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Amazon partners with three Chinese manufacturers to launch Amazon Fire-powered 4K TVs, to be sold online and in select retail stores later this year — Amazon is now making its own TV — sort of, anyway: The e-commerce giant has teamed up with Seiki, Westinghouse and Element Electronics … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Amazon pushes Alexa-everywhere strategy at CES, with integrations for Dish's Hopper DVR, Whirlpool appliances, Lenovo assistant devices, more — A bevy of vendors are integrating Amazon's Alexa digital assistant technology. Artificial intelligence matters, but distribution, developers, and integration may matter more.
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The Verge, HD Guru, The Verge, About DISH, New York Magazine, Consumerist, Engadget, The Verge, Fortune, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, USA Today, GeekWire, CNET, and Wired
Tweets: @brianroemmele and @benbajarin
| Melissa Riofrio / PCWorld: |
HP debuts Sprout Pro all-in-one PC for 3D creators, an upgrade of existing line with Kaby Lake and a thinner profile, shipping in March, price TBD — HP's Sprout Pro is here to remind us that Microsoft's Surface Studio is not the original creativity-oriented PC, let alone the most creative.
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Windows Blog, TechCrunch, Windows Central, CNET, Engadget, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, and VentureBeat
| Alaina Yee / PCWorld: |
HP unveils 34-inch Envy with 3440x1440 IPS curved display, Intel i7 Kaby Lake CPU, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, and AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU, starting at $1,730 — All-in-ones could be a lot sleeker than they are. Most current designs squeeze every component into the display section …
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Windows Central, AppleInsider, DISPLAYBLOG, SlashGear, TechRadar.com, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, Ubergizmo, and VentureBeat
| Mark Walton / Ars Technica UK: |
Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: minimal improvements mean high-end desktop CPU performance remains at a standstill — With identical performance to Skylake, Intel brings desktop performance to a standstill. — The Intel Core i7-7700K is what happens when a chip company stops trying.
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Tweets: @doener_tech, @bradchacos, @stevesi, @edzitron, @stevesi, @stevesi, and @stevesi
| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Lenovo unveils VR-ready Legion gaming laptops priced from $899, debuts $129 Alexa-powered Smart Assistant, updates Thinkpad X1 workstations, 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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Engadget, Lenovo Blog, Lenovo Blog, TechHive, Engadget, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, On MSFT, iPhone in Canada Blog, Laptop Mag, DISPLAYBLOG, Engadget, Inquirer, Gotta Be Mobile, AnandTech, Tech Times, MacRumors, AnandTech, VentureBeat, The Verge, Android Police, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, AnandTech, AnandTech, Windows Central, Windows Central, Windows Central, SlashGear, SlashGear, SlashGear, SlashGear, Windows Central, and The Verge
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @mims, and @benbajarin
| Mollie Ruiz-Hopper / Windows Blog: |
Acer debuts new high-end PCs including a 21-inch curved-screen gaming laptop with GeForce GTX 1080 GPU, eye tracking, 7th-gen Intel i7, 64GB RAM, $9K price tag — Ahead of CES 2017, Acer announced an impressive new lineup of Windows 10 PCs focused on performance and entertainment.
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The Verge, Digital Trends, Engadget, Windows Central, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, The Fire Hose, Engadget, On MSFT, Neowin, and Laptop Mag
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Zuckerberg's 2017 challenge is to meet and listen to people in all 50 states — After a year of criticism and allegations around fake news, censorship, and bias, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is using his yearly challenge to educate himself on the needs and problems of his users around the United States.
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Mark Zuckerberg, USA Today, Business Insider, Observer, SocialTimes, and Mashable. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
Japanese insurance company to replace 34 claim staff with IBM Watson Explorer in January for $1.7M up front, $128K/year, saving $1.1M /year in employee salaries — Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce …
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Tweets: @andrewyng and @grady_booch
Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel takes 15% stake in HERE to develop autonomous positioning systems based on Intel tech; terms undisclosed but stake worth $390M at 2015 HERE sale valuation — Here, the mapping and location services company once owned by Nokia and sold for €2.5 billion to a car-maker consortium of Audi …
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Intel Newsroom, ZDNet, Computerworld, CNET, Reuters, HERE, The Verge, VentureBeat, Silicon Valley Business …, and Recode
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Asus debuts the compact VR-ready VivoPC X desktop with i5 Kaby Lake, Nvidia GTX 1060, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, coming in March for $799 — One of the big drawbacks of VR is having to set up a headset close to a big and powerful gaming PC. Asus is trying to address that with a compact desktop PC that's designed …
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Windows Central, Engadget, ZDNet, UploadVR, Liliputing, and Laptop Mag
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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PCWorld, VentureBeat, AnandTech, Forbes, Windows Central, AnandTech, On MSFT, Wccftech, HotHardware, Auto World News, GameSpot, Digital Trends, PCWorld, and ExtremeTech
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ODG challenges HoloLens, announces R-8 and R-9 consumer AR glasses, for around $1K and $1.8K respectively; both use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chip — On the heels of raising $58 million in December, the wearbles company Osterhout Design Group — known for making smart glasses and other gear …
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The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Android Authority, GeekWire, The Verge, Engadget, PCWorld, and TechRadar.com. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Dell updates Inspiron 15 7000 gaming laptop and Alienware's 13-inch, 15-inch, 17-inch models with Intel's Kaby Lake chips — Dell is launching four new gaming laptops today based on Intel's newest Kaby Lake processors. — The Round Rock, Texas-based company unveiled the laptops at CES 2017 …
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| Mark Spoonauer / Laptop Mag: |
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Tweets: @mims, @vladsavov, and @stevesi
Thanks:@mspoonauer| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Dish's AirTV set-top box provides 4K streaming for Sling TV, Netflix, and YouTube, also has an over-the-air antenna for live TV — Finding quality 4K content is still rather difficult, but that isn't keeping hardware manufacturers from building devices to support the format.
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Android Police, PCWorld, Gizmodo, BGR, Recode, Android Central, 9to5Google, Android Authority, and The Verge. See also Mediagazer
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