Elephone ELE MediaTek Android Wear smartwatch listed
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Round, all-metal, 400mAh battery

The Elephone ELE smartwatch has been listed, and as we suspected it is based on MediaTek’s MT2601 system-on-chip (SoC). 

MediaTek Labs IoT kit talks to Amazon clouds
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Fast and flexible access to Amazon Web Services 

MediaTek Labs's LinkIt ONE and Grove IoT Starter Kit are now powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Microsoft finally delivers X-Ray specs
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Project XRAY is comic-book genius

For decades comics used to promise that for a tiny amount of cash you could amaze your family and friends with x-ray specs.  Now it seems that Microsoft is finally delivering.

Chromecast 2 has dual ARM Cortex-A7
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Marvell ARMADA 1500 inside

Chromecast 2 has been released and has learned a few new tricks including better 802.11ac WiFi and overall faster performance. It also has a dual core processor instead of single core.

ASUS ZenWatch 2 available for $150
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The most affordable Android Wear

Asus has just started selling its ZenWatch 2 and US customers can get one for $150.