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2018 was a banner year for tech mergers and acquisitions, including IBM’s  of Red Hat (the largest software acquisition ever), Broadcom’s  of CA Technologies, and Microsoft’s  for GitHub. Despite geopolitical and economic uncertainty, most observers are optimistic about continued robust prospects for M&A activity in 2019. “There is near unanimity that the deal environment will […]

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Long gone are the days when a white lab coat and an expensive lab were required in order to build awesome electronic gadgets. Now, anyone with a curious mind and a very modest budget can build anything from home automation systems to fully functional robots in the comfort of their own home, with minimal tools […]

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 is the result of the labors of 300 people at console industry leader Sony’s studio in Santa Monica, California. Yet it was the underdog in the battle for Game of the Year at , as Red Dead Redemption 2 was built by a team at Rockstar Games with 10 times more resources. Even so, God […]

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has unveiled the second generation of its body-heat-powered smartwatch that you don’t have to charge. As long it is touching your skin, the doesn’t need a new charge. The new gathers additional energy from solar power, which all but erases the fear of running out of battery power. It’s all in the name of paving […]

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Blockchains are boring now. It’s been ten years since Bitcoin launched, and cryptocurrencies have almost exclusively been used to recapitulate existing monetary systems in slightly new forms. This is boring. Programmable currencies give us the ability to build whole new categories of economies, ones which reject all traditional assumptions about how value is generated, transferred, […]

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LG will introduce new 88-inch and 65-inch 8K televisions that no one could possibly afford, at least no one I know. That’s at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. The South Korean electronics giant said it will introduce an 88-inch 8K Crystal Sound OLED (CSO) display with an advanced […]

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Since the dawn of the webcam, video chatters have had to contend with a universal problem: awful lighting. Unless you manage to find natural light and get the angle just right, achieving a perfectly lit picture seems an insurmountable challenge. That’s where San Diego company ‘s new waterproof, Bluetooth-enabled lighting kit comes in. The AIR […]

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Hoping to inject a bit of intelligence into your umbrella? Look no further than ‘ Bloom, which unfurls and retracts parasols with no more than voice commands. The Los Angeles company detailed its aftermarket innovation at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “Bloom is the world’s first smart connected hub for mass-market parasols,” ShadeCraft […]

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Hoping to inject a bit of intelligence into your umbrella? Look no further than ‘ Bloom, which unfurls and retracts parasols with no more than voice commands. The Los Angeles company detailed its aftermarket innovation at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “Bloom is the world’s first smart connected hub for mass-market parasols,” ShadeCraft […]

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Pocket-sized drones are the new selfie stick — if selfie sticks had tiny propellers and obstacle avoidance systems, that is. AirSelfie Holdings, a team of developers and engineers hailing from Shanghai and Italy, introduced three new aerial cameras at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show: the Air 100, Air Zen, and Air Duo. The trio’s launch […]

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