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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: |
Intel begins shipping 14nm “Cherry Trail” chips for tablets — Next-gen Atom SoCs refine the CPU and provide a big boost to the GPU. — In addition to the new Broadwell chips it's announcing today, Intel is also sharing a little information on “Cherry Trail,” its new SoCs for Windows and Android tablets.
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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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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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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| 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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Dish Sling TV: stream channels like ESPN, CNN, more, over internet for $20/month without cable — 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 — specifically the stuff on ESPN … | 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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| 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.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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 … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces the Nokia 215, a $29 Internet-ready phone headed to emerging markets in Q1 — Microsoft launches the Nokia 215, a $29 feature phone touted as its most affordable Internet device yet — Microsoft might be ditching “Nokia” from its flagship Lumia smartphones … | CNET: |
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)
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