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Sony appears ready to challenge Canon's grip on the small cinema camera market. The long-awaited FX five is tipped to launch later this month, succeeding the five-year-old FX three with an upgraded sensor and a built-in timecode feature that professional filmmakers have been requesting since the original launched.
Shifting from filmmaking to dog walking, Fi has launched what it's calling the world's first consumer wearable powered by T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service. The Fi Ultra dog tracker layers satellite coverage on top of onboard GPS and LTE, meaning your dog's location stays visible even in areas where cell networks simply give up.
And on the engineering side, researchers have published details of a heterogeneous system-on-chip delivering eighty-three gigaflops per second at a remarkable one point two teraflops per second per watt. That kind of efficiency ratio could matter significantly for edge computing and mobile AI applications where every milliwatt of power consumption is a genuine design constraint.
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