May 29, 2024

Hardware

YouTube Takes On Mobile Gaming With Free Playables Catalog Launch

You go to YouTube to watch videos, but Google hopes you might want to play some games while you’re there, too. A raft of online games within YouTube is being rolled out widely after being tested with YouTube Premium subscribers over the last few months. The “Playables” collection includes some 75 games, including well-known titles like Angry Birds Showdown and Cut the Rope. The games are quick to load, simple to play, and in uncharacteristic

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Hardware

Arm Unveils Powerful New Cores And Compute Subsystems For Next-Gen AI Workloads

Arm Holdings plc, or “arm”, was once considered a vendor of processors designed for embedded and low-power systems, but those days are well past at this point. Having conquered mobile some time ago, processors based on Arm’s Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) are now challenging the supremacy of the long-dominant x86-64 architecture on every front: laptops, servers, and even client desktops. The majority of these processors are from other arm licensees, like Qualcomm, which is what

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Hardware

Zotac Teases ZONE PC Gaming Handheld With OLED Display Ahead Of Computex

The PC gaming handheld console market continues to expand, both with refreshed consoles like the Steam Deck OLED and upcoming ASUS ROG Ally X, and with more newcomers joining the fray. As it pertains to the latter, Zotac is getting ready to announce its first gaming handheld, called ZONE, at next week’s Computex 2024 event. We know this because Zotac is teasing the device, along with several other products that it plans on showcasing at

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Hardware

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 And Galaxy Ring FCC Listing Reveals Key Details

Oh snap, eager fans of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 could be in for some disappointment, namely a meager increase in battery capacity. Prior leaks assumed Samsung was developing a 4,000 mAh combined capacity for the Flip 6, but newly leaked information claims only a slight bump over the Flip 5’s 3,600 mAh rating. On a more positive note, there are leaked details on the battery size for the Samsung Ring, which looks

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Robotics

Sonair decloaks to launch 3D ultrasonic safety sensor for AMRs – The Robot Report

The imaging method is called beamforming. It’s the backbone of processing for sonar and radar, as well as in medical ultrasound imaging. Sonair has combined wavelength-matched transducers with cutting-edge software for beamforming and object-recognition algorithms. This innovation makes 3D spatial information available simply by transmitting sound and listening. By using 3D ultrasonic imaging in robotics applications, Sonair said it delivers safe navigation, miniaturization, cost efficiency, and low power consumption compared with other 3D imaging methods.

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

Stephen Cass: Hello. I’m Stephen Cass, Special Projects Director at IEEE Spectrum. Before starting today’s episode hosted by Eliza Strickland, I wanted to give you all listening out there some news about this show. This is our last episode of Fixing the Future. We’ve really enjoyed bringing you some concrete solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, but we’ve decided we’d like to be able to go deeper into topics than we can in

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Hardware

Intel Innovation 2024 happening on September 24: Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, Granite Rapids-AP CPUs

Intel has penciled in its annual Innovation event for September 24 this year, hosted in San Jose, California as usual. We should expect a huge focus on the next-gen Core Ultra CPUs, Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, Xeon 6, and Gaudi 3 news. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Intel’s upcoming Innovation event will run between September 24-25, where we should see the official launch of Intel’s next-gen Core Ultra 200 series “Arrow Lake” desktop CPUs,

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Avendus, India’s top venture advisor, confirms it’s looking to raise a $350 million fund | TechCrunch

Avendus, the top investment bank for venture deals in India, confirmed on Wednesday it is looking to raise up to $350 million for its new private equity fund.  The new fund, called Future Leaders Fund III, will enable the Mumbai-headquartered firm to write larger checks and maintain a meaningful position in the startups it backs, said its managing partner Ritesh Chandra in an interview with TechCrunch. TechCrunch reported in early April that Avendus was putting together

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Activision wins $14.4M judgment against Call of Duty cheat vendor

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here.  A federal court awarded a $14.4 million judgment to Activision Publishing in its lawsuit against EngineOwning UG, Garnatz Enterprise Ltd, and 11 individuals. U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald in

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AR/VR

MoonPay Launches Web3 Platform to Enhance Brand Engagement

MoonPay, a leading blockchain payments infrastructure firm, has unveiled its new Web3 platform, aimed at enhancing digital experiences for brands interested in the crypto space. This move signifies a significant expansion of MoonPay’s services, offering brands a comprehensive suite of Web3 tools to boost digital engagement. MoonPay’s newly launched Web3 Tools platform integrates innovative features such as crypto payments, authentication, identity verification, ticketing, tokenization, and NFT minting. These tools are developed specifically to provide brands

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