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While dash-mounted cameras haven't quite caught on at home like they have in Russia, that doesn't make them any less useful. They're a great way to document a road trip,...

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If you're in the market for a new Audi tablet, you might also be in the market for a new tablet. Audi's already announced their participation in the new Open Automotive Alliance with Google, and it was widely anticipated that they'd be announcing Android in the car at CES 2014. Well, they did, but not in the way you might have expected: it's a tablet.

The new 10.2-inch Mobile Audi Smart Display tablet is Audi's latest foray into electronics. Powered by a Tegra 4 chip, the Mobile Audi Smart Display runs Android underneath, but features a very heavily skinned launcher that is optimized for in car use. For passengers, not drivers. Audi's rolling out a new version of their rotary dial + touchpad MMI interface for drivers that integrates multitouch gestures and natural language voice controls (ala Google Now and Siri) for the drivers.

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For most of the first half last night, Auburn looked unbeatable while Florida State looked like a team that spent its season beating up on nobodies. Just before halftime, that changed. A masterful Jameis Winston scramble on third down sparked FSU's first touchdown, one that cut the Tigers' lead to 11 and suggested that, just maybe, the Seminoles had a chance.

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Ready to move on from not so challenging forest trails? If you're a thrill seeker there's Mt. Huashan in China. It's basically a terrifying cliff-side mountain climb that leads daring visitors to a tea house 2,160 m (7,087 ft) up on the mountain's southern peak. Continue reading for more pictures and information.

Out of all the optimistic people starting their new year's resolutions this week, the ones vowing to get back in shape and lose that holiday weight are always at the top of the list.

But of course, that's no easy task. First, you have to force yourself to even go to the gym, only to be greeted by a sea of medieval devices sent to torture you — or at least, that's what they feel like.

According to data we received from SessionM, a loyalty rewards program used by several mobile fitness apps, only 41 percent of people who resolved to get fit in 2013 actually followed through with their goal. Most quit after just a few weeks. Read more...

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In December, we told you about Red Lightning, Florida State's intense ball boy, Frankie. He's on the sideline next to Jimbo Fisher tonight and he is not enjoying himself.

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The 'Bama quarterback's mom tweeted this out while Jameis Winston was being interviewed after winning the BCS Championship. She obviously deleted it quickly, but not quickly enough. Not a good look, Dee Dee. Not a good look at all.

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LAS VEGAS — Sony isn't just doing an action cam. It's doing an action-cam swarm.

The Sony HDR-AS100V is actually five action cams in one, or at least it can be. While the camera works just fine mounted to a helmet or shoulder, it really levels-up the experience when you have a bunch of them all networked via an optional wrist controller

Up to five cameras can be "meshed" in this way, letting the user adjust the footage captured by each cam. The cameras themselves are splash-proof, and can capture video at up to 1080p at 24 frames per second. At 720p, they can record in slow motion at 120 fps or even super-slow at 240 fps. Read more...

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LAS VEGAS — Sony got its feet wet with water-resistant phones last year after debuting the Xperia Z. Now, it's taking the idea to new depths, quite literally, with the Xperia Z1S, which will be exclusive to T-Mobile in the U.S.

The new Xperia phone has an IP58 rating, so it can withstand immersion in water as deep as 4.5 feet for 30 minutes (the Z could only go down as far as 3 feet). If you have a tendency to accidentally take your phone with you into the shallow end of your local pool, the Z1S is the smartphone you've been looking for.

Sony also improved on the water-sealed design. Whereas the Xperia Z had a rubberized cover for the headphone connector, the Z1S makes the connector itself waterproof, so there's no cover needed (and no cover to forget closing)There's also a dedicated camera button, enabling underwater photography (since the screen doesn't register finger taps underwater). Read more...

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At CES 2013, Valve revealed plans for its ambitious new Steam Machine platform. Over the past year we've heard bits and pieces of news — we even got to play with a prototype — but at CES 2014 we're finally getting a chance to see the first batch of Steam Machines in the flesh. Keep up with the latest developments below.

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Michael Bay might be a living Hollywood legend, but clearly he’s more comfortable being behind the camera instead of it. At Samsung’s CES Press Event, where they announced the Samsung Galaxy NotePro and Samsung Galaxy TabPro among other products, Bay was invited to comment on the company’s innovative new curved TV display.

And then this happened (if you don’t like train wrecks or fails…  don’t watch):

Initially I felt a bit bad for the guy and practically blushed of embarrassment just watching it happen. I can’t help but wonder what was going on in his head. Was he public speaking freeze shamed into exile? Does he just not give a blippety blip and decide to cut his losses short?

I’m sure you’ll have sarcastic responses in the comments that accurately identify the scenario. Personally, I think he was on the brink of a Christian Bale-like meltdown on whoever messed up his teleprompter, deciding it better to walk off and count to 10 billion. Regardless, Samsung did a great job rebounding and turning an otherwise awkward experience into a successful CES show.

Michael Bay just walked on stage, flubbed his lines, and walked off at a Samsung CES press conference. It was weird.

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Here's an amazing look at paramagnetic paint, which allows you to change your vehicle color using your smart-phone or built in controls. Simply put, prism-shaped metallic pigments are rotated based on the voltage frequency dispersed throughout the vehicle body, giving you the ability to change your cars color. Continue reading for the video.

It was 20 years ago today—Jan. 6, 1994—that a hired goon struck Nancy Kerrigan with a telescoping baton. It was a plot by rival figure skater Tonya Harding to sideline Kerrigan for the Olympics, and remains one of sports' most unbelievable scandals. But whatever happened to the mastermind?

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The first season of House of Cards helped to change the way people think about original web series, earning nine Emmy nominations (and winning three) for its relentlessly cynical portrait of an ambitious congressman bending the world to his will. But seizing power by any means necessary has forced Kevin Spacey's Frank Underwood into some ugly decisions — and it appears that in season two, those decisions start coming back to haunt him. The official season two trailer, released by Netflix today, shows Underwood assuming the vice presidency as scrutiny mounts over the death of US Representative Peter Russo. The trailer ends with Underwood uttering a line some of us have been waiting to hear for almost a year: "Welcome back." The...

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By the end of this article, I will have successfully convinced you that switching to a flip phone is the best thing you can possibly do with your life right now. Or, hey, maybe not. We'll see.

While smartphones are obviously the way of the future, and having one will improve your life in too many ways to name here, a strong case can also be made for flip phones. Trust us.

Perhaps it's only nostalgia, or maybe it's a growing frustration with data costs, new models and broken screens, but below, we've come up with 10 airtight reasons to make the switch to flip phones. Read more...

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Six founding companies want to see Android devices integrate seamlessly with our vehicles

It's clear that cars are one of the next platforms ready for a jump in innovation, and the newly-formed Open Automotive Alliance plans to lead the charge. Announced quietly via a press release and a post on the Android Google+ page, the OAA is a group that hopes to improve the integration between cars and Android devices. Google, GM, Audi, Honda, Hyundai and NVIDIA are the six founding members of the OAA, and naturally more companies are welcomed to join.

While initial details are a bit sparse, the broad goal of the OAA seems clear: be for the automotive industry what the Open Handset Alliance is for Android on phones and tablets. The group suggests 2014 can be the year of the connected and intelligent car, explaining that integration between our mobile devices and vehicles should be seamless. Not only for ease of use and entertainment purposes, but most importantly for driver safety.

The basic idea here is to not only push Android into the car itself, but to create a common platform across cars so that Android devices know how to connect and interact with them. If you've spent any time with various phones and cars you know it can be a rather hit-or-miss experience right now — the OAA wants to fix that.

The OAA's website claims that we will see "the first cars with Android integration" by the end of this year. Naturally each manufacturer will be moving at its own pace, but lets hope that now at least a few are moving in the same direction.

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192 cores? You read that right. NVIDIA could have settled for just eight, maybe even twelve, but is that really pushing the envelop? Nah. Instead we have the Tegra K1, announced tonight at a private press event in Las Vegas as part of the kickoff to this year’s CES.

It’s not Tegra 5. NVIDIA sees at as a non-linear progression from previous Tegra chips. The K1 combines the heart of GeForce with the soul of Tesla, according to bossman Jen-Hsun Huang. The chipset is based on Kepler architecture, a departure from previous Tegra chips. This is the same technology that encompasses top-of-the-line chips found in high performance gaming PCs. NVIDIA is pushing the chip as a gaming platform, believing Android can disrupt consoles in the same way it affected smartphones, tablets, and personal computers.

Tegra K1 is aimed at bridging the gap for game developers, making it easy to create content for both mobile and console/PC devices. NVIDIA is partnering with Epic Games to bring the Unreal Engine 4 to the new Tegra K1 platform in an effort to solve this problem. An example:

In reality, the bulk of the chip’s 192 cores belong to the GPU. Parsing the processor down to it’s true form, the K1 will come in two flavors: one based on the 32-bit four-plus-one core Cortex A15 CPU and another version based on the Denver CPU, which is a 64-bit dual-core processor based on ARMv8. The chip promises GPU performance 1.5 times more efficient than any other on the market.

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Joe Buck and Troy Aikman might have underplayed how close the 49ers-Packers game was to giving us extra football. Phil Dawson's game-winning kick went through Davon House's arms before it went through the uprights—though House may have been was offsides—as San Francisco won in Lambeau Field, 23-20.

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Memphis May Fire have begun sharing footage from the studio sessions for their new album which will see a release this spring. You can check that out below:

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Every January tech industry influencers, enthusiasts, stakeholders, analysts, and media flock to Sin City – Las Vegas, Nevada – fro what is arguably the biggest tech event of the year. In the world. And once again we’re here to cover every drip of Android news we get our hands on. Say hello to the team team covering CES 2014: Chris Chavez, Edgar Cervantes, Kevin Krause, and myself.

It all starts tonight at CES Unveiled where we’ll see goodies from the likes of Lenovo, LG and Samsung. Then, at 10:45PM Eastern, we’ll be covering the NVIDIA Press Conference LIVE and reporting back to you with hands-on footage from the event.

Tomorrow is the biggest day of CES 2014: Press Day. Lots of your favorite tech companies will host huge press events, presentations, and hands-on in advance of the actual CES showroom event. Heres a list of the participants:

• LG
• Bosch
• Sharp
• Monster Cable
• Panasonic
• Huawei
• Dish Network
• VOXX
• Qualcomm
• Intel
• Toyota
• Samsung
• Hisense
• Formula E
• Makerbot
• Epson
• Sony

And then sanity spirals out of control on Tuesday as the doors to the showroom floor fly open and even more mayhem begins.

Check in throughout the day, night, and week as we bring you first hand coverage of the tech that will make 2014 tick. You can follow all of our CES 2014 coverage by clicking here.

Why he's not a hip-hop coach; 10 things you might not know about new Texas Longhorns coach Charlie Strong http://t.co/eVjSzNmYNb

— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) January 5, 2014

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Did you know that Andre The Giant once drank 127 beers and passed out in a hotel lobby? Fortunately, he wasn't on the road and was awoke the next morning on the floor due to his size. Or, that Pete Conrad's first words on the moon were "Oooh, is that soft and queasy" to win a $500 bet? Click here to view the first image in today's viral picture gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of the largest K'Nex ball machine yet.

Dubai started off 2014 with quite a bang: The city's New Year's Eve fireworks display broke the Guinness World Record for largest pyrotechnics show on New Year's Eve.

During the six-minute show, more than 500,000 fireworks exploded, spanning 62 miles of Dubai's seafront and ending with a grandiose "artificial sunset." The entire spectacle was controlled by a network of 100 computers, took 10 months to plan and cost a cool $6 million

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The entire show was live streamed on YouTube; it begins at the 29-minute mark in the video above. The event shattered the previous record, held by Kuwait, in which 77,282 fireworks were set off in 2012. The new record joins several other superlatives that Dubai holds, including the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, and the world's largest manmade island, Palm Jumeirah Read more...

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The video of a female Alabama fan attacking an Oklahoma dude at the Sugar Bowl was enjoyable enough without context. But, for those who want it, the Oklahoma bro who was attacked shared some details.

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RIP, at least six veins in Nick Saban's neck.

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Rumors abound T-Mobile’s next phase of their Uncarrier program could involve buying customers out of their current contracts with competing carriers.  One of those competitors just beat them to the punch. AT&T is offering up to $450 in incentives to customers switching from T-Mobile in an effort to sway users away from a service provider that has been causing headaches for others in the same business.

AT&T is offering up to $250 (depending on condition) to folks who trade-in their current T-Mobile smartphone. The money is distributed in the form of a promotion card good toward AT&T products and services. Additionally, customers can earn a $200 credit by opting into an AT&T Next plan or buying a device at full price. Activating a currently owned device on AT&T’s network qualifies a customer for the promotion as well (basically the credit applies to anything but a traditional subsidized service contract).

It’s a brazen move by AT&T. T-Mobile has caused quite the shakeup in the wireless industry, introducing their JUMP program, redefining the payment and upgrade process for mobile devices along with lower service rates. Every major carrier has followed suit and offered similar buying options in the months since. AT&T has been a particular target, and it’s suspected T-Mobile’s next move — to be unveiled next week at CES — would target the carrier by offering to buy out the early termination fees of customers switching from one network to the other. Not wanting to again be caught playing catchup, AT&T has struck first. Good for them.

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UPDATE: T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere has issued a quick response via press release.

“This is a desperate move by AT&T on the heels of what must have been a terrible Q4 and holiday for them. I’m flattered that we have made them so uncomfortable! We used AT&T’s cash to build a far superior network and added Un-carrier moves to take tons of their customers – and now they want to bribe them back! Consumers won’t be fooled…nothing has changed; customers will still feel the same old pain that AT&T is famous for. Just wait until CES to hear what pain points we are eliminating next. The competition is going to be toast!”