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Intel announces a new NUC powered by Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics, claims it's the smallest VR-capable computer on the market — Intel claims it's the smallest VR-capable computer ever. We've called Intel's NUC “the future of tiny desktops.”| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel officially launches 8th Gen Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics, the first Intel chips with AMD's Radeon Graphics — It's here - one of the most unlikely partnerships in the semiconductor industry. Long-time rivals Intel and AMD, battling out of x86 dominance for over 35 years, are now co-conspirators.| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Dogecoin market cap hits $1B+; price has risen 400%+ in the past month; creator says it's a sign of broader market excess as it hasn't been updated in 2 years — Dogecoin, the parody coin named for an internet meme featuring a Shiba Inu dog, has broken off the leash.
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| Ryan Selkis / TwoBitIdiot: |
Thoughts on cryptocurrencies for 2018, including prices and investing, people involved, taxes, ICOs and crypto funds, promising applications, and more — Happy new year, everyone! — The post-Christmas, pre-New Year's period is always one of my favorites.
| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Netatmo debuts Smart Home Bot, a Facebook Messenger chatbot for its own and partner devices like thermostats, cameras, smart lights, and blinds — Voice controls not your thing? No problem. — While voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant are taking over the home …
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| David Benoit / Wall Street Journal: |
Two Apple investors, which hold ~$2B in stock, say Apple should study impact of phone overuse on kids' mental health, offer parents better tools to manage use — Two activist shareholders want Apple to develop tools and research effects on young people of smartphone overuse and addiction
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Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and Mashable
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| Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
As prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum have skyrocketed, so have transaction fees on their blockchains, making entire categories of decentralized apps impractical — Sure, fine, maybe it's a bubble. OK it's definitely a bubble, but that's a good thing, a bubble brings attention and investment … | Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Recent public outcry against Alibaba's Sesame Credit and Tencent's WeChat over user privacy point to a growing demand for online data protection in China — SHANGHAI — China's biggest online payment company offers its hundreds of millions of users a breakdown on their spending each year …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Belkin starts shipping WeMo HomeKit Bridge hub with Apple HomeKit support, announced 8 months ago, for $40 — Belkin is releasing a new version of its Wemo smart home hub that allows its connected home system to integrate with Apple's HomeKit. The new hub costs $40 and is going on sale today …
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TechHive, CNET, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, and Zatz Not Funny!
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia partners with Acer, Asus, HP to launch 4K 120Hz 65-inch gaming displays this summer, with its G-Sync tech and Android TV-based Shield platform built in — Nvidia is announcing today that it is going to supersize PC gaming with a new breed of Big Format Gaming Displays — or BFGDs.
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TechCrunch and SlashGear
| Anders Fogh / cyber.wtf: |
Meltdown researcher Anders Fogh explains how multiple researchers discovered the same vulnerabilities in modern CPUs at around the same time — Introduction — In this blog post I'll speculate as to how we ended up with multiple researchers arriving at the same vulnerabilities in modern CPU's concurrently.
| Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
A year after launch, Facebook Journalism Project gets mixed reviews for developing products with news outlets, providing training, and helping to curb hoaxes — A year ago, Facebook launched its Facebook Journalism Project. Led by Campbell Brown, the ex-NBC News anchor who was Facebook's …
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