

Waymo Releases New Custom Chip
Waymo has introduced its 5nm ASIC, a purpose-built chip engineered exclusively for the real-time conversion of raw sensor data from robotaxis’ lidar, radar and camera sensors before they reach the vehicle’s core machine learning brain. The chip can deliver more than 1,000 trillion operations per second, ensuring that driving commands can be executed by the vehicle in milliseconds. The chip is just one step in Waymo’s move away from off-the-shelf components towards custom syst
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NearLens: A Privacy-Focused Response to the Rise of Smart Glasses
NearLens app alerts users when smartglasses are recording near them.
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Brick by Brick: How a New Wave of Products Is Fighting Back Against Screen Addiction
Brick and Light Phone are two products which address growing cellphone overuse
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Breaking and Entering (New Markets): How GTA is Disrupting the Tech Supply Chain
The Grand Theft Auto VI launch provides a glimpse into how the video game world is changing.
Aug 241 min read


How Sniff is Rethinking Local Social Networking
A new iOS app called Sniff is taking a different approach to social networking by connecting dog owners within the same neighbourhood. Rather than encouraging users to build broad online communities, the app focuses on creating hyper-local communities through geofencing and address verification, limiting users to people who live nearby. The idea is simple: the dogs you discover on the app are likely the same ones you pass on your daily walks, making it easier to turn familiar
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