AI & RoboticsNews

Nvidia launches Shield set-top boxes with Tegra X1+ processor, Dolby tech, and AI upscaling

October 28, 2019
Nvidia unveiled its new generation of Shield TV set-top boxes which stream media and enable cloud-based gaming. The new boxes, which retailers inadvertently leaked in recent weeks, will debut for $150 and $200. One of the devices looks like a plastic tube. Nvidia can pack a lot of technology into that little space. And it enables easy integration with 21 different over-the-air media services as…
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AI & RoboticsNews

How AI is impacting the automotive world

October 28, 2019
Presented by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. The idea of self-driving cars has captured consumer imagination, but AI is having a much broader impact across the entire automotive industry. From design, manufacturing, and infrastructure to predictive maintenance, safety, and a…
MobileNews

Second iPhone 11 Pro camera test concludes ‘close to DSLR’ results

October 28, 2019
We yesterday reported on an iPhone 11 Pro camera test which pitted Apple’s flagship iPhone against a $7,500 Canon 1DX Mark II DSLR. YouTuber Matti Haapoja concluded that the iPhone’s performance was ‘scarily close’ to that of the high-end DSLR. Today another photographer has also concluded that the contest between the iPhone 11 Pro camera and his Canon EOS 5D MkIV DSLR is ‘a close-run…
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GamingNews

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare looks best with Nvidia RTX real-time ray tracing

October 27, 2019
If you’re playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, it will look best on a gaming PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX hardware. I played the just-released first-person shooter game on the PlayStation 4 and have also started playing it on a Falcon Northwest Talon gaming PC with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card. That RTX hardware gives me real-time ray tracing, which dramatically improves the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google Assistant is ready to find your Tile tracker

October 27, 2019
As promised, Google Assistant can now help find your Tile trackers with very little effort. Link the Bluetooth gadget in the Google Home app, set up Voice Match in Assistant and you can ask the voice helper to locate your trackers (and hopefully, the items attached to them) using a simple sentence rather than adding a prefix like “ask Tile to” every time. You can tell Assistant to…
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