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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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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 …
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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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| 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 … | Dong Ngo / CNET: |
Symantec debuts Norton Core router that promises real-time security for up to 20 devices, available June for $280 plus $99/year for Security Plus subscription — You'll know Norton as one of the most popular names in security software, but now it's a piece of hardware too …
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| Ángel González / The Seattle Times: |
Amazon says it has 45K robots helping in 20 fulfillment centers, up from last year when it had 30K robots working alongside 230K humans — The world's largest e-commerce retailer said it employed 45,000 robots in some 20 fulfillment centers. That's a cool 50 percent increase … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Samsung unveils three QLED TVs with Chromecast-like functionality, pricing and availability TBD — Samsung today introduced its 2017 lineup of QLED televisions, which the company bills as having the “best picture quality — ever.” While the Q7, Q8, and Q9 displays are markedly improved …
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| Chuq Von Rospach: |
Apple's sloppiness became evident in 2016 with missed ship dates, lack of significant updates, and long delays on refreshes; company needs to realign in 2017 — This has been the winter of our discontent. 2016 was the year the tone changed. There's always been a lot of criticism and griping …
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New browser extension allows users to see tags that Facebook automatically applies to photos, available for Chrome and Firefox — Want to try this? Install it from the Chrome Web Store — Since April 2016, Facebook has been automatically adding alt tags to images you upload that are populated … | 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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| Shawn Knight / TechSpot: |
Synaptics unveils new multi-factor authentication system that can combine fingerprint and facial recognition for smartphones, tablets, and laptops — Synaptics is looking to take the lead in mobile security in 2017. After announcing an optical reader that can scan fingerprints through glass last month …
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| 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.| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ODG unveils R-8 and R-9 consumer AR/VR glasses for around $1K and $1.8K respectively; both use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chip and are built on Android — On the heels of raising $58 million in December, the wearables company Osterhout Design Group — known for making smart glasses and other gear …
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Tech Trader Daily, TechEye, BetaNews, Digital Trends, ZDNet, The Verge, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Wearable Tech Insider, Engadget, Android Authority, GeekWire, Android Police, Liliputing, CNET, Windows Central, TechRadar.com, and Business Insider. Tweets: @yoda. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| 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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