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Tesla is known for its luxurious electric and self-driving high-end cars. But according to a tweet from the founder of the company itself, the consumers won’t be able to buy these fancy cars. No, it is not like that the company will stop making those cars, but with the integration of a new chip, these cars are going to be quite expensive, and not all the people will be able to buy them.
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The company has taken the initiative in order to recover from the losses it has been suffering, due to the cheaper price of its luxury cars. To prevent and overcome them, the company will be embedding a newly developed chip to its new as well as old cars, including Model S, X and 3S, such that these will become fully-autonomous and will not need the intervention of a human driver.
Musk posted a tweet on his official Twitter account on Sunday that the company will be upgrading its old cars, and will integrate the new chip into them as well as to new cars. So the consumers have a limited time to buy Tesla cars. Upon a tweet asking about when these upgrade will take place, Musk replied, “End of Q4, most likely”.
Production fully switched over ~3 months ago. Functionality won’t diverge until Q4, as it’s limited by software validation. Will be later for Europe compared to rest of world due to regulatory constraints that were put in place years ago by big ICE companies.
This means the
company has already started working on building those new chips for
the cars. According to another tweet from Musk, the owners who have
purchased the full self-driving feature, the $6000 software package,
will get the upgrade for free.
The company launched this new custom chip in the month of March this year, which already have been integrated to new Model 3, Model X and S vehicles. The upgrade of the older cars is a part of Tesla’s ‘Master Plan, Part Deux’, under which the company intends to make every Tesla car fully-autonomous and bring its dream robo-taxis on the road.
With the integration
of the new chip into Tesla cars, the price of these cars may reach up
to $40,000, and if remained unsold, these cars can earn even more
profits as a robo-taxi.
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Everything is going wireless, and Apple’s AirPods are the biggest example of the most loved wireless products. But it is not only Apple, but many other tech giants have brought feature-rich wireless headphone and earbuds, one of which is Sony. Sony has just announced a new pair of its in-ear headphones, WF-1000XM3, that the company is claiming will be noise-cancelling true wireless earphones.
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According to Sony,
the noise-cancellation has been improved in this version of in-ear
headphones, and it can be easily put down with a touch of a button on
the left earphone. The earphones have a set of buttons over it, to
provide control for the playback.
The earlier version of the in-ear headphones was a bit heavy and did not cancel out the noise completely. But Sony has embedded this version of the earphones with QN1e, which offers even better sound dampening and makes them a bit lighter. A new digital audio converter (DAC) and amplifier have been integrated to the pair, such that these deliver 24-bit audio.
The earbuds are
longer and do not have the wingtips as the earlier version had in it.
Instead, it has got rubber on the tip for better support.
Both the earbuds are
capable to connect with the device, and on a full charge, these can
work for over six hours, along with noise cancellation. The earphones
come with a charging case, that can charge the earbuds thrice when
fully charged. In fact, if the case is also drained out completely,
it can be charged in 10 minutes to provide 90 minutes listening time
charging for the earphones. The case has got a magnetic latch, that
keeps the earbuds at the place.
The WF-1000XM3
earbuds cost $230 for a pair. Currently, the company has made the
earphones available for pre-orders on Amazon and Best Buy. It is
shipping the earphone in the colour black and platinum silver.
According to the announcement, these will be arriving the retail
stores in coming August.
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The
music industry is vast, and so are the range of instruments used to
compose a masterpiece in the same. But arranging a whole lot
orchestra to create a small music composition always cost a hefty
amount, and sometimes it can cost even more. But with changing
technology trends, the music industry has also got its own music
software that helps musicians to produce the amazing music that was
impossible without a professional music team. Ableton is such music
software, and one of the earliest, that has been helping numerous
musicians with their composing and music production work.
Ableton
was founded by two computer music artists Robert Henke and Gerhard
Behles. The two belonged to Munich, Germany, and had met through a
common friend at the University of Munich, who ran an electronic
music instruments store. At that time, they did not share good vibes
with each other and had no plans to work together.
After some time, Behles moved to Holland, whereas Henke shifted to Berlin, for higher studies. Somehow, again, Behles had to move to Berlin, where he joined Computer Science same as Henke at Berlin’s technical university. This time, the two get along well, as both shared the common interest, i.e. Music. The university has a studio for electronic music, where the two started studying more about music and got introduced to a lot of electronic music. Here they began to design sounds and did a lot of installation work.
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Henke
and Behles collaborated in 1995, to produce electronic music under
their Monolake project. At that time, they used Drum machines,
synthesizers and software, like Cycling ’74/IRCAM’s music coding
environment, to create music, but these could only create a limited
type of music and was becoming boring with time. But being the
computer engineers, the two were able to enhance the capability of
the software and create better music.
With
time, Henke and Behles started performing live and became famous.
Some of the most popular creations of the two under Monolake includes
Gravity (2000), Interstate (1998), Hongkong (1997), etc.
Even
though the two were becoming popular with their compositions, they
wanted something new and better for music creation. At that time,
they used the Apple G3 laptop to compose music and play it live. This
helped them to reduce the need to take big musical equipment with
them.
Being
engineers worked for them, and they developed software to create
different transitions in music named PX-18, but purely for their
personal use. The software worked on the Silicon Graphics
workstation. For building the software, Behles met another software
engineer and music enthusiast, Bernd Roggendorf, who also advised
them to start a business of music software development.
The
development of the software was to replace the big heavy instruments
with computer and laptops. They created small pieces of programs to
get the right sounds for their live performances. But still, they
were not planning on selling those programs to other musicians.
But
soon, they realised that there were no such programs at that time,
and a new music software could do wonders for every other musician.
So the two got convinced to commercialise their software, and the
next step was to find investors for their idea.
The
two partners participated in the trade show NAMM in 2001, with the
beta version of their music software, named ‘Live’. Here they got
to bag the first investment from Hans Zimmer, a German film score
composer and record producer. After Hans Zimmer showed interest in
their project, many other investors came forward to invest in the
same. And in 2001, Henke and Behles founded Ableton the company and
launched the first commercial version of the software, ‘Live’.
The
two opened the first office of Ableton in the Mitte district of
Berlin, Germany, Behles becoming the chief executive officer of the
company. The software became famous in no time and was opted by big
names in the field of music production.
The
company joined its hands with Cycling ’74 in 2007 to build a new
product, ‘Max for Live’, that they launched in 2009. The software
creates Max/MSP patches directly inside of Live. Ableton has also
developed many programs, that help the users to learn about how to
use the Ableton software.
In June 2017, Ableton acquired Cycling ’74. Till now, the company has released ten updates to Ableton Live. The latest version of the software, Ableton Live 10, includes features like new melodic step sequencing layout and MIDI note view, etc.
The
company sells three versions of the software, i.e., Live 10 Standard,
Live 10 Suite and Live 10 Intro. The standard version is the core
software for music performance and creation. The Suite version
includes features like Ableton Live, Max for Live and all the Ableton
software instruments as well as effects. The third version is the
introductory version of Live and has the track and effect
limitations.
Henke
worked at Ableton for over ten years and continued to record and
perform his own music. Henke left the company in 2009 to completely
focus on music. Since then, he has been writing and speaking about
sound engineering, specifically at the Berlin University of the Arts,
and Stanford University, whereas Behles still serves as the CEO of
Ableton.
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The biggest sale of the year, the Amazon Prime Day Sale, is only ten days away, and Amazon has claimed that people will get the most attractive deals in the sale. The sale is to kick off on 15th of this month and is expected to be of a bigger scale even than the Black Friday. The event will last for two days and is only open for the Prime members.
According to the company, along with big discounts and offers, it will be launching over 1000 new products. The Prime users will get access to major discounts in almost every category available on the website, though the offers will be valid on limited stock.
But even before the sale, Amazon has come with major discounts on various products, including the popular Fire TV Recast, which the company is currently selling at the lowest price to date. There is also a big discount on the Amazon’s Alexa, along with few other Amazon devices, too, including Fire TV Stick 4K bundle, Echo Dot, etc. The company as a pre-sale has also put great discounts on smartphones, laptops, DSLR, and other electronic devices.
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The upcoming Prime Day Sale though will have similar products on sale, but this time, the sale will go even cheaper. The company has promised ‘never before offers’ on select premium smartphones. For the sale, the company has put discounts on over 5000 other products in the electronics category.
Amazon will also put
out a great discount (up to 60 %) on Books as well. In fact, the
company is offering a three months subscription of Kindle Unlimited
for free. On a regular basis, the fee for a month costs $9.99/£7.99
per user.
Though the offers are exclusively for the Amazon Prime members, you can get the 30-days free trial subscription to take advantage of the sale. And, if any person is from the U.S., they can get the same deals with three months for $9.99, whereas on the regular days they need to pay three times more for a subscription.
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We are flooded with the ride-hailing services and Uber being the leader among them all, is giving a tough challenge to even many of the home-grown companies in various countries. Ola the India-based ride rental service provider has been also facing similar competition, ever since Uber has entered India. But to move ahead and beat the competition, Ola finally crossed borders and launched its first international ride-hailing service in Australia in January 2018.
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Now the company is
moving even forward and will be starting its ride-hailing service in
the capital city of the UK, i.e. London. Last year, Ola started
operating in South Wales, and it has now obtained the license from
Transport For London (TFL) to start private hire vehicles (PHV)
ride-hailing service in London. Though the validity of the license is
only one year, and it is a non-carriage license.
According to the
rules of the Transport Regulatory of London and the PHV licensing,
the Ola drivers will need to register themselves and their vehicles
with the license to run the Ola service in the city. Any vehicle that
is having a seating capacity of up to eight passengers is eligible
for the registration.
“London is one of
the world’s most iconic cities and hosts a progressive mobility
environment. We couldn’t be more excited to bring Ola to London in
the time ahead! We are looking forward to building world-class
mobility offerings for London, by collaborating with drivers, riders,
the government and local authorities. Londoners will hear more from
us closer to our launch in the city, as we get ready to serve them.”
One of the Ola spokespeople said.
With more than 8
million people living in London, the scope for the service is quite
high. Along with the PHV cabs, Ola also holds the license for the
Black cabs, and over 10,000 drivers are already registered with Ola
platform. The company has plans to collaborate with local drivers,
transport services and government to bring better services to people
of London and will be launching its services by the end of this year.
Since last August,
the company has been expanding in various cities of the U.K and got
the PHV licence for Liverpool, Birmingham and Reading in March this
year.
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Self-driving cars have been one of the centres of interest of most of the tech giants, and now, BMW has announced a partnership with the manufacturers of Mercedes Daimler, to head in the same field. The two companies will be working together to develop various services under automotive technologies. These services will include the driver-assistance systems, smart cruise control, automated driving on highways as well as parking, and more.
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According to the announcement made by the two, these plan on building fully autonomous vehicles that would require no human intervention. The companies explained that these will be developing the technology of the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Level 4, such that the vehicles would not need any human support for driving. There may be some conditions in which there will be the obligation of human support, but normally, these vehicles would be self-driving. The SAE levels are set to determine the level of automation, a product can render, especially the transport vehicles.
The companies also revealed that these will be hiring over 1,200
technicians from the two German auto giants for the development work.
This partnership is looking forward to bring robo-taxi technology for
urban areas, and these vehicles will not be dependent on human
support even for the motorway driving and parking.
The companies joined with nine other firms also published a
whitepaper, titled, “Safety First for Automated Driving,” as the
answers to the concerns of human safety while riding a self-driving
car.
Though the two companies have partnered to work on a single
technology, the two will be implementing the same on their own cars
separately. The announcement has also revealed that the platform
developed with this partnership will be open for other companies to
implement on their vehicles as well. The vehicles embedded with this
technology will be out around 2024 or later.
The two companies have already signed an agreement on autonomous technology in February, and they are also in partnership with other automobile companies for the same. In fact, BMW had joined its hands with companies like Intel and Mobileye NV to work on autonomous technology. With this partnership, BMW will be launching the level 3 iNext vehicle in 2021.
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