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Qualcomm has unveiled its latest chipset that will power a wealth of mid-range phones starting later this month. Redmi and Realme are among the brands that will use the Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 chipset. As you might expect, the chipset isn't quite as powerful as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but it appears to offer a notable upgrade over the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. Qualcomm says the CPU will deliver a performance improvement of over 50 percent, with speeds of up to 2.91GHz. The company claims the Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 will offer improvements in GPU performance (by two times) and power efficiency (by 13 percent) as well. Moreover, Qualcomm says that "on-device AI is integrated across the entire platform."

Every December for the last few years, Qualcomm has held an annual event in Hawaii to announce its latest flagship mobile chipset. This year was no different with the company taking the opportunity to unveil the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. That's right, for the second year in a row, Qualcomm is moving away from the sequential numbering scheme that has defined its processors for years. Just as the Snapdragon 865 gave way to the 888, the company will now replace the 888 with the Gen 1. The company says it's capable of theoretical download speeds of 10Gbps. That's one of those specs that's impressive on paper, but won't mean much out in the real world since some of the fastest 5G networks can't deliver speeds greater than 4Gbps in ideal conditions.

In this post, we examine the state of 5G in 2020. And while the United States is seeing good growth with this technology, it lags in average download speeds. Last year, we presented a post asking and answering: Do YOU Know What 5G Is? In March 2020, we noted that a BI Intelligence study found that "39% of respondents to our survey saying they plan to support 5G in IoT products and services before 2021." All the things we hope will make our lives easier, safer, and healthier will require high-speed, always-on internet connections.

Though it was held this year in October instead of September, Apple's "Hi, Speed" media event was a largely typical iPhone launch party, opening with the expansion of its Siri-powered line of HomePod speakers ("Hi"), and concluding with the long-awaited addition of 5G cellular connectivity to the iPhone lineup ("Speed"). Some companies might have tread cautiously on these topics -- Siri and 5G have both been dogged by complaints -- but Apple didn't hold anything back, using a seemingly endless parade of spokespeople to hype the new devices ahead of preorders. The 5G iPhone 12 family, it promised, will "blast past fast," while the $99 HomePod mini will become a hub to "control your smart home," bringing "intelligent assistant" access to the lowest price yet for any Siri device. Having covered Apple for a long time, I'm not surprised that its latest pitches were all sunshine and roses, but I couldn't help but feel that it was making big promises that could come back to bite the company and its partners. As of October 2020, the only thing less likely to thrill someone than a Siri speaker is typical U.S. 5G network performance, which despite boasts of 1-4Gbps downloads has seen average speeds that are barely better than 4G/LTE. Siri and 5G are both theoretically moving targets -- they're services that could improve at any time and in any region without advance notice -- but prior to this event, neither has delivered on its transformative potential.

Original article featured in ReadWrite. Sprint's recent launch of its 5G network in Kansas City, Missouri; Dallas; Houston; and Atlanta offers consumers and entrepreneurs a glimpse into the future. As rapid download speeds and seamless connectivity take hold in cities around the world, tech entrepreneurs will have more opportunities than ever before to make an impact. With 11.5 million people having access to Sprint's network already, imagine what will be possible as that number grows. The healthcare, transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing industries will all be significantly more capable of innovation and growth as these networks take shape.

In 2010, US authors in top-rated AI journals outnumbered Chinese counterparts by two to one. That ratio has now reversed. Last year, 1,073 AI experts based at Chinese universities were credited in AI journals such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers's Transactions on Neural Networks, compared to 492 US authors. Australia and Israel also do well on this metric. When experts are ranked according to their'H-index' – a metric of productivity and the citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar – Americans occupy 626 of the 1,000 top spots, including all of the top ten spots at the time of our analysis. New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Finland's AI academics are also highly ranked.

By any criteria, 5G is a significant advance on the previous 4G standards. The first 5G networks already offer download speeds of up to 600 megabits per second and have the potential to get significantly faster. By contrast, 4G generally operates at up to 28 Mbits/s--and most mobile-phone users will have experienced that rate grinding to zero from time to time, for reasons that aren't always clear.

If you've spent any time looking at DIY smart home security products, you'll have come across Ring and Nest. These aren't the only companies in this space, but they are two of the biggest names, and each is fighting hard to win your business. Many articles compare the features, specifications, pluses and minuses of specific Nest and Ring products--including the in-depth reviews here on TechHive--but choosing one is about much more than the gadget you're buying. Your choice can affect a lot of the other technology in your smart home, so you need to consider the big picture. You'll find wo of the biggest tech companies on the planet behind this competition: Google acquired Nest in 2014 for $3.2 billion, while Amazon bought Ring in 2018 for reportedly more than $1 billion.

Facebook unveiled a new laser-based concept for high-speed internet that will bypass the need for dedicated wavelength spectra and government licenses that come with them. Published Tuesday in the journal Optica, the technique was developed by researchers at Facebook's Connectivity Lab. The team is exploring a variety of technologies, including high-altitude long-endurance planes, satellites and lasers." It calls its new concept, which also uses drone technology, free-space optical communication. Explaining their rationale behind turning to laser for data transmission, the researchers say in the paper: "While optical communications have become the de facto standard for high-throughput wired communication channels, microwave and millimeter wave carrier frequencies are still the standard for wireless links. However, the limited availability of spectrum restricts the data rates that can be achieved through these channels."