Starting from this series, Xiaomi series flagships will now feature models available in two sizes. Powered by the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro will feature industry-leading DisplayMate A+ OLED displays and powerful imaging capabilities. Let’s have a look at the specifications of Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro models: DISPLAY: Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro both will feature the highest-ever Display Performance Grade of A+ from DisplayMate.
The new feature called “Live Rings” will display a luminous red ring with the word “Live” around a channel’s profile picture when live streaming on the platform. Clicking on the channel avatar will directly take users to the live broadcast.
— Neal Mohan (@nealmohan) February 18, 2022 Similar indicators for channels that are live streaming are already available on other social platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. While TikTok adds a pulsing ring effect on a channel’s profile picture to notify the user that it is live streaming, Instagram displays a colorful ring around the profile pictures of live streaming accounts.
Listening to the curated playlist while going on and about with your work, assignments, homework has been a habit for many of us. While some resort to low-fi hip hop channels on YouTube, some of the others stay hooked to discovery on Spotify and Apple music. Music aficionados often curate playlist on their favorite music streaming website to stream the songs, symphonies they fancy and would tune into them whenever they would feel like.
Called Reading Sidekick, this innovative Alexa feature is aimed to make reading more fun and help kids ages 6 to 9 become strong readers. It makes it easy for kids to read independently by exploring the stories they want to read, when they want to read. This feature will help kids grow into confident, independent readers, especially as they are still developing their reading skills. It is basically designed to complement the time kids spend reading with grownups.
Well, you will be surprised to know that a Taiwanese tech enthusiast Tsaik recently overclocked an enormous 64-core/128-thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 595WX processor to 5.15 GHz all-core, completely crushing the Cinebench R23 world record. The overclocked CPU managed to achieve a multi-threaded benchmark score of 116142 completely destroying the previous record holder Splave’s Threadripper 3990X by 105170 points. At the time of writing this article, there’s no consumer/retail version of Threadripper PRO 5995WX.
AMD Zen 4 is a significant increase from the existing Zen 3 architecture, which contains up to 64 cores. In other words, it is double than what AMD offers in its current EPYC 7003 line-up. The following image shows the 64-core layout of the EPYC 7703 (AC) processor:
While previous reports suggested that AMD Zen 4-based processors will have over 64 cores, the new CPUs will now reportedly feature up to 128 internal cores and 256 threads, room for up to 16 CCDs powered by the Zen 4 core architecture as well as support 12-channel DDR5-5200 memory.
Since yesterday, Apple Mac users have been hit by a first ever fully functional ransomware called KeRanger. KeRanger spreads through a infected version of the Transmission BitTorrent client for Mac. Ransomware, one of the fastest-growing types of cyber threats, encrypts data on infected machines. The ransomware then asks victims to pay ransom in bitcoins to get an electronic key so they can decrypt the encrypted data. Windows run PCs have normally been the target of ransomware authors but this is the first time that ransomware is targeting the Apple’s closed OS X operating system.
The aim was to release an Android-based BlackBerry-branded 5G phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard in “the first half of 2021” in North America and Europe. For those unaware, OnwardMobility, which is a company focused on building secure mobile solutions for government and enterprise customers, has acquired the rights to manufacture BlackBerry-branded phones. With no signs of the 5G BlackBerry smartphone arriving in the first half of 2021, it looked like the device had been kept on the back burner.
Back then, the electric car maker said that it was buying the cryptocurrency for “more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash.” It also added that it will accept bitcoin in exchange for its products “subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt.” Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk on Wednesday has formally announced that the company’s electric vehicles can now be bought using bitcoin.
Mr. Musk plans to make millions by selling the robot in near future for a price tag of $20,000. During the event, the robot walked up to people and waved his hand but no complex movement or task was showcased as musk stated that he, “didn’t want it to fall on its face.”
— Tesla (@Tesla) October 1, 2022 During the event Musk stated that, “Our goal is to make a useful humanoid robot as quickly as possible,” he further added, “Optimus is designed to be an extremely capable robot made in very high volume, probably ultimately millions of units, and is expected to cost much less than a car.