by Carlos Narváez | Jan 10, 2017 | Pre-Market, RQLAB
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6. SRPT:$SRPT Enters into License Agreement with Nationwide Children’s Hospital for Galgt2 Gene Therapy Program
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1. Valeant to Sell $2.1 Billion in Assets to Pay Down Debt
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., the embattled Canadian drugmaker, agreed to sell about $2.1 billion in assets to get cash to streamline its businesses and begin easing its debt burden.
2. Johnson & Johnson to Report Average Increases in List Prices for U.S. Drugs
Johnson & Johnson is planning to issue a report next month outlining how much it has raised the U.S. prices of its prescription drugs, the latest pharmaceutical company effort to address intense public concern about the cost of medicines.
3. Twilio upgraded to Buy from Hold at Canaccord
Canaccord Genuity analyst Richard Davis upgraded Twilio to Buy with an unchanged price target of $35. The cloud communications platform closed yesterday up 47c to $28.10. The recent pullback in shares justifies an upgrade, as the stock has the potential to be “materially” higher by the end of the year, Davis tells investors in a research note. The analyst views the stock as “cheap.” If Twilio continues to innovate and keep prices low, there is no logical reason for firms to build their own mobile communications functionality, Davis contends.
4. ZIOPHARM and Intrexon Announce Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the National Cancer Institute Utilizing Sleeping Beauty System to Generate T cells Targeting Neoantigens (NASDAQ:ZIOP)
BOSTON, MA and GERMANTOWN, MD – January 10, 2017 – ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZIOP), a biopharmaceutical company focused on new immunotherapies, and Intrexon Corporation (NYSE:XON), a leader in the engineering and industrialization of biology to improve the quality of life and health of the planet, today anno…
5. Canadian apparel maker Gildan wins auction to buy American Apparel
Canadian apparel maker Gildan Activewear Inc (GIL.TO) said it had won a bankruptcy auction to buy U.S. fashion retailer American Apparel for about $88 million in cash.
6. Valeant to Sell Skin-Care Brands to L’Oréal
Valeant agreed to sell three skin-care brands including CeraVe to French cosmetics giant L’Oréal for $1.3 billion, the latest effort by the beleaguered drugmaker to unload assets and pare debt.
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Trello will become an important part of the Atlassian portfolio offering a fun new way for teams to organize the often messy range of information that feeds into great teamwork.
tools excel at work that benefits from a traceable and repeatable process whilst Confluence is great for teams creating and collaborating on documents and rich content.
Trello perfectly fills a gap between the structured workflows of JIRA and the collaboration of Confluence and will give teams the option to find the right Atlassian tool for the type of work they need to complete.
ET Airbnb one of the most richly funded startups in the world is turning into an investor itself.
The San Francisco startup led a million funding round in app Resy Network which competes with the much larger OpenTable Airbnb will use services to expand beyond part of its plan to become a shop for travelers.
The funding which also includes.
There is no greater honor than supporting growth and evolution as a human being.
ET Yahoo said Monday it will whittle down its board after completing its deal with Verizon Communications and several longtime directors including Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and David Filo will step down as directors.
After the sale of its core internet business the company will change its name to Altaba from RemainCo Yahoo said in a regulatory filing.
remaining assets include stake in.
ZeniMax Media is trying to show that it did the heavy lifting to develop the software and hardware for the virtual reality goggles alleging a star employee recruited by Oculus purloined its intellectual property.
If ZeniMax is successful in a trial that began Monday with jury selection it would rewrite the story of how Facebook emerged at the forefront of the virtual reality boom with Microsoft Sony Alphabet Google and others all competing for a piece of a market forecast to exceed billion in sales in.
At the time it was crude prototype that lacked a head mount specific software integrated motion sensors and other critical features and capabilities needed to create a viable product according to lawsuit.
In our conversation Simons also noted that he believes the cultures in both companies are very similar and that both share the same audacious goal to get to million monthly active users.
no surprise then that the press release specifically cites popularity with business teams in finance HR legal marketing and sales and notes that percent of Trello users work in functions.
Atlassian is scheduled to report its results on January and chances are we will hear a bit more about this transaction and how the company plans to integrate services then.
But it had to wait for the right moment when a telecom carrier was willing to cede unprecedented control to Apple allowing it to design a hardware and software package that would redefine the category on its own terms.
In this case Apple made an exception last week I sat down with its senior vp of world wide marketing Phil Schiller who joined the leadership team in April coincident with Steve return.
Yet Schiller pushed back when I suggested that the great moment came when Apple threw open the gates to developers and we learned that for every imaginable activity as well as some previously unimaginable ones there was app for.
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Our small idea was to take the paradigm of a sticky note on a wall and turn it into a tool that allowed people to collaborate in real time.
We wanted Trello to be fluid and adaptable to a huge range of problems that all revolved around getting people on the same page.
been humbled and excited to see the millions of use cases for Trello around the world and we build the product each day proudly knowing helping teams do great things.
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by Alpha | Jan 9, 2017 | Pre-Market
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10. TGTX:$TGTX Orphan Drug Designation for the Combination of TG-1101 and TGR-1202 for Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
11. ADRO:$ADRO Partial Clinical Hold Lifted and Enrollment Resumes for LADD Clinical Trial
12. PTCT:$PTCT filing nmDMD NDA “over protest” with FDA in 1Q 17
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1. Mars to Acquire VCA Inc (WOOF) for $9.1B
Mars, Incorporated and VCA Inc. (NASDAQ: WOOF) entered an agreement under which Mars will acquire all of the outstanding shares of VCA for $93 per share, or a total value of…
2. Japan’s Takeda to buy U.S. cancer drug maker Ariad in $5.2 billion deal
Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd (4502.T) said on Monday it would buy cancer drug maker Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc (ARIA.O) in a deal valued at $5.20 billion, to beef up its oncology pipeline.
3. F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charges in Emissions Scandal
The executive, Oliver Schmidt, led the automaker’s regulatory compliance office in the United States from 2014 to March 2015.
4. UnitedHealth’s Optum to Acquire Surgical Care Affiliates for $2.3 Billion
UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s Optum health-services arm has agreed to acquire Surgical Care Affiliates Inc. for about $2.3 billion, adding a major surgical company to its growing roster of doctor groups and clinics.
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And precisely because the tweets are so far afield of current president Barack workshopped ones someone with improper access to account could accomplish their goals while staying in character as Trump.
A hack of the Associated Press Twitter account in that falsely asserted breaking news about an explosion at the White House caused the Dow to drop points.
According to Alex Wall who served as director of online engagement in the Obama White House special security protocols do exist for the official POTUS account they just all come from the user side.
known for years that Apple considered a number of different approaches when creating the original iPhone and iOS but before today not had a really good look at any of these early discarded prototypes.
Pictures and video published by Sonny Dickson change that showing what the site claims is an iOS precursor named that uses a click wheel to navigate the interface.
To see which design would work better he pitted the iPod and Macintosh teams against one another with the efforts led by executives Tony Fadell and Scott Forstall respectively.
And precisely because the tweets are so far afield of current president Barack workshopped ones someone with improper access to account could accomplish their goals while staying in character as Trump.
A hack of the Associated Press Twitter account in that falsely asserted breaking news about an explosion at the White House caused the Dow to drop points.
According to Alex Wall who served as director of online engagement in the Obama White House special security protocols do exist for the official POTUS account they just all come from the user side.
And precisely because the tweets are so far afield of current president Barack workshopped ones someone with improper access to account could accomplish their goals while staying in character as Trump.
A hack of the Associated Press Twitter account in that falsely asserted breaking news about an explosion at the White House caused the Dow to drop points.
According to Alex Wall who served as director of online engagement in the Obama White House special security protocols do exist for the official POTUS account they just all come from the user side.
One of the flagship appliances that will make good on this promise is the Smart Instaview Refrigerator a fridge that among other things supports integration with Amazon Alexa service.
Alexa is an inherently bad fit for a refrigerator which like the Amazon Echo itself can just sit in the corner of your kitchen awaiting your command.
Privacy is a concern without being compromised companies can use their smart devices to serve up ads or give audio or video recordings to law enforcement.
The company on Sunday unveiled Movement a website it hopes will persuade city planners to consider Uber as part of urban development and transit systems in the future.
totality of Uber and Lyft drivers in Boston represent what is effectively the addition of another transit line Jascha chief information officer at Department of Innovation Technology said in an interview.
But the company said it would balance that demand for information with concerns about user privacy and the need to protect competitive data that could prove valuable to rivals like Lyft Hailo and Grab which are vying for riders across many of the same markets.
Previous talks between Google and automakers including Ford have broken down over who will control the flow of data from autonomous cars that marketers covet to learn the habits of consumers people familiar with the discussion have said.
of us in the automobile or IT industries are close to achieving true Level autonomy said Gill Pratt CEO of the Toyota Research Institute referring to the ability of a car to drive itself without any human intervention.
You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter find it hard to believe that the world will be this utopia of people sitting in the passenger seat getting aromatherapy and listening to Enya while cars figure out which one should proceed through the intersection first Tynan said in an interview.
European nations have also drawn up their own privacy laws and in a court declared its citizens could demand internet companies like Google unlink information about users upon request.
free speech and internet freedom are increasingly under attack all over the globe and not just from authoritarian regimes said Robert McDowell a former member of the Federal Communications Commission and partner at Cooley law firm.
Most American internet companies in Russia operate in violation of the law but without explanation Russian regulators at a body known as Roskomnadzor took the rare step of enforcing its rules.
One afternoon Chris Cox a Republican from California and Ron Wyden a Democrat from Oregon put their plates together and strategized how they might cut through the frosty partisanship that divided the Hill.
For a young internet facing a potential avalanche of lawsuits Cox and provision was a creative workaround a hack that allowed this new form of communication to grow into the thriving network of commercial enterprises we know today.
One person who has been asking these questions is Mary Anne Franks the legislative and tech policy director for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative a group that fights online harassment and offers support for victims whose lives have been wrecked by it.
One afternoon Chris Cox a Republican from California and Ron Wyden a Democrat from Oregon put their plates together and strategized how they might cut through the frosty partisanship that divided the Hill.
For a young internet facing a potential avalanche of lawsuits Cox and provision was a creative workaround a hack that allowed this new form of communication to grow into the thriving network of commercial enterprises we know today.
One person who has been asking these questions is Mary Anne Franks the legislative and tech policy director for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative a group that fights online harassment and offers support for victims whose lives have been wrecked by it.
by Alpha | Jan 6, 2017 | Pre-Market
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4. SNY:Does $SNY disappointment make it more likely to acquire $BMRN in time? Our view: SNY has been a known bidder
5. GSAT:$gsat Right at jobs #’s??? UGH Globalstar, Inc. Conference Call to Discuss FCC Report and Order Friday, January 6, 2017 at 8:30 am ET
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1. Acceleron Outlines Corporate Goals and Priorities for 2017 (NASDAQ:XLRN)
2. U.S. Payrolls Rise 156,000 as Wages Increase Most Since 2009
The U.S. labor market turned in a solid performance at the end of 2016, sending job gains above 2 million for a sixth year as paychecks rose by the most during the current expansion.
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MIT Media Lab Electome group and Derek Lieu a programmer both used topical analysis to understand what issues the White House was talking about most on Twitter.
Internet Archive is making White House social media data available to download from their website for years to hosting a public hackathon this Saturday January.
The White House convened these citizens in the hopes that their creations would inspire people like you to dive into the archives build research tools art projects and the like.
Goals in Google Calendar makes finding time for activities like hitting the gym or going on more runs easy.
When you do activity in your favorite fitness apps will be recorded and used to mark your goals in Google Calendar as automatically.
Say you set a goal to run at every other morning but actually hitting your stride until Google Calendar has you covered and will adjust accordingly.
Bitcoin approached record highs and then fell sharply into a bear in one morning.
The digital currency plummeted as yuan strengthened.
Bitcoin after coming within a hair of a record high on some exchanges fell more than in a matter of hours then recovered a bit in trading to.
Enhanced Fitbit social experience and redesigned Fitstar Personal Trainer app connect users and deliver tailored guidance that can help drive behavior change to maximize health outcomes.
For nearly years we have been the leader in the connected health and fitness category because we have consistently delivered innovative products software and services that work together to create an engaging experience our users love and live without said James Park and CEO of Fitbit.
these latest advancements delivering even more ways to interact with your social network and provide a smarter more tailored experience transforming the personal value of Fitbit devices from beloved fitness trackers to an integral part of your.
MIT Media Lab Electome group and Derek Lieu a programmer both used topical analysis to understand what issues the White House was talking about most on Twitter.
Internet Archive is making White House social media data available to download from their website for years to hosting a public hackathon this Saturday January.
The White House convened these citizens in the hopes that their creations would inspire people like you to dive into the archives build research tools art projects and the like.
The MIT Media Lab analysis for instance shows that President Obama was tweeting more about gun control and less about foreign policy and national security than other Twitter users.
The digital art organization Rhizome is creating interactive essays filled with links that reveal how White memes like Thanks Obama originated and went viral.
Interactive Telecommunications Program is hosting an hackathon called the Amelia Acker an assistant professor at will put the data to use to teach topics like metadata.
The MIT Media Lab analysis for instance shows that President Obama was tweeting more about gun control and less about foreign policy and national security than other Twitter users.
The digital art organization Rhizome is creating interactive essays filled with links that reveal how White memes like Thanks Obama originated and went viral.
Interactive Telecommunications Program is hosting an hackathon called the Amelia Acker an assistant professor at will put the data to use to teach topics like metadata.
It unveiling a product today called the Canvas which is a sloped monitor not an with a PC inside that meant to sit on your desk plug into your existing computer and be used for sketching animation or anything best made with a stylus.
This may be somewhat handy for keeping your arms and hands out of the way there even a magnetic strip for hanging onto a loose stylus but the appearance is clunky and nowhere near as minimal and sharp as the Studio.
Dell has also provided custom software for the Canvas that allows apps to be pinned to different edges of the display.
by Alpha | Jan 5, 2017 | Pre-Market
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5. CEB:$IT Gartner To Acquire $CEB In Deal Valued Near $3.3 Bln – RTRS
6. MON:$MON Monsanto Q1 17 Earnings Results: -Adj EPS: $0.21 -Revenue: $2.65
7. DRYS:$DRYS news type of day … will be looking at mostly scalps a lot of noise, data points and futes still heavy
8. HALO:$HALO Phase 2 Study in Advanced Pancreas Cancer Meets Key Endpoints
11. GM:Some perspective on how big China is to $GM. Last year that country accounted for more than one third of the company’s global sales.
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1. Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces Immunotherapy Clinical Collaboration with Janssen to Evaluate Opdivo (nivolumab) in Combination with Darzalex (daratumumab)
Phase 1b/2 studies to explore a novel Immuno-Oncology combination in hematological and solid tumors with high unmet medical need. Builds off previous clinical collaboration between the companies Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) today announced a new clinical research collaboration with Janssen Biotech, Inc. to evaluate the combination of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Immuno-Oncology (I-O) agent Opdivo and Janssen’s CD38-directed cytolytic antibody Darzalex in Phase 1b/2 clinical studies in multiple myeloma and solid tumors including non-small cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer (CRC), triple negative breast cancer and head and neck cancer. In 2016 an existing Bristol-Myers Squibb Phase I study was expanded to include the combination of Opdivo and Darzalex in multiple myeloma; this study is ongoing. Additional studies will start in 2017. Opdivo is a human antibody designed to alleviate immune suppression. Darzalex is a cytolytic antibody believed to induce tumor cell
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“pbo beats ‘HA-low’ $HALO”
3. Halozyme jumps on positive late-stage pancreatic cancer data | FierceBiotech
Halozyme saw its shares boosted by nearly 60% on news that it had hit its endpoints in a midstage test of the notoriously difficult-to-treat pancreatic cancer therapy area.
4. Dismal holiday sales at Macy’s, Kohl’s spell gloom for sector
Disappointing holiday season sales at Macy’s Inc (M.N) and Kohl’s Corp (KSS.N) underscored the uphill task department stores face in winning back shoppers, who are increasingly turning to online retailers and spending less on apparel.
5. Synthetic Biologics’ SYN-004 (ribaxamase) Achieves Primary Endpoint in Phase 2b Trial for C. difficile Infection (CDI)
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Synthetic Biologics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: SYN), a late-stage clinical company developing therapeutics that preserve the microbiome to protect and restore the health of patients, today announced positive topline data from its Phase 2b clinical trial for SYN-004
6. U.S. Spending More on Specialty Drugs Under Medicare
Federal spending on a Medicare program for people with high drug costs has ballooned over the past five years, largely due to the soaring costs of expensive specialty medications, a new government report has found.
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In recent years major technology companies have begun to make public commitments to hire more women and minorities but progress has been slow.
As a federal contractor Google is barred from discriminating based on race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or against military veterans.
In September it filed an administrative lawsuit alleging a pattern of discrimination against Asian job applicants at Palantir a data mining company valued at billion and by technology investor and Trump adviser Peter Thiel.
There so much stacked against you as an entrepreneur that you just have to will yourself to the next phase.
Trump attorney general nominee will likely prevail but his name will be dragged through the gutter.
The reality again perhaps hard to see in the midst of such numbers is that it behooves no one to simply continue down a path if you know the end result ultimately going to be successful.
But just as vital is continuing to innovate on core product and experience while also building a sustainable model to make sure that all sides publishers and readers are deriving value actual value from the content for the.
The moves today will simply refocus the team to continue exploring the correct model for publishing heading forward into an uncertain future.
While we could continue on our current path and there is a business case for doing so we decided that we risk failing on our larger original mission if we make some proactive changes while we have the momentum and resources to do so.
As I wrote at the time current system causes increasing amounts of pressure to put out more content more cheaply depth originality or quality be damned.
The vast majority of articles videos and other we all consume on a daily basis is paid for directly or indirectly by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals.
While we could continue on our current path and there is a business case for doing so we decided that we risk failing on our larger original mission if we make some proactive changes while we have the momentum and resources to do so.
As I wrote at the time current system causes increasing amounts of pressure to put out more content more cheaply depth originality or quality be damned.
The vast majority of articles videos and other we all consume on a daily basis is paid for directly or indirectly by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals.
While we could continue on our current path and there is a business case for doing so we decided that we risk failing on our larger original mission if we make some proactive changes while we have the momentum and resources to do so.
As I wrote at the time current system causes increasing amounts of pressure to put out more content more cheaply depth originality or quality be damned.
The vast majority of articles videos and other we all consume on a daily basis is paid for directly or indirectly by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals.
Sainz declined to comment on what local regulations the Times apps were said to have violated who had contacted Apple and when and whether a court order or other legal document had been presented.
Farzana Aslam associate director of the Center for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong noted that in matters involving customer privacy Apple requires governments to submit subpoenas search warrants or other legal documents.
Mark Natkin the managing director of Marbridge Consulting who advises American technology firms in China said he did not think any such company entering the Chinese market could fully comprehend how challenging going to.
While we could continue on our current path and there is a business case for doing so we decided that we risk failing on our larger original mission if we make some proactive changes while we have the momentum and resources to do so.
As I wrote at the time current system causes increasing amounts of pressure to put out more content more cheaply depth originality or quality be damned.
The vast majority of articles videos and other we all consume on a daily basis is paid for directly or indirectly by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals.
by Alpha | Jan 4, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. NVIDIA (NVDA) PT Raised to $120 at Citi on Auto Opportunity; Sees Sell-Off as ‘Healthy’
Citi analyst Atif Malik reiterated a Buy rating and raised his price target on NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) to $120, citing the auto opportunity. The views the recent sell-off as…
2. HSBC raises world economic growth, inflation forecasts, dubs moves ‘rare treat’
Economists at HSBC on Wednesday raised their forecast for global growth and inflation over the next two years based on robust manufacturing activity, a resilient China and above all the fiscal boost expected to come in the United States.
3. Alibaba, in new tack, sues two vendors who it says sold fake watches
China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has sued two vendors it says sold fake Swarovski watches on its Taobao e-commerce platform, its first legal action against counterfeiters amid persistent allegations that fake goods are widely available on its sites.
4. Sharp’s Planned U.S. TV Revival Blurred by Chinese Rival
Leading iPhone assembler Foxconn wants to use Japan’s Sharp to build its own global electronics brand. There is one major snag: In the U.S., the right to sell Sharp-brand televisions belongs to a Chinese company
5. A Hard Brexit Looms Large With Resignation of U.K. Envoy to EU
The chances that the U.K. will make a disruptive break from its biggest market have grown with the resignation of the British envoy to the European Union, an experienced Brussels insider who was reviled by leading Brexit supporters.
6. Exxon Mobil Cashes Out Ex-CEO Tillerson Ahead of Confirmation Hearings
Exxon Mobil has awarded former Chief Executive Rex Tillerson a $180 million retirement package as the company moves to break financial ties with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state.
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The AI will scan hospital records and other documents to determine insurance payouts according to a company press release factoring injuries patient medical histories and procedures administered.
An Israeli insurance startup Lemonade has raised million on the idea of brokers and paperwork with bots and machine learning says CEO Daniel Schreiber.
Artificial intelligence systems like are poised to upend professions like insurance and financial services according to the Harvard Business Review due to the fact that many jobs can be of work that can be codified into standard steps and of decisions based on cleanly formatted But whether that means augmenting ability to be productive or replacing them entirely remains to be seen.
In this most intimate of spaces Aristotle is designed to be something far more specific than the generic voice assistants of today a nanny friend and tutor intended to both soothe a newborn and help a tween with their foreign language homework.
But with partners like Qualcomm which makes key chips inside most smartphones and Microsoft which provides both Bing search intelligence and Cortana AI smarts Aristotle is a lot more capable than the baby monitors of today.
And even with this UI logic in place all of these capabilities only put more pressure on Mattel to build out a greater digital experience behind its analog toys which would require untold levels of new investment on part.
But for the the latest and greatest should perform better than what came Lake desktop chips are a disappointment a stopgap solution that does little more than give OEMs something new to stick on a label in a product stack.
Compared to the Skylake processor that preceded it the gains a small bump in base and boost clocks to and respectively as well as the deceptively named Intel HD Graphics.
The spectacularly gamer ASUS ROG Maximus IX Code for instance as used to benchmark the for this review features an extra pair of USB ports one one on the rear via an additional Asmedia controller.
This device is billed as an detachable that features the new Active Pen now with levels of pressure sensitivity a x resolution display a Windows IR camera a Thunderbolt port and an improved battery life.
Lenovo debuted the Thinkpad Carbon which will now be available in black and a new silver color and includes a Thunderbolt port an IR camera and fingerprint sensor that support Windows Hello biometrics and an improved hour battery life.
The Thinkpad Yoga gets some display enhancements with a OLED panel Intel Iris graphics a new keyboard design that lets it lie completely flat in tablet mode and a new Pro Pen that has a soft elastomer tip for a more natural writing feel.
At the CES show in Las Vegas ODG unveiled the and two models of reality smart glasses aimed at a wider range of consumers and light business users or for the masses as founder and CEO Ralph Osterhout describes it.
But the two models are also notable for another reason the launch of the and glasses signals ODG kicking off its first attempt at forging a new content ecosystem for its eyewear a key component in getting people interested in buying the gadgets in the first place.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Bluetooth WIFI GPS GNSS with iZAT Embedded DoF tracking High speed IMU Dual microphones Integrated directional speakers Recticle OS on Android Nougat.
But for the the latest and greatest should perform better than what came Lake desktop chips are a disappointment a stopgap solution that does little more than give OEMs something new to stick on a label in a product stack.
Compared to the Skylake processor that preceded it the gains a small bump in base and boost clocks to and respectively as well as the deceptively named Intel HD Graphics.
The spectacularly gamer ASUS ROG Maximus IX Code for instance as used to benchmark the for this review features an extra pair of USB ports one one on the rear via an additional Asmedia controller.
In this most intimate of spaces Aristotle is designed to be something far more specific than the generic voice assistants of today a nanny friend and tutor intended to both soothe a newborn and help a tween with their foreign language homework.
But with partners like Qualcomm which makes key chips inside most smartphones and Microsoft which provides both Bing search intelligence and Cortana AI smarts Aristotle is a lot more capable than the baby monitors of today.
And even with this UI logic in place all of these capabilities only put more pressure on Mattel to build out a greater digital experience behind its analog toys which would require untold levels of new investment on part.
But for the the latest and greatest should perform better than what came Lake desktop chips are a disappointment a stopgap solution that does little more than give OEMs something new to stick on a label in a product stack.
Compared to the Skylake processor that preceded it the gains a small bump in base and boost clocks to and respectively as well as the deceptively named Intel HD Graphics.
The spectacularly gamer ASUS ROG Maximus IX Code for instance as used to benchmark the for this review features an extra pair of USB ports one one on the rear via an additional Asmedia controller.
Tuesday rollout of Kaby Lake CPU for desktops has met a dubious fanfare of leaked reviews that dismiss the new chip as one huge Core i Yawn.
On the desktop side however power users care about integrated graphics focusing more on the lackluster be fair Intel set the expectation in August that Kaby Lake was basically Skylake on an improved process that squeezes out more megahertz.
Turbo Boost Max lets the CPU greatly increase the clock speed on a single core bringing performance a lot closer to the.
As PC shipments head for their fifth straight annual decline Intel is finding it harder to offset that slump by leaning on booming demand for server chips and gains against weaker rival Advanced Micro Devices After bringing in new executives and shaking up his management team percent workforce reduction underscores his effort to decouple future from the PC market and accelerate a push into new markets such as chips for automotive industrial and retail applications.
Adding to recent shuffles among leadership Stacy Smith who has been chief financial officer since will move to a new role as head of manufacturing and sales the company said Tuesday in a statement.
The job cuts announced Tuesday will be biggest layoffs since it reduced staffing between and when the company was responding to the global financial crisis and competition that wiped out growth.
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The Joint Analysis Report JAR Grizzly Steppe was released yesterday as part of the White response to alleged Russian government interference in the election process.
It merely listed every threat group ever reported on by a commercial cybersecurity company that is suspected of being and lumped them under the heading of Russian Intelligence Services RIS without providing any supporting evidence that such a connection exists.
If classified an independent commission should review it because this entire assignment of blame against the Russian government is looking more and more like a domestic political operation run by the White House that relied heavily on questionable intelligence generated by a cybersecurity firm with a vested interest in selling.
Speaking to a handful of reporters outside his Palm Beach club Trump cast his declarations of doubt as an effort to seek the truth.
you look at the weapons of mass destruction that was a disaster and they were wrong he added referring to intelligence cited by the George Bush administration to support its march to war in.
Trump who has sought a warmer relationship with Putin has repeatedly scoffed at the notion that Russia was behind the hacking a stance at odds with members of his own party.
The Joint Analysis Report JAR Grizzly Steppe was released yesterday as part of the White response to alleged Russian government interference in the election process.
It merely listed every threat group ever reported on by a commercial cybersecurity company that is suspected of being and lumped them under the heading of Russian Intelligence Services RIS without providing any supporting evidence that such a connection exists.
If classified an independent commission should review it because this entire assignment of blame against the Russian government is looking more and more like a domestic political operation run by the White House that relied heavily on questionable intelligence generated by a cybersecurity firm with a vested interest in selling.
The new employment law requires French companies with more than employees to begin drawing up policies with their workers about limiting technology usage outside the office the newspaper reported.
They remain attached by a kind of electronic leash like a dog Benoit Hamon Socialist member of Parliament and former French education minister told the BBC in May.
France we are champions at passing laws but they are not always very helpful when what we need is greater flexibility in the workplace Olivier Mathiot chief executive of PriceMinister a online marketplace told BBC News in May.
Dell is unveiling a convertible version of its popular XPS laptop today at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Dell is claiming around hours of battery life on the FHD model and that will obviously drop significantly on the Quad HD display version.
the same carbon fiber palm rest and machined aluminium shell alongside a precision trackpad and optional Dell Active Pen for stylus input.
United Nations Governments around the world shut down the internet more than times in suppressing elections slowing economies and limiting free speech.
Uganda in February there was a shutdown of social media networks by President Museveni and that again happened in Gambia in December surrounding the election Olukotun added.
According to Brookings these are conservative estimates which only take into account reductions in economic activity and not tax losses or drops in investor confidence.
Bitcoin is used to move money across the globe quickly and anonymously and does not fall under the purview of any authority making it attractive to those wanting to get around capital controls such as China.
It is also may appeal to those worried about a lack of supply of cash such as in India where Prime Minister Narendra Modi removed bank notes from circulation in November.
The growing war on cash and capital controls is making bitcoin look like a viable if high risk alternative said Paul Gordon a board member of the UK Digital Currency Association and of Quantave a firm seeking to make it easier for institutional investors to access digital currency exchanges.
ET In late a startup caught the attention of Ford Motor executive John Casesa who runs global strategy for the auto maker.
The startup called Chariot was growing fast and had an interesting crowdsourced reservation model a staffer told him suggesting a meeting.
One year and a million deal later the San Francisco.
The codes act as pincodes for locating travel records albeit with vital differences that make them highly insecure compared with even the simple usernames and passwords that consumers use to access email or websites the researchers said.
Given only last names their bookings codes can be found over the Internet with little effort said SRLabs Karsten Nohl who with Nemanja Nikodijevic will detail their research this week at the Chaos Communications Congress Europe biggest annual event on hacking.
If the data protection laws that have been in effect since the early in the EU and Canada had been enforced travel systems would have been required to make changes that would have significantly reduced some of the vulnerabilities and that SRLabs has now demonstrated can be exploited he said.
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