There are rumors that Intel may be planning a new, specialty bin of the Core i7 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first 8086 CPU. Unfortunately, it’s currently hard to nail down what form the chip might take, and we’ve seen various rumors targeting a variety of listings. The most suggests a Core i7-8086K with an unlocked multiplier that’s pin-compatible with existing 300-series motherboards, and a boost clock as high as 5GHz. If true, that would set multiple records for Intel. It’d be the company’s first CPU with a boost clock as high as 5GHz, a new performance record for the six-core family as a whole, and it’d probably put the Core i7-8700K firmly in second place.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The ninth annual Augmented World Expo (AWE 2018) was the largest ever. Strolling through the show floor, it’s clear the AR and VR industries are alive and well if you know where to look. At the same time that the industry is bemoaning the slow adoption of mainstream VR headsets from Oculus and Vive, literally thousands of vertical market applications are being deployed across many industries. The show’s highlights were a mix of some amazing targeted applications and some great new technologies aimed at the broader consumer audience. Here are some of those that stood out to me.
Until last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) was making do with some fairly ancient weather satellites. The 1990s era hardware wasn’t up to the task of gathering the data scientists want, but the agency deployed the first of its new generation GOES-R satellites in 2016. Earlier this year, a second GOES satellite went into orbit. It has just sent back its first , but there are some glitches that keep the system for working at full capacity. GOES-17 launched on March 2nd of this year aboard a ULA Atlas-V rocket. The spacecraft ascended to an altitude of 22,300 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) just like .
Google Assistant is arguably the most advanced AI that’s available for public use. It’s also incredibly accessible. Just long-press the home button on an Android phone or shout “Hey Google” in a house with Google Home speakers, and you can start asking to do things. What if you ask it to fire a gun, though? Artist Alexander Reben rugged up a contraption to do just that. The device is not a ready-made solution for attacking your enemies with AI. It’s just a collection of smart home devices that happen to be rigged up to fire a gun. The start of the process, which you can see in its entirety below, is a Google Home.
Earlier this spring, the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting , based on interviews with multiple current and former Tesla employees, charging that the company had underreported its injury rates and failed to take safety steps that were considered standard in automotive manufacturing. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was incensed by the reports and attempted to smear the Center for Investigative Reporting as an “extremist organization.” But new information emerging backs up, in broad strokes, what Reveal has reported. CNBC that Tesla’s paint shop has suffered four fires since 2014, including a previously-known fire in April 2018 that stopped Model 3 production for multiple shifts and a fire in January 2016 that suspended production on the Model S for at least a day.
LG waited longer than normal to announce its big 2018 flagship phone, but it finally took the wraps off the a few weeks ago. Today, the phone is available for purchase on most US carriers. While has had trouble competing with the likes of Samsung, it’s still targeting the same premium space. Although, it’s got an iPhone-style screen notch now. That’s what consumers want, right? The LG G7 ThinQ is . It has a glass back, dual cameras, and a display notch that isn’t done particularly well. The missing bit of screen provides a place for the camera, earpiece, and some other sensors.
Google has taken a beating in the press over its work with the Pentagon on a controversial drone image analysis program. On Friday, the company told employees that it will bow to pressure and for “Project Maven” when it expires next year. Google has consistently sought to downplay the scale of the program, but a combination of negative reporting and led to the recent decision. Google’s involvement with the Pentagon program earlier this year. Maven, also known as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (AWCFT), kicked off in April 2017 with the aim of building a system based on machine learning that could identify objects in drone surveillance images.
Most of us can drive a car, and many of us think we’re good at it. We probably learned when we were teenagers, and have taken the skill for granted since then — except, of course, when we’re silently cursing out another driver for cutting us off. As a result, we may not think about how complex the task is. Not just steering a vehicle along a path, but understanding and reacting to the hundreds of different objects in our environment. This makes designing automated safety systems for cars that can act reliably in all conditions and not trigger at the wrong time a daunting technical challenge.
Ever since Intel announced its 3D Xpoint memory (branded as Optane), the company has claimed that the new class of memory would represent a fundamental leap forward for the entire industry. Proof of these claims has been relatively slow to appear — it’s difficult to replace existing memory technologies, and the existing memory stack (spinning hard drives, NAND, and DRAM) covers a wide range of price points, power consumptions, reliability, and capacity. Intel is launching a new class of Optane it calls Optane DC Persistent Memory, with capabilities that it believes will bridge the gap between DRAM and non-volatile storage while expanding the amount of memory available per CPU socket to as much as 3TB.
