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With Google's RAISR machine learning-driven image enhancement technique, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing their detail — With unlimited data plans becoming increasingly expensive, or subscribers being forced to ditch their unlimited data due to overuse, anything that can reduce the amount of data we download is welcome.| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
How Amazon's Echo made Alexa the most successful smart voice assistant at home, and how Google, Microsoft, and Apple are fighting back — We're barely halfway through January of 2017, and it's already looking like this is going to be the year of Amazon's Alexa, the virtual assistant at the heart of the Amazon Echo.
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Nvidia Shield TV 2017 review: best balance for home entertainment with smart home features, gaming, streaming 4K HDR video, and the upcoming Google assistant — Nvidia's Shield line of devices is now more than six years old, and the latest member of the family is the new Shield TV … | David Pierce / Wired: |
Google's head of Daydream Labs and the director of immersive design speak about the challenges of building Daydream and pushing the boundaries of VR — A few minutes after Google CEO Sundar Pichai finished speaking to the crowd at a Google developer conference one sunny June morning in 2014 … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Bragi's $150 The Headphone wireless earbuds are finally shipping — Bragi announced today that the company's latest Headphone earbuds are finally available for immediate shipping. The news comes after a series of delays in shipping the Headphones, including a mid-December announcement …
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Xiaomi stops disclosing annual smartphone unit sales numbers; CEO admits the company grew “too fast”, hints at new retail strategy incorporating offline sales — Xiaomi has forgone its tradition of revealing how many smartphones it sold the previous year.
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Law enforcement has used services like SiriusXM and GM's OnStar to track cars and listen in on conversations since at least 2001, review of court filings shows — The rapid spread of connected devices that can listen and locate has been a boon for law enforcement.
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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will soon expand tools to fight fake news to Germany, will send flagged posts to Berlin-based nonprofit news org Correctiv for fact-checking — Social network introduces fact-checking tools ahead of national elections later this year — Facebook will begin rolling …
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Corporate PACs associated with Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon donated more money to Republican Congressional candidates than Democratic opponents in 2016 — In 2016, the corporate PACs associated with Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon broke ranks with the traditional allegiance …
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| Tali Tsipori / Globes Online: |
Israeli smartphone dual-camera maker Corephotonics raises $15M led by Samsung, Foxconn, and Mediatek, bringing its total raised to $50M — Samsung Ventures, Foxconn and Mediatek led the latest investment in the Israeli company. — Israeli startup Corephotonics, which is developing dual camera technologies …
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Coinbase CEO likens IRS subpoena to asking Fidelity or PayPal for all customer records, suggests Coinbase could send 1099-B forms to customers and IRS instead — A few weeks ago the IRS sent Coinbase a subpoena asking us to disclose records on all U.S. customers over a three year period (this covers millions of customer accounts).| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: new investors in Snap IPO won't get any voting power, while founders Spiegel and Murphy will retain 70%+ voting power despite owning 45% of the stock — Snapchat messaging app creators Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy are expected to retain more than 70% of voting power in the company … Sponsor Posts
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