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A missing Santa Rally isn’t necessarily bad news

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on the last day of trading for the year on Dec. 31, 2024 in New York City.  Spencer Platt | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no …

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Direction9 made a T9-based keyboard for better typing on TVs

Typing on a TV sucks. Those long and / or scrambled on-screen keyboards are both a nuisance to use, and a real problem for anyone wanting to make stuff for your TV. At CES 2025, I was just introduced to a better way. It’s made by a company called Direction9, which has been working on the system for about a …

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My least favorite smart ring has a shot at redeeming itself

I was not at all impressed with the Circular Ring Slim. It wasn’t accurate, it felt like it was made of 3D-printed plastic, syncing took forever, battery life wasn’t great, and honestly, we’d be here all day if I listed everything that went wrong during testing. But for CES 2025, the company behind the ring says it’s here to redeem …

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