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| Pali Bhat / The Keyword: |
Google consolidates its payment offerings, including Android Pay and Google Wallet, under a single brand: Google Pay — If you've ever paid for groceries with Android Pay, used Chrome to automatically fill in your payment info, or purchased an app on Google Play, then you've already experienced …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AT&T has walked away from a deal to sell smartphones made by Huawei, a partnership that was expected to be announced on Tuesday at CES — Reversal is set back for Chinese electronics giant's hopes to crack U.S. market — AT&T Inc. T .24% has walked away from a deal … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Anker announces Roav Viva, a USB car charger with Alexa enabled via Bluetooth 4.0, available for preorder now in the US on Amazon for $50 — Some automakers are already planning to load their new models with Amazon's famous voice assistant, but you don't need to buy a new car to have Alexa as a road companion.
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| David Pierce / Wired: |
Inside Amazon's Alexa Voice Services division, which develops hardware and software development kits for helping manufacturers build Alexa-enabled products — WHEN IT FIRST launched in 2014, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant was little more than an experiment.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Assistant is coming to smart speakers from a variety of companies this summer, including speakers with displays from JBL, Lenovo, LG, and Sony — Google Assistant is coming to a ton of speakers, some with their own screens — If Google's gigantic “Hey Google” …
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| Janko Rottgers / Variety: |
HTC unveils Vive Pro VR headset with 2880x1600 resolution, a 78% increase over current Vive, and wireless adapter, so customers can lose the wired PC connection — HTC used its virtual reality (VR) keynote at CES in Las Vegas Monday to unveil an updated version of its Vive virtual reality headset …
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| Corinne Reichert / ZDNet: |
At CES keynote, Intel CEO claims major breakthrough with new 49-qubit quantum computing chip, showcases Loihi “neuromorphic” chip, reveals VR partnerships, more — Intel's CES 2018 keynote focused on its 49-qubit quantum computing chip, VR applications for content …
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Wi-Fi Alliance unveils WPA3, a new set of security standards to address weak points of open Wi-Fi networks, expects it in devices this year — Finally, a security reprieve for open Wi-Fi hotspot users. — At last, Wi-Fi security — or lack of — is about to get its day in the sun.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
James Damore, author of controversial diversity memo who was fired by Google, files class action suit claiming it discriminates against white male conservatives — James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing …
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| Alex Cranz / Gizmodo: |
Qualcomm unveils Bluetooth chip that the company claims will reduce power consumption by 65% and give wireless headphones nearly 3x the playback time — There are currently two major annoyances with wireless headphones: the Bluetooth can cut out in areas with a lot of signal noise, and battery life is mostly terrible.
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| Michelle Robbins / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces that Google AMP cache will display publisher URLs and drop the Google AMP URL prefix in search results, starting in the second half of 2018 — Google announced today that they are well on their way to solving one of the most annoying (to publishers) “features” of AMP … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases macOS 10.13.2 supplemental update and iOS 11.2.2 with security improvements to Safari and WebKit to mitigate Spectre vulnerability — Apple just released iOS 11.2.2 with some Safari and WebKit improvements to mitigate the Spectre vulnerability. macOS is also receiving an update.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Oculus to launch the Mi VR in China, which will be similar to Oculus Go but with partner Xiaomi providing software for the headset instead of Facebook — The new headset comes thanks to a partnership with Chinese tech giant Xiaomi. — Facebook is taking a major step toward its goal …
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Oculus Blog, Android Authority, Engadget, Mi Blog, The Verge, CNET, Neowin, VentureBeat, BGR India, and CNBC
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Baidu announces three smart speakers for China running DuerOS 2.0; one has a screen, one is a lamp, one is a projector — Baidu is one of the biggest web companies in China, so naturally, it's trying to take over the smart assistant market there just as Google and Amazon are in the US.
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| Nate Oh / AnandTech: |
Nvidia opens beta of GeForce NOW, its cloud-based game streaming service, to Windows users, after launching beta for Mac users last summer — LAS VEGAS, NV — Today at CES 2018, NVIDIA announced PC availability of the GeForce NOW, their cloud-based game-streaming service, as a free closed beta.
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| Reuters: |
Source: French consumer fraud watchdog launches probe into Apple's “alleged deception and planned obsolescence” of its products — A French prosecutor has launched an investigation of U.S. tech giant Apple <AAPL.O> over alleged deception and planned obsolescence of its products following …
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics forecasts record quarterly profits of ~$14B for Q4 2017, below analysts' estimates as stronger South Korean won weighed on sales — Samsung Electronics Co. reported lower-than-projected profit as it lost momentum in memory chips and faced a strengthening South Korean won.| Karen Hao / Quartz: |
Some students are taking advantage of free electricity in their dorms to mine cryptocurrencies, resulting in higher profit margins than most miners — Mark was a sophomore at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he began mining cryptocurrencies more or less by accident.
Tweets: @pakman
| Jason Cipriani / ZDNet: |
Ring debuts new security system, cameras, lighting products for 2018 and says it's acquired lighting company Mr. Beams — A company once known only for its video doorbell has moved on to an entire home security solution and has some interesting new products to go along with it.
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