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Amazon’s Alexa Tablets are coming for the iPad

Amazon is launching a new lineup of tablets that bear almost no resemblance to any tablet Amazon has ever launched before. They’re not even called Fire, the name Amazon has used for its tablets for the last 15 years. They’re called Alexa Tablets, and they’re designed to do two things: bring Alexa Plus to the center of your whole computing life, and be straight-up excellent tablets.

The most important thing about these new tablets’ software? They run Android. Full, Google Play-supported, all-the-apps Android. There are plenty of preloaded Amazon apps, of course, and some built-in ways to quickly access Prime Video content or shop for basically anything anywhere at any time, but it’s finally offering a proper Android experience. Panos Panay, Amazon’s SVP in charge of all things hardware and Alexa, tells me that “Google Play was a necessity, end of story.”

But Panay picked Android as the secondmost...

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TikTok bans Musk documentary account

Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Just ahead of the wider release of Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary, TikTok has banned the film’s social media account from

Leaked Gameplay Purports To Show A Canceled Assassin's Creed Game Set In Ancient China

At least there’s still Assassin’s Creed Jade to look forward to. Ubisoft A mainline entry in the Assassin's Creed franchise set in ancient China might sound too good to be true. According to the some leaked footage of a reportedly canceled title called Assassin's

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Microsoft's Maia 300 swaps raw compute for a 2.5x memory bandwidth gain as it moves to make in-house silicon its main AI engine while claiming a 40% efficiency bump — could going the Google route be the pin that pops the Nvidia AI bubble?

* Microsoft will make Maia its main inference engine at multi-gigawatt scale, following Google and Amazon into in-house silicon * Microsoft's upcoming Maia 300 trades a modest 36% compute gain for 2.5x Maia 200's memory bandwidth, betting on memory-bound decode, with production in 2027 * Hyperscalers supply just

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HD Graphics for Microcontrollers

Adding a graphical interface to a microcontroller-based project may be more trouble than it's worth when a large, high-resolution display is involved. Most microcontrollers don't have the processing power or memory bandwidth needed to drive such displays. A single-board computer like a Raspberry Pi can solve

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TikTok bans Musk documentary account

Leaked Gameplay Purports To Show A Canceled Assassin's Creed Game Set In Ancient China

Microsoft's Maia 300 swaps raw compute for a 2.5x memory bandwidth gain as it moves to make in-house silicon its main AI engine while claiming a 40% efficiency bump — could going the Google route be the pin that pops the Nvidia AI bubble?

HD Graphics for Microcontrollers