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Asus has announced the eye-catching and ultraportable Pro B9440 notebook for business. At 2.3 pounds, Asus says it is the world's lightest 14-inch laptop.

The Mirabook is a Lap Dock for your Android or Windows phone featuring USB Type-C, HDMI, 24-hours of battery life, and an aluminum chassis.

This new Chromebook is powered by the Intel Celeron N3060, next to 4 GB RAM and 16 GB or 32 GB eMMC internal storage, being compliant with the MIL-STD 810G ruggedness standard.

The updated Aspire V Nitro lineup features Kaby Lake processors, up to 16 GB DDR4 memory, GeForce GTX 1060 and 1050 Ti graphics, and will hit the market next month, starting at $1,199 USD.

Users will be able to configure up to a 4K UHD display, 16 GB RAM, Core i7 Kaby Lake CPU, Sure View privacy screen, and new hardware-based security features.

Although Samsung patents showing devices with foldable displays have been around for a few years now, the latest one shows a foldable smartphone that also uses two biometric identification methods.

Although the adoption rate of Microsoft Windows 10 slowed once the free upgrade stopped, recent reports show that Windows 7 is no longer the leading operating system in both the UK and the USA.

Right before the start of CES, Lenovo is announcing the new ThinkPad X1 models. The highlight: The redesigned X1 Carbon. Aside from that, X1 Yoga and X1 Tablet are also updated with the newest Kaby Lake CPUs.

Foxconn General Manager Dai Jia Peng has revealed plans to fully automate entire factories.

The C302CA model was spotted earlier this year on Newegg, but now the Flip 2 name is finally confirmed, although Asus still has to announce it. This $499.99 USD Chromebook has an all-metal casing and uses the Intel Pentium 4405Y processor.

More details regarding BlackBerry's new "Mercury" handset have emerged, confirming a Snapdragon 625 CPU, 3:2 aspect ratio, and 4.6-inch screen.

The Intel ix-8000 Coffee Lake series should be the final 14 nm architecture based on Skylake and Kaby Lake in the manufacturer's three-step "process-architecture-optimization" cycle.

The Umi name change to Umidigi will reflect on the higher-end Umidigi Z Pro smartphone. Both the upcoming Umi Z and Umidigi Z Pro are expected to each sport the new Helio X27 SoC.

Countering news-reports that yields of chips manufactured in the industry's advanced 10 nm process are below expectations, TSMC has said today that the process is on track and will contribute to sales revenue in the first quarter of 2017 as expected.

Alongside the announcement of its 2017 ThinkPad-family, Lenovo also announced some new Think-branded accessories: Two external monitors and two new dockingstations. Their common trait: All of them are connected to the laptop via USB Type C or Thunderbolt 3.

The smaller ThinkPads are also being updated with Kaby Lake. All three, Yoga 370, X270 and ThinkPad 13 are in the 12,5" to 13,3" market-segment, which qualifies all of them as subnotebooks. One of the models, the Yoga, seems to replace two older models at the same time.

With the year 2016 slowly coming to its end, Lenovo has announced their new ThinkPad lineup. The classic T- and L-Series are updated with the newest Kaby Lake CPUs and also come with several other new features.

T-mobile has begun rolling out firmware designed to effectively brick remaining Samsung Galaxy Note 7s. Verizon and AT&T will roll out the update January 5, while Sprint will wait until January 8.

After Consumer Reports failed to recommend Apple's MacBooks for the first time in the history of the product line, Phil Schiller has tweeted that he is working with the consumer watchdog to find out more about their tests.

The White House has released a report on the near-future effects of AI and automation, which asserts that preparations for the transition of the labor market should begin soon.

Since this is not the first Nougat-based firmware for the Nexus 9 tablets on T-Mobile, the update is tiny, weighing only 52 MB. Even this way, the update comes with a few noticeable changes, such as support for sending GIFs from the keyboard.

A few weeks after releasing the update for the Redmi Note 3 in India, Xiaomi finally begins to deliver the Android Marshmallow firmware to the international version of this 5.5-inch handset.

Samsung may decide to postpone the launch of the Galaxy S8 to April of next year according to sources from within the company. Due to higher production costs, the upcoming flagship might also increase in price by 15 to 20 percent.

One of the several new handsets that LG is expected to unveil during next month's event in Las Vegas is said to be X Caliber, the company's first IP68 certified smartphone to join the X family.

Coolpad could release their first notebook, a rumor out of Chinese Weibo suggests. This would make Coolpad the third Chinese smartphone manufacturer after to Xiaomi and Huawei to enter the notebook biz this year.

Although there is no foldable screen device on the mainstream market right now, it looks like big names like Apple, Microsoft, and Google are getting ready to use this technology in products for the masses. However, it also seems that LG will be the brand behind the foldable screens employed by these upcoming gadgets.

Intel has released its powerful single-board Joule 550x computer to compete with the Raspberry Pi 3, but resellers are wildly inflating its already high price.

In a forum post to employees, Tim Cook reiterated the company's support for Mac desktop computers and asserted that there were some in the works.

This new cost-effective NAS for businesses has eight hot-swappable bays, up to 16 GB of memory, and uses a quad-core AnnapurnaLabs Alpine processor. It also features a hardware-accelerated encryption engine, SSD caching, and two built-in 10GbE SFP+ ports.

In what will probably remain its last refresh for this year, this digital wallet platform developed by Google receives support for no less than 31 new banks and credit unions in the US.

The Korean Investigator reported, that Samsung has completed internal investigations to find the reasons for the battery-disaster of the Galaxy Note 7 and is now in the process of informing external labs. We are expecting an official announcement until years end.

The updated EliteBook 800 lineup now gets Intel Kaby Lake processors, as well as new security features. HP Sure Start Gen3 was designed to notify the user when someone unauthorized attempts to tamper with the BIOS.

Not long after introducing "Actions on Google" for third-party voice support through Google Assistant, Google adds Netflix and Google Photos support to Google Home. Even more, new YouTube Red subscribers get a free 6-month trial with their Google Home purchases by the end of 2016.

A recent study by The Center for Digital Democracy has found that despite the highly personal health information collected by wearables, there are insufficient regulations in place to safeguard the treatment of the information.

The new features are aimed to deter intrusions by protecting multiple layers of notebooks and PCs.

Next to the Emporio Armani smartwatch by Fossil that has been recently announced, the Diesel- and Kate Spate-branded Fossil smartwatches are also expected to debut in the coming weeks.

Since it seems that this week's update bricked some Series 2 Apple Watches after installing, Apple has decided to withdraw watchOS 3.1.1. For now, the latest watchOS variant available remains 3.1.

Apple seems to have rejected the Samsung Pay Mini app submitted to the App Store and it looks like Samsung will not resubmit it again for the time being, choosing to focus on the Android client instead. Samsung Pay Mini for Android is expected to launch next month, at CES.

This new update is the second major one received by iOS 10 since its October release. The list of new features includes more than 100 new emojis, additional support for RAW digital cameras, new full-screen effects in Messages, and more.

The startup that joins the search giant has been founded in part by former Google employees back in 2014. Now, the Cronologics team will be working on improving Android Wear directly.

Business laptops (like ThinkPads) are still based on the older Skylake CPUs. Now, the top model of Lenovo´s upcoming Kaby Lake lineup has been leaked, the new X1 Carbon.

In an article, that was released today, the Wall Street Journal revealed information explaining why Apple's wireless ear buds missed the holiday shopping season.

The most successful smartphone manufacturer in China may soon start selling smartphones in US as well. Mostly known for blu-ray players in the US, Oppo is apparently preparing to expand their smartphone business to the US.

Smartphone operating profits are slightly higher for Oppo last quarter compared to immediate Chinese competitors like Huawei, Vivo, and Xiaomi.

Despite being another rough year for HTC, they have clarified that they are still working on flagship phones and Vive devices.

Android 7.1.1 was recently unleashed by Google for its own devices, and now it looks like Sony aims to become the first brand from the crowd to get the update ready. According to a recent report, the developer team of the Japanese company has made this update its "number one priority."

The Redmond giant announced its plans to buy LinkedIn back in June, and now the $26 billion acquisition is complete, after securing regulatory approval. LinkedIn notifications will soon be added to the Windows action center, with much more changes planned.