Lenovo has made an Amazon Echo lookalike, but with better speakers and other top stories.

• Lenovo has made an Amazon Echo lookalike, but with better speakers

  

  Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker, is getting into "smart" speakers. The company just unveiled the Lenovo Smart Assistant, a tall, tubular speaker that has Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa built in. Lenovo says it worked directly with Amazon to ...

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• Hands on: Dell turns the XPS 13 into a 2-in-1

  

  Dell has just improved its already brilliant XPS 13 -- it will now be available as a 2-in-1, which means the device has the versatility to be a laptop or a tablet. I had the chance to play around with the device prior to CES. It has a clever design and wowed me with its sleek design and edge-to-edge screen, but it won't come cheap. The starting price of the XPS 13 2-in-1 is US$999, and it'll start shipping this month. That's about $200 more than the starting price of the XPS laptop. You ..

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• SpaceX eyes Jan. 8 return to satellite launches after finishing explosion investigation

  

  SpaceX is now targeting Jan. 8 for its return to flight after completing its investigation of a September launch pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and a commercial communications satellite.Pending approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, the Hawthorne space company plans to launch 10 satellites on one Falcon 9 rocket for Iridium Communications Inc. from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The satellites will be part of Iridium’s new satellite constellation to provide mobile commun..

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• Rugged Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Spotted In Benchmark With Android 7.0 Nougat On Board: Update Imminent?

  

  It looks like Samsung has an update in tow for its rugged Galaxy S7 Active, as the handset was just spotted on GFXBench with Android 7.0 Nougat on board. If this listing is anything to go by, the Samsung Galaxy S7 Active should soon move from Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow to Android 7.0 Nougat. Other Samsung devices expected to get a taste of Nougat soon include the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge, and the Galaxy Note 5 phablet. Samsung has already started testing Android Nougat be..

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• New Leak Shares A Ton Of Snapdragon 835 SoC Details

  

  Qualcomm's CES 2017 keynote is only a couple of days away, and some new info regarding the company's Snapdragon 835 SoC just leaked. This SoC was already announced by Qualcomm last year, but the company did not introduce that many details thus ...

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