Month: September 2024
“It’s an AI revolution” — Acer unveils the TravelMate P6 14 AI, a powerful business laptop with Intel Core Ultra processors and advanced AI tools for enhanced productivity
Acer TravelMate P6 14 AI, a new AI-driven laptop which is designed for business professionals.
Acer has released a new AI-driven laptop designed with business professionals purely in mind.
The Acer TravelMate P6 14 AI comes with a choice of Intel Core Ultra 7 or Ultra 5 processors and it supports a suite of powerful AI tools to help businesses improve productivity and collaboration – including Copilot+ PC AI experiences available through free updates later in 2024.
The laptop’s AI-powered include boosted video conferencing with Acer PurifiedView 2.0, which can refine your appearance through AI-enhanced lighting, resolution, and color contrast adjustments, along with AI noise reduction to improve audio quality by suppressing background noise and enhancing the speaker’s voice during meetings.
A new AI-centric laptop
The TravelMate P6 14 AI offers two 14-inch display options to suit different user preferences. The first option is a WQXGA+ (2880×1800) panel with IPS technology, delivering high-resolution visuals with good color accuracy thanks to 100% sRGB color gamut coverage. The second option is a WUXGA (1920×1200) display, also featuring IPS technology and offering 400 nits of brightness for clear and vibrant images. Both displays feature a 16:10 aspect ratio, which maximizes screen real estate for more immersive viewing, and thin bezels that contribute to an 82% screen-to-body ratio.
In addition to the processor, this device offers up to 32 GB of dual-channel LPDDR5X SDRAM and storage options of up to 1 TB M.2 SSD Gen4x1, making it suitable for multitasking and handling large files.
Other key AI tools in this device include Acer Assist, a virtual assistant that leverages large language models to help with technical queries, document summarization, and troubleshooting. Acer LiveArt 2.0 allows users to easily remove photo backgrounds and generate depth maps from 2D images.
There is an AI logo on the touchpad that illuminates to indicate when the NPU is in use, making AI processing transparent to users and this laptop also supports an Experience Zone within the TravelMate Sense app where users can access these AI features.
The TravelMate P6 14 AI is equipped with the latest wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi 7, which offers speeds of up to 5.8 Gbps, and Bluetooth 5.4. It also includes two Type-C USB4 Gen2 (TBT4) ports with Thunderbolt 4, two Type-A 3.2 Gen1 ports, HDMI 2.1, and an audio jack.
This new laptop features a QHD IR camera for quick, secure facial recognition login and a privacy shutter to prevent unauthorized access. Acer User Sensing Technology adds an extra layer of security by using an AI-powered vision sensor to lock the screen when the user steps away and quickly wake the device when they return.
Acer ProShield Plus offers a suite of security and management features within a single platform, ensuring data is protected and the device is secure. The laptop is also MIL-STD 810H military-grade certified, which means it can withstand the rigors of life on the road. Furthermore, Acer Dust Defender helps minimize dust buildup that can affect performance, ensuring long-lasting durability.
The Acer TravelMate P6 14 AI comes with a 65Wh 4-cell Li-ion battery with fast charging capabilities and the company claims this battery can deliver up to 14 hours of battery life. Weighing only 0.99 kg and measuring 15.90 mm in height, this laptop is designed for mobility without compromising on performance or features.
The Acer TravelMate P6 14 AI will be available in North America and EMEA starting in January 2025. Prices will begin at $1,499.99 in North America and €1,349 in EMEA.
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Leak reveals new entry-level Kindle could arrive as soon as this week
Amazon still seems committed to the Kindle ereader range, with a new 12-gen base model accidentally revealed.
The base model of the Amazon Kindle (2022) has been out of stock on the online retail giant’s shopping sites in various territories for a while now and there’s probably a good explanation why. It seems as though Amazon is ready to release a new Kindle ereader soon.
A Spanish retailer accidentally listed a new 2024 edition of the entry-level Kindle on its site (as spotted by Good e-Reader), with a release date listed for September 30. While the listing has since been taken down, it was up long enough for some of the upgrades to be revealed.
If this listing is true, the upcoming 2024 Kindle – which will be the 12th generation – will have a more eco-friendly build than any of the Kindles before it. The ereader is rumored to be made with 75% recycled plastic and 90% recycled magnesium. Amazon is also apparently changing its packaging for the new ereader, making it 98% wood fiber sourced from either recycled materials or responsibly managed forests.
And, if the leaked image is anything to go by, it’s also going to come in a lovely match green colorway.
The leaked match green colorway of the 2024 Kindle (Image credit: MediaMarkt)
The listing has also revealed quite a bit about the device’s specs, starting with a 300ppi screen – which is standard for grayscale ereaders today – with 25% more brightness than the current 11th-generation model.
Like the 2022 Kindle, the 12th-gen ereader will support dark mode and, according to the leak, will also offer faster page turns, but it’s unclear whether the latter will be due to a better processor or if Amazon has adopted the latest E Ink Carta 1300 screen technology. This new display debuted in the 2024 Kobo Clara BW, making it one of the best ereaders in terms of legibility and performance.
It will also come with 16GB of onboard storage, will offer a battery life of up to 8 weeks, which is better than the approximate 4 weeks per charge we got in our Amazon Kindle (2022) review. According to the dimensions leaked, it’s going to be the exact same size and thickness as the current model at 157.8 x 108.6 x 8 mm.
Amazon Kindle 2024: what I’d really like to see
The one major upgrade I would love to see on the new 2024 Kindle is the use of the E Ink Carta 1300 display. This screen tech increases page responsiveness by 25% and adds more contrast – I was so impressed with it on the Kobo Clara BW that I didn’t care the Kindle competitor didn’t get better battery life over its Clara 2E predecessor.
Better yet, I would love to see Amazon take the competition to Kobo and release a color ereader to rival the Kobo Clara Colour. Kobo now has two color ereaders compared to none from Amazon.
Adjustable warm light will also be a fantastic addition to the newest edition of the Kindle. Kobo’s base Clara BW offers it already, but then it also costs more than the entry-level Kindle.
I would also like to see the base Kindle get waterproofing – the current model misses out the IPX8 rating the Kindle Paperwhite (2021) has, which also puts it behind all the current Kobo ereaders.
And lastly, I really would like to be able to sideload EPUB format ebooks without having to use the Send To Kindle app.
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Could Atom-Sized Black Holes Be Detected in Our Solar System?
Scientific American has surprising news about the possibility of black holes the size of an atom but containing the mass of an asteroid — the so-called “primordial black holes” formed after the birth of the universe which could solve the ongoing mystery of the missing dark matter.
These atom-sized black holes “may fly through the inner solar system about once a decade, scientists say… And if they sneak by the moon or Mars, scientists should be able to detect them, a new study shows.”
If one of these black holes comes near a planet or large moon, it should push the body off course enough to be measurable by current instruments. “As it passes by, the planet starts to wobble,” says Sarah R. Geller, a theoretical physicist now at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-author of the study, which was published on September 17 in Physical Review D. “The wobble will grow over a few years but eventually it will damp out and go back to zero.”
Study team member Tung X. Tran, then an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, built a computer model of the solar system to see how the distance between Earth and nearby solar system objects would change after a black hole flyby. He found that such an effect would be most noticeable for Mars, whose distance scientists know within about 10 centimeters. For a black hole in the middle of the mass range, “we found that after three years the signal would grow to between one to three meters,” Tran says. “That’s way above the threshold of precision that we can measure.” The Earth-Mars distance is particularly well tracked because scientists have been sending generations of probes and landers to the Red Planet…
In a coincidence, an independent team published a paper about its search for signs of primordial black holes flying near Earth in the same issue of Physical Review D. The researchers’ simulations found that such signals could be detectable in orbital data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems, as well as gravimeters that measure variations in Earth’s gravitational field.
“For decades physicists thought dark matter was likely to take the form of so-called weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs),” the article points out. “Yet generations of ever more sensitive experiments meant to find these particles have come up empty.”
California astrophysicist Kevork Abazajian tells the site that now in the scientific community, “Primordial black holes are really gaining popularity.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Scientific American has surprising news about the possibility of black holes the size of an atom but containing the mass of an asteroid — the so-called “primordial black holes” formed after the birth of the universe which could solve the ongoing mystery of the missing dark matter.
These atom-sized black holes “may fly through the inner solar system about once a decade, scientists say… And if they sneak by the moon or Mars, scientists should be able to detect them, a new study shows.”
If one of these black holes comes near a planet or large moon, it should push the body off course enough to be measurable by current instruments. “As it passes by, the planet starts to wobble,” says Sarah R. Geller, a theoretical physicist now at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-author of the study, which was published on September 17 in Physical Review D. “The wobble will grow over a few years but eventually it will damp out and go back to zero.”
Study team member Tung X. Tran, then an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, built a computer model of the solar system to see how the distance between Earth and nearby solar system objects would change after a black hole flyby. He found that such an effect would be most noticeable for Mars, whose distance scientists know within about 10 centimeters. For a black hole in the middle of the mass range, “we found that after three years the signal would grow to between one to three meters,” Tran says. “That’s way above the threshold of precision that we can measure.” The Earth-Mars distance is particularly well tracked because scientists have been sending generations of probes and landers to the Red Planet…
In a coincidence, an independent team published a paper about its search for signs of primordial black holes flying near Earth in the same issue of Physical Review D. The researchers’ simulations found that such signals could be detectable in orbital data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems, as well as gravimeters that measure variations in Earth’s gravitational field.
“For decades physicists thought dark matter was likely to take the form of so-called weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs),” the article points out. “Yet generations of ever more sensitive experiments meant to find these particles have come up empty.”
California astrophysicist Kevork Abazajian tells the site that now in the scientific community, “Primordial black holes are really gaining popularity.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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