Ambarella has unveiled the CV5 AI Vision Processor to handle 8K image processing for car, consumer, crone, and robot cameras.
The new 5-nanometer camera system on chip (SoC) is the latest in the company’s CVflow family, and it consumes under 2 watts of power. The chip is about 4 times more powerful than the previous-generation chip.
Chris Day, VP of marketing and business development at…
OWC Unveils Two New Multi-Port Docks for Macs and PCs
January 11, 2021
In addition to a 2800 MB/s SSD, OWC has also announced two new docks for Mac and PC: the USB-C Travel Dock E and the new Thunderbolt Dock. The former is designed to make travel connectivity options more robust, while the latter will add more options to your permanent desktop…
Researchers at Stanford have developed hardware that can run AI tasks quickly and energy-efficiently by harnessing special-built chips. A paper published in Nature Electronics describes the chips, each of which have data processors built next to their own memory storage…
Samsung's Galaxy Upcycling turns old phones into IoT devices
January 11, 2021
A few years ago, Samsung announced a sustainability initiative called “Galaxy Upcycling,” an effort to repurpose and reuse older smartphones. We haven’t heard much about it since then, but today at CES 2021 Samsung announced an evolution of that program called Galaxy Upcycling at home. At its core, the idea is to let people who still own older Galaxy smartphones to use them as part of their…
M1 Mac Bluetooth problems finally set to be resolved, says Apple
January 11, 2021
Apple has reportedly set that a fix is imminent for the M1 Mac Bluetooth connectivity problems reported by many users of the first Apple Silicon Macs.
Users began reporting issues within days of the first machines arriving …
YouTuber Patrick Tomasso is one of those…
iPhone 12 mini Diary: Hands-on with the MagSafe compatible ESR HaloLock car mount and charger
January 11, 2021
MagSafe was one of the headline features for the iPhone 12 lineup this year. While there are plenty of first-party and third-party options to charge at home, the only MagSafe compatible car mount doesn’t keep your iPhone charged. For the past month, I’ve been using the…
LG unveils 4K UltraFine OLED Pro display, Dell reveals 40-inch 5K2K ultrawide with Thunderbolt 3
January 11, 2021
LG is expanding its line of UltraFine monitors at CES this year with a new UltraFine OLED Pro. This UltraFine display measures in at 31.5-inches and features a 4K resolution, and it marks a notable expansion of OLED display technology from smartphones and TVs to mid-size displays such as monitors.
LG hasn’t released many details about its new LG UltraFine OLED Pro, but it has shared a video…
When Apple revived MagSafe with the iPhone 12 lineup, one question brought up was how these latest devices with more magnets would interact with medical devices like pacemakers. Apple’s official word was that iPhone 12/MagSafe wouldn’t interfere more than previous…
One UI 3.0 stable update begins rolling out for Galaxy Z Fold 2
January 11, 2021
Despite arguably being the real flagship within Samsung’s smartphone lineup, the Galaxy Z Fold 2 has had a longer than expected wait for its own One UI 3.0 update complete with all Android 11 trappings.
However, for those with the $2,000 foldable smartphone, we have…
After multiple early teasers, the OnePlus Band has now officially launched in India with a price tag to rival the most popular fitness bands on the market.
This is in fact the very first wearable from the firm known mostly for disrupting the Android smartphone market. Given that this is already a very crowded space, we’re not entirely sure where the OnePlus Band differentiates itself from the…
