Month: December 2021

In-Car-Kauf: Tesla startet E-Commerce im Auto

Tesla ermöglicht es Fahrzeugbesitzern, im Auto neue Funktionen freizuschalten und zu bezahlen. Bisher ging das nur per Smartphone-App. (Tesla, Technologie)

Tesla ermöglicht es Fahrzeugbesitzern, im Auto neue Funktionen freizuschalten und zu bezahlen. Bisher ging das nur per Smartphone-App. (Tesla, Technologie)

TTDSG: Neue Cookie-Regelung in Kraft getreten

Mit jahrelanger Verspätung macht Deutschland die Cookie-Einwilligung zur Pflicht. Die Verordnung zu Einwilligungsdiensten lässt noch auf sich warten. (Cookies, Datenschutz)

Mit jahrelanger Verspätung macht Deutschland die Cookie-Einwilligung zur Pflicht. Die Verordnung zu Einwilligungsdiensten lässt noch auf sich warten. (Cookies, Datenschutz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is coming to flagship phones in 2022 (4nm chip with ARMv9 architecture)

Qualcomm’s first flagship-class processor following the company’s new naming scheme is also the company’s first ARMv9 chip manufactured on a 4nm process. The company says the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip will deliver up to 20% faster CPU performance and a 30% improvement in efficiency compared to the Snapdragon 888, while its new GPU will deliver […]

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Qualcomm’s first flagship-class processor following the company’s new naming scheme is also the company’s first ARMv9 chip manufactured on a 4nm process.

The company says the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip will deliver up to 20% faster CPU performance and a 30% improvement in efficiency compared to the Snapdragon 888, while its new GPU will deliver 30% better graphics performance and 25% better efficiency.

The processor features 8 CPU cores, including:

  • 1 x Cortex-X2 @ 3 GHz
  • 3 x Cortex-A810 @ 2.5 GHz
  • 4 x Cortex-A510 @ 1.8 GHz

It also packs a next-gen Adreno GPU, next-gen Hexagon DSP, and a triple 18-bit Spectra ISP with support for camera resolutions up to 200MP (or up to three 36MP cameras).

There’s also support for 8K HDR video capture at 30 frames per second, or 4K video at up to 120 frames per second.

There’s also a new separate image signal processor that enables an “always-on” camera that can run constantly while consuming very little power. This can be used, for example, to automatically lock your device when your face isn’t looking at your phone.

Qualcomm has also updated the modem to a Snapdragon X65 integrated 5G modem with theoretical download speeds up to 10,000 Mbps.

The company is also promising big improvements in AI performance for tasks including photography and natural language processing.

You can find more technical details in Qualcomm’s product brief for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Or check out Anandtech’s coverage for some in-depth analysis.

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Stare into the abyss of a swirling black hole with this LED monolith installation

The universal laws of flow and a recurring dream inspired Jesse Woolston’s latest work.

Screengrab of Jesse Woolston's latest piece, <em>The Dynamics of Flow</em>, debuting at Art Basel Miami Beach later this week.

Enlarge / Screengrab of Jesse Woolston's latest piece, The Dynamics of Flow, debuting at Art Basel Miami Beach later this week. (credit: Jesse Woolston)

Multimedia artist, composer, and sound designer Jesse Woolston has had a recurring dream for much of his life about encountering a black hole, "falling inward, and waking up terrified." (Who wouldn't wake up terrified?) According to the artist, those dreams have always been a reminder to him of "nature's terrifying awe." Now, Woolston has channeled that emotional experience into a new multimedia installation, The Dynamics of Flow—part of an LED monolith exhibit debuting later this week at Art Basel Miami Beach. Bonus: it's also an NFT.

Woolston has long merged his artistic work with his love of science, aiming to "recontextualize" physics and art both visually and with sound/music. "I see scientists almost as magicians who are fantastic at understanding the world," he told Ars. "I consider myself someone who loves to communicate the laws of the universe and what it means to be human." He's worked with astrophysicists at Cornell University who hunt for exoplanets, for instance, and wrote the music for a theatrical dance performance inspired by Washington State University research on glacier dynamics in Greenland. In recent years, his focus has been on building large installations that combine sound and visuals in interesting ways.

A couple of years ago, Woolston created an art installation for the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City with Levi Patel that made use of haptics technology. The tech is called Music: Not Impossible (M:NI), and I wrote about it in 2018. M:NI is designed to provide deaf and hearing users alike with a "vibrotactile" concert experience.

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