Kozminski Techblog

Yesterday (24.10.2020) RTX3090 has been officially released and tests showed the performance of the new GPU which presented the potential to be a game-changer. While for most of us gaming or watching movies in 4k is still unachievable. The RTX 3090 with some additional help from AI techniques can achieve 8k 60fps gaming in many AAA titles. The best explanation of what the dlss is Nvidia gave themselves. “The DLSS team first extracts many aliased frames from the target game, and then for each one, we generate a matching “perfect frame” using either super-sampling or accumulation rendering. These paired frames are fed to NVIDIA’s supercomputer. The supercomputer trains the DLSS model to recognize aliased inputs and generate high-quality anti-aliased images that match the “perfect frame” as closely as possible. We then repeat the process, but this time we train the model to generate additional pixels rather than applying AA. This has the effect of increasing the resolution of the input. Combining both techniques enables the GPU to render the full monitor resolution at higher frame rates.”

It brings the ai and self-learning technics to personal computers and casual usage of it. That is a significant step forward in making AI-ish technics more understandable globally. Nvidia as a company is massively engaged in developing ai technique to improve everyday pc usage and in the future, such software improvements can mean more than the raw power of the components.
A case that shows the Nvidia capabilities is the fact that the new Mercedes S class uses their chipsets for “autonomic driving” and safety features but that is a whole bigger story.

Sources:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gtc/

https://www.nvidia.com/pl-pl/geforce/technologies/dlss/

By french competition watchdog decision apple has been fined for $27 million. Three years ago the company was suspected of slowing down older devices without informing its customers about it and with no option to revert to an older software version. Also, they didn’t inform users that it can be fixed just by replacing battery instead of the entire phone. According to an explanation released by apple, they decided to throttle phones to prolong battery life. Yet but not informing clients about the cause of the slowdown users might be misled and in result overpay for exchange of the whole phone. As a result, Apple was fined $27 million and had to put an informing banner on the french version of the website.

Firstly For those who by any chance are not aware of what CES is, I would like to summer it up quickly. CES stands for Consumer electronic show and is one of the biggest electronics show in the world. Just to show you the scale last year it covered over 250 thousand square meters with almost 4.5k exhibitions and attracted over 175k people which is more than hotel capacity in Las Vegas where it takes place. Also during the event next to exhibitions many companies host conferences on which they show the most important innovations and vision for the future.

In the case of Samsung this year such an idea was G.E.M.S (Gait Enhancing and Motivation System) futuristic way of training that features usage of exoskeleton and AR glasses. It is a complex training with a virtual personal trainer that can modify workouts routines just for you and will introduce you to every exercise thanks to AR technology.

Another new idea introduced by Samsung this year is something that will try to satisfy a growing market that is concerned about data security. Nowadays almost everyone has an external drive or Pendrive with many data, photos, and documents that in case of being lost shouldn’t be accessible by a founder and that’s why Samsung decided to make it easier for consumers to protect their data and add a fingerprint scanner to their new external drive. Surely there are plenty of ways to protect your drive with a password but the biometric method is just so much easier and thanks for that hopefully more of us is going to use it to become less vulnerable for privacy harms.

Another product idea was already presented on this forum so I will just leave a link to it and wish you great reading: http://techblog.kozminski.edu.pl/2020/01/10/your-personal-bb-8-from-samsung-meet-ballie/

References:

• https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/06/samsungs-gems-exoskeleton-is-now-an-immersive-workout-experience/
• https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21057206/samsung-t7-touch-external-ssd-built-in-fingerprint-reader-extra-security-biometric-ces-2020
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=civQNdOACy0

Most of us learning new skills such as driving a car, a new language or another topic in math associate with stress and rather unpleasant experience but… Maybe we should change our attitude in light of an experiment done by researchers at the University of Richmond.
Dr. Kelly Lambert with her team decided to teach rats how to drive miniature versions of cars. This was less complicated than driving in the city center during the rush hours but for rats, we can imagine that it was something completely new. After the process of learning rats hormones where tested and it showed up that every tested object had higher levels of dehydroepiandrosterone which is a natural antidepressant.
It can seem, to be not worth checking out but according to researchers, it might be the right step into discovering a cure for such sicknesses as schizophrenia and depression.

Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50167812