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While it might not be obvious based on the  currently underway at CES 2019, the consumer electronics industry continues to limp along. And it seems no amount of Alexa-enabled-smart-toilet-bowl-cleaning-dongle-supported-high-definition-wireless-machine-learning-distributed-ledger devices are able to jumpstart sales. , the Consumer Technology Association, which hosts CES, projected the industry will post $398 billion in revenue in 2019. That would […]

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While it might not be obvious based on the  currently underway at CES 2019, the consumer electronics industry continues to limp along. And it seems no amount of Alexa-enabled-smart-toilet-bowl-cleaning-dongle-supported-high-definition-wireless-machine-learning-distributed-ledger devices are able to jumpstart sales. , the Consumer Technology Association, which hosts CES, projected the industry will post $398 billion in revenue in 2019. That would […]

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Pouch, the U.K.-based money-saving browser extension, has been acquired by German ‘publishing technology’ platform Global Savings Group. Exact financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although I understand it to be a cash purchase and in the 7-figure U.S. dollar range, plus performance related bonuses. The entire Pouch team are joining Global Savings Group, and […]

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A Japanese billionaire who’s paying Elon Musk to fly him around the Moon, assuming all goes to plan with SpaceX’s giant metal phallus, has bought himself a rather different ride in the meanwhile. The BBC reports that Yusaku Maezawa has elbowed aside nugget-loving U.S. teen, Carter Wilkerson, to bag the title of most retweeted tweet […]

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 announced a range of new mobile storage products — including a cloth-covered Backup Plus Ultra drive — based on its and LaCie brands at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. These backup drives from Seagate and its LaCie brand allow you to carry five terabytes — or the amount […]

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 announced a range of new mobile storage products — including a cloth-covered Backup Plus Ultra drive — based on its and LaCie brands at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. These backup drives from Seagate and its LaCie brand allow you to carry five terabytes — or the amount […]

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 recently raised a , and now, it’s starting to reveal some of the holographic waveguide display technology for augmented reality applications. The Sunnyvale, California-based startup is showing its new Crystal AR glasses prototype and its heads-up display for smart cars at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. I saw […]

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 recently raised a , and now, it’s starting to reveal some of the holographic waveguide display technology for augmented reality applications. The Sunnyvale, California-based startup is showing its new Crystal AR glasses prototype and its heads-up display for smart cars at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. I saw […]

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[embedded content] LG is opening the show with its CES press conference. Many consumer electronics companies are going to show us their new and shiny products all day long. And LG is starting at 8 AM Pacific, 11 AM Eastern, 2 PM in London. You can expect new TVs (4K? 8K? The sky is the […]

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the company’s first overseas factory in Shanghai will focus on producing Model 3 vehicles for the Chinese market only. Musk is currently in China to break ground on the new factory today, which is being developed in partnership with the Shanghai government — an ally that is likely to […]

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