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Broadwell U arrives: Faster laptop CPUs and GPUs from Core i7 to Celeron — Intel's staggered Broadwell rollout continues with 17 new laptop chips. — Intel promised us more chips based on the new Broadwell architecture in early 2015, and today it's delivering on that promise.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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Dish announces Sling TV: stream channels like ESPN, CNN, TNT, and more for $20 per month without a cable subscription — You Can Finally Get ESPN on the Web, for $20 a Month — Lots of people say they want to ditch cable TV for the Web, but can't because they want to watch sports …
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Google Cast for audio lets you stream music from apps like Pandora and Rdio to compatible speakers, coming this spring — Google Cast will offer direct streaming from apps to Sony, LG, and Denon audio products this spring — What will be hot in consumer electronics and computing in 2015?| 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 … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Asked to Remove 345 Million “Pirate” Links in 2014 — In the hope of steering prospective customers away from pirate sites, copyright holders are overloading Google with DMCA takedown notices. — These requests have increased dramatically over the years.
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HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC — HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC — Late last year, HP kicked off the Windows war against Google's Chromebooks with its $200 Streambook 11, and now the company is back again to tackle Chromeboxes with its Stream Mini PC.
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Garmin announces three wildly different smartwatches: Fenix 3, Epix, and Vivoactive — If smartwatches and fitness trackers were extraordinarily hot topics last year, they've only gotten hotter going into 2015. A few products have tried to walk the line between both categories with a single … | Brian Barrett / Gizmodo: |
Parrot's New In-Dash System Gives Any Dumb Car Apple or Android Brains — While Apple CarPlay and Android Auto promise to make your car's in-dash system infinitely more bearable in the not so distant future, you're still stuck in the unfortunate position of having to choose between one or the other.
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LG G Flex 2: curved smartphone with 5.5-inch screen and Snapdragon 810 coming to Korea this month, AT&T and Sprint later this year — LG G Flex 2: Second-gen curved smartphone features 5.5-inch screen, Snapdragon 810 and ‘self-healing’ capabilities (hands-on)| Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times: |
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 …
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Alibaba Competitor Wanda E-commerce Raises $161M At $3B Valuation — China-based Wanda E-commerce, which hopes to position itself as a rival against Alibaba, has raised one billion RMB (about $161 million) in funding from investment funds Centec Networks and Xude Rendao.
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Gogoro lays foundation for a smart battery swapping infrastructure with a new electric scooter — After Raising $150 Million In Stealth Mode, What The Heck Is Gogoro? — In 2011, Gogoro raised $50 million. Three years later, another $100 million. And yet, no one seems to have any idea what the heck Gogoro does.
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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.
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