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Dish announces Sling TV: stream channels like ESPN, CNN, and TNT over the internet 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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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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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 … | Gordon Mah Ung / PC World: |
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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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?
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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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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)| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Netflix's Recommended TV program will help you find the best TV for streaming — A lot of what we watch on TV nowadays comes streaming in from the internet, but not every TV is cut out to do that well out of the box. In an attempt to make sure that viewers have a good experience …
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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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| 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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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 … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
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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Gogo Inflight Internet is intentionally issuing fake SSL certificates — SSL/TLS is a protocol that exists to ensure there exists an avenue for secure communication over the Internet. Through the use of cryptography and certificate validation, SSL certificates make man-in-the-middle attacks … | Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint: |
Plex to add new music streaming features, HD videos from Vevo to match your tracks — Plex has been busy of late, having introduced apps for consoles, including PS4 and Xbox One, and now it is refreshing the way its server software presents music files to make that experience better.Sponsor Posts
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