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HTC unveils Vive Pro Eye, a new VR headset with eye-tracking capabilities, coming in April, and teases the Vive Cosmos, a new consumer-friendly headset — HTC wants to make it easier for everyone to get into virtual reality. And it hopes to do it through the Vive Cosmos.
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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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| CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it's halted Ethereum Classic transactions, withdrawals, and deposits, after a 51% attack on the cryptocurrency led to coin double-spending — Crypto exchange Coinbase has halted all ethereum classic transactions, withdrawals and deposits due to a series of blockchain history reorganizations on the network.
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| Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
GitHub now gives users of its free plan access to unlimited private repositories, but those repos are limited to three collaborators apiece — Due to a scheduling error, we published this story one day before the embargo lifted. This feature isn't live yet, but Github will formally unveil it tomorrow.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google expects Assistant to be on 1B devices by end of Jan., up from 500M last May, says global active users up 4x YoY, and feature phones will get Assistant — Active users have quadrupled since last year, but Google won't disclose a concrete number — As CES kicks off …
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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.| Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank has radically scaled back plans for fresh investment in WeWork, is now planning a $2B investment, down from $16B considered late last year — Japan's SoftBank has radically scaled back plans for fresh investment in WeWork, the lossmaking shared-office provider …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Audi spins out its VR division into a new startup called Holoride that announces a partnership with Disney to make VR experiences for back seat passengers — Blasting bad guys from the back seat of an E-Tron — iIron Man needs help. He's being chased through outer space by some of Thanos' baddies …
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| 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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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Amazon's Ring unveils a $199 Door View Cam, which captures peephole video and detects knocks, alongside several new devices for smart outdoor lighting and more — Amazon's Ring today unveiled a series of new products including the Door View Cam for live video from the peephole of your front door …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A federal appeals court said, in a 3-0 decision, that a Virginia politician violated the Constitution by temporarily blocking a critic from her Facebook page — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court said on Monday a Virginia politician violated the Constitution by temporarily blocking a critic …
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Key By Amazon, formerly Amazon Key, adds garage and business delivery, new locks, and Ring compatibility — Alexa may be front and center for Amazon's play this CES, but the just unloaded a whole bunch of news about Amazon Key. The list includes a name change to the more passive Key By Amazon …
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Tweets: @backlon and @patrickmoorhead
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku discloses preliminary Q4 2018 data, saying there are now over 27M active accounts and streaming hours are up about 68% YoY to ~7.3B hours; stock jumps 24%+ — Ahead of its announcements of new TV partnerships at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Roku today shared … | Wall Street Journal: |
A history of JPMorgan's complex, two-decade old relationship with Amazon as the bank tries 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
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Akamai acquires Portland-based identity management provider Janrain to boost its security portfolio and complement its Bot Manager service — A week into 2019, Akamai Technologies Inc. has already made its first acquisition of the year. — The cybersecurity and content delivery heavyweight today announced …
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Marketing Land and The Akamai Blog
| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Twitter renews its ad-selling partnership with BuzzFeed for its live morning show, “AM to DM”, for a year; BuzzFeed says full episodes average 400,000 views — Twitter has renewed BuzzFeed's live morning show, “AM to DM,” for a full year. — The daily morning show … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Samsung says Google is bringing some of its services to Bixby, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, and Google Play, but does not share a timeline — Bixby took centerstage at today's big Samsung CES presser. The company has been pushing to make its smart assistant a kind …
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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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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
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