January, 2016

• 9 January

  The stories you may have missed from 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. We may be in the middle of a desert, but there’s been a blizzard this week — a blizzard of technology news, that is. The technology industry gathered …

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• 9 January

  Paying full price for your new phone is a good idea

  

  The era of $200 smartphones with two-year contracts has ended. You can take a moment to mourn this milestone. But could this actually be a good thing for you? The surprising answer is yes. First, let me explain what just happened. This past week AT&T and Sprint joined T-Mobile and Verizon in eliminating two-year service plans and phone subsidies. If …

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• 9 January

  This drone catcher shoots out nets like Spider

  

  Bad drones look out: a new flying robot could be coming to capture you. For all the fun and utility they can provide, pesky drones in 2015 did things like crash into the White House lawn, deliver drugs to a prison in Ohio and distract firefighters from doing their work in upstate New York. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) …

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• 8 January

  Set up your own programmable smart home for Peanuts

  

  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. CES 2016 has opened the door to smart home of tomorrow and, quite frankly, we like what we see! But what if you want to live in a connected home and you just …

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• 8 January

  TVs at CES 2016: The 4K, super

  

  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. Now playing: Watch this: OLED TV trends upward at CES 2016 18:59 Enlarge Image The TVs of the future are getting cooler, but they might also get confusing. Sarah Tew/CNET With one hand, …

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• 8 January

  Dish adding multiroom music to Hopper DVR

  

  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. Satellite TV provider Dish is working on a DTS Play-Fi multiroom music app to use on its networked Hopper DVR . At Dish’s booth at CES 2016, the company was demonstrating streaming music …

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• 8 January

  Samsung’s hyperactive TV could crush you at Dance Dance Revolution

  

  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. How’s a transformable, dancing TV sound to you? That may just be the future, according to Samsung. The South Korean electronics giant is showing off several far-out TVs this week at the CES …

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• 8 January

  These are the 7 things you need to know about phones at 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. Typically, the annual CES conference in Las Vegas is a little lean on thrilling phone news; companies tend to save their splashiest new products and partnerships for Mobile World Congress (MWC) a month …

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• 8 January

  Antiterrorism on the agenda as Silicon Valley meets with top federal officials

  

  Top federal law enforcement and security officials are in Silicon Valley on Friday, meeting with representatives from the biggest names in tech. At issue: how tech and government can work together to fight terrorism. The summit highlights the government’s heightened sense of urgency in the wake of the San Bernardino, California, shootings last month, when followers of the Islamic State …

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• 8 January

  Streaming funeral for metal

  

  When Lemmy Kilmister, leader singer and bassist of the iconic English heavy-metal band Motorhead, died of cancer on December 28, fans and fellow rock stars the world over mourned online via social media. Now they will able to able to attend his funeral online as well. A private service for family and friends at Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Hollywood, …

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