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Imagine a world where the batteries on your devices quietly charge all on their own. Your Bluetooth headset. A pair of hearing aids. The smartwatch on your wrist. The phone in your pocket. At CES 2019, the dream of over-the-air wireless charging became a lot more real with WattUp, a transmitter-and-receiver technology for distance charging. “This technology will be in …

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CES 2019: Moore’s Law is dead, says Nvidia’s CEO

RIP Moore’s Law. You had a good run.  At least that’s what Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes. The executive, who co-founded graphics-chip maker Nvidia, on Wednesday declared that “Moore’s Law isn’t possible anymore.” A key part of semiconductor manufacturing is shrinking the components called transistors, the extraordinarily tiny electronic switches that process data for everything from the clocks in microwave …

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CES 2019: Samsung unveils redesigned Notebook 9 Pro aimed at creatives

When we met with Samsung at CES 2019, it made it clear its new Notebook 9 Pro as well as the previously announced Notebook 9 Pen are about design just as much as performance. For the Notebook 9 Pro, Samsung conducted a US-specific design study that influenced its choices on bezel design, profile taper and corner radii, a spokesman told CNET. The result is a very different design …

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Google Assistant’s coming to Sonos speakers in 2019: We tried it out at CES

The good news: Sonos’ smart speakers will add support for Google Assistant in 2019, delivering on a promise the company made when the speaker launched more than a year ago.  The bad news: While the Sonos speakers also have Alexa on board, you can’t have both Amazon’s and Google’s voice assistants running concurrently on the same speaker (yet). That was one of the …

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