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Cadillac unveils the tech-laden Escalade 2021 with Super Cruise and a 38-inch curved OLED screen

TechSpot News | Feb. 5, 2020, 12:58 a.m. | Original

In brief: Cadillac's fully redesigned Escalade was recently unveiled at an event in Los Angeles. Alongside debuting a new and improved version of Super Cruise, the SUV also packs an industry-first 38-inch curved OLED screen and AR-enhanced navigation in an all-new bigger body, a long-wheelbase version of which will reportedly be revealed at the New York Auto Show in April.

We learned about Cadillac's plans to include a gigantic 38-inch curved OLED screen in its new Escalade

Disney+ now has 28.6 million subscribers

TechSpot News | Feb. 4, 2020, 11:52 p.m. | Original

In a nutshell: Disney+ launched in November and is only available in a handful of countries, yet it managed to attract 26.5 million paying subscribers before 2019 was out. The company also revealed ESPN+ now has 6.6 million subscribers, while Hulu, where it has a controlling stake, has 30.4 million total customers.

The figures are from The Walt Disney Company’s recent earnings report for the last quarter, which ended on December 28, 201

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser is leaving the studio next month

TechSpot News | Feb. 4, 2020, 11:16 p.m. | Original

Farewell: After spending over two decades in the company he co-founded with his brother, Dan Houser is set to leave Rockstar Games on March 11, according to an SEC document registered by publisher Take-Two Interactive. Dan served as a producer and writer on several of Rockstar's iconic franchises, including the Grand Theft Auto series, Red Dead Redemption, Bully, and the third installment of Max Payne.

Dan Houser, the current vice president of creative at Rockstar Games is leaving the company after an "

LG won't be attending MWC due to Coronavirus fears

TechSpot News | Feb. 4, 2020, 10:45 p.m. | Original

What just happened? The Coronavirus outbreak is continuing to affect the tech industry. LG Electronics has announced it won’t be attending this year’s Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain. The news comes just after ZTE said it was canceling its MWC press conference, but the company backpedaled, later tweeting that it would be participating in the event as planned.

In a statement on the company’s website, LG wrote that instead of attending MWC, it would be holding separate events in the near future to

AMD updates its 'Raise the Game' bundle with new freebies for Radeon customers

TechSpot News | Feb. 4, 2020, 10:03 p.m. | Original

Freebies: Everybody loves free stuff, and that's something AMD understands well -- late last year, the PC hardware giant updated its GPU-oriented Raise the Game bundle, as well as its CPU-focused Equipped to Win bundle. Both deals gave customers access to several newer games, such as The Outer Worlds and Borderlands 3. While we haven't seen any new Equipped to Win offers just yet, AMD has decided to refresh its Raise the Game bundle again.

Moving forward, Radeon RX 57

YouTuber uses neural networks to upscale 1896 short film to 4K 60 fps

TechSpot News | Feb. 4, 2020, 9:20 p.m. | Original

In brief: Someone was able to achieve remarkable results in upscaling a very old, low-resolution, black and white video from 1896 to a crystal-clear 4K video at 60 frames per second. This is one of many experiments that prove AI tech can be used to improve content that would normally seem impossible to "enhance" in any way.

One of the hot topics in tech for the last few years has been AI, with business leaders throwing lots of buzzwords around - machine learning

MIT's 'RFocus' smart surface uses tiny antennas to amplify wireless signals by up to 10x

TechSpot News | Feb. 4, 2020, 9:30 a.m. | Original

What just happened? Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a low-cost external antenna array that could significantly amplify wireless signals. With wireless devices getting smaller every day, this could be a viable solution to a real problem.

The project, dubbed RFocus , is described as a “smart surface” consisting of more than 3,000 tiny antennas. Each software-controlled antenna on the two-dimensional surface can either let a wireless signal through or reflect it

Qualcomm shows what 8K video looks like on a Snapdragon 865

TechSpot News | Feb. 4, 2020, 8:56 a.m. | Original

In brief: Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 865 chipset at its tech summit last December. Full specifications weren’t supplied at the time although there was an indication that the SoC would support 8K video capture. We now know that to be a fact and on Tuesday, Qualcomm shared the footage to prove it.

The sample clip in question was captured on a prototype smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 865 alongside a Sony IMX586 image sensor. In a companion blog post, Qualcomm said the shoot

Watch this: Doom Eternal's first 10 minutes revealed in gory, 60 FPS gameplay clip

TechSpot News | Feb. 4, 2020, 8:21 a.m. | Original

Highly anticipated: Id Software's latest demon-killing romp, Doom Eternal, is set to launch in a few short weeks, and it's already looking like a fantastic sequel to 2016's Doom reboot. It has more weapon variety, more movement possibilities, a plethora of new demons to face off against -- some pulled from the original Doom games, some entirely fresh -- and exciting new environments to explore.

We've already seen quite a bit of Doom Eternal gameplay from

TechSpot News | Feb. 4, 2020, 7:50 a.m. | Original |

In a nutshell: Twitter says it's fixed a bug in its API that made it easy for someone to match a user's Twitter handle with a phone number, which was discovered last year. The company also revealed that it has detected several attacks using the exploit, which seem to originate from Israel, Malaysia, and Iran -- likely the work of state-sponsored actors.

Back in December, security researcher Ibrahim Balic revealed a vulnerability in Twitter's Android app that allowed him to match millions of

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