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• Huawei Canada executive leaves post as scrutiny of company grows

  11-01-2019 23:54
  One of Huawei Canada's top executives on Friday disclosed he was leaving his post after more than seven years with the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker, which is facing heightened scrutiny over security issues from Canada and its allies.
  
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• Apple: Qualcomm's hardball tactics squeezed Intel chips out of iPad Mini 2 - CNET

  11-01-2019 23:47 via cnet.com
  Doing business with the chipmaker means there was "no longer a level playing field," Apple exec testifies in an FTC trial against Qualcomm.
  
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• Congress asks FCC for emergency briefing on ending location data sales - CNET

  11-01-2019 23:42 via cnet.com
  The House Energy and Commerce committee doesn’t want to wait until after the government shutdown for answers.
  
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• Slack 'seriously' considering direct market listing: source

  11-01-2019 23:37
  Slack Technologies Inc is "seriously" considering making its stock exchange debut through a direct listing, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.
  
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• China's GAC is bringing its Entranze concept to the Detroit Auto Show - Roadshow

  11-01-2019 23:35 via cnet.com
  The Chinese automaker is also giving the US its first look at its GM6 minivan and GS5 SUV.
  
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• Hybrid processors at CES 2019 are the future of computing

  11-01-2019 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While Intel and AMD were outdoing each other at CES 2019 by announcing their respective 10-nanometer (nm) and 7nm processors, both companies also introduced hybrid processors that may change the future of computing forever.On one side, there’s Intel’s LakeField processors, with architecture that is more like an ARM CPU than a traditional computer chip. Instead of just having a block of 10nm CPU cores, the LakeField processor will feature one central 10nm Sunny Cove core paired with f
  
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• Apple considered Samsung, MediaTek to supply 5G modems for 2019 iPhones

  11-01-2019 22:48
  Apple Incheld talks with Samsung Electronics Co Ltdand MediaTek Incalong with existing vendor Intel Corpto supply 5G modem chips for 2019 iPhones, according to an Apple executive's testimony at a trial between Qualcomm Incand the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Friday.
  
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• CES 2019: Our 10 favorite products of the show - CNET

  11-01-2019 22:40 via cnet.com
  These were the most impressive products that we saw at the world's biggest tech show in Las Vegas.
  
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• Factbox: Corporate investments in EV startups

  11-01-2019 22:27
  Corporations across a variety of industries - auto, energy, electronics, aerospace, telecom - have invested in startup companies engaged in various aspects of automotive electrification, including batteries, charging devices and complete vehicles.
  
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• Corporate investors pile into electric vehicle startups

  11-01-2019 22:27
  Corporate investors from outside the auto industry are placingincreasing bets on electric vehicles, vying with automakers and suppliers to bankroll startup companies working on everything from advanced batteries to charging devices and all-new EVs.
  
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• CNET Asks: What wowed you at CES 2019? - CNET

  11-01-2019 22:00 via cnet.com
  CES 2019 came and went, now it's time to weigh in on your favorites of the show.
  
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• CES 2019: Can VR hockey make you a smarter player? video - CNET

  11-01-2019 21:28 via cnet.com
  Our resident hockey expert Jeff Bakalar checks out Sense Arena's hybrid Vive VR system designed to train hockey players who want to take the next step.
  
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• Cadillac XT6 teased ahead of Detroit Auto Show debut - Roadshow

  11-01-2019 21:27 via cnet.com
  Cadillac's three-row crossover will officially debut this weekend.
  
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• Hacker 'BestBuy' sentenced to prison for operating Mirai DDoS botnet

  11-01-2019 21:14 via zdnet.com
  Hacker knocked an entire country's internet connection offline.
  
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• CES 2019: Qualcomm President Amon is convinced you’re going to be thrilled with 5G

  11-01-2019 21:00 via zdnet.com
  Qualcomm's president, Cristiano Amon, took some time at the Consumer Electronics Show to discuss how 5G cellular will amaze consumers. He also reflected on how AI processing on smartphones will become more prevalent.
  
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• Sprint rounds out CES 2019 with 5G call

  11-01-2019 20:51 via zdnet.com
  Working with Nokia and Qualcomm, Sprint has made a 5G data call on its live commercial network in San Diego, including streaming YouTube videos, making Skype video calls, and sending and receiving messages.
  
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• FCA announces its final round of Takata recalls, 1.4 million vehicles affected - Roadshow

  11-01-2019 20:44 via cnet.com
  After more than 4 million inflators replaced, FCA is starting to see a light at the end of the airbag-recall tunnel.
  
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• 2019 Ram Heavy Duty teased on video ahead of Detroit Auto Show debut - Roadshow

  11-01-2019 20:36 via cnet.com
  The tough truck will face off against the new Chevy Silverado HD.
  
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• A ping pong robot at CES 2019 made me wonder: Could I go pro? - CNET

  11-01-2019 20:35 via cnet.com
  Commentary: CNET's Katie Collins gets a glimpse of the elite sporting career she might have had.
  
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• Amazon fires open-source shot with DocumentDB launch

  11-01-2019 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a move that will surely upset the open-source community, AWS has launched a new database offering compatible with the MongoDB API called DocumentDB.The cloud giant describes its new product as a “fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is designed to be compatible with your existing MongoDB applications and tools.” However, it is essentially a replacement for MongoDB that uses its API but none of its code.According to AWS, its customers have found it difficult
  
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• Netflix faces trademark suit over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch - CNET

  11-01-2019 20:19 via cnet.com
  Publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure series doesn't want anything to do with Bandersnatch.
  
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• CES 2019: Intel details autonomous vehicle trial in Israel

  11-01-2019 20:17 via zdnet.com
  Intel is extending its autonomous driving trials in Israel to provide an entire mobility-as-a-service offering across car, software, platform, mapping, and safety mechanisms.
  
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• Google discontinues its Chromecast Audio device - CNET

  11-01-2019 20:07 via cnet.com
  The company will reportedly focus on its smart speaker lineup instead.
  
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• CES 2019: AI startup Eyeris will know your car from the inside-out

  11-01-2019 20:06 via zdnet.com
  Cars on the road know little about drivers and passengers today -- except maybe whether the person at the wheel is drowsy. Tomorrow's vehicle will have a total awareness of the cabin, claims AI startup Eyeris, using multiple cameras and convolutional neural networks.
  
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• Google can limit "right to be forgotten" in EU

  11-01-2019 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A top court adviser for the EU has said that Google can limit the “right to be forgotten” to internet searches made within the European Union.Back in 2016, Google was fined by France's privacy watchdog CNIL for failing to delist sensitive information beyond the borders of the EU. Maciej Szpunar's opinion on the case will likely help the search giant as the European Court of Justices judges generally follow the advice of the advocate general though they are not bound to do so.Google's
  
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• CES 2019: Hunting down the big beasts of tech

  11-01-2019 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Dave Lee goes on 'safari' in Las Vegas to find out what the tech giants are showing off.
  
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• CES 2019 was absolutely buried in laptops and PCs – why?

  11-01-2019 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At CES 2019, we've experienced an absolute deluge of laptops and other computers that made this year’s show feel more like Computex than the Consumer Electronics Show. That’s not even on account of Nvidia’s big push into RTX graphics on laptops.Not counting the 40-some new gaming laptops on display at the show, we easily saw another 40 general use laptops this year – and almost all of them would have been worth deeper coverage had we not forgotten to clone ourselves befor
  
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• Customize and print your own graph paper - CNET

  11-01-2019 19:32 via cnet.com
  Let's get graphing.
  
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• Ockam provides easy to deploy identity, trust, and interoperability for IoT developers

  11-01-2019 19:12 via zdnet.com
  Internet of Things programmers aren't known for building identity, trust, and interoperability into their devices. Ockam wants to change that for once and for all -- with its new open-source SDK and services.
  
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• US government shutdown leaves websites down

  11-01-2019 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A number of government websites are now inaccessible after 80 TLS certificates used by the US government have expired and with no staff on hand to renew them as a result of the government shutdown.According to Netfcraft, NASA, the US Department of Justice and the Court of Appeals are just some of the US government agencies whose websites have been affected by the shutdown.Hundreds of thousands of government workers have been furloughed including the staff responsible for handling IT support and
  
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• Fortnite season 7, week 6 challenges and tips for getting through them quickly - CNET

  11-01-2019 19:07 via cnet.com
  Get the low down on what you're up against this week including the search for chilly gnomes and how to slide an ice puck 150 meters.
  
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• Valley of the Boom producer Arianna Huffington says tech can do better - CNET

  11-01-2019 19:00 via cnet.com
  The entrepreneur, Uber board member and co-producer of the new series offers solutions for the mistakes of the 1990s dot-com boom that haunt us today.
  
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• How to sell your old tech video - CNET

  11-01-2019 19:00 via cnet.com
  As you purge your home of unwanted gadgets in this new year, why not try to sell them to make a little money. In this Tech Minute, here are a few websites that will buy back your unneeded tech.
  
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• CES 2019: Every weird product we saw at the show - CNET

  11-01-2019 18:54 via cnet.com
  It wouldn't be CES without a handful of weird and possibly off-putting tech. CES 2019 continues that tradition.
  
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• CES 2019: Our 10 favorite products - CNET

  11-01-2019 18:52 via cnet.com
  If you were going to learn about only ten CES 2019 products, here they are.
  
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• The top 5 fitness trackers on sale in January 2019

  11-01-2019 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New Year's has arrived, and for many people, that means an annual resolution to get in shape. If you'd like to get more active, buying an activity tracker in 2019 can be very helpful in your new fitness journey.By recording and tracking your activity, as well as monitoring your progress, a fitness tracker is a great tool to motivate yourself when you're doing well or to keep you in check when falling behind on your goals.We've rounded up our top five fitness trackers that will not only meet a va
  
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• How to set up Google Fi on an iPhone - CNET

  11-01-2019 18:43 via cnet.com
  There’s more to it than just inserting a SIM card.
  
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• Ultra-ultra settings: how 8K TVs are going to transform gaming

  11-01-2019 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There's no better place to see the future of technology than at CES in Las Vegas, and from smartphones to smart homes the tech on show at CES 2019 was every bit as impressive as we expected – but it was the 8K TVs showcased by the likes of Sony, LG and Samsung that really blew us away.So what is 8K TV?  8K refers to the screen resolution – in other words, the number of pixels in the screen area. The more pixels there are, the better the image clarity. 8K TV has four times more p
  
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• The Cosmo Communicator brought the PDA phone dream back to CES 2019 - CNET

  11-01-2019 18:32 via cnet.com
  Last year’s Gemini gets revamped with a new processor, backlit keyboard, rear camera and a fingerprint sensor.
  
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• China moon machines snap striking pictures of each other - CNET

  11-01-2019 18:30 via cnet.com
  The Chang'e 4 lander and Jade Rabbit 2 rover are besties on the lunar surface.
  
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• PC sales struggle again

  11-01-2019 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New data from IDC and Gartner has revealed that the US trade war with China and processor shortages have had a significant impact of PC sales at a time when the PC market appeared to be recovering.According to IDC, shipments of traditional PCs came in at 68.1m units during the fourth quarter which is down by 3.7 per cent from the same time last year. The decline during Q4 is the largest since Q3 2016 and for the year PC sales were down by 0.4 per cent.IDC's data also revealed that vendors built
  
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• Valley of the Boom mashes up fact and fantasy of dot-com disaster - CNET

  11-01-2019 18:23 via cnet.com
  National Geographic's drama/documentary about 1990s Silicon Valley might overload your bandwidth.
  
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• Back off, Marie Kondo! This book hoarder refuses to tidy up - CNET

  11-01-2019 18:17 via cnet.com
  Commentary: I watched Netflix's Tidying Up With Marie Kondo but reject her advice to pare down my vast book collection. The quest to declutter, be damned.
  
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