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Samsung's 2018 and 2019 TV models will be able to directly access iTunes content via a dedicated app and support Apple's AirPlay 2 wireless streaming standard — Coming to all 2018 and 2019 TVs along with AirPlay 2 — Samsung's 2018 and 2019 range of televisions will be able to access …
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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: |
Acer's first AMD Chromebook comes with a 15.6-inch display, AMD A4 or A6 CPUs, integrated Radeon graphics, and up to 8GB of RAM, starting at $280 — Acer's Chromebook 315 continues the company's tradition of affordable, intriguing Chromebooks, with several points of interest.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
CES 2018 tech updates: Nvidia's 65" 4K HDR gaming monitors delayed, Sony's Aibo slowly shipping, Intel processors with AMD graphics facing low adoption — But sometimes, companies surprise us by actually shipping them, too. — Today, on the eve of CES 2019, let's see what happened to last year's most intriguing new technologies.
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| The Verge: |
What to expect at CES 2019: foldable devices, phone displays with hole-punch cameras, 5G phones and laptops, and 8K TVs — CES 2019 is upon us, and The Verge is headed back to Las Vegas to bring you all of the news from the gadget-filled electronics show next week.
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Digital Trends, Engadget, CNET, SiliconANGLE, South China Morning Post, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Wired, Telegraph, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Financial Times, WIRED UK, NDTV Gadgets 360, TechCrunch, The Independent, IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, VentureBeat, Quartz, CNET, Engadget, Quartz, and MacRumors
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
A machine-learning model in Flint that once helped predict lead pipe locations with 70% accuracy was abandoned due to political decisions to excavate everywhere — More than a thousand days after the water problems in Flint, Michigan, became national news, thousands of homes in the city still …
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ResearchBuzz. Tweets: @neurobongo, @peteskomoroch, @syardi, @carnage4life, @adriennelaf, @alexismadrigal, @nrdc, and @karen_ec_levy
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon SVP Dave Limp talks about company's strategy for Alexa, says 100M+ devices with Alexa on board have been sold to date — More than 100 million devices with Alexa on board have been sold. That's the all-too-rare actual number that Amazon's SVP of devices and services, Dave Limp, revealed to me earlier this week.
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Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Digital Trends, GeekWire, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and Axios
Tweets: @backlon, @andrewwamugi, @davechensky, and @backlon
| Janosch Delcker / Politico: |
A look at Finland's strategy to become a leader in practical AI applications, starting with a grassroots program to teach 1% of its population the basics of AI — Inside Finland's plan to train its population in artificial intelligence. — HELSINKI — Jaana Partanen is not your typical AI programming geek.
Tweets: @goncalossilva, @politicoeurope, and @politicoeurope
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
NSA to open source its GHIDRA reverse engineering tool that breaks down executable files into assembly code that can then be analyzed by humans — GHIDRA is written in Java and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. — The US National Security Agency will release a free reverse engineering tool …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Salesforce's Marc Benioff on elevating Keith Block to co-CEO, company's deal with US Customs and Border Protection, comparing Facebook to cigarettes, more — - After a summer vacation, Benioff made the surprising decision to elevate Keith Block to co-CEO, enabling a “divide and conquer strategy” …
Tweets: @jasonlk, @adam_mansfield_, @caseynewton, @mattrosoff, and @mattrosoff
| The Economist: |
Masayoshi Son believes Arm's chip blueprints could someday be in 1,000 internet-connected devices per human; his strategy for Arm is revenue growth, not profit — The British company's pre-eminent position in chip design helps him predict tech's future — On the outskirts of Cambridge … | Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post: |
LinkedIn restores Chinese access to the profile of US-based activist Zhou Fengsuo after blocking it a day earlier, says the profile was blocked in error — - Zhou, a student leader during the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, says he thinks media attention led to the change
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BuzzFeed News. Tweets: @zhoufengsuo, @lauriechenwords, @ehundman, @zhoufengsuo, and @owenschurchill
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