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Tile, a company best known for its keychain-style lost item trackers aimed at consumers, is expanding its location-tracking technology to new devices besides its own. The company today announced it has partnered with a number of BLE chip companies to integrate its tracking technology directly onto their chips. Tile’s new partners on this front include Qualcomm, […]

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Apple recently invited reporters to meet a handful of companies announcing new products at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The common theme: All of these products connect to Apple’s HomeKit platform for smart home devices. By integrating with HomeKit, these companies make their products configurable and controllable via Apple devices, specifically through the Home app […]

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The curse of open source software is that it is used in pretty much every application and device on the planet, and yet, has pretty much no business model. Sustaining open source is a critical problem for the future of software, because without a durable source of income, the developers behind these critical projects cannot […]

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A pair of new devices from Huawei are making their debut on-stage at CES in Vegas this week. The more interesting of the two is the MateBook 13, a slim addition to the company’s line of premium Windows laptops. The 13-inch laptop is 0.59 inches thick and weighs 2.86 pounds, giving it a similar footprint […]

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Apple is reportedly gearing up for a new streaming TV service to rival Netflix, Amazon and Google this year, but in the meantime, it is also expanding interoperability with more third parties like smart TV makers to make what it already has available easier to use in the living room. In the latest development, smart TV […]

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For elder folks, suffering a trip or fall can result in serious health complications. Roughly every 11 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency room for a fall, according to the National Council on Aging, and every 19 minutes,  a senior dies from fall. In fact, among older adults, falls are the leading cause […]

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Microsoft and Kroger are taking a leaf out of Amazon’s book by building futuristic “connected” grocery stores. As part of a pilot project, Kroger, the largest supermarket in the U.S. by revenue, and Microsoft have transformed two retail stores near each of their headquarters —  one in Monroe, Ohio and another in Redmond, Washington — […]

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Huawei, one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers with over 200 million and 100 million smartphones and smart devices sold, respectively, is no stranger to the tablets and laptops markets. It launched its first slate — the X1 — in February 2014 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and its inaugural 2-in-1 PC — the […]

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The cable TV industry — represented by the Internet and Television Association (NCTA), , and — introduced the industry’s plans to adopt , or 10-gigabit-per-second data networks, as a way to compete with the onset of 5G wireless networks. Competition is spurring the cable companies to ramp up from today’s one-gigabit-per-second cable modems to 10 […]

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A little more than a year ago, autonomous trucking startup TuSimple —flush with a fresh round of venture capital — was preparing to scale up its testing to two full truck fleets in China and the U.S. TuSimple, a China-based company with an R&D facility in San Diego and test operations in Tucson, has put that […]

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