Ahead of the now-virtual CES 2021, Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart has the MBUX Hyperscreen, a 56-inch-wide, curved cinematic display that stretches across the entire dashboard, even over the left and right air vents. The company said the AI software powering the display is capable of learning the driver and passenger’s preferences and then adapting its suggestions for infotainment, comfort, electric drive settings, and other vehicle functions. Mercedes-Benz MBUX Hyperscreen. Credit: Mercedes-Benz The MBUX Hyperscreen consists of several displays connected together seamlessly, with OLED panels in the center and on the right. It uses a light sensor and a three-layer design; the “zero layer,” or top level, is designed so that it only displays the current relevant controls in a situational and contextual way.
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Over the past 4-5 months, we’ve discussed repeated product shortages affecting just about every piece of high-end PC or gaming hardware currently on the market. One of the more interesting aspects of the situation has been the way it has hit everyone: Samsung-built Nvidia GPUs are hard to find, but so are TSMC-built AMD GPUs. AMD CPU prices and availability has been all over the map. The PS5 and Xbox Series S|X have been in and out of stock. Since AMD doesn’t build its own hardware, a lot of eyeballs have focused on TSMC during this period, but it hasn’t been clear if that’s where the actual problem lies.
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Artificial intelligence has gotten very good at some things — it’s even approaching the capability of people when it comes to recognizing objects and generating text. What about art? OpenAI has (it’s like Dali with a nod to beloved Pixar robot WALL-E). All you need to do is give DALL-E some instructions, and it can draw an image for you. Sometimes the renderings are little better than fingerpainting, but other times they’re startlingly accurate portrayals. OpenAI has made news lately for its GPT neural networks, which are sometimes referred to as “fake news generators” because of how well they can make up lies to support the input text.
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Cyberpunk 2077’s launch may have been a dumpster fire, but it was undeniably a successful dumpster fire; the company reported 13 million copies sold after taking refund requests into account. The game ran far better on PC than on consoles from launch, but new data suggests PC gamers are quitting in higher-than-expected numbers. A from GitHyp, a website that bills itself as a front-end for various gamer statistics, notes that while the game launched at over a million players, its total number of players of late has been much lower. Even this graph actually understates things — yesterday’s maximum daily player count was only 155,000.
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The Super Nintendo is an iconic part of early 90s gaming with classic titles like Super Mario World, Star Fox, and Chrono Trigger. However, the machine itself was woefully underpowered compared with the competition. Nintendo used a series of enhancement chips to compensate, but not all games had them. Now, one dedicated developer is in games that never had them, eliminating the annoying slowdowns that have plagued gamers for almost 30 years. The SNES was a huge leap for Nintendo, which had become a household name with the NES launch. It stepped up to a Ricoh 5A22 CPU with a whopping 3.58 MHz of processing power from the 1.79 MHz Ricoh 2A03 used in the NES.
