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AlphaIC sampling Gluon chip for edge AI

February 7, 2022
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Start-up AlphaIC yesterday announced that it has begun sampling its Gluon coprocessor for edge AI inference to customers. AlphaIC claims the chip delivers competitive performance compared to Nvidia in vision workloads such as object detection. Gluon is based on AlphaIC’s proprietary architecture that…
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Google Duo reaches 5 billion Play Store downloads

February 7, 2022
Google’s premier video calling app Duo has now surpassed the 5 billion download milestone over on the Play Store. While the download figures have undoubtedly been bloated courtesy of global pandemic and the fact that Google Duo comes bundled with Android on millions of…
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Samsung pulls the Galaxy S21 Ultra from its store ahead of S Pen-wielding sequel

February 7, 2022
The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra was one of our favorite phones of 2021, but with its sequel around the corner, it’s a phone that’s going to start to fade away. Ahead of the Galaxy S22’s unveil, Samsung has just removed the Galaxy S21 Ultra from its website, seemingly signaling that the phone has been discontinued. Samsung’s official US store has removed the Galaxy S21 Ultra from the listing…
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Ulysses 25 writing app brings third-party font support for iOS devices, visual revamp, more

February 7, 2022
Ulysses just got a new update with version 25. For iPhone and iPad users, the app brings the ability to choose fonts from third-party font apps, while the Mac app brings some visual changes. Ulysses is an app that helps you focus on your writing more than anything. It syncs between all your devices, and it’s one of the easiest ways to jump from your iPhone to your iPad, and then to the Mac to…
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The Galaxy S22 will use plastic from recycled fishing nets

February 7, 2022
The Galaxy S22 has leaked extensively, but there’s only so much you can tell from renders. For example, it turns out that Samsung has created a “new material” to use in the product — one made from the plastic in discarded fishing nets. Samsung says it’ll soon…
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Samsung teases new material made from recycled fishing nets debuting alongside Galaxy S22

February 7, 2022
Ahead of its Unpacked launch event later this week for the Galaxy S22 series, Samsung is teasing a new sustainability effort that integrates a new material into its products which is made from recycled fishing nets. In a blog post today, Samsung announced that a new plastic material will make its debut alongside the Galaxy S22 series which will be used in various products from the company. This…
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