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'Google Pixel 7' prototype hits eBay ahead of its launch
According to The Verge, the tech giant just revealed the phone a few weeks ago at Google I/O, and the prototype matches up with what the company has already shown. The distinctive camera bar is back, and this year it is an aluminium bar with cutouts for the cameras. And the alleged prototype's casing is a deep black that looks just like one of the colours Google showed off at I/O.
Samsung likely to close LCD panel manufacturing soon
The decision to close the LCD business, by Samsung Display, will be completed by June of 2022 as the company faces tough competition from its Chinese and Taiwanese counterparts, reports GizmoChina. The company has decided to focus on manufacturing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and quantum dot (QD) displays, as OLED panels have started to become the norm in the smartphone market.
Apple may launch RealityOS for its upcoming AR/VR headset
According to a report by The Verge, the RealityOS has appeared in a trademark filing, "which hasn't been officially filed by the Apple but it's common practice for large companies to apply for trademarks under one-off company". The RealityOS powered headsets will be able to offer a combination of VR and AR experiences, immersing users in virtual content as well as layering virtual elements over real world environments.
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US-built 'Frontier' now world's fastest supercomputer
The Frontier supercomputer at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the first to achieve an unprecedented level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second. Frontier features a theoretical peak performance of 2 exaflops, or two quintillion calculations per second, making it 10 times more powerful than ORNL's Summit system.
Amazon to develop software for its consumer robots in India
"Last year we unveiled our first consumer robot, but it certainly will not be our last. This new consumer robotics software development centre will help support our growing consumer robotics division and attract top talent to work on world-class technology products," said Ken Washington, Vice President, Consumer Robotics, Amazon.
Musk opens motivational class on Twitter
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO shared that "happiness is a choice". Musk reminded people that every day is a fresh start, and that one can always choose to be happy. "Tomorrow will be the first sunrise of the rest of ur life, make it what u want," Musk wrote on the microblogging platform. "And remember that happiness is a choice."
Apple, Google face scrutiny over collecting abortion data
The letter, signed by five Democratic and independent senators, comes in the wake of a leaked draft of an upcoming majority opinion that indicates that the Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision establishing the constitutional right to an abortion, reports CNET.
Twitter has very 'bot-friendly' rules, says Elon Musk
Musk has put the $44 billion Twitter buyout on hold till its CEO Parag Agrawal tells him the exact percentage of bots on the platform. Twitter currently says less that 5 per cent of accounts on its platforms can be fake. A follower tagged Musk, posting "current technical Twitter Limits": "None of these @Twitter limits are aligned with the goal of human-to-human interactions @elonmusk."
6G network will be available by 2030: Nokia CEO
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Lundmark mentioned that he does not believe that smartphones will be the most "common interface", reports GizmoChina. "By then, definitely the smartphone as we know it today will not anymore be the most common interface," Lundmark was quoted as saying.
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