For reference, using the popular Geekbench 5 metric, high-end Android devices with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 — the most common flagship processor — tend to achieve scores of roughly 1100 in single-core speeds and 3500 for multi-core performance. Here’s the OnePlus 9 Pro, for instance: This was already lagging behind the A14 Bionic CPU in the iPhone 12 Pro, which scored roughly 1600 and 4100 respectively. Mind you, the iPhone 12 launched before the Snapdragon 888 was even announced....

This has led to companies scrambling to wean themselves off Russian oil. The outcome of this has created a strong focus on renewable energy, including preservation, optimization of operational efficiency, and electrification, topics that’ll extend across all areas of mobility in 2023. But there’s a lot more we can expect from the sector next year, and here are a few of those predictions. Greater subsidized public transport 2022 saw countries like Spain and Germany subsidise public transport and these initiatives will extend into 2023....

During its virtual Worldwide Developer Conference last night, Apple officially announced the feature, which will let users unlock and start their car using their iPhone. CarKey hasn’t exactly been the best kept secret. It seems everything that circulated in the rumors earlier this year, since the feature was spotted in iOS source code, are true. If you haven’t been following this specific iOS update, let me catch you up. [Read: The key differences between Tesla’s driving aids: Autopilot and Full Self-Driving] CarKey uses the iPhone Wallet app and the supporting carmaker’s app to pair with compatible motor vehicles....

Or at least that’s what one young Italian dude seems to believe. Earlier this week, tattoo artist Gabriele Pellerone tattooed a QR code of the client’s official EU covid certificate on their upper arm, Il Reggino reports. Unfortunately, the original story doesn’t share the name of the brave pioneer who got the tattoo — which is why I’ve affectionately named him ‘Italian dude’ — but you can see his genius idea actually works in Pellerone’s video (if you’re on desktop is probably better to view it here)....

The exec remains unidentified by Munich prosecutors, but he’s reportedly admitted to his role in the multi-billion-dollar fraud to his lawyer and has since been jailed. He’s notably the first Wirecard insider to admit any wrongdoing. “My client has voluntarily given himself up for the proceedings and — in contrast to others — takes individual responsibility,” said defence lawyer Nicolas Fruehsorger in a statement shared by Reuters. Wirecard stock crashed more than 90% last month after auditors refused to sign off on the company’s bank balances, citing a 1....

In this article, I’m going to tell you why that is — and how you can get some of this sweet action too. Hold on… what’s that? There’s an entire video about this topic? God, aren’t you lucky? If you’re that way inclined, go and watch it. If not, no worries — we’ve got everything you need below. [Read: The biggest tech trends of 2021, according to 3 founders]...

We can turn to nature for guidance and a potential solution to this challenge. It’s cold and dark out there Space is unforgiving. In this freezing void of darkness, there is no oxygen, no gravity , and no protection against the constant shower of cosmic radiation. Humans have evolved under a constant gravitational pull — so when you put people into space, strange and dangerous things happen to their bodies....

The company had teased the phone a couple of times before, but an LG spokesperson today confirmed to Nikkei that the device it unveiled at CES will be one that people can actually buy later this year. Called the LG Rollable, it provides the functionality of a folding phone, without the crease. One can also imagine it being capable of a few things folding phones cant do, such as adjusting its size to perfectly match a video’s aspect ratio — no letterboxing required....

Then, on the other side of things, is the technology that will never going to be released. The devices that are only there to make a splash, get some media coverage, and provide some easy marketing for the companies involved. You know, something like the array of products Charmin — yes, that Charmin — unveiled at the conference this year. Specifically, the famous provider of muck-wiping material announced three things:...

Wolf-Rayet stars are on the verge of exploding as a supernova, and they are destined to leave behind exotic corpses such as neutron stars and black holes. These massive stars account for only one in 100 million stars throughout the Cosmos, and binary systems containing a pair of WR stars are exceptionally rare. “Wolf–Rayet (WR) stars embody the final stable phase of the most massive stars immediately before their evolution is terminated in a supernova explosion (Carroll & Ostlie 2006)....

Two emerging revenue streams have been revealed in the last week: selling virtual goods and digital currency. The digital assets sales are being tested in Horizon Worlds, Meta’s free VR platform, the company announced on Monday. The initial trials will allow a “handful of creators,” to sell virtual items and effects, such as fashion accessories or VIP access to virtual worlds. “The ability to sell virtual items and access to things inside the worlds is a new part of [the] e-commerce equation overall,” Zuckerberg said in a promotional video....

But now Microsoft may have finally bought its way to a solution: the company today announced it acquired Clipchamp, a video editing web app that’s far more powerful than anything Windows has offered before. Despite being a browser-based editor, Clipchamp is unique in that it’s able to use your own PC’s hardware acceleration to render clips more quickly; you can leverage your GPU for quick video edits. At the same time, it offers the simplicity you’d expect from a modern, social media-oriented video app....

The Surface Go is one of my favorite Surface devices due to its relatively low price point and tiny form factor — it makes for an excellent student PC or secondary tablet. It seems like the new Surface won’t stray far from its predecessor’s formula, using a similar design with a 10.5-inch display, according to WinFuture. The biggest difference will be on the inside, where recent Geekbench entries point to the tablets using Intel’s ‘Amber Lake’ processors....

“We believe Speller100 is the most comprehensive spelling correction system ever made in terms of language coverage and accuracy,” the company said in a blog post. Bing previously provided high-quality spelling corrections for around two dozen languages. However, it didn’t have enough training data to work well on languages with little web presence and user feedback. Speller100 overcomes these limitations by looking for similarities in large language families. It also applies zero-shot learning to correct errors without needing extra language-specific labeled training data....

There are two main details alluding to a major announcement: For one, TNW has learned both Surface head honcho Panos Panay and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be in attendance. For another, Microsoft will be livestreaming the event this time around. — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) September 12, 2019 Those two details may not sound like much, but they’re worth noting. While Panay is always at Surface events, Nadella is only there on occasion....

The feature is a new addition to Rewrite Suggestions, an AI-powered editor for Word that was first unveiled at the 2019 Microsoft Build conference. The tool initially only offered ideas on different ways to express a phrase, but the update adds suggestions for entire sentences. The feature is currently only available for users of Word on the web with a Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription, but Microsoft plans to extend it to desktop and mobile versions in the future....

Two hours later, I’ve written nothing. Team chat apps are essential for online collaboration, but their very existence makes it hard to focus on longer-term projects. There’s always something I could be responding to on Slack, and responding to those things usually feels productive—and sometimes it is. But that time adds up, and I’m perpetually putting off bigger projects because of it. I know I could solve this problem by simply closing Slack, or turning off notifications, but that’s not enough for me....

TrendMicro’s latest blog details the previously undocumented variant which is capable of invading systems to mine Monero cryptocurrency and steal sensitive browser data like passwords and cookies. Analysts confirmed this version of Glupteba also exploits an already-discovered security vulnerability in MicroTik routers to transform the target machine into a SOCKS proxy to initiate widespread spam attacks that could threaten Instagram users. Attackers transfer Bitcoin with Electrum to keep Glupteba online Infection typically works like this: a target machine is first hit with a “malvertising attack,” which forces it to download a Glupteba “dropper....

Using IBM’s food-tracking blockchain software IBM Food Trust, the two firms will provide customers with transparent information for the GUIGOZ Bio 2 and 3 infant milk ranges, “from dairy to shelf.” IBM Food Trust is based on the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric software. Like other blockchain-enabled products, consumers will be able to access this information by scanning a QR-code printed on the product’s packaging. Earlier this year, Carrefour revealed its intention to put at least 20 percent of its “in-house” products on the blockchain by 2020....

Neural is known as TNW’s artificial intelligence vertical, but I’m here to tell you that it’s so much more. We cover human-centric AI advances, quantum physics, neuroscience, and anything else that blurs the boundaries between humans and machines. We’re futurists and we absolutely love new research. But we’re also passionate about human rights, diversity, and the effect that machine intelligence has on humanity. We’ve got one eye on big tech, one on the startup scene, and a third robotic eye focused on politics and government policy....