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Want a doctor to take a peek inside your body? No need to leave your living room. Using the Butterfly iQ handheld ultrasound wand and an iPhone, you could take your own ultrasound as your doctor analyzes the imagery in real time during a video chat.  It’s not a theory — it’s possible right now. …

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Amazon Fire TV tops 30 million active users, seeming to beat Roku

Amazon’s Fire TV may be moving into the lead among video streaming devices, with its lineup of products attracting “well over” 30 million active users, the company said Wednesday at CES.  That’s up from the 25 million Amazon disclosed in October, suggesting growth of 5 million new accounts in three months. And Amazon expects the number to grow soon, too.  …

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Penn Jillette’s magical advice for keeping healthy at CES 2019: Just give up

I loved watching Penn and Teller when I was young. Inexplicably, I threw up as a kid during one of their shows, and then I remember meeting them in the lobby and how they made me love magic. I still practice tricks and think about how magic bends reality. Penn Jillette also lost over a hundred pounds in 2016 after …

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At CES 2019, I met a robot that showed me a future where we’re not so lonely

At CES this year, there was one thing I was more excited to see than anything else: a robot I’ve been waiting to meet for almost three years. A little like a penguin, a little like a sloth, Lovot is a companion robot with big googly eyes and an even bigger AI-powered heart. It’s designed and built by Kaname Hayashi, …

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Apple and Samsung steal CES 2019

Apple and Samsung have done it again. In a week in which pretty much every tech company in the world is unveiling flashy new products, the two giants have managed to steal the limelight. This time, it was at CES 2019, the world’s biggest electronics show.  The Las Vegas confab is the event that sets the stage for the coming year in …

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‘Right to be forgotten’ by Google should apply only in EU, says court adviser

Google shouldn’t have to remove links about European citizens from search results across the whole of the internet, just in the European Union. That’s the recommendation of a top legal advisor to the EU’s Court of Justice. EU Advocate General Maciej Szpunar released an opinion Thursday saying searches made outside the EU shouldn’t be affected by the so-called right to …

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CES 2019: Lexar reveals $500 1TB SD card

If you shoot a lot of high-definition content but tire of having to stop working to change SD cards, Lexar has a new, mammoth SD card that should make your job easier. Lexar unveiled The Professional 633x SDXC UHS-I, a memory card with the capacity to store 1 terabyte of photos and video, at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. One …

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CES 2019: AMD’s Radeon 7 pushes PC gaming to ‘the bleeding edge’

CES 2019 marks the first time AMD has ever given a keynote at the international trade show — so naturally, you’d expect the company’s debut conference to be packed. On Wednesday morning, AMD President and CEO Lisa Su didn’t disappoint, talking up the company’s upcoming third-gen Ryzen desktop CPUs, the new Epyc Rome chips for data centers and how, in …

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All the coolest gadgets at CES 2019, Day 3 (The 3:59, Ep. 507)

On this podcast, we talk about: Samsung’s Galaxy S10 announcement. Who won CES: Apple, Google or Amazon? What were our favorite products. Ring’s new smart peephole, with the CEO joining us for an interview. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News team in New York …

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VR needs more Disney

Somewhere in a labyrinth of simulated Venetian canals in a Las Vegas mall, there’s a slick-looking glowing storefront that’s easy to miss. THE VOID, it says in large letters. Star Wars stormtroopers beckon from the windows. We’ve come to climb inside Disney’s Ralph Breaks The Internet movie at CES 2019, courtesy of The Void’s location-based VR experience, “Ralph Breaks VR,” …

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