| | Catherine Shu GymPact, the app that makes you pay--literally--if you don't meet your exercise goals, has a new name, Pact, and two new diet-oriented features for the New... read more | | | Jordan Crook The console wars are in full swing, and no contender is more focused on hardcore gamers as the PS4. Sony's next-gen PlayStation is not like the Xbox One,... read more | | | Sarah Perez Was 2013 a "lost year for technology?," as an article in Quartz recently proposed? Hardly. Yet I can understand, to some extent, both why there's a growing... read more | | | Alex Wilhelm | | | Darrell Etherington Samsung isn't off to a great start for 2014 – during its first full day of trading of the new year, it lost 4.6 percent of its stock price value, which... read more | | | Gregory Ferenstein | | | Chris Velazco Let's be real here: there's a decent chance that you picked up a new smartphone at some point during the holidays, so you're off the market for at least a... read more | | | It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell.... read more | | | It's the end of the year, which is always a time for reflection -- auld lang syne and all that jazz. So for the... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |