Month: September 2023
Eufy’s all-seeing smart home cams can shoot your videos from multiple angles
Consisting of four models, Eufy’s dual-camera lineup can combine multiple clips into one seamless videos.
Smart home brand Eufy is introducing a new series of “dual-camera devices” with most sporting a wide-angle and telephoto lens setup powered by artificial intelligence. In total, you have four models: the SoloCam S340, Floodlight Cam E340, IndoorCam S350, and the Video Doorbell E340.
Starting with the headliner, the SoloCam S340 is the outdoor camera option capable of shooting video in 3K resolution (2,880 x 1,620 pixel) with a wide-angle lens. The quality drops down to 2K resolution (2,304 x 1,296 pixels) on the telephoto, but it makes up for this by offering “8x hybrid zoom”. What’s interesting about the SoloCam is it can turn a full 360 degrees as well as tilt 70 degrees.
Pair that up with the wide-angle lens’ 135-degree field of view and you can pretty much have this model watch your front yard by itself. Hence the name: “SoloCam”. Plus, you don’t have to worry about finding an outlet for it because it comes with a mini solar panel. Two hours in the sun gives you “all-day power”. As the cherry on top, it has full-color night vision.
The Floodlight Cam functions similarly since it can also record videos in 3K resolution and pan 360 degrees. There are some key differences between the two. Obviously, as the name suggests, it has a big floodlight on the front capable of emitting light at a brightness of 2,000 lumens. The device, unfortunately, lacks a solar panel, requiring “hardwired installation with [the] AC 100V – 240V” power supply.
(Image credit: Eufy)
Indoor options
Next is the IndoorCam S350, which may be the best-performing of the quartet. First off, it can record in 4K Ultra HD resolution (3,840 x 2,160 pixels) through the wide-angle lens. Like the others, the telephoto lens shoots in 2K as well as rotates 360 degrees on a pivot. What sets the IndoorCam apart are its AI-powered features.
You have Smart AI Detection to automatically track and zoom in on important subjects like kids or pets. There’s Quick View allowing users to “set frequently viewed areas with customized zoom levels.” So if you want to see if your dog is in their bed, the IndoorCam can snap over for a look with this function.
(Image credit: Eufy)
Then finally, we have the Video Doorbell E340. This model lacks a telephoto option. It’s been replaced with a “Package” lens facing downwards so you can see if there are any items on the ground. The wide-angle is still there shooting in 2K resolution while the Package lens records in 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 pixels). It does have color night vision like the SoloCam with a couple of lights for illumination.
Cross-Camera Tracking
Despite all their differences, there is a major throughline connecting all the cameras together: Cross-Camera Tracking. It’s an AI-powered feature that lets you merge clips from multiple cameras, from the IndoorCam to the doorbell to SoloCam outside, into one continuous video in chronological order. It tracks individuals or events seamlessly.
Say a burglar enters your house and then steals a laptop or something. You’ll know exactly where they went with no blind spots. There is a catch: you will need to purchase the HomeBase S380 smart hub in order to combine the clips.
Eufy’s “Dual Camera Family” is on sale at the company’s official website. Prices range from $129.99 for the IndoorCam to $219.99 for the Floodlight Cam. For other options, check out TechRadar’s list of the best home security cameras for 2023.
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Adobe’s ‘Photoshop on the web’ service is now available to all Creative Cloud subscribers
Users will be able to edit, share and receive feedback on their Photoshop projects from anywhere on the web, Adobe announced Wednesday, regardless of whether an Adobe product is installed on their PC or tablet. The company is bringing its Photoshop on the web service out of beta and incorporating a few handy new AI features as well.
Adobe first introduced a feature-svelt online version of the popular Photoshop app in December, 2021. Originally, users could share their psd files but only if the recipient had a copy of Photoshop or Illustrator on their computer too. That changed with the introduction of Creative Cloud, which allowed for sharing without the need for a local install. The beta version of Photoshop on the web took that concept a step further by incorporating basic editing tools into the web UI geared towards “minor tweaks and quick edits” — the easy sort of stuff that took less time to fix than the program took to boot. The production version released Wednesday does all that and more.
“With this release we are starting with a focus on the needs of creators who are new to Photoshop with a streamlined user experience,” Adobe VP Pam Clark wrote in a blog post. “We have brought the majority of the most commonly used Photoshop tools to the web and have streamlined the user experience, to make it easier for newer users to navigate the app.”
Users will also be able to experiment with two new AI-driven tools, generative fill and generative expand. As their names’ imply, these will “allow you to add, expand, or remove content from your images non-destructively, while magically matching perspective, lighting, and style of your image,” Clark wrote. The features were first released as part of Firefly for the desktop edition of Photoshop.
The Contextual Taskbar is also migrating over from the desktop. This on-screen menu will observe your workflow and suggest relevant next steps. But for all the new features to play with, a number of existing tools have yet to make the jump to the web, including the patch and pen tools, smart object support and the polygonal lasso, the the company insists that they will be added with future updates. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/adobes-photoshop-on-the-web-service-is-now-available-to-all-creative-cloud-subscribers-210034891.html?src=rss
Users will be able to edit, share and receive feedback on their Photoshop projects from anywhere on the web, Adobe announced Wednesday, regardless of whether an Adobe product is installed on their PC or tablet. The company is bringing its Photoshop on the web service out of beta and incorporating a few handy new AI features as well.
Adobe first introduced a feature-svelt online version of the popular Photoshop app in December, 2021. Originally, users could share their psd files but only if the recipient had a copy of Photoshop or Illustrator on their computer too. That changed with the introduction of Creative Cloud, which allowed for sharing without the need for a local install. The beta version of Photoshop on the web took that concept a step further by incorporating basic editing tools into the web UI geared towards “minor tweaks and quick edits” — the easy sort of stuff that took less time to fix than the program took to boot. The production version released Wednesday does all that and more.
“With this release we are starting with a focus on the needs of creators who are new to Photoshop with a streamlined user experience,” Adobe VP Pam Clark wrote in a blog post. “We have brought the majority of the most commonly used Photoshop tools to the web and have streamlined the user experience, to make it easier for newer users to navigate the app.”
Users will also be able to experiment with two new AI-driven tools, generative fill and generative expand. As their names’ imply, these will “allow you to add, expand, or remove content from your images non-destructively, while magically matching perspective, lighting, and style of your image,” Clark wrote. The features were first released as part of Firefly for the desktop edition of Photoshop.
The Contextual Taskbar is also migrating over from the desktop. This on-screen menu will observe your workflow and suggest relevant next steps. But for all the new features to play with, a number of existing tools have yet to make the jump to the web, including the patch and pen tools, smart object support and the polygonal lasso, the the company insists that they will be added with future updates.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/adobes-photoshop-on-the-web-service-is-now-available-to-all-creative-cloud-subscribers-210034891.html?src=rss
Looks like NVIDIA got raided by French antitrust authorities
At dawn on Wednesday, French antitrust authorities conducted a surprise raid on a company in the country that specializes in graphics cards — and according to The Wall Street Journal and Challenges business magazine, that company was NVIDIA. We reached out to NVIDIA for clarification and a spokesperson declined to comment. Here’s what we know for sure:
The French Competition Authority conducted a surprise raid early Wednesday morning on “a company suspected of having implemented anticompetitive practices in the graphics cards sector,” according to a brief press release from the regulator. The raid was tied to a larger investigation into the health of the cloud computing market, with a focus on identifying whether new companies were being unfairly squeezed out by larger, existing ones. The results of that investigation were published in June and they centered on three “hyperscalers,” Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
The results read, in part, “The likelihood of a new operator being able to gain market share rapidly appears limited, excluding companies who are already powerful in other digital markets.” NVIDIA is not mentioned in the original cloud investigation.
NVIDIA has seen significant financial success this year amid the AI boom. NVIDIA’s AI chips and data centers are in high demand, and the company crushed its most recent earnings expectations, pulling in $13.51 billion in the second quarter of 2023, compared with $6.7 billion in 2022.
As the French Competition Authority noted, a raid does not mean the targeted company is guilty of anticompetitive practices — but it’s a confident step from the regulatory body.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/looks-like-nvidia-got-raided-by-french-antitrust-authorities-205809329.html?src=rss
At dawn on Wednesday, French antitrust authorities conducted a surprise raid on a company in the country that specializes in graphics cards — and according to The Wall Street Journal and Challenges business magazine, that company was NVIDIA. We reached out to NVIDIA for clarification and a spokesperson declined to comment. Here’s what we know for sure:
The French Competition Authority conducted a surprise raid early Wednesday morning on “a company suspected of having implemented anticompetitive practices in the graphics cards sector,” according to a brief press release from the regulator. The raid was tied to a larger investigation into the health of the cloud computing market, with a focus on identifying whether new companies were being unfairly squeezed out by larger, existing ones. The results of that investigation were published in June and they centered on three “hyperscalers,” Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
The results read, in part, “The likelihood of a new operator being able to gain market share rapidly appears limited, excluding companies who are already powerful in other digital markets.” NVIDIA is not mentioned in the original cloud investigation.
NVIDIA has seen significant financial success this year amid the AI boom. NVIDIA’s AI chips and data centers are in high demand, and the company crushed its most recent earnings expectations, pulling in $13.51 billion in the second quarter of 2023, compared with $6.7 billion in 2022.
As the French Competition Authority noted, a raid does not mean the targeted company is guilty of anticompetitive practices — but it’s a confident step from the regulatory body.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/looks-like-nvidia-got-raided-by-french-antitrust-authorities-205809329.html?src=rss
ChatGPT Isn’t Stuck in 2021 Anymore, Can Browse Web for Recent Answers – CNET
After an earlier beta test, ChatGPT will now serve up current info from the internet to people with a Plus or Enterprise subscription.
After an earlier beta test, ChatGPT will now serve up current info from the internet to people with a Plus or Enterprise subscription.
Tesla sued for ‘severe’ racial harassment at its California factory, again
Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge
Tesla subjected Black employees at its California factory to “severe or pervasive racial harassment” and helped perpetuate a hostile work environment for employees of color, according to a lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Racist slurs and epithets and race-based stereotyping “permeated Tesla’s Fremont Factory subjecting Black employees to racial hostility and offenses,” the agency alleges. Black employees were also fired or subject to retaliation after raising complaints about their treatment, the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit includes a lot of the language that was alleged to be used at Tesla’s factory and has also been echoed by former Black employees of the company in their own lawsuits. The EEOC said:
Slurs were used casually and openly in high-traffic areas and at worker hubs. Black employees regularly encountered graffiti, including variations of the N-word, swastikas, threats, and nooses, on desks and other equipment, in bathroom stalls, within elevators, and even on new vehicles rolling off the production line.
Black employees described the prevalence of racist imagery as “frequent,” “constant,” “a regular thing,” and occurring “too many times to count,” according to the lawsuit.
The EEOC’s lawsuit seeks “compensatory and punitive damages, and back pay for the affected workers, as well as injunctive relief designed to reform Tesla’s employment practices to prevent such discrimination in the future.”
6e02b874-1d41-4e6a-9788-8f83515fa60f (2) by ahawkins8223 on Scribd
The allegations echo those made in a lawsuit against Tesla by a California civil rights agency last year as well as complaints from Black employees at the company’s factory. In October 2021, a jury awarded a Black former Tesla employee $137 million in damages after he accused the company of ignoring rampant racism. (A judge later reduced that award to $15 million.)
The company also paid $1 million to another Black former employee who said he was called the n-word by a supervisor. Tesla currently faces a class action lawsuit alleging racism at its flagship factory.
Tesla first disclosed in a court filing last year that it was under investigation by the EEOC. At the time, the company claimed that it was caught in the middle of a “turf war” between the agency and the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which was also suing the company for racial discrimination.
Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge
Tesla subjected Black employees at its California factory to “severe or pervasive racial harassment” and helped perpetuate a hostile work environment for employees of color, according to a lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Racist slurs and epithets and race-based stereotyping “permeated Tesla’s Fremont Factory subjecting Black employees to racial hostility and offenses,” the agency alleges. Black employees were also fired or subject to retaliation after raising complaints about their treatment, the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit includes a lot of the language that was alleged to be used at Tesla’s factory and has also been echoed by former Black employees of the company in their own lawsuits. The EEOC said:
Slurs were used casually and openly in high-traffic areas and at worker hubs. Black employees regularly encountered graffiti, including variations of the N-word, swastikas, threats, and nooses, on desks and other equipment, in bathroom stalls, within elevators, and even on new vehicles rolling off the production line.
Black employees described the prevalence of racist imagery as “frequent,” “constant,” “a regular thing,” and occurring “too many times to count,” according to the lawsuit.
The EEOC’s lawsuit seeks “compensatory and punitive damages, and back pay for the affected workers, as well as injunctive relief designed to reform Tesla’s employment practices to prevent such discrimination in the future.”
6e02b874-1d41-4e6a-9788-8f83515fa60f (2) by ahawkins8223 on Scribd
The allegations echo those made in a lawsuit against Tesla by a California civil rights agency last year as well as complaints from Black employees at the company’s factory. In October 2021, a jury awarded a Black former Tesla employee $137 million in damages after he accused the company of ignoring rampant racism. (A judge later reduced that award to $15 million.)
The company also paid $1 million to another Black former employee who said he was called the n-word by a supervisor. Tesla currently faces a class action lawsuit alleging racism at its flagship factory.
Tesla first disclosed in a court filing last year that it was under investigation by the EEOC. At the time, the company claimed that it was caught in the middle of a “turf war” between the agency and the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which was also suing the company for racial discrimination.
UltraRAM go! Here’s a glimpse at what the future of memory and storage could look like if this UK startup succeeds
Quinas is being backed by the UK government to bring its cutting-edge memory technology to the masses .
The company behind the exciting UltraRAM technology has earned significant financial backing to bring its component to the market.
Building on its success at the Flash Memory Summit in August 2023, in which the company won the award for most innovative flash memory startup, Quinas Technology has now been awarded a highly coveted grant, according to our sister site Tom’s Hardware.
UltraRAM is a type of universal memory that combines the benefits of flash memory and system memory in one unified component, which can elevate storage in devices to a degree never before seen.
Backing UltraRAM for general availability
The new form of memory has been backed by the British government agency Innovate UK, which is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), through its ICURe Exploit program, with the grant awarded because Quinas has demonstrated commercial viability and leading-edge science over a six-month program.
With this funding, those behind the technology will test nanometer-scale UltraRAM devices to prove the key claims they’ve made around it, as well as cooperate with investors to move towards production.
Quinas itself is a startup comprising academics who devised the technology as a research project with Lancaster University. The team behind UltraRAM claims the structure and composition of the technology means it can store data for more than 1,000 years without degradation.
System memory, or RAM, can be rewritten many times but requires a constant supply of power. Flash memory, meanwhile, is much slower but retains data once the power supply is cut off. This new form of memory overcomes these limitations and demonstrates the best qualities of both.
The startup also claims UltraRAM has an incredibly high durability of ten million write/erase cycles – with future testing and innovation only set to see this improve.
It also consumes much less energy than traditional types of memory, Quinas claims, while reaching much higher speeds.
The startup now plans to invest in better testing equipment to help with scaling and refinement. It’ll also work with Indian-based Roorkee to model UltraRAM performance in different contexts.
Should UltraRAM one day come to the market, it could lead to a dramatic reduction in power consumption in the best laptops, smartphones and tablets, as well as elevating today’s fastest memory to new speeds.
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Scientists want to add broadband technology to your brain — but it’s not what you think
Known as biphasic quasistatic brain communication, the technology will boost the body’s own electronic signaling system.
Scientists have devised a way to let the human brain communicate with computers using a wireless neural implant, in the latest attempt to move the realm of brain-computer interfaces forward.
Published in Nature Electronics, the research team with Pursue University have built a wireless communication technique for brain implants – known as biphasic quasistatic brain communication. This transmits information to a headphone-shaped hub, with the hub sending power and programming bits to the implant through fully electronic signals to avoid transduction loss, according to Nature.
This builds on technology that’s seen, for example, BCI systems translate neural signals into sentences at roughly 150 words per minute, according to research published this year. This is close to normal conversational speed.
Tapping into the body’s built-in broadband
Wearable devices that form part of BCI systems normally use electromagnetic fields to communicate information wirelessly – but implants suffer from a high amount of absorption by the body’s tissue.
There are alternatives that have been tested, including ultrasound, optical, and magneto-electric forms of communication, but these all cause large transduction losses due to the energy conversion process.
The Purdue University team, instead, used what they have termed biphasic quasistatic brain communication. This relies on a two-phase process that unfolds in the brain, allowing a small implanted sensor to detect and transfer information to the headphone-shaped wearable.
The system aims to tap into the brain and body’s broadband network, which comprises the electric signals that transfer information through it – and augment it.
By using such a BCI system, they hope the allow high bandwidth interactions between the brain signals and computers, while keeping power consumption low.
BCI and related technologies have been gaining traction in recent years, and Nature even named it the technology of the year for 2023.
The most widely known entity pursuing this technology is Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which has recently been given the green light to test its brain chip on humans. There are, however, concerns that testing on monkeys led to an abnormally high death rate as a direct result of the implants, according to Interesting Engineering.
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A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device
OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the former Apple designer Jony Ive and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son are teaming up to develop a device that could replace the smartphone.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the former Apple designer Jony Ive and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son are teaming up to develop a device that could replace the smartphone.
Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Quit the Metaverse
An anonymous reader shares a story: Almost two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg rebranded his company Facebook to Meta — and since then, he has been focused on building the “metaverse,” a three-dimensional virtual reality. But the metaverse has lost some of its luster since 2021. Companies like Disney have closed down their metaverse divisions and deemphasized using the word, while crypto-based startup metaverses have quietly languished or imploded. In 2022, Meta’s Reality Labs division reported an operational loss of $13.7 billion. But at Meta Connect 2023, Zuckerberg still hasn’t given up on the metaverse — he’s just shifted how he talks about it. He once focused on the metaverse as a completely digital new world. Now, he aims to convince the public that the future is a blend of the digital and the physical.
At Connect this year, Zuckerberg emphasized that the modern “real world” combines the physical world and the digital world still being built — and that it all builds up to “this concept we call the metaverse.” He added: “Pretty soon, I think we’re going to be at a point where you’re going to be there physically with some of your friends, and others will be there digitally as avatars or holograms, and they’ll feel just as present as everyone else. Or you’ll walk into a meeting and sit down at a table. There will be people who are there physically and people who are there digitally as holograms, but also sitting around the table with you are going to be a bunch of AI guys who are embodied as holograms and are helping you get different stuff done too.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader shares a story: Almost two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg rebranded his company Facebook to Meta — and since then, he has been focused on building the “metaverse,” a three-dimensional virtual reality. But the metaverse has lost some of its luster since 2021. Companies like Disney have closed down their metaverse divisions and deemphasized using the word, while crypto-based startup metaverses have quietly languished or imploded. In 2022, Meta’s Reality Labs division reported an operational loss of $13.7 billion. But at Meta Connect 2023, Zuckerberg still hasn’t given up on the metaverse — he’s just shifted how he talks about it. He once focused on the metaverse as a completely digital new world. Now, he aims to convince the public that the future is a blend of the digital and the physical.
At Connect this year, Zuckerberg emphasized that the modern “real world” combines the physical world and the digital world still being built — and that it all builds up to “this concept we call the metaverse.” He added: “Pretty soon, I think we’re going to be at a point where you’re going to be there physically with some of your friends, and others will be there digitally as avatars or holograms, and they’ll feel just as present as everyone else. Or you’ll walk into a meeting and sit down at a table. There will be people who are there physically and people who are there digitally as holograms, but also sitting around the table with you are going to be a bunch of AI guys who are embodied as holograms and are helping you get different stuff done too.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.