💻 Lenovo Unveils Transparent Laptop, Qualcomm Launches AI Chips, Google Enhances Driving Texts with Gemini & AI.
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Lenovo's concept laptop is real, transparent, and ready to impress. A year after flexing its R&D muscles with a rollable laptop that expanded its screen with a simple button push, Lenovo is back at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. with another, somehow even more sci-fi, concept device. This is the ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop, a 17.3-inch notebook with a screen you can peer straight through. By Jon Porter via The Verge
𝕏: Lenovo has a ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop. It has a 17.3-inch bezelless screen you can peer straight through - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
Qualcomm unveils AI and connectivity chips at Mobile World Congress. Qualcomm unveiled a suite of AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The chip design company said the innovations promise to usher in a new era of intelligent computing, transforming industries, devices, and consumer experiences. For Qualcomm, the commercialization of on-device AI was sparked by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Snapdragon X Elite for business that were announced a couple of months ago and now the first round of devices are coming out. By Dean Takahashi via VentureBeat
𝕏: Qualcomm just announced the FastConnect 7900, their latest flagship connectivity chip for mobile devices. The most intriguing part about the FastConnect 7900 is that it integrates Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and UWB in a single chip. - Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman)
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Google brings Gemini to Messages and adds AI text summaries for Android Auto. Google has announced a slew of Android updates to kick off MWC this year, including Gemini integration with Messages and AI-powered text summaries for when you're driving. As of this week, Messages users will be able to access Google's chatbot without leaving the texting app. By Cheyenne MacDonald via Engadget
𝕏: Google’s latest Android Feature Drop for February 2024 is here, bringing you 9 new features to help you stay productive. Here's what you need to know - Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman)
Apple Ponders Whether to Develop Smart Glasses, Fitness Ring. Apple has explored the idea of developing new wearable devices — including a fitness ring, smart glasses and even AirPods with cameras — to broaden one of its most important business areas. Also: Hear the latest on a HomePod with a screen, Apple’s new Sports app, an iMessage security upgrade and the departure of a key AirPods executive. By Mark Gurman via Bloomberg
𝕏: Power On: Apple once considered a smart ring, but its future wearables now under consideration include smart glasses to rival Amazon and Meta and AirPods with cameras - Mark Gurman (@markgurman)
Wikimedia's CTO: In the age of AI, human contributors still matter. In the summer of 2022, when she stepped into the newly created role of CPTO, Deckelmann didn't know that a few months later, the race to build generative AI would accelerate to a breakneck pace. With the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other large language models, and the multibillion-dollar funding cycle that followed, 2023 became the year of the chatbot. By Rebecca Ackermann via MIT Technology Review
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