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Bose’s new beat

Bob Maresca had just returned from a product launch event in New York when he got the call. His boss and mentor, 83-year-old Amar Bose, had been rushed to Lahey Hospital in Burlington, Massachusetts, and they didn’t know whether he’d make it through the night. When Maresca got to the hospital, he found Vanu Bose …

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Sony 4K Blu

Sony says it will release a next-generation 4K Blu-ray player by March 2017 at the latest, as the company waits for compatible software. Sunil Nayyar, Sony’s director of US TV business, said the company plans to focus on a 4K streaming service before launching a physical 4K disc player. The statement first appeared in the trade publication TWICE. Although Panasonic, …

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Virgin Mobile’s new $40 rate plan bags you 4GB of high

Virgin Mobile shook up pricing on its rate plans on Tuesday, offering $30, $40 and $50 per month plans that give you 500MB, 4GB and 6GB of high-speed data respectively, as well as unlimited talk and text. The prepaid service space is an increasingly competitive market often characterized by high customer turnover. In an attempt to keep subscribers, prepaid carriers …

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​Pebble Time adding new health

Pebble has slowly been getting better at being a basic fitness tracker. Now it’s getting better watch faces to help. A software update for Pebble Time watches hitting February 3 finally brings a chance for nice new watch faces to emerge that will show your health stats without you needing to dig deep into your watch settings. According to Pebble, …

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Google search is about to get a lot smarter

How important is artificial intelligence to Google’s future? Hint: The search giant is promoting its head of AI to take over its biggest business. Google on Wednesday said AI chief John Giannandrea will take over search responsibilities when current search boss Amit Singhal retires at the end of the month. That move signals profound changes for how we find things …

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Samsung outs its Galaxy S7 Edge, then scrubs the evidence

Samsung may have spilled the beans on the existence of a Galaxy S7 Edge phone. Images on a Samsung developers site made reference to the expected-but-still-only-rumored Galaxy S7 Edge, as well as to the Galaxy S6 Edge and S6 Edge Plus, both of which launched last year. Those images were apparently then tweaked to remove the reference to the S7 …

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Amazon Kindle wants to ease your hunt for a good book

Kindle owners will find browsing, buying and sharing books easier when a software update arrives this month, according to Amazon. An Amazon page details the features and refinements coming to Kindle e-book readers. The update will enable you to personalize the home screen, for example, so your most recent books appear at the upper left of the screen. All of …

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