablets

More: 9to5Google, Computerworld, SuperSite for Windows, Engadget, Inquirer, BetaNews, Electronista, CNET and USA Today

Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith and @starfire2258

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Lenovo's latest Miix 2 tablets use magnets to convert into a laptop

More: CNET, Electronista and Inquirer

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Rebooting webOS: how LG rethought the smart TV — Four years after it was first introduced, webOS comes back to CES in a radically different form — Things never went very well for webOS. Between its blockbuster launch at CES in 2009 and its relaunch on LG's smart TVs today lies a history …

More: Engadget, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, BGR, NDTV Gadgets and SlashGear

Tweets: @llsethj and @fmanjoo

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

LG will launch its curved G Flex smartphone in the US this quarter on Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile — LG will launch its curved G Flex Android smartphone in the United States during the first quarter of 2014. During its press conference at CES, LG said the device would be available on Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile.

More: PR Newswire, The Verge, Gizmodo, Gigaom, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, AnandTech, Android Beat, Softpedia News, The Droid Guy, Android Central and CNET. Tweets: @markmilian

Bruce Schneier / Wired:

The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable — We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself — as with the Internet of Things. These embedded computers are riddled with vulnerabilities, and there's no good way to patch them.

Tweets: @kashhill

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

inMarket Rolls Out iBeacons To 200 Safeway, Giant Eagle Grocery Stores To Reach Shoppers When It Matters — Today inMarket is beginning a huge rollout of iBeacons to grocery stores including Safeway and Giant Eagle locations in Seattle, San Francisco and Cleveland.

More: VentureBeat and Engadget

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Roku Moves Beyond The Box, Partnering With Hisense And TCL To Introduce Roku TVs — Who would have thought that streaming set-top box manufacturer Roku would actually introduce a TV before Apple? Well, it looks likely that's going to happen, thanks to partnerships with Hisense and TCL …

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Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Asus rides the 2nd Wave of 802.11ac atop its new Wi-Fi router — Asus unveiled a new 802.11ac router at CES in Las Vegas on Sunday. I know, big whoop right? The newest and fastest Wi-Fi technology has been on the market for over a year — 802.11ac has already taken off in the enterprise …

More: Computerworld, TUAW and Softpedia News

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

SteelSeries announces the first MFi Bluetooth game controller for iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch — Today we get a look at the first Apple authorized Bluetooth game controller for iOS devices with the Stratus Wireless Controller announced today by SteelSeries. — We've already reviewed …

More: Touch Arcade, AppleInsider, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, PRWeb, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, BetaNews, MacDailyNews, Ubergizmo, MacRumors and Softpedia News

Kwame Opam / The Verge:

Nvidia debuts 192-core Tegra K1 processor — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, after nearly a year of promising outsized computing power for so-called future “superphones,” took the stage at CES today to unveil the company's latest mobile processor for Android. The 192 CUDA-core Tegra K1 …

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

ZTE's 5.5-inch Grand S II lets your friends unlock the phone with their voice — After a brief tease last week, ZTE has at last revealed the Grand S II. The Android 4.3 smartphone has all the necessary ingredients of an early 2014 flagship, including a 5.5-inch 1080p screen …

More: Business Wire, The Next Web, TechHive, PhoneArena, The Droid Guy, Android Community, Digital Spy, Unwired View, Android Beat, Pocket-lint and Softpedia News

Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:

Snapchat, Target Incidents Could Provide Impetus for New Safeguards — Columnist Farhad Manjoo says he hopes that a recent rash of high-profile security incidents will prompt new money and entrepreneurial energy to pour into the business of protecting our data.

Tweets: @wsjasia

Sean Cooper / Engadget:

Chevrolet and OnStar announce in-car 4G LTE connectivity and curated AppShop — Chevrolet, AT&T and OnStar banded together yesterday at CES 2014 to offer us a glimpse of the heart of the Connected by OnStar 4G LTE infotainment offering: AppShop. The new service will feature a curated collection …

More: Ars Technica, WebProNews, TechHive, LAPTOP Magazine, Gigaom, SlashGear and The Verge

Fred Ehrsam / Re/code:

Bitcoin will hold value if it remains the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership — Bitcoin Is Good — We read with interest Paul Krugman's recent article in the New York Times, humorously titled “Bitcoin Is Evil.” Perhaps the most important part of the article is where Dr. Krugman remarks:

Tweets: @delrey, @mims, @davidlee, @alex and @cdixon

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Ubuntu's desktop interface to include torrent search with license filtering by default — Ubuntu Will Add Torrent Search to Embed Free Culture Into User Experience — In early December 2013 there was a nice announcement for Ubuntu users. Software developer David Callé revealed …

Tweets: @patrickbeuth and @vectorpoem

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Dish's ‘Virtual Joey’ app brings the Hopper DVR experience to LG Smart TVs — Dish already makes it fairly easy to watch live TV and DVR content throughout your house. Its small Joey set-top box can be placed in any room and communicate with the main Hopper in a customer's living room.

More: TechCrunch, Associated Press, Gizmodo, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET and Gizmodo

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