- Acer refreshes its gaming line up in India
Acer has refreshed its Predator Helios, Predator Triton 300, and Nitro 7 gaming laptops which now come with the latest generation of the Intel 10th generation precessors H-series processors which come paired with Nvidia GPUs. Acer announced the updates on 4 of its most popular laptops with Acer Nitro 7 receiving a number of key upgrades. The laptops now come with Nvidia GTX 2080 Super or 2070 Super GPUs which give a powerful performance and enable the user to play AAA games with high refresh rates. The refreshed lineup also comes with new cooling technologies, enhanced thermal designs, and additional heat pipes
- YouTube is
planning a short format video platform, just like TikTok
The app has been in the testing phase and it will let the users create and post 15-second videos which could be similar to the Bytedance-owned short video app. The company will roll out the app to the masses once the testing is over. There is however no clarity whether the app would get filters and music support like TikTok, but the users would be able to post their content through iOS and Android-based devices.
- Amazon
reportedly acquires a self-driving car startup company
Amazon acquired Zoox, a 1000 people company at a cost of over $1 billion. This would give Amazon complete control over the company that has been developing a self-driving electric vehicle. This makes it the biggest investment by Amazon in self-driving car technology yet
- A Cheaper
second-gen Xbox in the making
A couple of leaked documents have shown that Microsoft has been planning a second, less powerful and cheaper version of the Xbox console. It will take advantage of the improvements found in the Xbox Series X and make it available at a lower cost for 1080p or 1440p gaming. This could include a slightly underclocked CPU, 7.5 GB of usable RAM and around 4 teraflops of GPU performance.
Weekly Tech News
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June 26, 2020
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