Sony Europe announced the first cognitive intelligence televisions. The new BRAVIA XR televisions include MASTER Series Z9J 8K LED, MASTER Series A90J and A80J OLED, and X95J and X90J 4K LED. Powered by the Cognitive Processor XR, the brain of the new BRAVIA XR, the televisions use a completely new processing method that goes beyond…
Month: January 2021
Is the cloud headed underwater? Why Microsoft thinks it’s possible
Underwater data centers? In the spring of 2018, team members from Project Natick deployed a massive tube filled with nitrogen in 117 feet of water off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Inside were racks of running computer servers that team members monitored for the next two years. They wanted to see if a controlled environment, free of…
NASA scientists and partners achieve long-distance ‘quantum teleportation’
For the first time, a team of scientists and researchers have achieved sustained, high-fidelity ‘quantum teleportation’. quantum teleportation is a ‘disembodied’ transfer of quantum states from one location to another. the quantum teleportation of a qubit is achieved using quantum entanglement, in which two or more particles are inextricably linked to each other. if an…
Apple working on a self-driving car?
Apple is reportedly working on a new product, unlike anything seen before. Project Titan is the purported code name of Apple’s not-so-secret car division. A few years ago, several rumors said Apple was developing its own self-driving car tech, but those reports died down. Apple had other priorities. Reuters has just resurfaced that rumor, saying…
Giant black hole keeps evading detection, scientists can’t explain it
How is this possible? An enormous black hole keeps slipping through astronomers’ nets. The big galaxy at the core of the cluster Abell 2261, which lies about 2.7 billion light-years from Earth, should have an even larger central black hole — a light-gobbling monster that weighs as much as 3 billion to 100 billion suns,…