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| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
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
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
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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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New York Magazine and The Verge. Tweets: @mims, @asanwal, @oliviasolon, @caseynewton, @mattrosoff, @rhhackett, @alex, @reedalbergotti, @stevetweedie, and @eringriffith
| 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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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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Tweets: @microsoft and @bradsmi
| 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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