April 9, 2024

Hardware

Intel Unveils New Branding For 6th Generation Xeon Processors: Intel Xeon 6

At Intel’s Vision 2024 event, which is being held in Phoenix, AZ, has seen several key announcements. Still, perhaps one that has flown under the radar is their 6th Generation Xeon platform, which is aptly named Intel Xeon 6. It is set to launch in the future with two primary variants, including a Performance (P) core family based on Intel’s Granite Rapids architecture and an Efficiency (E) core-flavored variant based on Sierra Forest. Intel’s current branding

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Hardware

Intel Introduces Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator: Going Bigger and Aiming Higher In AI Market

Intel this morning is kicking off the second day of their Vision 2024 conference, the company’s annual closed-door business and customer-focused get-together. While Vision is not typically a hotbed for new silicon announcements from Intel – that’s more of an Innovation thing in the fall – attendees of this year’s show are not coming away empty handed. With a heavy focus on AI going on across the industry, Intel is using this year’s event to

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WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multiservice messaging app Beeper for $125M | TechCrunch

WordPress.com owner Automattic is acquiring Beeper, the company behind the iMessage-on-Android solution that was referenced by the Department of Justice in its antitrust lawsuit against Apple. The deal, which was for $125 million according to sources close to the matter, is Automattic’s second acquisition of a cross-platform messaging solution after buying Texts.com last October. That acquisition made Texts.com founder Kishan Bagaria Automattic’s new head of Messaging, a role that will now be held by Beeper founder

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Hardware

Intel Promises Lunar Lake With 45 TOPS NPU For Holiday 2024 Laptops

At Intel Vision 2024, CEO Pat Gelsinger got up on stage to tell the live audience both in Phoenix and on the internet about Intel’s vision for its role in the AI-powered future. He talked about many things, including the upcoming Gaudi 3 AI accelerators as well as revealing the name of the next-generation Xeon CPUs: Xeon 6. We wrote about those already this morning, though. This post is about something else entirely — Lunar

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Robotics

RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards 2024 – The Robot Report

Listen to this article [embedded content] The RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards have honored industry leaders for the past 12 years. And now we’re taking the RBR50 to the next level. We introduced three new categories in 2024 – Robot of the Year, Application of the Year, and Startup of the Year – and will be holding the inaugural RBR50 Gala on May 1 from 6-8 PM at the end of Day 1 of the Robotics

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Pan-African VC Verod-Kepple closes its first fund at $60M | TechCrunch

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) plans to back up to 21 growth-stage companies across the continent after closing its first fund at $60 million. The pan-African VC hit the milestone following fresh backing from new investors including Nigeria’s SCM Capital (formerly Sterling Capital Markets Limited), Taiyo Holdings and C2C Global Education Japan. The latest capital injection follows the fund’s first and second close in 2022 and last year, respectively, backed by several investors, among them Japanese

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Robotics

5 things that could shape surgical robotics in the next decade – The Robot Report

Listen to this article You’ll see a lot of surgical robotics talk at this year’s DeviceTalks Boston. Surgical robots are smaller, smarter, and being launched into space. 2024 is going to be a huge year — here’s why. I believe 2024 will be remembered as the year when the surgical robotics sector — not just one company — planted both feet on the ground, slowly rose up, and stood tall in the medical device industry.

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Hardware

Qualcomm Touts Wi-Fi Breakthrough With Massive Power Savings For IoT Devices

For any smart home gadget to be useful, it needs to communicate with other connected devices. There are numerous ways to do that, including Zigbee, Thread, and Matter, but sometimes Wi-Fi is just easier than dealing with confusing IoT standards. The problem is Wi-Fi was not originally designed for low-power IoT devices. Qualcomm seems to have rectified that with its new QCC730 dual-band Wi-Fi system, however. The company claims this chip can keep gadgets connected

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Metalab goes from quietly building the internet to investing in it | TechCrunch

Nearly 20 years after finding success in helping startups build products, Canadian interface design firm Metalab has launched Metalab Ventures to invest in many of those product-led startups. Serial entrepreneur and investor Andrew Wilkinson started Metalab in 2006, a company that went on to support product innovations by companies including Slack, Coinbase, Uber and Tumblr. Metalab often works with startups, acting a bit like co-founders, to help them get a product off the ground. Then

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AR/VR

‘Dullsville and the Doodleverse’: The Doodles Film’s Summer Premiere

The world of NFTs is constantly expanding, with new and innovative projects emerging daily. One such project is the Ethereum-based NFT series Doodles, which gained massive popularity for its unique and vibrant art style. Now, the team behind Doodles is again driving forward with their latest venture, the animated film ‘Dullsville and the Doodleverse’. A Fusion of Film, Animation, and Music Scheduled for release this summer, ‘Dullsville and the Doodleverse’ will feature an original soundtrack

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