How Echo Look could feed Amazon’s big data fueled fashion ambitions

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 This week Amazon took the wraps off a new incarnation of its Alexa voice assistant, giving the AI an eye so it can see as well as speak and hear. The Echo Look also contains a depth sensor that’s being used, in the first instance, to create a bokeh effect for a hands-free style selfies feature that Amazon is hoping will sell the device to fashion lovers, by making their outfits pop… Read More

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How GE avoided Kodak’s fate

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 George Eastman founded Kodak in 1888 in Rochester, New York. Four years later and 200 miles down the road, Thomas Edison and some pals founded General Electric. The two industrial giants chugged along for more than 100 years, but GE is still here and Kodak is (mostly) gone, flushed down the disruption pipes of late-20th-century digitization. How did GE manage to avoid the same fate? Read More

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Best Google Daydream apps and games

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We’ve all been told a hundred times that VR is the future. But it’s also the present. Between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift there’s already a mass of hugely impressive VR experiences just waiting to transport you to new worlds and previously unobtainable experiences.

Solid VR efforts aren’t limited to these bank balance-busting headsets though. Smartphone-utilizing VR headsets have come a long way in recent years, and now the Google Daydream platform is leading the charge on VR for the everyman.

A more robust enhancement of the big-G’s past Cardboard creation, the Daydream platform is fronted by Daydream View, a fabric-coated

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European Leaders Gather Without May, but With ‘Brexit’ on Their Minds

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The European Union leaders gathered in Brussels without Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain to finalize their negotiating strategy as the end British membership looms.

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Best cheap phones in the US for 2017

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Update: There’s a new winner among the best cheap phones in America and it’s the newest version of an old favorite from Motorola. Here’s our top 10 list. 

The best cheap phone in the US is a complicated find in 2017, as carriers want to lock you into contracts even at budget prices. You want to pay less money, not more, right?

That’s why we’ve harnessed our cheap smartphone expertise and tested hundreds of inexpensive phones to rank the best options. Unlocked, no contract and SIM-free phones are among the top ten.

And good news: while many are $200 or less, you’ll

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A closer look at the Internet of Things 2.0 – and why it’s inevitable

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Once 46 billion devices, sensors and actuators are connected by 2021 – according to Juniper – we’ll be well on the way to a bigger, more powerful and much more settled Internet of Things (IoT). So what will an IoT 2.0 look like?

Interoperability and open ecosystems

One of the key characteristics of the IoT 2.0 will be common standards. The IoT umbrella is vast, and the many industries it covers – from factories and automotive through to building automation and networking – each have their own protocols, interfaces and hardware.

“The real paradigm shift in IoT has been the

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China Deports American Woman Convicted on Spying Charge

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The deportation ended uncertainty about the fate of Phan Phan-Gillis of Houston, who was sentenced on Tuesday to three and a half years in prison on an espionage charge.

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