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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 2060 desktop graphics card for $349 available beginning January 15, brings GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs to gaming laptops — Nvidia head Jensen Huang took the stage at a packed CES keynote briefing dedicated specifically to the company's gaming technology.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Samsung announces Notebook Odyssey gaming laptop with Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics and a 15.6-inch 1080p display at 144Hz with G-Sync support — Almost every PC maker has tried their hands at gaming laptops, but what's surprising about Samsung is that it's never quite gotten it right.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says it expects Google Assistant to be on 1B devices by end of this month, up from 500M in May 2018, while global active users for Assistant grew 4x YoY — Active users have quadrupled since last year, but Google won't disclose a concrete number — As CES kicks off …
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Tweets: @google, @johnwilson, @johnwilson, @backlon, and @suka_hiroaki
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Vizio says it is adding support for AirPlay 2 and HomeKit to its SmartCast enabled TVs which can now be controlled using Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant — Apple is reportedly gearing up for a new streaming TV service to rival Netflix, Amazon and Google this year, but in the meantime …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Kroger partners with Microsoft, rolls out a pilot project in two stores with digital shelves, guided shopping, personalized ads, and “pick-to-light” shelf tech — Microsoft and Kroger are taking a leaf out of Amazon's book by building futuristic “connected” grocery stores.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Withings unveils $129 Move ECG smartwatch with activity and sleep tracking, and ECG monitoring that is awaiting FDA clearance, available in Q2 2019 — The analog-faced smartwatch uses three electrodes to measure ECGs. — Withings has had a tumultuous couple of years.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Tile announces partnerships with BLE chip makers including Qualcomm, Dialog, Silicon Labs, and Toshiba which will add support for its tech to their chips — A vast mesh network of lost items — Tile wants its tracking tech to be embedded in every gadget you own, so it's going straight …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A history of JPMorgan's two decade old, complex relationship with Amazon as the bank is trying to figure out how to avoid becoming Amazon's latest casualty — The JPMorgan chief and Amazon founder have found their companies' fortunes increasingly entwined, but the balance of power between their firms has shifted
Tweets: @arampell, @sallyshin, @wsj, and @pinkpoloshorts
| Amy Nordrum / IEEE Spectrum: |
Rival technologies emerge for higher-capacity hard drives, heat- and microwave-assisted magnetic recording, with Seagate betting on HAMR and WD choosing MAMR — Seagate and Western Digital are pursuing rival technologies to push the limits of hard disk drives| Adrian Zmudzinski / Cointelegraph.com News: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken says it has received 475 law enforcement inquiries in 2018 compared to 160 in 2017; 315 of the inquiries came from US agencies — Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has received nearly three times more law enforcement inquiries in 2018 than in 2017, the exhange reported in a tweet Jan. 5.
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Tweets: @krakenfx and @erikvoorhees
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
At its first CES, P&G shows off a connected home scent-emitting device, a toothbrush that coaches you, and image recognition-powered skincare advice — Procter & Gamble is 182 years old, but it has never been at CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, until this week.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Motorola Solutions acquires VaaS, makers of automated license plate readers, for $445M — Motorola Solutions, which split off from Motorola Mobility back in 2011, has added a new license plate capture tool to it law enforcement suite with the acquisition of VaaS International Holdings today for $445 million in cash and equity.
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| Henry T. Casey / Laptop Mag: |
HP announces Chromebook 14, its first AMD-based Chromebook with a 14" screen, AMD A4/A6 CPU, integrated Radeon R4/R5 GPU, and 4GB of RAM, starting at $269 — HP's new Chromebooks for CES 2019 include the first-ever AMD processor powered model, the HP Chromebook 14 (db0020nr).
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