MobileNews

Android Auto may gain better support for automatically opening on more car head units

The latest Android Auto beta points to the app being able to automatically open itself on more cars’ infotainment centers. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able to see various lines of code within…
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DefenseNews

How Japan chose where to base its F-35s

MELBOURNE, Australia – Japan’s defense minister has confirmed that the U.S. ally will base its Lockheed-Martin F-35B Lightning II Short Take off and Vertical Landing or STOVL fighter jets at the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands. Nobuo Kishi, the Japanese minister of defense, said July 16 that the Japan Air Self-Defense Force or JASDF base of Nyutabaru on the east coast of the…
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GamingNews

Ubisoft quarterly earnings miss the pandemic bump

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Ubisoft released its earnings report for the quarter ending on June 30, reporting $383.82 million (€326 million) in net bookings. That is down 20.5% from the same period last year. Ubisoft did not release any major new games during this quarter, although the same could be said last year. In 2020, however, all of…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Untether AI nabs $125M for AI acceleration chips

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Untether AI, a startup developing custom-built chips for AI inferencing workloads, today announced it has raised $125 million from Tracker Capital Management and Intel Capital. The round, which…
AI & RoboticsNews

Nvidia releases TensorRT 8 for faster AI inference

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nvidia today announced the release of TensorRT 8, the latest version of its software development kit (SDK) designed for AI and machine learning inference. Built for deploying AI models that can power search engines, ad recommendations, chatbots, and more, Nvidia claims that TensorRT 8 cuts inference time in half for…
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