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Qualcomm details Cloud AI 100 chipset, announces developer kit

September 16, 2020
During its AI Day conference last April, Qualcomm unveiled the Cloud AI 100, a chipset purpose-built for machine learning inferencing and edge computing workloads. Details were scarce at press time, evidently owing to a lengthy production schedule. But today Qualcomm announced a release date for the Cloud AI 100 — the first half of 2021, after sampling this fall — and shared details about the…
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Nikon Unveils the 50mm f/1.2 and 14-24mm f/2.8 S Lenses for the Z-Mount

September 16, 2020
Nikon has just announced two of the most anticipated lenses for its full-frame mirrorless Z-series: the NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.2 S and the NIKKOR Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S. The former is the fastest AF lens Nikon has ever produced, while the latter is “the world’s shortest and lightest full-frame f/2.8 zoom lens with a 14mm field of view.” Both of these lenses will add some much-needed excitement to the…
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Nikon 14-24mm F2.8 S and 50mm F1.2 S for Z-mount unveiled

September 16, 2020
Nikon has officially announced two more lenses for its Z-mount, full-frame mirrorless system: the Nikkor Z 14-24mm F2.8 S and 50mm F1.2 S. Both are slated to arrive by the end of 2020. Nikkor Z 14-24mm F2.8 S The 14-24mm is almost 35% lighter than its AF-S 14-24mm F2.8 G…
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Developers can now submit iOS 14 compatible apps to the App Store

September 16, 2020
Following the announcement that Apple will release software updates to the public on Wednesday, the company is now accepting apps compatible with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14 on the App Store. GM releases of Apple’s new operating systems are already available to developers and public beta testers, and they will be available to all users tomorrow — except for macOS Big Sur which…
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Quick Charge Podcast: September 15, 2020

September 16, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Twitch takes another identity-related L

September 16, 2020
Today, Twitch announced a set of emote modifiers in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month — and then it ended up pulling them before the day’s end because they were incredibly insensitive. What in the fresh hell is this? pic.twitter.com/IjFSN9gHod 2020 is a year of Ls, and…
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Here’s Chrome OS’s Android ‘Phone Hub’ and everything it can do

September 16, 2020
Earlier this year, we uncovered that Chromebooks were set to get deeper integration with Android through a new suite of “Phone Hub” features. Since then, the UI has appeared in Chrome OS Canary along with more details about how things like notification mirroring and “task continuation” will work. Chrome OS’s “Phone Hub” is set to more deeply connect your Android phone with your…
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