Sep 09
The Netflix historical drama “will stop filming out of respect,” its writer said.
Sep 09
Electrify America, which aims to have 1,800 charging stations under its belt by 2026, posed a solution to the charging speed dilemma.
Sep 09
Uber Eats and Nuro are making autonomous food deliveries in Texas and California
Posted in: Today's ChiliMore Uber Eats customers would be getting their orders from vehicles with no delivery personnel in sight. That’s because Uber has signed a 10-year partnership with Nuro to use its autonomous, electric vehicles to deliver food orders in the US. They’ll start in Houston, Texas and Mountain View, California this fall before eventually expanding their service to the greater Bay Area.
According to TechCrunch, customers won’t get to choose and won’t even know if their order is being delivered by a Nuro bot when they make their purchase. That also means they’ll be charged the same rates for delivery regardless of what the delivery method is. Also, they’ll get a refund for their tip if they choose to give one via the app and a Nuro vehicle shows up instead of a human worker. They do have to walk outside to get their order themselves, though, and that could be quite a hassle in the rain.
Based on the video the companies released to show what a Nuro delivery would look like, customers would have to key in a code to open the vehicle door and get their order. Nuro introduced its third-gen delivery vehicle, which comes with an external airbag to protect pedestrians, earlier this year. Since it has yet to formally launch its new vehicle model, it will initially use its second-gen cars called the R2 for the partnership. The R2 was designed to be completely driverless and is equipped with 360-degree and thermal cameras, lidar and radar to effectively navigate roads on its own.
Nuro’s vehicles have been making deliveries in Houston since 2019 for other companies like Walmart. In California, it was granted the state’s first Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Permit in 2020, giving it the authority to operate a commercial autonomous vehicle service. As TechCrunch notes, that would allow Nuro to receive a fee for every Uber Eats delivery in the state.
Bringing new meaning to grab-and-go! Meals and goods delivered by @nuro’s zero-occupant autonomous delivery vehicles. Select cities.
Link in bio for more. pic.twitter.com/nINbqgW3uI
— Uber Eats (@UberEats) September 8, 2022
Nuro isn’t the only autonomous delivery firm Uber Eats has an agreement with. The food delivery service launched a pilot with Motional in May for orders in Santa Monica, California, though those deliveries made by an autonomous vehicle will still have a safety driver behind the wheel. Uber Eats also launched a pilot service with sidewalk delivery firm Serve Robotics in the same month for short delivery routes in West Hollywood.
Sep 09
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Bring Large Improvements To The Masses
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Qualcomm is updating what used to be its Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 400 series in preparation for 2023. These new Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 chips are destined to power mid-range and entry-level smartphones, respectively.
It is a “generational” architecture upgrade, and both the logic and the manufacturing have vastly improved, along with performance and power efficiency, especially for Snapdragon 6 Gen 1.
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1
This chip is manufactured with a 4nm semiconductor process, although it’s not clear if Samsung or TSMC is the foundry behind it. Qualcomm has pursued a diversification strategy of its supply chain so that it could be either, but we don’t know for now. For now, the momentum is shifting towards TSMC, however.
Qualcomm has doubled the number of high-performance A78 CPU cores, so you should expect much higher peak CPU performance. The company talks about a 40% improvement, which is very significant.
In turn, the number of power-efficiency cores has gone from 6 to 4, but we’re waging that the change will not have a sizeable impact on battery life because the four cores should be able to handle background and minute tasks with ease.
A 35% graphics performance is also in the cards, but the details on the GPU are few. It seems to be a cost-reduced derivative of the latest graphics architecture, but more technical information might be available later.
Qualcomm upgraded the integrated modem to the Qualcomm X62 (from the X51), which offers many features in the more expensive X65 modem. However, its carrier-aggregation performance is slightly lower, probably to reduce cost.
The Snapdragon 6 Gen 1’s Spectra image processor (ISP) now supports 4K/30 HDR video, which was not previously available in that market.
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
The Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 succeeds the Snapdragon 480 and brings more modest performance improvements. Qualcomm mentions +15% in CPU speed and 10% in graphics performance. Most of the CPU speed boost probably is due to upgrading to an A78 core design (the A76), as the RAM bandwidth is identical.
Again, there are few details on the graphics architecture, not even the frequencies. The only hint that it is a new architecture is the presence of VRS (Variable Rate Shading), which we explained in our Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 overview.
This hardware platform is manufactured using a 6nm semiconductor process from TSCM, which is significantly smaller than the previous 8nm process at Samsung Semiconductors. As usual, this will help the cost-efficiency of these chips, giving Qualcomm more pricing flexibility.
The wireless specs haven’t changed much, but it is still a 5G chip, and Bluetooth has gone to 5.2 from 5.1 previously.
Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Bring Large Improvements To The Masses
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Sep 09
Biden Goes Full ‘Dark Brandon’ In Scathing Impression Of Republican Hypocrisy
Posted in: Today's Chili“I love ’em, man,” he said. “They ain’t got no shame.”
Sep 09
Multiple reporters simultaneously interrupted an exchange to inform Karine Jean-Pierre that the British monarch had died.
Sep 09
The 5 Most Unexpected Cars In Queen Elizabeth's Surprisingly Epic Collection
Posted in: Today's ChiliQueen Elizabeth II got behind the wheels of some truly impressive vehicles during her 70-year reign, and she even owned some of them herself.
Sep 09
The lawsuit says allowing homeless people’s tents to block city sidewalks makes it difficult for people using wheelchairs, walkers or canes to use them.
Sep 09
“It’s all nonsense. They will never shut me up,” Donald Trump’s former chief strategist said in cartoon-supervillain style as he entered a Manhattan courtroom.
Sep 09
“It’s all nonsense. They will never shut me up,” Donald Trump’s former chief strategist said in cartoon-supervillain style as he entered a Manhattan courtroom.
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