(Reuters) — BMW has developed a data hub with Amazon’s cloud computing division, in a sign of how companies are increasingly using “big data” to try to boost efficiency.
“We want to switch from gut-driven decisions to data-driven decisions,” said Kai Demtroder, vice president of data transformation at BMW. “We have a few hundred data scientists at BMW, but the aim is to make the data…
Sony Parts Supply Shortage May Indicate AKM Factory Fire Directly Impacting Camera Industry
December 8, 2020
In late October, a massive fire completely destroyed the AKM parts factory in Japan. While mostly responsible for A/V parts manufacture, speculation that it could affect the camera industry popped up a few weeks later. A new notice of camera parts shortage from Sony appears…
Travel and photography blog Capture the Atlas has released the images from its third annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year – a compilation of 25 of the best photos highlighting the aurora borealis/australis from around the world.
Similar to its process for…
Oppo Find X3 Pro leak reveals most important details
December 8, 2020
Oppo has already announced that its next flagship smartphone, coming out in the first three months of 2021, will be powered by the newly unveiled Snapdragon 888 chipset, but today a new leak gives us a few more details about the device.
The Find X3 Pro, which is what we assume it will be called, is codenamed Fussi, according to Evan Blass, better known as . The device will have a 6.7-inch…
Samsung Galaxy S21 family won't have a charger or earphones in the box, certification confirms
December 8, 2020
Remember when Apple removed the 3.5mm headphone jack and a lot of Android phone makers mocked it for the decision, only to follow suit within a few years, Samsung included? Well, here we go again.
It’s already been rumored that Samsung was thinking about shipping the…
T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S20 series getting Android 11
December 8, 2020
Following last week’s Android 11 update for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S20 units (minus the S20 FE), T-Mobile has now begun pushing the update for its users too. The new update also brings Samsung’s OneUI 3.0 (check out the new additions here) and weighs in at 2GB in…
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra's camera detailed: 10x folded periscope joins 3x tele camera
December 8, 2020
Leakster is confirming the Galaxy S21 Ultra camera specs that were leaked last month. The illustration below shows sensor details for all five camera modules (the S21 and S21+ are getting triple cameras).
The main module on the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G houses the upcoming 108MP ISOCELL HM3 sensor with 0.8 µm pixels (with 9-in-1 binning support) and Super PD autofocus. It will have 12% better light…
LG plans to outsource more of its low-end and mid-range phones
December 8, 2020
LG is shaking things up in its mobile division once more. It confirmed to Reuters it will increase outsourcing of its low- and mid-range smartphones. Third-party companies will design and build more of the devices, and LG will slap its label on the phones.
The company still…
Google has announced that Stadia will be available in eight new European countries over the next 24 hours. This includes Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland.
As before, the price is €9.99 a month for the Stadia Pro service, with…
NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data
December 8, 2020
NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks. Before getting into NVIDIA’s work, it helps to know a bit about how GANs work. Every GAN consists of two competing neural networks: a generator and a discriminator.
In one where the goal of the algorithm is to create new images, the…
