Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1 starts at $1K, has compact fanless design, fingerprint reader, support for optional stylus, and decent battery life of about 8.5 hours
Pros / Most compact 2-in-1 with 13-inch screen; Comfortable keyboard; Vibrant InfinityEdge display; Impressive audio …
Lenovo launches VR-ready Legion gaming notebooks and the $129 Alexa-powered Smart Assistant speaker, updates Thinkpad X1 workstations and Miix detachables
Channeling its inner gamer who simultaneously wants a smarter home. — LAS VEGAS—Lenovo prepared a few surprises for its CES lineup.
Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years, after a 125% climb during 2016
Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent cli...
Qualcomm inadvertently reveals ASUS ZenFone AR, Tango-enabled and Daydream-ready, and powered by Snapdragon 821
Qualcomm has inadvertently published a press release today about the yet-to-be-announced ASUS ZenFone AR. Billed as the world's first device to be both Tango-enabled and Daydream-ready …
Amazon launches “Sell as Individual” pilot service in Bangalore, India, allowing users to sell used goods
Amazon is eyeing old goods and the space of reselling those products as it works on expanding its ecommerce business in India. — Amazon has launched its “Sell as Individual” …
Japanese insurance company to replace 34 claim staff with IBM Watson Explorer in January for $1.7M up front, $128K/year, saving $1.1M /year in employee salaries
Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce …
Researchers: ID codes printed on boarding passes, luggage tags for ~90% of flights let hackers access travelers' personal info, steal reservations, more
Booking a flight has become a simple process thanks to the Internet, and once you have flights secured you can relax, right?
Dish's AirTV set-top box provides 4K streaming for Sling TV, Netflix, and YouTube, also has an over-the-air antenna for live TV
Finding quality 4K content is still rather difficult, but that isn't keeping hardware manufacturers from building devices to support the format.
What to expect at CES 2017: a deluge of wireless audio and VR devices, drones, TVs, and self-driving cars
TVs, drones, and self-driving cars invade Las Vegas — It's that time again: the holidays are over, a fresh year is on the calendar, and it's time for the annual gadget bacchanalia …
Governments around the world shut down the internet more than 50 times in 2016
- suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech. — In the worst cases internet shutdowns have been associated …
PitchBook: non-tech firms spent ~$10B acquiring VC-backed US startups in 2016, nearly double the amount from 2015 and the highest total in at least five years
Silicon Valley upstarts are courted by retail, manufacturing companies seeking new growth — In late 2015, a commuter-shuttle …
Twitter's managing director for Greater China, Kathy Chen, leaves after 8 months
adding another top exec departure to the heap as 2016 ends - Recode Ken Yeung / VentureBeat : Twitter's China director Kathy Chen departs after 8 months Tweets: Kathy Chen / @kathychen2016 : 7/12 Now ...
Scribd removes comics from its subscription reading service after adding them in 2015
Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader :
Security Without Borders project launches to help journalists and activists with cybersecurity by connecting them with volunteer group of InfoSec professionals
Some hackers have lost their way. Today, countless techies have entered the for-profit cybersecurity business … See also Mediagazer
NFL inks a deal to livestream select games, including the Super Bowl, on Sina Weibo, often called China's Twitter
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
UK department store group House of Fraser to invest £35M in Tandem, a British app-only banking startup
Oscar Williams-Grut / Business Insider :
Review of appeals court decisions from 2016 that benefited software patent holders and set the bar for software patents after Supreme Court's Alice decision
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica :
Nielsen's 2016 top apps by monthly uniques: Facebook, up 14% YoY to 146M; Messenger, up 28% to 129M; and YouTube, up 20% to 113M; Amazon hits #10, up 43% to 65M
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
In 2016, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, others acknowledged they are not just neutral platforms and began tackling issues like discrimination, harassment, fake news
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @pascalbouvier Tweets: @pascalbouvier : “We are only a technology company” does not ring as true & will not age as well as “The medium is the message”. http://www....
Review of overlooked tech trends in 2016: faster broadband speeds, growth of digital currencies, the success of tech M&A, more
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