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Muse, the maker of a meditation headband, today unveiled its latest product at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The sleep meditation headband, dubbed the Softband, is designed to help people to meditate as they fall asleep. The idea is to put it on before you go to bed, play a meditation and then […]

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Managed By Q, the office management platform that launched back in 2013, has today revealed that it raised an additional $25 million as a part of its Series C, led by existing investors RRE and Google Ventures, with participation from new investors DivCo West, Oxford Properties and others. The fresh capital brings the total round […]

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To paraphrase P. T. Barnum, “there’s a Bluetooth speaker born every minute.” At no time of year is that more true than at CES in Las Vegas, where they are bountiful beyond belief. But very few — nay, only one that I found — are made of concrete. And it’s French! The speakers immediately attracted […]

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To paraphrase P. T. Barnum, “there’s a Bluetooth speaker born every minute.” At no time of year is that more true than at CES in Las Vegas, where they are bountiful beyond belief. But very few — nay, only one that I found — are made of concrete. And it’s French! The speakers immediately attracted […]

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With both Verizon and AT&T planning major 5G announcements for the 2019 CES, I wanted to speak directly with key technologists at both of the top U.S. carriers to really dig into their 5G network and device plans for the year. After , I enjoyed an equally illuminating interview today with AT&T VP of RAN […]

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Every year, the reaches further into everything. This year the surprising and perhaps crazy new market is smart skis, as is announcing today it has created smart ski technology that can track and analyze how you are skiing. Switzerland-based Snowcookie said it can track 105 parameters about how you are skiing, such as your carving, […]

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Healbe, the startup behind the ill-fated GoBe, a wearable it said could track calorie intake through the skin alone, has returned to the Consumer Electronics Show with a new wearable in tow: the GoBe 3. Healbe’s claims are no less fantastical this time around. In a press release, Healbe cited research from the University of […]

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Mobileye — the Israeli startup in a deal worth $15.3 billion — continues to make inroads in the driverless car market. Following a press briefing at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, it announced that France-based auto technology supplier Valeo has embraced its model for automated vehicle (AV) decision-making — Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) — with open […]

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TV provider Dish is more tightly integrating its Hopper line of receivers with Google Assistant by integrating the smart assistant directly into its set-top boxes. The company was already working with Google on an voice-controlled experience, having announced a year ago at CES that it would allow allow customers to control their Dish TV experience […]

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We’ve known for a while now that Google Assistant (the company’s voice powered AI, a la Siri or Alexa) would eventually be built right into Google Maps. They announced as much at Google I/O 2018, noting at the time that they were aiming for a summer launch. It didn’t happen by summer, but Google says […]

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