We cover the breaking news out of CES, Ford’s new found love for the Amazon Echo, the first big LastPass release after LogmeIn & how Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks.

Plus our Kickstarter of the week & more!

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• Linux Action Show at SCALE 14x | Teespring
• Nvidia Announces New Drive PX 2 ‘Supercomputer In A Lunchbox’ For Self-Driving Cars | TechCrunch
• NVIDIA CES 2015 press conference: DRIVE PX Computer Vision (part 7) – YouTube
• Ford meets Amazon: Automaker to integrate Echo and Alexa with SYNC, linking cars to homes – GeekWire
• Ford is finally adding CarPlay and Android Auto to its cars | The Verge
• LogMeIn adds emergency break-in feature to LastPass •
• EFF Confirms: T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately to All Video | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Oculus Rift preorders start in less than 48 hours, but price and ship date still a mystery – GeekWire
• How Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks | PCWorld
• ProGo – A Revolutionary Carry-on Backpack by Ari — Kickstarter

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The cultural challenges of living too far out of a “tech hotzone” hit home today. We discuss the recent revelations both of us have had.

And our reactions and lessons learned from LastPass selling, if Microsoft has nailed convergence & the practicality of the Surface Book.

Plus a quick chat about Chef & other automation platforms great for developers & more!

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LogMeIn buys LastPass password manager for $110 million | Ars Technica

The maker of LastPass, a popular password manager, is being acquired by LogMeIn in a sale worth at least $110 million.

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Surface Book

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LastPass gets bought, FireFox loves Flash long time, just not your plugins, good iPhone vs bad iPhone & why the rest of the world laughs at the state of the US’ mobile payments.

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• LogMeIn acquires LastPass for $125m
• Obama administration opts not to force firms to decrypt data — for now – The Washington Post
• Mozilla Firefox will drop support for NPAPI plugins by the end of 2016, but will keep Flash around | VentureBeat | Dev | by Emil Protalinski
• Samsung and TSMC iPhone 6s Chips Show Smaller Real-World Battery Impacts Compared to Benchmarks – Mac Rumors
• Apple Claims TSMC vs Samsung A9 Chip Variants Result in Only 2-3% Difference in ‘Real World’ Battery Life – Mac Rumors
• The story in English | MobilePay

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