Gadgets And Technology Daily News | 30 Jun 2023
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Nubia Red Magic 8S Pro Official Renders Showcase Design, Colour Variants Ahead of Launch
Nubia, the Chinese smartphone maker, is all set to debut its latest flagship, the Red Magic 8S Pro, next week. The company posted official renders of the device on Wednesday, June 28, which revealed more details about the design of the upcoming handset. The phone's appearance closely resembles that of the Red Magic 8 Pro series, which launched in China in December 2022. Among minor differences, the writing on the back of the handset seems different, along with the details around the cooling fan.
The renders, which were posted on Chinese micro-blogging website Weibo, the Red Magic 8S Pro is seen in Black and Silver colourways. Both options also seem have two variants — one with an RGB light for the fan and the other without the RGB light circle. Just like the Red Magic 8 Pro series, the gaming-focused handset has a flat screen and sides.
An alert slider that doubles as a toggle for Game Mode can be seen on the right edge of the phone, with a 3.5mm audio jack seen on the top side. There are two dedicated touch-sensitive buttons on the right shoulder of the phone for gaming as well. The triple rear camera setup is vertically aligned on the top centre of the phone's backside, with an LED flash module above.
The Red Magic 8S Pro is slated for release on July 5, starting first with China. While no other details on the device were made available along with the renders, Nubia announced the RAM and processor details of the upcoming handset earlier this week. The phone will be equipped with an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Leading Version SoC. The company also revealed that the Red Magic 8S Pro will come with 24GB of RAM, without including virtual RAM.
According to a FoneArena report, the Red Magic 8S Pro is expected to launch with 1TB of UFS 4.0 of inbuilt storage and sport a 6.8-inch full-HD+ (2,400 x 1,080 pixels) OLED display with a refresh rate of 120Hz.
The Red Magic 8S Pro will also feature a triple rear camera unit, likely led by a 50-megapixel Samsung GN5 sensor, accompanied by an 8-megapixel sensor with an ultra-wide lens, and a 2-megapixel sensor with a macro camera lens. The front camera is expected to be equipped with a 16-megapixel sensor placed under the display.
OnePlus Nord CE 3 Confirmed to Get Snapdragon 782G SoC; Set to Launch on July 5
OnePlus Nord CE 3 is set to launch alongside OnePlus Nord 3 at the company's Summer Launch Event on July 5. Along with these smartphones, OnePlus will also launch the Nord Buds 2R earbuds. The event page has already been made live on the OnePlus' official website, revealing some of the key details about the upcoming phone. OnePlus Nord CE 3 launch page teased the processor as well as the design details, and the colour variations of the smartphone. The handset is confirmed to launch in Aqua Surge shade.
According to the updated teaser page on OnePlus' event page, the OnePlus Nord CE 3 will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G SoC. The company claimed that the processor will offer smooth gaming and image processing capabilities. The company is yet to reveal the details regarding the RAM as well as storage. The teaser image also confirms a new Aqua Surge colour variant of the phone.
Additionally, the launch page also reveals a triple camera unit on the rear panel of the smartphone. The lenses are placed inside two circular camera modules, with an LED Flash adjacent to the camera sensors. The phone will also have OnePlus branding on its back panel.
Meanwhile, OnePlus Nord 3 specifications have been teased ahead of the launch event. The phone is confirmed to come with an Alert Slider and a flat display design with a 17.12cm screen. It will offer a 120Hz refresh rate. It is also teased to pack 256GB UFS 3.1 storage and a flagship-grade chipset. However, the listing doesn't reveal the name of the processor.
It is also confirmed to pack a triple rear camera setup housed in two circular camera modules. The OnePlus Nord 3 will get two LED flashes on the back. It is confirmed to come in two different colour options — Tempest Gray and Misty Green.
Apple Seeks to Fend Off EU Antitrust Charge Based on Spotify's Complaint
Apple will on Friday seek to fend off a revised EU antitrust charge and possible hefty fine linked to claims it prevents music streaming companies such as Spotify from informing users of other buying options outside its App Store.
The iPhone maker will set out its arguments to senior European Commission officials and their peers at national competition agencies at a closed hearing in Brussels.
EU antitrust enforcers earlier this year boosted their case against the company's so-called anti-steering obligations, but dropped an earlier charge against Apple's requirement that developers use its in-app payment system.
The Commission said the anti-steering obligations breach EU rules against unfair trading conditions, a relatively novel legal argument in an antitrust case.
Apple has said there is no merit in the case triggered by a Spotify complaint in 2019, pointing to the Swedish music streaming service's dominant market share in Europe, where Apple Music trails in third or fourth place in most EU countries.
Its other argument is that it has revised rules to allow reader apps such as Spotify and Netflix to include links to their website for sign-ups and user payments, allowing app developers to bypass its controversial 30 percent App Store fee.
Reader apps provide content such as e-books, video and music requiring payment at sign-up.
Spotify, which will also attend the hearing, has rejected Apple's updated anti-steering rules, saying nothing has changed at all. It has urged a speedy decision from the Commission.
The EU executive said it never comments on possible oral hearings or on their date.
© Thomson Reuters 2023
Cat Pain Detector: This AI-Powered App Can Detect if Your Cat Is in Pain
Cats are considered lucky in Japan, and owners of popular pets spend big on their care. But how do you know when they're feline down?
A tech firm and university in Tokyo have teamed up to produce an app trained on thousands of cat photos that they say can tell you when puss is in pain.
Since its release last month, "Cat Pain Detector" has racked up 43,000 users, mostly in Japan but also in Europe and South America, said Go Sakioka, head of developer Carelogy.
The app is part of a growing array of tech for pet owners concerned for their furry friends' wellbeing, including similar mood and pain trackers made in Canada and Israel.
Carelogy teamed up with Nihon University's College of Bioresource Sciences to gather 6,000 cat photos, in which they carefully studied the positions of the animals' ears, noses, whiskers and eyelids.
They then used a scoring system designed by the University of Montreal to measure minute differences between healthy cats and those suffering pain due to hard-to-spot illnesses.
Next, the app developers fed the information into an AI detection system, which has further refined its skills thanks to around 600,000 photos uploaded by users, Sakioka said.
Now the app "has an accuracy level of more than 90 percent", he told AFP.
According to the Japan Pet Food Association, 60 percent of owners take their cat to a veterinarian at most once a year.
"We want to help cat owners judge more easily at home whether to see a vet or not," Sakioka said.
"Cat Pain Detector" is already being used by some vets in Japan, the land of Hello Kitty, where tourists flock to cat cafes and some small islands are overrun by stray felines.
But "the AI system still needs to be more precise before it's used as a standardised tool", he cautioned.
OpenAI Sued in US for Allegedly Misusing Artists' Work to Train ChatGPT
Two US authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT.
Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, infringing the authors' copyrights.
Matthew Butterick, an attorney for the authors, declined to comment. Representatives for OpenAI, a private company backed by Microsoft, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Several legal challenges have been filed over material used to train cutting-edge AI systems. Plaintiffs include source-code owners against OpenAI and Microsoft's GitHub, and visual artists against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt.
The lawsuit targets have argued that their systems make fair use of copyrighted work.
ChatGPT responds to users' text prompts in a conversational way. It became the fastest-growing consumer application in history earlier this year, reaching 100 million active users in January only two months after it was launched.
ChatGPT and other generative AI systems create content using large amounts of data scraped from the internet. Tremblay and Awad's lawsuit said books are a "key ingredient" because they offer the "best examples of high-quality longform writing."
The complaint estimated that OpenAI's training data incorporated over 300,000 books, including from illegal "shadow libraries" that offer copyrighted books without permission.
Awad is known for novels including '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl' and 'Bunny'. Tremblay's novels include 'The Cabin at the End of the World', which was adapted in the M. Night Shyamalan film 'Knock at the Cabin' released in February.
Tremblay and Awad said ChatGPT could generate "very accurate" summaries of their books, indicating that they appeared in its database.
The lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of money damages on behalf of a nationwide class of copyright owners whose works OpenAI allegedly misused.
© Thomson Reuters 2023
SFS Seeks 30 Acre Land in Karnataka to Set Up Rs. 250 Crore Mobile Components Manufacturing Unit
Mobile components manufacturer SFS, which is interested in setting up a unit by investing Rs. 250 crore, has sought 30 acres of land in Belagavi from the state government. Minister for large and medium industries M B Patil said in a statement that on Wednesday SFS delegates led by CFO of the company Faras Shaw met him to exchange ideas regarding its proposed project.
Welcoming the proposal, the minister told them that the decision will be taken after reviewing the proposal, the statement read.
“SFS has already set up an aerospace components unit in Belagavi and is operational. The company, which is also a manufacturer of mobile components for companies such as Apple, is interested in setting up its unit in Belagavi. This is estimated to generate 500 direct jobs for technologists in the next three years,” according to the statement.
Meanwhile, multiple global technology players are moving their production to India. As per a recent Bloomberg report, Alphabet's Google is scouting for suppliers in India to assemble its Pixel smartphones as it borrows from Apple's playbook to diversify beyond China.
The Gujarat government recently signed an MoU with the US-based computer storage chip maker Micron for setting up a $2.75 billion (nearly Rs. 22,560 crore) semiconductor assembly and test facility at Sanand in the Ahmedabad district. It will be the first semiconductor manufacturing facility in India, said Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, adding that the first chips will be manufactured within 18 months.
Similarly, Vedanta's untried display business is eyeing to set up a $4 billion (roughly Rs. 32,811 crore) liquid crystal display panel fabrication unit in western India. The factory is expected to create as many as 3,500 direct jobs.
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