Chrome for ARM64 is available for Windows devices using Snapdragon processors. According to Google, users planning to invest in the upcoming Snapdragon X Elite processor PCs will enjoy even higher performance.

A Google blog post explains that the idea is to have Chrome fully optimized for ARM systems so that it runs faster and smoother.

Word around tech circles is that Qualcomm’s new ARM-based processor is a serious threat to Apple’s M3 chip and that it offers serious AI acceleration capabilities to outperform Intel’s Meteor Lake processors.

Although users can use Chrome on computers with ARM processors through emulation, native apps offer significantly better performance. The first version of Chrome Canary for ARM64 was released a few months ago, and now the browser is about to make its public debut.

Qualcomm says it will help establish Snapdragon X Elite’s role as the leading platform for Windows PCs. The first Snapdragon X Elite devices are expected to arrive later this summer.

The contract between the tech companies is that Intel will make custom chips for computers designed by Microsoft and for Microsoft, The Verge reports.

The partnership between Intel and Microsoft was announced during the Intel Foundry event. Intel estimates the value of the deal at over $15 billion dollar.

There is no information from the two corporations on exactly what the chips will be used for. Microsoft will use them for internal designs in both processors and AI smoke detectors, writes Bloomberg.

“We are in the midst of a very exciting platform shift that will fundamentally transform productivity for every individual organization and the entire industry,” stated Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in the official press release.

The chips will use Intel’s 18A process, which has been an indispensable part of the company since the return of Intel CEO – Pat Gelsinger.

The corporation believes that through the production of chips, they will once again rank among the leaders in the technology industry. In this venture, Microsoft will be their first major customer as well as a partner.

Producing designs for other companies is a strategy that has worked well for Intel’s competitor Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). It has created profitable partnerships with corporations such as: Apple, Qualcomm and AMD.

Pat Gelsinger announced that the foundry model for microelectronics manufacturing is a big part of Intel’s strategy. The new plans to manufacture chips using the foundry business model come at a time when technology companies are trying to make their own chips but are facing many challenges.

Intel Corporation has postponed the opening of a $20 billion chip plant to 2026. The original plans were for it to be opened in 2025. As the reason for the cancellation of the opening of the plant, Intel points to insufficient demand in the chip market and the delay in funding from the state.

“Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity while giving you new capabilities to produce superior media experiences, minimize battery impact, maximize smooth app performance, and protect user privacy and security all on the most diverse lineup of devices out there,” Dave Burke, VP of engineering for Android, wrote in a blog post.

In Android 15, partial screen sharing support has been added, allowing users to share or save a specific app window instead of using the entire screen.

Also, the fitness and health tracking service Health Connect by Android is being updated with new data types.

The camera has also been updated with improvements for photos taken in low light and with improved flash intensity settings.

Enhancements in the Android Dynamic Performance Framework (ADPF) encompass a power-efficient mode tailored for hint sessions, dynamic adjustments of GPU and CPU frequencies to align with workload demands, and implementation of thermal headroom thresholds.

Developers have the option to test Android 15 on Pixel 6, 7, or 8 devices, as well as Pixel Fold or Pixel Tablet. Alternatively, developers can utilize the Android Emulator within Android Studio for testing on other devices.

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In the wake of the increasing data breaches that many well-known tech names are being accused of right now, Microsoft is taking preventive measures by paying more attention to just that.

Another interesting feature is the VPN (virtual private network) that can be seen. When users establish a recognized VPN connection, a small shield icon appears in the taskbar indicating that the connection is secure. This enables users to check the status of their VPN.

The tech giant has also included options to customize the VPN feature through quick settings. This enables users to align VPN settings according to their personal preferences and requirements.

Microsoft said Windows 11 PCs are equipped with the advanced Pluton security processor, which offers improved protection from the chip to the cloud. An integration that provides robust protection against malware, hardware attacks and certificate compromise.

Starting this month, users will receive real-time alerts in their Start menu notifying them of immediate actions to protect their information and computer.

Recently, WebAssembly (Wasm) has also appeared. After the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) declared it a web standard in 2019, it became the fourth web standard along with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

But while web browser apps represent the central and historical use case for Wasm, again, it’s a matter of it being designed to run anywhere on a properly configured processor – this is where Wasm and JavaScript diverge and become more integrated for some use cases.

Wasm and JavaScript
Wasm and JavaScript are closely related, but besides JavaScript, Wasm does other things. Wasm’s original goal of helping JavaScript run more efficiently in the web browser remains a key component of their integration. Today, it extends beyond the web browser and encompasses edge and server applications for which JavaScript is not best suited.

This is due to the way Wasm works in binary format at the processor level. And lest we forget, unlike JavaScript, Wasm is not a programming language. One of the main unique features of Wasm is that its functionality allows it to work with a number of different languages in addition to JavaScript, including Python, Rust, of course, as well as Go, .NET, C++, Java, and PHP, writes The New Stack.

Wasm could give JavaScript a performance boost by compiling the otherwise interpreted language and its runtime into Wasm modules, Torsten Volk, an analyst for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), told The New Stack. Code that is already compiled will generally run faster than code that still needs to be interpreted at runtime, such as JavaScript, he said.

Volk also says that the integration of Wasm and JavaScript works well for a wide range of applications. These include browser-based machine learning in edge locations, browser-based games requiring high performance, augmented and virtual reality applications that require low-latency execution, and applications in general that need to be able to run quickly.
He also shares that the historical co-evolution of JavaScript and WebAssembly is complementary, as Wasm was created about 20 years after JavaScript and aims to extend JavaScript use cases to more performance-demanding application workloads.

Who is better?
For pure computational performance as well as for such tasks as image processing, WebAssembly has certainly proven its advantages as being much faster than JavaScript. But the context is probably much more complex than that.

“In the browser, I think the biggest advantage of WebAssembly is the potential to use libraries from other languages. Performance is good and can be useful for web applications like Figma. But code reuse is broadly applicable to many Web applications,”

Butcher says.

Because JavaScript is a language that is accessible to almost anyone and offers many community-supported libraries that “support tons of use cases without having to reinvent the wheel,”

Volk noted.

“The fact that Wasm can be combined with ReactJS and other popular JavaScript frameworks further expands the scope of JavaScript use cases, allowing developers to deliver full-fledged enterprise applications in a simple and responsive way,”

Volk continued.

Security issues
Volk’s view is that Wasm offers security advantages over JavaScript-only code. It serves to increase the security of JavaScript code when Wasm is used as a “compiler on steroids” with which JavaScript applications can be deployed. For example, Wasm isolates JavaScript from the browser, provides memory safety, and implements strongly typed variables that are harder to use than dynamically typed JavaScript variables. And using JavaScript in Wasm provides a nice security boost” to the entire application.

But that doesn’t mean JavaScript is inherently insecure. JavaScript can be made quite secure, according to Ralph Squilas, principal program manager at Microsoft, Azure Core Upstream, in an emailed response. He fired back in defense of JavaScript that browsers are some of the most attacked surfaces on the planet. However, WebAssembly facilitates defense-in-depth with a mathematically provable sandbox model that tools like Veriwasm take advantage of.

The model pipeline starts by generating a synthetic view conditioned on text prompts. A 3D point cloud (1024 points) is then created over the synthetic view. Finally, a fine 3D point cloud (4096 points) is created conditioned on the low resolution point cloud and the synthetic view.

After obtaining a 3D point cloud with better resolution, the authors convert it into texture meshes and render them in Blender. The process uses a regression model to predict the signed distance field (SDF) of an object given its point cloud, and then marching cubes are applied to the resulting SDF to extract a mesh. Color assignment uses the “nearest neighbor” method to match each vertex to the nearest point in the original point cloud.

Earlier this year, Google released DreamFusion, an expanded version of Dream Fields, a generative 3D system the company introduced back in 2021. Comparing DreamFusion with Point-E based on a semantic metric called R-Precision, we can tell from the table above that the former performs better in this regard, i.e. it understands text cues better and the generated point cloud has better resolution. However, we can say that Point-E is much faster at outputting a 3D object with a point cloud.

The limitations of Point-E are the low texture and resolution of its 3D point cloud objects. It requires synthetic renderers, which could be replaced by real-world image conditioning. Semantic understanding from textual cues is not as good as with other state-of-the-art 3D object generation models.

8 Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 processors were used to complete the server – each with 24 cores and 48 threads and a maximum frequency of 3.90 GHz. Thus, the server has a total of 192 processor cores that can process up to 384 threads simultaneously.

The system is equipped with 48 modules of 32 GB of RAM for a total of 1536 MB (1.5 TB) of RAM, connected to each processor by a 6-channel architecture.

5x 1600W (N+2) Titanium Level (96%) redundant units power the server.

Such a machine can be used for the most demanding applications such as ERP, virtualization, R&D and in-memory database execution.

“Configuring and delivering a server of such a class is a real pride for any integrator and unquestionably proves the experience and capacity of ADSYS to offer customers the most advanced technology at the scale they need,” said Nikolay Vachev, ADSYS CEO.

ADSYS is a 100% Bulgarian company with over 20 years of experience in offering servers and data storage solutions, being among the main partners of Supermicro in the country and the exclusive distributor of Inspur (the world’s number 2 supplier of servers) and Synology (the leading supplier of NAS devices for home, small and medium business).

“Built on the most advanced 4-nanometer (nm) EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography) process, and combined with cutting-edge mobile, GPU and NPU technology, Samsung has crafted the Exynos 2200 to provide the finest experience for smartphone users. ”

The Exynos 2200 offers on-device artificial intelligence (AI) with an upgraded NPU. The NPU now offers  precision with FP16 (16bit floating point) support in addition to power efficient INT8 (8bit integer) and INT16.

The Exynos 2200 also integrates a fast 3GPP Release 16 5G modem supporting both sub-6GHz and mmWave (millimeter Wave) spectrum bands. With E-UTRAN New Radio – Dual Connectivity (EN-DC), which utilizes both 4G LTE and 5G NR signals, the modem can boost the speed up to 10Gbps.

The processor comes with Integrated Secure Element (iSE). The goal is to store private cryptographic keys as well as to play a role as RoT (Root of Trust). Also, an inline encryption HW for UFS and DRAM has been reinforced to have user data encryption safely shared only within the secure domain.

The Exynos 2200’s image signal processor (ISP) architecture supports image sensors for resolution up to 200 megapixel (MP). At 30 frames-per-second (fps), the ISP supports up to 108 MP in single camera mode, and 64+36 MP in dual camera mode.

Connection up to seven individual image sensors and drive four concurrently for advanced multi-camera setups are also available. For video recording, the ISP supports up to 4K HDR (or 8K) resolution.

The Exynos 2200 is currently in mass production.

According to Gadgets 360, the new series lineup will be able to include as many as four different devices – the Xiaomi 12, the 12 Pro, the 12X, and the 12 Ultra.

Yet, there isn’t much official detailed information about the upcoming handsets, even though the company revealed that it will be powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor. Some rumors say that the phones have cameras centrally orientated and the Xiaomi 12 will have a triple rear camera.

Xiaomi Mi 11 launched globally ten months ago this year and offers comparable specifications to Samsung’s flagships at affordable prices.

Xiaomi is classified as the second-biggest smartphone manufacturer in Europe and the second biggest Android manufacturer in the world after Samsung.

As spotted by Appleosophy, both ESPN and ABC News apps will lose support for the third-generation Apple TV starting October 4, according to messages in its apps on the set-top box.

Both apps are owned by Disney, and this is why they’re losing support together. As for now, the ESPN app still lets users subscribe to ESPN+ or just let non-members watch free clips on the third-generation Apple TV.

For the ABC News app, although it doesn’t offer a membership it used to allow users to stream a 24/7 feed of ABC News. According to Appleosophy David Becker, “After trying that feature Thursday morning, it does not appear as though that feature is no longer available.

FOX NOW, YouTube, MLB, and CBS All Access stop supporting this third-generation Apple TV.

If you own this model, you’re still able to subscribe to some Apple TV Channels or just AirPlay your favorite streaming services from your iPhone or iPad.

On the other hand, if you plan to upgrade to a new set-top box, Apple launched the second-generation Apple TV 4K earlier this year with a new Siri Remote, HDMI 2.1 support, a better processor, and tvOS support.