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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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
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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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| 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 … | 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 …
Tweets: @ericgplatt, @financialtimes, and @arashmassoudi
| 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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| 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
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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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