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<li><strong>[00:00] CES-2015 opens</strong></li>
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<li>] PC's making a comeback, in recent years tablets have been the "notebook" killers, today there is not as much emphasis on tablets</li>
<li>] major vendors are displaying convertibles NOT tablets</li>
<li>] large form factor phones are replacing tablets, tablet market is maturing</li>
<li>] MSFT is making money with the surface</li>
<li>] People are realizing the functionality of the convertibles,</li>
<li>] NOT doom and gloom for tablets, tablet market but not the growth of</li>
<li><strong>] the end of dumb TV's</strong></li>
<li>] 2 movements - too inexpensive to put the smarts into the tv, if i can get better content over</li>
<li>] 4k, 5k and 8k TV's are beautiful, previosly have been too pricy</li>
<li>] 2k TV's are the same price as HD</li>
<li>] now 4k and 5k are withing striking distance pricewise</li>
<li>] TV mfg's are not great at getting the UI correct</li>
<li>] for the majority of consumers the UI is not as much of a factor</li>
<li><strong>] <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7495355/mercedes-benz-f-015-luxury-in-motion-self-driving-ces-2015http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7495355/mercedes-benz-f-015-luxury-in-motion-self-driving-ces-2015" target="_blank">mercedes benz f 015</a></strong></li>
<li>] the self driving car of the future</li>
<li>] more and more cars at CES</li>
<li>] previously car segment was stereo's and add ons</li>
<li>] mercedes convinced city of Vegas to block off city street to ?demo?</li>
<li>] there is a sense of "look but dont touch" about this car/technology</li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #888888;"><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://naturebox.com/twit" target="_blank">naturebox.com/twit</a> </strong></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #888888;">] subscription snack service, healthy food, all kinds of innovative, delicous snacks, NO artificial flavours, colours, high fructose corn syrup, some are gluten free, FREE box with your initial order, </span><span><br /></span></li>
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<li><strong>[13:30] <a href="https://wit.ai/blog/2015/01/05/wit-ai-facebook" target="_blank">facebook acquires wit.ai</a> w/Kurt Wagner @recode</strong></li>
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<li>] wit.ai is a startup, voice recognition technology company, does natural voice language processing</li>
<li>] not sure of what facebook plans to do with the technology</li>
<li>] people tend to think that facebook of today will be the facebook of tommorow</li>
<li>] zuckerberg has said, future fb&nbsp;will be all video, will also&nbsp;have VR elements</li>
<li>] fb is also hiring engineering/aeronautics people, ? to build drones, to beam wifi down in certain markets</li>
<li>] fb is preparing for the time when we intereact with social networks much differently than we do today.</li>
<li>] wit is not an app, they are an api company, developers integrate their technology into other apps,</li>
<li>] open source community</li>
<li>] more then just phone technology, talk to your appliances for example</li>
<li>] fb thinks of itself as an "alternative internet", once you get into it, they dont want to give you any reason to leave</li>
<li>] voice recognition is growing</li>
<li>] compare wit.ai to competitiors, unknown</li>
<li>] major players - apple siri, google now, ( msft cortana )</li>
<li>] voice is not perfect yet, a young technolgoy&nbsp;</li>
<li>] MORE: <a href="http://recode.net/2015/01/05/facebook-acquires-wit-ai-a-startup-that-helps-people-talk-to-robots/" target="_blank">http://recode.net/2015/01/05/facebook-acquires-wit-ai-a-startup-that-helps-people-talk-to-robots/</a></li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7493145/new-sony-walkman-zx2-ces-2015" target="_blank">sony announces new $1200 walkman</a></strong></li>
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<li>] Sony launched a new Walkman yesterday.</li>
<li>] it's a high-quality, high-cost music player. The price is about $1,200.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;it plays not only what Sony calls high-resolution audio music files at full quality, but Sony claims that even regular MP3 files sound better on the ZX2 Walkman</li>
<li>] several time more expensive then previous generation walkman,</li>
<li>] the "music player" movement is over, are millenials even aware of walkman brand</li>
<li>] an attractive product for a small # of people, competes with neil youngs pono player</li>
<li>] runs apps, like a phone that cant make phone calls or take pictures</li>
<li>] good enough i</li>
<li>] 128GB memory, micro SD expansion, supports wifi and NFC, 60 hours battery life, coming this spring, orig walkman debuted in 1979</li>
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<li><strong>[24:30] <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2474560,00.asp" target="_blank">intel broadwell processors now available</a>&nbsp;Joel Santo Domingo @pcmag.com</strong></li>
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<li>] Intel's fifth-generation Core processors (formerly called Broadwell) are now available.</li>
<li>] Also, new Atom processors based on the Cherry Trail architecture have surfaced.</li>
<li>] newest versions of their i3, i5 and i7 newest versions, replaces the Haswell versions</li>
<li>] more transistors&nbsp;, less power,&nbsp;smaller, easier to cool,</li>
<li>] do we need? -&nbsp;mfg's bringing out PC's lenovo, dell, &nbsp;</li>
<li>] FEATURE&nbsp;realsense - support of VR type sensing of motion from camera, use gestures instead of mouse</li>
<li>] FEATURE dragonsense - voice control</li>
<li>"] ME - wishes VR type companies would stop trying</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-aware-to-bring-proximity-based-service-discovery-to-wi-fi-certified" target="_blank">wifi alliance announces standard for peer to peer connections</a></strong></li>
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<li>] The Wi-Fi Alliance announced at CES today a new service called Wi-Fi Aware. The service would enable smartphone users to discover each other and connect peer-to-peer via WiFi. Software called "neighbor awareness" operates continuously in the background, which actually saves power because it operates in an extremely low-power mode and eliminates the need for constant connection. The new standard is expected to be built into chips this year, and show up in smartphones and tablets by next year</li>
<li>] wifi alliance has done so much for the industry over the years</li>
<li>] ultimately a machine to machine process, no human interaction required&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/bitstamp-bitcoin-exchange-suspended-amid-hack-concerns-heres-what-we-know/" target="_blank">Bitstamp suspends trading</a></strong></li>
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<li>] Bitstamp, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, suspended trading on Monday after a breach this past weekend. The digital heist apparently involved 19,000 or fewer bitcoins -- potentially worth about $5M or less US dollars</li>
<li>] some kind of breach, dont know if it was internal or external</li>
<li>] NOT the first Bitcoin exchange to be hacked</li>
<li>] these stories dont help with adoption/perception of crypto currencies</li>
<li>] exchanges are bullseye for hackers, money is a great target&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[33:15]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/06/us-technology-charging-standards-idUSKBN0KF04220150106" target="_blank">2 of 3 competing wireless charging standards merge</a></strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;std alliance for wirless powers + std power matter alliance are uniting</li>
<li>] wireless power consortium, may now have a harder time convincing mfgs to adopt their standard</li>
<li>] dont know which is the best, but ultimately will likely only by 1 standard, could help the whole category to take off</li>
<li>"] ME&nbsp;envisions furniture makers will incorporate wless chargers into "tables/furniture" and you can just throw your device onto the coffee/night table and it will get charged, replace all the annoying cables</li>
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<li><strong>[34:30] <a href="http://www.panasonic.com/de/consumer/foto-video/lumix-kompaktkameras/dmc-cm1.html" target="_blank">Panasonic Lumix&nbsp;DMC-CM1 smart phone / camera</a></strong></li>
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<li>] coming to the USA, $1000, prev. released last year and sold only in france and germany</li>
<li>] 20 MP camera, captures 4K video(@ 15 fps)</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-05/verizon-said-to-approach-aol-about-possible-takeover-or-venture.html" target="_blank">Verizon talking to AOL about aquisition</a></strong></li>
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<li>] Verizon interested in AOL's advertising technology</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/05/sony-sells-4-1-million-playstation-4-game-consoles/" target="_blank">sony PS4 sales</a></strong></li>
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<li>] 4.1 M game consoles sold during holiday season, 18.5 m units since launch in 2014-mm</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] ASSORTED - </strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://9to5toys.com/2015/01/06/internet-archive-games-ms-dos-free/" target="_blank">internet archive - announces 2,400 DOS games available</a>, to play for free&nbsp;in your browser <strong><br /></strong></li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong><strong>FOLLOWUP -&nbsp;on PREVIOUSLY REPORTED STORIES</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/people?id=88" target="_blank">twit.tv - tnt show</a></strong></li>
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<li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li>
<li>] producer - <a href="/view/person?id=307" target="_blank">Jason Cleanthes</a></li>
<li>] guest host&nbsp;- <a href="/view/person?id=288" target="_blank">Joe Panettieri</a></li>
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<li><strong>] twit.tv - tnt show</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/1168" target="_blank">show url</a>&nbsp;- shows home page with video of show and links</li>
<li>]&nbsp;show notes&nbsp;- detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/content/top-news-january-6-2015" target="_blank">show notes summary</a>&nbsp;-</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://irc.twit.tv/" target="_blank">twit chat room</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technewstoday/" target="_blank">subreddit</a> -&nbsp;News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today</li>
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