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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Assistant is coming to smart speakers from a variety of companies this summer, including speakers with displays from JBL, Lenovo, LG, and Sony — Google Assistant is coming to a ton of speakers, some with their own screens — If Google's gigantic “Hey Google” …
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| David Pierce / Wired: |
Inside Amazon's Alexa Voice Services division, which develops hardware and software development kits for helping manufacturers build Alexa-enabled products — WHEN IT FIRST launched in 2014, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant was little more than an experiment.
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| Corinne Reichert / ZDNet: |
At CES keynote, Intel CEO claims major breakthrough with new 49-qubit quantum computing chip, showcases Loihi “neuromorphic” chip, reveals VR partnerships, more — Intel's CES 2018 keynote focused on its 49-qubit quantum computing chip, VR applications for content …
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft halts AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of some AMD PCs becoming unbootable after installing recent updates — Microsoft blames AMD's documentation — Microsoft has paused distributing its Meltdown and Spectre security updates for AMD machines after reports of PCs not booting.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Wi-Fi Alliance unveils WPA3, a new set of security standards to address weak points of open Wi-Fi networks, expects it in devices this year — Finally, a security reprieve for open Wi-Fi hotspot users. — At last, Wi-Fi security — or lack of — is about to get its day in the sun.| Michelle Robbins / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces that Google AMP cache will display publisher URLs and drop the Google AMP URL prefix in search results, starting in the second half of 2018 — Google announced today that it is well on its way to solving one of the most annoying (to publishers) “features” of AMP …
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| Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority: |
Danish watch brand Skagen announces Falster, its first touchscreen smartwatch with a minimalist design running Android Wear, launching this month for $275-$295 — Skagen is perhaps most well known for its beautiful analog watches, and over time those watches have been getting smarter.
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Sources: AT&T has walked away from a deal to sell smartphones made by Huawei, a partnership that was expected to be announced on Tuesday at CES — Reversal is set back for Chinese electronics giant's hopes to crack U.S. market — AT&T Inc. T .24% has walked away from a deal …
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| Alex Cranz / Gizmodo: |
Qualcomm unveils Bluetooth chip that the company claims will reduce power consumption by 65% and give wireless headphones nearly 3x the playback time — There are currently two major annoyances with wireless headphones: the Bluetooth can cut out in areas with a lot of signal noise, and battery life is mostly terrible.| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Smart lock maker August launches in-home delivery service August Access, in partnership with Deliv, a last mile logistics company, after testing it with Walmart — August Access just got a lot more useful — Last year, August began testing in-home deliveries with Walmart.| Reuters: |
Source: French consumer fraud watchdog launches probe into Apple's “alleged deception and planned obsolescence” of its products — A French prosecutor has launched an investigation of U.S. tech giant Apple <AAPL.O> over alleged deception and planned obsolescence of its products following … | Janko Rottgers / Variety: |
HTC unveils Vive Pro VR headset with 2880x1600 resolution, a 78% increase over current Vive, and wireless adapter, so customers can lose the wired PC connection — HTC used its virtual reality (VR) keynote at CES in Las Vegas Monday to unveil an updated version of its Vive virtual reality headset …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Oculus to launch the Mi VR in China, which will be similar to Oculus Go but with partner Xiaomi providing software for the headset instead of Facebook — The new headset comes thanks to a partnership with Chinese tech giant Xiaomi. — Facebook is taking a major step toward its goal …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researcher publishes CoffeeMiner to show how public Wi-Fi users' traffic can be hijacked to mine cryptocurrency, weeks after similar project was spotted in wild — A new attack called CoffeeMiner can exploit public Wi-Fi services to secretly mine cryptocurrencies.| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
PMA/Airfuel developer Powermat joins rival and Qi developer Wireless Power Consortium; Powermat CEO says Qi is now the dominant wireless charging standard — Powermat was pushing its own wireless charging standard, but has now signed on with the competition| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics forecasts record quarterly profits of ~$14B for Q4 2017, below analysts' estimates as stronger South Korean won weighed on sales — Samsung Electronics Co. reported lower-than-projected profit as it lost momentum in memory chips and faced a strengthening South Korean won.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases macOS 10.13.2 supplemental update and iOS 11.2.2 with security improvements to Safari and WebKit to mitigate Spectre vulnerability — Apple just released iOS 11.2.2 with some Safari and WebKit improvements to mitigate the Spectre vulnerability. macOS is also receiving an update.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Baidu announces three smart speakers for China running DuerOS 2.0; one has a screen, one is a lamp, one is a projector — Baidu is one of the biggest web companies in China, so naturally, it's trying to take over the smart assistant market there just as Google and Amazon are in the US.
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