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Apple iPhone 15 Date Leak

Apple iPhone 15 Date Leaked
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Apple iPhone 15 leak: event likely on September 13th

According to their information, Apple plans to introduce the new iPhone series in the third week of September . Not only one source claims to the portal that mobile phone providers have imposed a vacation ban for September 13, 2023 . Means no one should be allowed to take the day off.

Just a coincidence? Probably not, after all, industry experts are expecting the iPhone 15 to be presented in September. With a few exceptions, this is the usual month for new iPhones.

Last year, Apple introduced the iPhone 14 on a Wednesday, September 7th . September 13, 2023 also falls on a Wednesday . Although Apple has presented new iPhones on Tuesdays in the past, the information provided by mobile phone providers is more likely to point to Wednesday.

Apple iPhone Leak: Dates for the start of orders and sales

If September 13th is actually correct in the end, Apple should start taking pre-orders from Friday September 15th . The actual start of sales for the iPhone 15 would then be a week later, on Friday, September 22nd.

However, it is not entirely clear whether all models can be ordered at such an early stage. We remember: Last year Apple showed the iPhone 14 Plus on the same day as the other variants, but you could only buy it in October. Should Apple struggle with production problems , a staggered market launch could definitely be considered.

It is expected that all variants of the iPhone 15 will leave the Lightning connection behind this year and that Apple will integrate USB‑C in cell phones for the first time . Meanwhile, there are four different variants – iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. We will probably only see the new A17 chip in the Pro models. In return, the two standard models will have the A16 from the previous year and, for the first time, a Dynamic Island in the display.

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Nintendo Switch 2 Console could appear 2024

According to new information, Nintendo will release its next-gen console: Nintendo Switch 2 console in the second half of 2024.

Nintendo Switch Splatoon 2 Image: Nintendo Switch Splatoon 2, joatseu, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons [Nintendo Switch 2 Console could appear 2024]

The online site videogameschronicle.com cites its own sources. They published on Tuesday that Nintendo wants to release Nintendo Switch 2 console in the second half of 2024. The development kits for the previously unannounced new console will be partner studios.

The release window will be the second half of 2024. This should give Nintendo enough time to secure enough copies for the market launch. According to the report, this new next-gen console could also be used in portable mode again.

Nintendo Switch 2 console with significantly more powerful hardware

In addition, the upcoming consolewill receive significantly more powerful hardware than the first Switch console. This brings Nintendo to save elsewhere: for mobile use, it should only have an LC display, while the current switch model is available with an OLED screen, says the report.

Nintendo will also need more storage space for the increased hardware. So far, the switch only has 32 gigabytes of space for games.

There will also be a slot for physical data carriers. A so-called “software card”. Meanwhile, competitor Sony wants to launch its own PS5 Slim without a drive. The Xbox Series S from Microsoft also no longer has a drive.

That’s what the Nintendo boss says about the Switch 2

In May, Nintendo already announced that the long-awaited successor to the Switch would not be released until April 2024 at the earliest. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa stated during an investor presentation that the company is not considering any new hardware in fiscal year 2023/24. That ends on March 31, 2024.

So Nintendo doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. Even though Switch sales are down. The console was sold almost 18 million times in the past fiscal year. For comparison: In the previous year there were 23 million copies sold. The year before it was 28 million.

However, Nintendo has no plans to launch a new console to counteract this drop, as the company has forecast a further drop in the coming year. “It will be difficult to maintain the sales momentum of the Switch in its seventh year,” Furukawa said at the presentation. “Our goal of selling 15 million units this fiscal year is a little far-fetched, but we’ll do our best to drive demand into the holiday season so we can hit that target.” Seems like it’s aiming for the first Switch to get as much out of it as possible before the successor finally hits the ground running.

Rumors of a new console have been circulating for years. The new console is said to offer improved graphics, similar to the Playstation 4 and its Pro model, but there’s still no official information about the next piece of Nintendo hardware.

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Breakthrough: X-ray image of a single atom

Researchers have succeeded in X-raying a single atom by using special machines. So they produced a x-ray image of a single atom. In doing so, they were able to bypass the minimum number of atoms. So they created an elementary fingerprint of different atoms.

Ohio University College Green Ohio University Orchysterium, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A research team from Ohio University has succeeded in creating an X-ray image of a single atom. This is the first time and a breakthrough. In this way, the researchers working with professor Saw-Wai Hla are gaining insight into the composition of atoms for the first time.

They report their findings in a study published in the journal Nature. In fact, the project even graces the cover of the journal’s print version, according to an Ohio University article .

This is a potentially huge breakthrough for the world of science. “Atoms can be routinely imaged with scanning probe microscopes, but without X-rays you can’t tell what they’re made of. We can now accurately identify the nature of a given atom, one atom at a time, and at the same time measure its chemical state,” explained Hla.

Signal from the atoms too weak

A minimum number of atoms is required for normal X-ray machines to be able to scan them. This is currently at an attogram, which corresponds to around 10,000 atoms or more.

To be able to X-ray a single atom, the researchers used a purpose-built synchrotron X-ray instrument at the XTIP beamline at Advanced Photon Source and the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory.

For demonstration purposes, the team studied an iron atom and a terbium atom. Using the synchrotron X-ray method, the researchers were then able to identify the elementary fingerprint of the atoms. So she could only determine what it was about one atom.

Science is revolutionized

“The technique used and the concept demonstrated in this study broke new ground in X-ray science and nanoscale studies,” said Tolulope Michael Ajayi, the study’s first author.

“In addition, the use of X-rays to detect and characterize individual atoms could revolutionize research and bring about new technologies in areas such as quantum information and trace element detection in environmental and medical research, to name a few. This success also paves the way for advanced materials science instruments.”

The X-ray of a single atom opens up completely new possibilities for research in many areas. Many future technologies or materials could be based on this research.

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nVidia & Snowflake cooperation for AI models from cloud

nVidia and Snowflake announce cooperation for generative AI models from the cloud.

The US graphics card manufacturer nVidia and the US software company Snowflake have announced a cooperation. They want to offer companies generative AI from the cloud.

Image: Artificial Intelligence, AI (Inteligencia artificial), via: pixabay, by: geralt.
Image: Artificial Intelligence, AI (Inteligencia artificial), via: pixabay, by: geralt.

The nVidia Corp. and Snowflake Inc. announced at the Snowflake Summit 2023 that they have entered into a partnership.

The goal of the agreement: Providing companies to build generative AI applications using their own data within the Snowflake Data Cloud. Snowflake along with Nvidia enables enterprises to use data in their Snowflake account clouds. So they can build advanced generative AI service. This includs chatbots.

“Data is the foundation for building generative AI applications that understand the complexities and unique voice of each businesss” said Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of Nvidia.

“nVidia and Snowflake will create an AI factory that will help companies transform their own valuable data into custom generative AI models to build breakthrough new applications. Right from the cloud platform they can run their businesses” added Jensen Huang.

Expanding AI capabilities in Data Cloud enables these customers to build generative AI applications, just where the data they manage already resides. This will reduce costs and latency.

The Snowflake Data Cloud has more than 8,000 customers. In Future it will offer the companies the ability to unify, integrate, analyze and share data within their organizatio, customers, partners, suppliers.

Snowflake’s unified platform offers industry-specific data clouds. Advertising, media and entertainment, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail and consumer goods, technology and telecom are included.

Snowflake also recently launched the Government and Education Data Cloud to enable data-driven decision-making for the public sector.

Snowflake plans to host and operate NeMo. NeMo is nVidia’s cloud-native enterprise platform for building, customizing and deploying generative AI models, on the data cloud.

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Black Mirror Creator: Episode written by AI turned out to be unusable

The Black Mirror series is known for its multi-layered approach to technology. Pretty much every episode showcases amazing technologies and what they can be capable of, both positively and negatively. The maker Charlie Brooker wanted to risk an experiment and actually have an episode of the anthology series written by an AI. But according to the series creator, the end result was completely useless.

Image: Video Game, Free Stock Picture, MorgueFile.com.
Image: Video Game, Free Stock Picture, MorgueFile.com.

Brooker used ChatGPT as an experiment. But according to the author, the result was impressive at first glance, but the more closely you read the script, the more you noticed that it was nonsense. As it should be expected: ChatGPT took the plot summaries of all previous episodes of “Black Mirror” and “remixed” them into a new episode.

According to Brooker, the result was a screenplay that didn’t contain a single original idea. Sure, because ChatGPT can’t really work creatively. But I guess that’s also good news for writers in Hollywood who are on strike right now . They will not be replaced by artificial intelligence anytime soon.

Incidentally, the sixth season of “Black Mirror” starts on June 15, 2023 on Netflix. The cast includes Aaron Paul, Salma Hayek Pinault, Kate Mara and Michael Cera.