Technology

Ahead of Apple’s plans to introduce its own streaming service this year, the company has partnered with Samsung to allow iTunes content to be accessible on Samsung Smart TVs. Samsung announced this morning that it will offer access to iTunes Movies and TV shows through a new “iTunes Movies and TV” app on its Smart […]

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is kicking off the year with a refresh of its mobile processor portfolio. At CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week, the company is introducing new Ryzen, Athlon, and A-Series processors. The latter gets AMD into Chromebooks for the first time. The chips are the latest to be based on […]

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is blasting out products for CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. The line-up includes various gadgets for work and play, including a 23.8-inch display with an integrated privacy screen. The consumer PC line-up covers a wide range of audiences, from gamers to executives to people who want more privacy. […]

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Last year, former AOL cofounder Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest venture closed a $150 million seed fund to invest in startups in cities that investors have historically overlooked — places like Cincinnati, Memphis, and Salt Lake City. $150 million funds don’t usually get write-ups in the New York Times, but . That’s because the […]

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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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