The Morning After: Tag Heuer's slightly cheaper $1200 smartwatch

It's Monday, January 15, 2018. Hey, good morning!  Post-CES, it’s back to business as usual at Engadget, but not before delivering some of our final reports and interviews from a very busy show. Oh, and even a new wearable -- if nothing from Vegas caught your eye. Praise be.   'The Handmaid's Tale' ventures outside Gilead in second season   The Handmaid's Tale has been a huge success for Hulu, earning the streaming platform quite a few Emmys and two Golden Globes. The first season was based on Margaret Atwood's novel by the same name, but many have wondered what's in store for the upcoming second season. Showrunner Bruce Miller says he and Margaret Atwood began talking about the direction of the second season before the first was even finished. Smarter, sharper and bigger than ever.   The TVs that mattered at CES   As usual, CES 2018 provided a bonanza of big screens, loaded up with every piece of tech you can create a buzzword for. But figuring out which TVs will matter to you next year is about a little more than just pixels and apps.   And ever so slightly cheaper at $1200.   Tag Heuer made a smaller modular smartwatch   Those of us with smaller wrists may have noticed that most of the connected smartwatches out there are, well, kind of huge. Tag Heuer's Connected Modular 45, for example, was a lovely device with a 45mm case diameter, perfect for larger wrists but lousy for everyone else. The company has now decided to support the smaller among us with a new Connected Modular 41, with -- you guessed it -- a watch with a 41mm diameter for those with more diminutive extremities. The new model is set to retail starting at $1,200 so might be best to start saving.   But wait, there's more... 1. Ford's 2019 Ranger unveiled with automatic emergency brakes 2. LA man charged with involuntary manslaughter over 'CoD' swatting 3. Amazon's flop of a phone made newer, better hardware possible 4. Bitcoin was briefly legal tender at KFC Canada The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

The Morning After: Weekend after CES Edition

It's Saturday, January 13, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. CES 2018 is over, and the Engadget team is heading home. Keep an eye out for wrap-up coverage this weekend, but first, take a look at some of Friday’s highlights and other prominent stories from last week. Ok, Google. Google won the voice assistant popularity contest at CES Google's CES 2018 booth isn't for a guy that's been working tech shows for over six years: it was to demonstrate exactly what's possible with voice assistants for people that didn't realize they probably already had one on their smartphone. Congratulations. Presenting the Best of CES 2018 winners! Relive the big wins -- and stunning upsets -- from Engadget’s Best of CES awards. Now with USB-C. This might be the Game Boy's ultimate form The aluminum-hewn Project Ultra GB might be the hardware you need to break out your old Game Boy hits. It accepts the original cartridge while keeping the dimensions of the Game Boy Pocket and those iconic controls. Get ready for NAIAS. GM plans to release cars with no steering wheel in 2019 GM not only revealed what its level 4 self-driving vehicle would look like but also announced that it filed a Safety Petition to be able to deploy its completely driverless version of Chevy Bolt called Cruise AV in 2019. An ambitious, but increasingly realistic, proposition. Touring Hyperloop One's ever-evolving test site For the first time since May 2016, the location was opened up to a handful of journalists this week during CES. Where’s Will Smith? Prototype satellite makes way for 4K 'Earth observation' This CARBONITE-2  satellite has a UHD camera aboard, which will be able to capture high-res images of locations anywhere on Earth, as well as record up to two minutes of video. But wait, there's more... 1. Netflix hid a fake biotech booth in the middle of CES 2. 'Detective Pikachu' game's US debut set for March 23rd 3. The Big Picture: This is what a 50-qubit quantum computer looks like 4. Samsung will launch the Galaxy S9 in February 5. LG Display's giant rollable OLED TV is indistinguishable from magic 6. There's a new sex robot in town: Say hello to Solana 7. SanDisk's tiny 1TB USB-C stick is the perfect smartphone upgrade 8. NVIDIA unveils 65-inch 4K 'Big Format Gaming Displays' with G-SYNC The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

Editor's Pick: Intel, Microsoft, Google Scramble for Solutions as Patches Slow Systems

Intel, Microsoft, Google Scramble for Solutions as Patches Slow Systems

David Jones Jan 12, 2018 5:00 AM PT
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