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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
HoloLens 2, sources say powered by Windows Core Operating System, focuses on promotion of Azure in enterprises, offers subscription bundles starting at $125/mo — Microsoft at Mobile World Congress took the wraps off of its HoloLens 2 and it has some hardware upgrades that'll help enterprise usage and the front-line workers using it.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts ARM-powered HoloLens 2: more comfortable, lighter, and with a field of view twice as wide as its predecessor's; preorder for $3,500 — Designed to get work done — I am in a tiny room in a basement somewhere in Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters, wearing an early version of the HoloLens 2 headset.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Azure Kinect, a new depth-sensing camera for enterprises that uses Azure cloud; pre-orders for the dev kit are open now for $399 in China, US — It's for developers to build AI algorithms — Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could control games with your hands or body.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
LG's 6.1" G8 ThinQ has a speaker embedded in the screen and a front camera that scans the user's palm to unlock and enables non-touch mid-air gesture controls — A palm scanner? AirMotion gestures? What's going on here? — Once upon a time, a few years ago, LG came to Mobile World Congress …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
LG announces V50 ThinQ flagship with 5G support and a Dual Screen accessory, a second 6.2-inch OLED display that attaches to the V50 like a case — A 5G version of the V40 with a bigger battery and an optional second screen — LG is getting in on the 5G hype with the new V50 ThinQ …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Among foldables unveiled in 2019, Huawei's Mate X feels the most complete compared to Royole FlexPai or Galaxy Fold, but questions about their software remain — A foldable that folds without a gap — Samsung's Galaxy Fold announcement isn't even a week old yet, and we already have a competitor …
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| Robert Mujica / Office of NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo: |
Open letter from New York's state budget director regarding Amazon's pullout, which he calls a “tremendous loss”, claiming that HQ2 would have had a 9-to-1 ROI — “As just about everyone in this state, if not the country, knows by now, Amazon has terminated its plans to bring its second headquarters to New York State.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Hands-on with HMD's $699 Nokia 9 PureView with an in-display fingerprint sensor and five 12MP rear cameras, available in March — Screw everything, we're doing five cameras (for real this time) — HMD Global has a new Nokia flagship, and it might be the company's most ambitious phone yet …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find new flaws in 4G and 5G letting hackers perform a targeted denial of service attack on a phone and track its location using ~$200 in equipment — A group of academics have found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to intercept phone calls and track the locations of cell phone users.| Dave Zohrob / Chartable: |
Survey finds that about 24% of US adults listen to podcasts daily or a few times a week and about 50% listen at least once a month — Podcasts have been around since at least 2004. But unlike text-based news and blogs, which have gone through waves of centralization and disruption thanks …
Tweets: @pkedrosky
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Accurx, a UK startup with a messaging service for medical teams and patients, has raised £8.8M Series A led by Atomico — Accurx, the U.K. startup and Entrepreneur First alumni that has developed a messaging service for doctor surgeries, has raised £8.8 million in Series A funding, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Hands-on with a prototype smartphone that uses Oppo's new lossless 10x optical zoom system, which the company says will ship in a retail device in Q2 2019 — Going from 16mm to 160mm inside your phone — Oppo has come to Mobile World Congress this year not with a phone, but with a promise.
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