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Big business turns to the crowd for advice

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Forget about buying their stock. Now you can donate to giant corporations like General Electric or Anheuser-Busch, assuming you’d actually want to. Indiegogo on Wednesday launched “enterprise crowdfunding,” …

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Tech privacy policies need an overhaul, regulators say

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Federal regulators on Wednesday called on gadget and technology companies to up the ante when it comes to protecting consumer personal data and privacy. Edith Ramirez, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, said …

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All of these smart CES toys? We’re going to need 5G

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. The cutting edge apps and products shown off at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show will increasingly need a cutting edge wireless network. Our current 4G LTE speeds may not be enough. That’s why …

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Apple iPhone sales have peaked? Not so fast

Apple will apparently be making fewer smartphones at the start of this year, and some are taking it as a sign that the iPhone is in trouble. If only it were that clear-cut. The company, based in Cupertino, California, is expected to trim the number of iPhones it makes by around a third in the first three months of 2016, …

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Twitter may soon let you write 2,000

Adios short, snappy tweets? Twitter’s long-rumored move to really, really long tweets could be rolled out by the end of March, according to a report. The San Francisco company is apparently exploring different tweet lengths that go well beyond the 140-character limit that’s been the hallmark of the 10-year-old microblogging service. Twitter is currently looking at capping tweets at 10,000 …

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Huawei brings the bling to woo women on smartwatches

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. During the first few days I wore the Huawei Watch, a beautiful but big-screen Android smartwatch, it shocked me how many compliments I received for a heavy, bulky gadget that very clearly dominated …

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Your iPhone will work with Samsung’s Gear S2 watch

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. If you’re an iPhone user, you’re going to be getting one more smartwatch option. Samsung said Tuesday that its Gear S2 watch would work with devices running on Apple’s iOS software, namely iPhones …

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H8ers gonna H8: Hisense H

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Strong, optimistic and agile: According to Hisense that’s the definition of a leopard. Oh, and also the Chinese electronics company itself, who used CES 2016 in Las Vegas to reiterate its commitment to …

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Nikon brings D5, D500 SLRs and KeyMission 360 action cam to CES 2016

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Nikon made its full-frame FX-format Nikon D5 digital SLR official today at CES 2016, having revealed its development back in November. The Tokyo-based camera manufacturer also unveiled the Nikon D500, a new top-of-the-line …

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ZTE wants you to help design its next phone

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. ZTE plans to make a phone designed by you, suggesting the possibility of flexible screen you can roll up in your pocket when you don’t need it. The Chinese company on Tuesday revealed …

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