Nvidia’s New Chips’ Meta Adds Teleprompter & Virtual Writing to it’s Ray-Bans; Roborock Robot Vacuums Climb Stairs; Free AT&T WiFi on American Airlines

Nvidia’s latest greatest Rubin computing architecture was announced at CES by CEO Jensen Huang. Techcrunch.com reports that the system is now in production and will ramp up further this year. Huang told CES attendees “Vera Rubin is designed to address this fundamental challenge that we have: The amount of computation necessary for AI is skyrocketing.” Huang told the audience. “Today, I can tell you that Vera Rubin is in full production.” The Rubin architecture replaces the Blackwell architecture Nvidia has as the top tier for AI. The system is designed to address a bottleneck in AI computing…it introduces an ew tier of storage that connects externally to the compute device, and allows users to scale their storage pool more efficiently. This Rubin system runs three and a half times after than the Blackwell on training tasks and five times after on inference tasks. It is also more thrifty when it comes to electricity use. 

Meta showed a couple of cool features at CES that it is adding to its Ray-Ban Display glasses. According to theverge.com, users are getting an option to text on their glasses without the use of their phone or keyboard. As long as they have the Meta Neural band on their wrist, they can wrote on any surface…a desk top, your leg, whatever is handy. The feature will work with WhatsApp and Messenger. The Display glasses are also getting a new teleprompter feature…that lets users copy notes from their phone into customizable text cards that display on the glasses. The Neural Band is used again here…to navigate through the cards. The teleprompter feature is getting a phased rollout this week.

One knock on robot vacuums is that they aren’t as handy for homes with stairs. Well, that is about to change with Roborocks new Robot Vacuums. Bgr.com notes that The Roborock Saros Rover is a demo item so far, but the company showed it off at CES…not only climbing stairs, but sliding down a ramp, jumping, and even dancing! The company says the final release date and list of features…to say nothing of price…are ‘to be announced.’  Well-heeled people with stairs who would love to automate vacuuming are doing a happy dance!

Free AT&T WiFi will be available on every American Airlines flight later this year. Androidauthority.com reports that in order to get the freebie, you will need to sign  up for American’s AAdvantage loyalty program. It is high speed, satellite-based WiFi. Delta and United already have high speed WiFi on board, via partnerships with T-Mobile and Starlink. So far, American has 900 mainline aircraft fitted with the high speed WiFi…they claim they will have more satellite-equipped aircraft than any other carrier when finished equipping the fleet. 

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.