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TCL and Alcatel launching trio of Android tablets, including one w/ color E Ink competitor

Today, TCL is announcing a trio of Android tablets to be released over the next few months, including a model using a NXTPAPER display, their competitor to color E Ink. By the spec sheet, the TCL TAB 10S and TCL NXTPAPER have a great deal in common. Both tablets run on Android 10, use a MediaTek MT8768 series chip, and offer as much as 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. The main thing that sets the…
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LG teases rollable phone again, this time showing it in action [Video]

After debuting its wacky Wing phone in 2020, LG has been teasing its next Explorer Project device which has a rollable display. Now, at CES 2021, LG has dropped another teaser for the Rollable, this time confirming its name and showing it in action. During LG’s CES 2021 presentation, the company cut to a very brief clip that shows a phone being held as its screen starts to shrink down. At the…
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Google Chrome address bar may soon default to HTTPS

Google Chrome will soon have an experiment that will automatically try to connect to the HTTPS versions of website URLs that you type into the address bar instead of the insecure HTTP version. For years now, HTTPS has steadily grown from being a way of feeling secure about a particular site into being the expected minimum for a website. It’s gotten to the point that instead of Chrome showing…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Ambarella unveils 8K AI vision processor for car, drone, and robot cameras

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…
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