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Sony has announced the world’s first image sensor with integrated AI smarts. The new IMX500 sensor incorporates both processing power and memory, allowing it to perform machine learning-powered computer vision tasks without extra hardware. The result, says Sony, will be faster, cheaper, and more secure AI cameras. Over the past few years, devices ranging from smartphones to surveillance cameras ha...

There’s a lot of discussion going on right now about what will be forever changed by the pandemic. Over at Amazon, though, the company is promising that things are going back to normal. For one, the company said on Tuesday that delivery times — which have understandably stretched from days to weeks amid the huge logistical challenges posed by COVID-19 — were about to get shorter. Here’s Spencer So...

When he was just 22, Marcus Hutchins rose to fame by single-handedly stopping the spread of WannaCry, a ransomware attack that hit hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and effectively shut down over a dozen UK hospitals. But within months of stopping it, Hutchins was in police custody. His extraordinary story is the subject of a lengthy new feature in Wired, and it’s absolutely worth a rea...

A tale of two hardware divisions. Google, as reported by The Information, suffers with operational chaos that is as bizarre as it is inept. Hardware boss Rick Osterloh reportedly held a meeting where he tells everybody “he did not agree with some of the decisions made about the phone” — are these decisions not things he himself is in charge of? The visionary who made the Pixel’s excellent camera w...