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Withings launches Activité Pop, a $150 version of its $450 fitness-tracking wristwatch — The Withings Activité Pop is a cheaper brand of beautiful fitness-tracking wristwatch — It's not Swiss Made, but it's not $450 either — The Withings Activité is a watch.| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP unveils its 5K monitor, available in March for $1299, alongside curved, 4K, and 3D displays — HP intros a slew of monitors, including curved, 5K and 3D models — HP just announced a boatload of new monitors here at CES and impressively, they seem to combine every big tech buzzword from the past few years.| Gordon Mah Ung / PC World: |
Lenovo announces new Broadwell-powered ThinkPad X1 Carbon, refreshed X, T, L, and E series laptops, “ThinkPad Stack” peripherals — ThinkPads get Broadwell and break the 100 million mark — Lenovo says it's crossed a huge milestone with its ThinkPad line that's impressive … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple's marketing priorities are driving the pace of software releases at the expense of quality — Apple has lost the functional high ground — Apple's hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has taken such a nosedive in the last few years that I'm deeply concerned for its future.
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Nest adds 15 new partners, now integrates with smartlocks, lighting and home appliances — Nest's thermostat gets smarter with support for more third-party devices — Nest is today announcing a handful of new additions to the company's “Works with Nest” program, a designation given …
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Nvidia's new Tegra X1 chip features an 8-core 64-bit CPU and a 256-core Maxwell-based GPU, powers Drive CX/PX car computers — Nvidia announces Tegra X1 SoC with Maxwell-based GPU [Updated] — LAS VEGAS, NEVADA—Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took to the stage this evening to kick off the company's CES.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Roku TV to support 4K content, starting with Netflix and a TV set from TCL; Insignia and Haier to offer Roku TV on select models — Roku to stream 4K Ultra HD Netflix on future models — CES is a prime occasion for all parts of the TV industry to promote the slow but inevitable march … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Netflix Cracks Down on VPN and Proxy “Pirates” — Due to complicated licensing agreements Netflix is only available in a few dozen countries, all of which have a different content library. — Some people bypass these content and access restrictions by using VPNs or other circumvention tools that change their geographical location.
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How Megan Smith is trying to bring her Silicon Valley sensibility to the White House as US CTO — Her Task Is to Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks — WASHINGTON — President Obama's top technology adviser cringes when she hears highly educated adults say how bad they are at science and math … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Xiaomi launches Redmi 2 with LTE, Snapdragon 410 CPU, improved 2MP front camera; goes on sale in China Jan. 9 for about $112 — Xiaomi Announces Redmi 2 Smartphone Packing LTE, A 64-Bit Snapdragon, And More — Xiaomi doesn't have much of a presence in the US, but it's one of the most prominent smartphone makers in Asia.
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Tweets: @hbarra, @benedictevans, @jonrussell, @benbajarin, @hbarra and @benbajarin
| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Belkin expands its WeMo line of connected devices with door, window, keychain, alarm, and motion sensors; coming second half of 2015 — Belkin expands WeMo line with four new sensors — Belkin has added a variety of sensors to its popular WeMo line of connected home products … | Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Seagate debuts 7mm thin, 500GB HD for $100; 500GB wireless drive for $130; and 3-5TB Personal Cloud drives — Seagate outs a fleet of cloud, wireless and super-thin hard drives — If getting your digital life better organized is tops on your list of New Year's resolutions, Seagate has a trio of options that cover all the bases.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Four-year-old Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS still ships on some new devices, gets partial support from Google via Play Services updates — Android 2.3 Gingerbread—Four years later, the OS just won't die — Years of support means the OS looks very different today than it did in 2010.
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