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      Remember Sony’s electric car from CES? Now it’s being road-tested

      Jonathan M. Gitlin · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 - 19:40 · 1 minute

    Perhahttps://arstechnica.com/wp/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=pageps the highlight of last year's CES was Sony's surprise battery electric concept car, the Vision-S . At the time, we thought that the Vision-S—which looked like a cross between a Porsche Taycan and a Lucid Air—was mostly meant to show off all the different enabling technologies it contained, from sensors to entertainment. Well, the Vision-S is back for this year's not-happening-in-Las-Vegas CES, and it seems the project might be a little more serious than we once thought.

    As you'll see in the embedded video, Sony has been testing the Vision-S, both on a test track and public roads in Austria. Why Austria? That's where Magna Steyr is located, a contract car manufacturer that currently builds vehicles for other car companies, including the Mercedes-Benz G-Class , BMW 5 Series , Jaguar I-Pace , and Toyota Supra. And Magna Steyr is one of Sony's partners in the Vision-S, along with automotive tier 1 suppliers Bosch, Continental, and ZF, software company Elektrobit Automotive, mapping company HERE, as well as Nvidia, Blackberry (maker of QNX), and Qualcomm.

    Over the past year, the Vision-S's sensor count has grown from 33 to 40, with Sony experimenting to see how it can improve the car's 360-degree safety system. The company has also been working on the interior to make it a more relaxing place to be, according to Izumi Kawanishi, senior VP for Sony's AI robotics business group.

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      A quick Intel CES roundup: New gaming laptop CPUs and a glimpse at Alder Lake

      Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 - 18:58 · 1 minute

    The Consumer Electronics Show this week was never going to be where Intel would venture into extreme detail on major new 12th-generation CPUs, but nonetheless, the company hosted a press conference this morning that laid out a few new evolutions of the 11th-gen CPUs it has already been shipping, plus an early look at what to expect from the 12th-generation Alder Lake.

    Using an improved version of the 10nm SuperFin process, Alder Lake will take on Apple's ARM instruction set-based M1 chip and its ilk with a somewhat similar architecture. Namely, that means a hybrid architecture of high-performance (Golden Lake) and high-efficiency (Gracemont) cores similar in spirit to ARM's BIG.little design, and to Lakefield. Intel says these are desktop and laptop CPUs and that they'll reach consumers in the second half of 2021, but details are otherwise pretty sparse.

    More than anything, it looks like Intel is trying to get ahead of the narrative that the company is facing some serious challenges ahead as Macs with M1 CPUs delivered much better price-to-performance ratios than what Intel is currently putting in competing devices—especially in the face of Intel's delays.

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      FedEx will be the first customer for GM’s new electric delivery van

      Jonathan M. Gitlin · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 - 16:32

    On Tuesday morning, General Motors Chairwoman and CEO Mary Barra announced a new business for the company during her keynote speech at this year's all-virtual CES. It's called BrightDrop, and the goal is to provide a range of electrified products for the logistics and delivery industries.

    "We are building on our significant expertise in electrification, mobility applications, telematics and fleet management, with a new one-stop-shop solution for commercial customers to move goods in a better, more sustainable way," Barra said.

    BrightDrop's first product is called the EP1, and it's a pallet with an electric propulsion assist meant to transport things short distances, such as from a delivery van to the customer's door, at speeds of up to 3mph (5km/h). The EP1 can carry up to 200lbs (91kg) and about 23 cubic feet (651L) of cargo, with adjustable shelves and lockable cabinet doors. GM says the EP1 will be available early this year.

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      BMW made this really weird short film to celebrate 20 years of iDrive

      Jonathan M. Gitlin · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 - 15:27 · 1 minute

    With the coronavirus pandemic causing CES to be held virtually this year, some exhibitors have been looking for different ways to capture our attention. Take BMW for example. In CESes of yore, the German automaker often had a large presence, showing off concepts and even providing a fleet of cars for five-minute test drives . Obviously that won't work in 2021, which is a shame for BMW because this year marks the 20th anniversary of its very first iDrive infotainment system, which debuted in the 2001 7 Series.

    So instead, the automaker made this short film to mark the occasion. Warning: it's pretty weird, but at the same time I think it's kind of charming, featuring an old graybeard 7 Series meeting a young whippersnapper iX SUV one night at the BMW museum.

    Teaser "The new BMW iDrive" @CES Digital 2021

    Back in 2001 the 7 Series was BMW's flagship sedan, loaded to the gunnels with the latest and greatest technology the Bavarians could muster. In previous generations that meant powered reclining rear seats and maybe a car phone. But that year the new 7 Series arrived with something called iDrive, combining the car's entertainment equipment with navigation and a way to interact with the car's settings. A pair of screens—one in the main instrument display, one in the center stack—displayed information, and to interact with it all, a rotary controller on the center console. In short, it was one of the first true infotainment systems.

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      Avec Dolby Voice, Lenovo prépare ses ordinateurs portables à la vie confinée

      Julien Cadot · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 - 10:59

    Télétravail, relations à distance, apéros sur Skype... 2020 a fait naître des usages et en a rendu d'autres bien plus massifs qu'ils ne l'étaient. Au CES 2021, Dolby et Lenovo vont tenter de régler sur des ordinateurs portables l'un des points les plus frustrants du distanciel : l'audio. [Lire la suite]

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      Sony lance une plateforme de streaming si qualitative que personne ne pourra l’utiliser

      Maxime Claudel · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 - 10:54

    En marge de ses nouveaux téléviseurs, Sony lance une plateforme de streaming axée sur la qualité d'image et de son. Baptisée Bravia Core, elle sera exclusive... aux nouveaux téléviseurs. [Lire la suite]

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      Stadia disponible sur les TV LG : enfin une bonne nouvelle pour le cloud gaming

      Maxime Claudel · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 11 January, 2021 - 15:31

    LG a présenté son line-up de téléviseurs pour l'année 2021. La multinationale a officialisé l'arrivée de Google Stadia dans son écosystème. [Lire la suite]

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      LG pense que l’on a besoin d’un téléviseur OLED transparent au pied de son lit

      Maxime Claudel · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 11 January, 2021 - 09:21

    LG profite du CES 2021 pour lever le voile sur un nouveau prototype de téléviseur. Cette fois, il est transparent et peut être collé au pied d'un lit. [Lire la suite]

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      What to expect from the first-ever virtual CES

      WIRED · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Saturday, 9 January, 2021 - 12:00

    What to expect from the first-ever virtual CES

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    Last year's CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, marked the last time for a long time many of us would be chatting face-to-face, exchanging invisible respiratory droplets, handling the same germy gadgets, and enjoying food and drinks in windowless restaurants.

    This year, due to the ongoing pandemic , the annual CES takes place entirely on our computer screens. The first-ever completely remote staging of the consumer tech industry's tentpole event starts on Monday, January 11.

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