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Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1 starts at $1K, has compact fanless design, fingerprint reader, support for optional stylus, and decent battery life of about 8.5 hours — Pros / Most compact 2-in-1 with 13-inch screen; Comfortable keyboard; Vibrant InfinityEdge display; Impressive audio …
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Qualcomm inadvertently reveals ASUS ZenFone AR, Tango-enabled and Daydream-ready, and powered by Snapdragon 821 — Qualcomm has inadvertently published a press release today about the yet-to-be-announced ASUS ZenFone AR. Billed as the world's first device to be both Tango-enabled and Daydream-ready …
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Lenovo launches VR-ready Legion gaming notebooks and the $129 Alexa-powered Smart Assistant speaker, updates Thinkpad X1 workstations and Miix detachables — Channeling its inner gamer who simultaneously wants a smarter home. — LAS VEGAS—Lenovo prepared a few surprises for its CES lineup.
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Researchers: ID codes printed on boarding passes, luggage tags for ~90% of flights let hackers access travelers' personal info, steal reservations, more — Booking a flight has become a simple process thanks to the Internet, and once you have flights secured you can relax, right?| Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
PitchBook: non-tech firms spent ~$10B acquiring VC-backed US startups in 2016, nearly double the amount from 2015 and the highest total in at least five years — Silicon Valley upstarts are courted by retail, manufacturing companies seeking new growth — In late 2015, a commuter-shuttle … | Jemima Kelly / Reuters: |
Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years — Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent climb in 2016.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Twitter's managing director for Greater China, Kathy Chen, leaves after 8 months — Kathy Chen follows others out the door of the social communications company. — Twitter lost yet another top exec with the departure of Kathy Chen, its managing director in Greater China.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Security Without Borders project launches to help journalists and activists with cybersecurity by connecting them with volunteer group of InfoSec professionals — Some hackers have lost their way. Today, countless techies have entered the for-profit cybersecurity business … | Agence France-Presse: |
French law requiring companies to give workers a “right to disconnect” from work-related messages after work hours now in effect — From 1 January, workers have ‘right to disconnect’ as France seeks to establish agreements that afford work flexibility but avoid burnout
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen's 2016 top apps by monthly uniques: Facebook, up 14% YoY to 146M; Messenger, up 28% to 129M; and YouTube, up 20% to 113M; Amazon hits #10, up 43% to 65M — Mobile applications from Facebook and Google dominated the new list of the year's top apps released today by Nielsen.| Manish Singh / Mashable: |
Amazon launches “Sell as Individual” pilot service in Bangalore, India, allowing users to sell used goods — Amazon is eyeing old goods and the space of reselling those products as it works on expanding its ecommerce business in India. — Amazon has launched its “Sell as Individual” … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
NFL inks a deal to livestream select games, including the Super Bowl, on Sina Weibo, often called China's Twitter — The NFL is hoping to expand its presence in China with a new deal that gives social media platform, Sina Weibo - often called China's Twitter - the rights to live stream select games … Sponsor Posts
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