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LG debuts 1.2" $249 Watch Style and 1.38" $349 Watch Sport with Android Wear 2.0, on sale Feb. 10; the Sport is bulky but has NFC, GPS, LTE, heart rate monitor — Welcome to a new era of Android Wear smartwatches. — Google is ready to launch its newest revision of Android Wear …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Android Wear 2.0 review: new capabilities, such as Android Pay and installing apps locally, make devices more useful, but bugs can spoil the experience — Are Android Wear 2.0 and two new watches from LG enough to get you to care about smartwatches? — Are you wearing a smartwatch? Not likely.
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Tweets: @pierce, @jandawson, @starfire2258, @chrispirillo, @google, @dcseifert, @dangraziano, @dangraziano, @dangraziano, @stevekovach, @dcseifert, and @stevekovach
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Pinterest debuts Lens in beta, a search tool which identifies real-world objects and suggests related products — New, more visual search — Pinterest today introduced Lens, a new visual search tool that uses machine vision to detect objects in the real world and suggest related items on the service.
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus VR pop-ups in Best Buys after a steep decline in consumer demos after Christmas — Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus virtual reality demo stations at Best Buy locations across the US, Business Insider has learned.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with a picture-in-picture feature called Compact Overlay, new share icon, Dynamic Lock, more — Timed perfectly with Windows Developer Day, Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a Compact Overlay mode, Dynamic Lock, and improved full-screen Game Bar support.
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| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Rackspace lays off 6% of US workforce, about 276 jobs, plus an undisclosed number of overseas jobs — Three months after being taken private in a $4.3 billion buyout, Rackspace is cutting 6% of its U.S. workforce along with an undisclosed number of jobs overseas.| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Sources: Magic Leap's consumer prototype is in “good shape” ahead of board meeting, but January demos used vaporware; as timeline slips, SDK expected in 2017 — The future of Magic Leap, a quickly expanding startup valued at $4.5 billion that's developing a futuristic pair of computer glasses …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Flipboard debuts personalized Smart Magazines, which aggregate stories on various topics, available today — Flipboard is releasing a big update today, which introduces “Smart Magazines” — a new way for people to find news stories and other content tied to their interests.
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Flipboard, The Verge, VentureBeat, Recode, Fast Company, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Wired, Android Police, Mashable, Engadget, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, Fortune, Yahoo! Finance, USA Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, Adweek, MacRumors, CNET, Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @pierce, @rafat, @caseynewton, and @chris_ciaccia
| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
The New York Times partners with Spotify to give readers who buy one-year digital subscription unlimited access to Spotify's premium tier — Joint online news and music subscription costs $5 per week — Publisher seeking to maintain momentum after subscriber surge
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Facebook expands Safety Check to help people offer community aid like food and shelter, now live in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Saudi Arabia — Facebook wants to connect those in need with people who have shelter or food to offer. — Facebook is expanding Safety Check … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft debuts Azure IP Advantage, a new program to provide customers with access to 10K Microsoft patents to help fight “baseless patent lawsuits” — Microsoft's new Azure IP Advantage program is providing Microsoft cloud users with access to 10,000 Microsoft patents to help them fight ‘baseless patent lawsuits.’
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| Jasper Jackson / The Guardian: |
In an unusual move, Wikipedia editors vote to ban The Daily Mail as a source after finding it “generally unreliable” — Online encyclopaedia editors rule out publisher as a reference citing ‘reputation for poor fact checking and sensationalism’
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