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The new look is less about channels—and more about sports, movies, and shows.

CES may stand for “Consumer Electronics Show,” but the most intriguing launch at last year’s event wasn’t a piece of consumer electronics. Instead, it was Sling TV—a streaming service from Dish that looks a lot like cable TV, except that it starts at $20 a month, lets you add bundles of additional channels in $5 increments, and is available on smartphones, tablets, Roku, Xbox, and other devices rather than wedded to a particular TV.

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A great idea in theory, but challenging in practice.

We routinely use apps to retrieve a lost iPad. Why not apply that same technology to help law enforcement locate stolen guns?

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Samsung’s Family Hub Refrigerator has a 21.5-inch touch screen and reminds its owners to order groceries.

At the consumer tech industry’s yearly shindig in Las Vegas, the Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung rolled out a bunch of new gear, but the most interesting new device announced was a smart refrigerator that lets users shop for groceries from the kitchen.

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A new variant of the startup’s technology could help speed truly cable-free gadgets to market.

We’re getting closer to a future without wires. During the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, wireless charging company Energous unveiled a new version of its WattUp wire-free charging technology, with a miniature transmitter that can be used to charge everything from your mobile phone to your fitness tracker wirelessly from wherever you are.

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What was your New Year’s resolution again?

In superhero movies and TV shows, genius billionaire tech inventors get to have all the cool toys—they just have to make them on their own. Think Batman‘s Bruce Wayne and Iron Man‘s Tony Stark on the big screen and Supergirl‘s Maxwell Lord on the small. But in 2016 that film fiction trope is crossing over into reality with Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on his Facebook page that his New Year’s resolution is to build Tony Stark’s AI personal assistant J.A.R.V.I.S. from the Iron Man films.

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