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EZVIZ has announced pricing for its latest home security camera on its new Amazon page. The C8W Pro 2K is of the spherical outdoor form-factor for 360-degree coverage and AI-powered smart potential intruder detection and tracking. However, this one debuts a new feature: an automatic preference for one spot in its field of vision the user can select via its app.

Honor has now acknowledged rumors pointing to the launch of a 70, if not a 70 Pro, through the medium of a new video posted to Weibo. The clip hints at some advantages over their predecessors, not the least of which is what seems to be a whole new rear camera in at least 1 variant. Some design upgrades and a launch date also feature in this new official leak.

Volkswagen has finally announced a date on which pre-sales for the ID. Buzz and Buzz Cargo will begin. The first-gen electric mini-bus will be available to configure and order later in May 2022, albeit in European countries such as Germany to start off with. The marque has also indicated how much one of the vehicles will cost for the first time.

AMD's upcoming Instinct MI300 HPC accelerator may turn out to be an APU instead of just a GPU. The MI300 is now being rumored to integrate a Zen 4 CPU, a CDNA 3-based GPU, and shared HBM memory to create what could be the world's biggest x86 exascale APU for datacenters.

Drive Pilot conditional self-driving technology from Mercedes-Benz will be available in Germany from May 17th. Owners of the S-Class and EQS models will have the option to buy the technology, making these the first vehicles in Europe to have approved autonomous abilities. The technology enables you to hand over driving to the car in certain situations such as heavy traffic.

Embracer Group has confirmed that it plans to acquire the IP of a plethora of games, Tomb Raider and Deus Ex included, not to mention the relevant studios, in a deal worth US$300 million to Square Enix. These proceeds are slated to become sunk into the latter's new-found enthusiasm for areas such as "blockchain, AI, and the cloud".

Samsung has just previewed the latest in its storage solutions for hardware such as smartphones, tablets. The OEM has indicated that these new chips could help these devices use and transfer data up to twice as fast as their predecessors, while using as little as half the power. These new UFS 4.0-compatible chips could also boost portability in these products, not to mention their compatibility with more demanding use-cases, perhaps even VR/AR.

1More has now set a date for the launch of its next TWS earbuds, which, as the OEM claims, will challenge enthusiast-grade wired headphones for audio quality. The EVO buds are touted to debut with an upgraded internal design for highly detailed music playback, powerful active noise cancellation (ANC) and LDAC support later in 2022.

The Vivo X80 series of Android smartphones is now official, which means their V1 Plus (or V1+) image signal processor (ISP) is as well. This chipset is exclusive to the new devices, and is rated to augment some aspects of their battery-saving and gaming functions as well as those of their new Zeiss-tuned rear cameras.

TCL has announced a range of electronics designed to make the user's home life "easier" today (April 12, 2022). They include the latest generation of its Sweeva robotic vacuum cleaners and Breeva air purifiers. They are joined by TCL-brand "smart" washer/dryer and air conditioners this year.

Lambda, a company known for building deep learning-focused PCs, and Razer have teamed up to release a new version of the Tensorbook, a slim laptop with machine learning chops. The notebook is packed to the gills with hardware designed for AI development, comes preinstalled with lots of Lambda's software, and has some solid gaming capabilities.

Dell has packaged its latest PCs for business with its Optimizer, a suite of AI services designed to deliver "productivity without disruptions". They include features that might admittedly be more welcome than ever before, Intelligent Privacy, ExpressConnect and Intelligent Audio included.

In a wide-ranging interview, Tesla's Elon Musk confirmed his belief that Germany should not only stop closing its operational nuclear power plants, but should also reopen the ones it already closed as a stopgap solution on the way to sustainable energy sources. Speaking on the topic of longevity, he called Biden's administration 'ancient' and lacking touch with the people or penchant for innovation like Tesla.

The H100 Hopper is Nvidia's first GPU with PCIe 5.0 specifications and support for HBM3 VRAM. This model is up to 6 times faster in FP workloads and offers considerably higher scalability compared to previous gen Ampere models. Nvidia is also planning to release a Hopper GPU + Grace CPU superchip and even a dual Grace superchip.

Qualcomm has unveiled a new program by which it will invest as much as US$100 million in developers or companies involved in the metaverse industry. The new fund is associated with other projects including Snapdragon XR Platforms, XR Labs Europe and the Snapdragon Spaces developer platform, the latter of which has also just been taken up by Square Enix as the studio works on its extended-reality (XR) portfolio.

A Tesla employee, John Bernal, was fired last month after he put up a video on his YouTube channel showing some of the problems with the company's Full Self Driving (FSD) Beta software. Though Tesla didn't mention specifics in writing, Bernal said that he was verbally told his channel's content broke Tesla's policy and presented a conflict of interest.

BMW has announced that it will bring level 3 autonomous driving technology to some vehicles in the second half of 2025. The company is developing its Automated Driving technology with Qualcomm and Arriver.

The next gen AI applications require computing power that cannot be provided by traditional hardware. In order to solve this problem, Luminous Computing is building a supercomputer based on silicon photonics and optical pathways that can increase bandwidth and power efficiency orders of magnitude beyond what is offered by current solutions.

Volkswagen has now completed its event for the long-anticipated all-electric adaptation of its iconic mini-bus, although the actual global launch onto the market of the ID. Buzz and Buzz Cargo has understandably been delayed. However, we do now know more about their specs and features, their charging and battery capacities included.

A new AI-focused software company, Inflection, has been co-founded by Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman and Karén Simonyan. The company aims to use AI to make human commands to devices more conversational.

In a recent video, Google has shared information on its Soli radar sensing technology that it hopes will make devices less interruptive by reading subtle human signals. The same technology is already used in the Pixel 4's Motion Sense feature.

At MWC 2022, Qualcomm has introduced the Snapdragon X70 5G modem-RF system featuring a dedicated AI processor to enhance key network parameters and power efficiency. The Snapdragon X70 supports all commercial 5G bands from 600 MHz to 41 GHz and allows FDD-TDD and mmWave-sub-6 aggregation along with standalone mmWave. The modem offers up to 10 Gbps peak downlink and up to 3.5 Gbps peak uplink speeds.

A new study has claimed that photos of human faces created using AI technology are shockingly close to real images. Upon asking people to point out the fake pictures from a pool of fake and real photos, researchers found that, in more than half of the instances, participants failed to identify forged ones.

The latest, cloud-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) are based on AMD's server-grade silicon and is rated to run even the high-performance computing (HPC) necessary for scientific research on a cloud. The company asserts that its latest and Milan-enhanced instances, or virtual servers, can deliver improved cost-effectiveness, high bandwidth and the use of up to 192 virtual processors, to its customers.

A recent study of footage of Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' software, captured by Tesla owners, has left some experts with concerns for its safety. However, many vehicle owners taking part in the autonomous driving Beta defended the testing, arguing that it was vital for development.

The Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro have proven to be some of Google's most successful releases to date, having broken sales records despite a less-than-perfect launch season. Why have the devices been so popular? Let's have a look at some of the standout features of the Pixel pairing that might entice you.

Nvidia's upcoming GH100 Hopper HPC accelerator has aroused quite the interest owing to recent leaks. First, it was the rumored massive die area close to 1000 mm square and now, it is the massive 140 billion transistor count. It is not yet clear how Nvidia would achieve such a high transistor density on the 5 nm package, but it is likely that Hopper will include both monolithic and multi-chip module (MCM) architectures and cater independently to HPC and DL workloads.

Qualcomm has just announced that it has become a Premium Partner in Scuderia Ferrari's campaign for the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship. This new agreement will also see much more Snapdragon technology in the classic Italian marque's next generation of road cars as well. Qualcomm will also become involved in the brand's eSports concerns.

Nvidia's upcoming Hopper HPC accelerator, the GH100, is now being rumored to sport a 21% higher surface area compared to Ampere's GA100. And contrary to reports so far, Hopper will continue to be a monolithic die and not a multi-chip module (MCM), though it is also possible that both monolithic and MCM variants of Hopper exist targeting different use cases.

MediaTek has announced a new addition to its line of chipsets specifically intended for Chromebook laptops and tablets. The Kompanio 1380 is a chipset rated for speeds of up to 3GHz thanks to the presence of high-end ARM cores. It may be released soon in the form of an upcoming Acer PC.

Meta is building an AI supercomputer using Nvidia technologies. The build is underway, with 760 Nvidia DGX A100 GPUs already in use. When the supercomputer is finished later this year, Meta claims that it will be the fastest AI supercomputer globally.

OPPO has introduced one of the latest products of its research and development as Zero-Power Communication, a new technology that might enable electronics to stay on by simply "harvesting" energy from other nearby devices that are using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi at the time. This potential replacement for batteries might end up as the way to sustain the IoT systems of the future.

Nvidia is looking to try its hand at more CPU designs in the future, despite the setback caused by the ARM acquisition hurdles. The new CPU division will help with the growth of the Israeli R&D centers that is already focusing on high-speed networking, HPC, Data Processing Units and AI applications.

MRAM's inherent low resistance was bypassed using a 64 x 64 crossbar array of MRAM cells that also support in-memory processing capabilities, making it highly effective for AI-powered applications. More complex MRAM structures could eventually be used to store biological neuronal networks.

Microsoft has partnered with one of the most promising electric car makers, XPeng, to provide its Azure AI-powered voice that scored the highest of any in-car virtual assistant on the MOS voice quality scale. The new EV virtual butler of XPeng will use Microsoft's Azure cloud to offload the processing tasks from the cars' chipset and provide unsurpassed life-like voice command experience inside XPeng's electric cars.

NASA is set to equip its Orion space capsules, which are part of its ongoing Artemis project, with an A.I. assistant. Named Callisto, the assistant is based on Amazon's Alexa and Cisco's Webex software. As such, it will allow astronauts to telecommunicate with Mission Control and will operate as a voice assistant on the rocket.

LG has introduced its latest form of organic light-emitting diode technology as OLED EX. The OEM claims that this new type of panel incorporates deuterium to further enhance display brightness and performance in the resulting TV screens. OLED EX devices are also projected to be thinner with slimmer bezels compared to current models.

Vivo has now made its Watch 2 official in China. This new smartwatch has a round AMOLED display and a simplified design compared to its predecessor. It is also 4G/LTE-capable by default, which raises its price to some degree. On the other hand, the OEM claims that the user can get up to 7 days' worth of battery life and lots of smart life-admin features for that price.

OPPO has just announced the MariSilicon X, the OEM's first-gen neural processing unit (NPU). It is slated to make its debut in the upcoming wave of Find X-series flagship smartphones. Then again, a leaker now claims that premium specs are not required to unleash its full potential.

TSMC sees great potential in the HPC sector and will soon offer specialized production nodes like the N4X, which is expected to deliver 15% improved performance over the current N5 nodes. N4X risk production is scheduled for the first half of 2023.

Huawei has just released some details on another new product for its increasingly large-scale event later in December 2021. It is the OEM's latest generation of smart glasses. They are speaker-enabled wearables like their predecessors, although they will ship with Huawei's own software.

A new leak has now thrown more light on the performance of the upcoming MediaTek Dimensity 9000, particularly in comparison to its fiercest rival, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Information on both AI performance, efficiency, and power consumption all lean towards MediaTek superiority.

The 2021 Chinese International Public Security Expo will take place in late December. Huawei's HiSilicon division is slated to be headed to the event with its latest development: a new image-signalling processor (ISP). This new dedicated chipset is now said to stand out in its category with a new architecture.

iOS 15.2 is the next upcoming version of Apple's proprietary software for iPhones. According to a prominent industry correspondent, it is the one that will start adding features intended to prevent abusive content reaching a child's device. It might contain measures to help allay well-publicized concerns about its impact on privacy.

OPPO has just announced that it will debut its first ever proprietary chipset during its Inno Day 2021 event in mid-December 2021. This long-rumored project is now rumored to turn out the OEM's very own neural processing unit (NPU), albeit one with potentially specific functions. The company asserts that it will unlock new potential for the future of its consumer devices.

A patent filed by Clearview AI for part of its facial recognition technology is set to be granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Clearview's software is already being used by several bodies in the US, including the FBI.