How AI Is taking over our gadgets
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Christopher Mims
, The Wall Street Journal
AI is moving from data centers to devices, making everything from phones to tractors faster and more private. These newfound smarts also come with pitfalls
Share Via If you think of AI as something futuristic and abstract, start thinking different. We’re now witnessing a turning point for artificial intelligence, as more of it comes down from the clouds and into our smartphones and automobiles. While it’s fair to say that AI that lives on the “edge where you and I are is still far less powerful than its datacenter-based counterpart, it’s potentially far more meaningful to our everyday lives.
Users are taking to the Apple Support Forum to complain of a severe battery drain issue with their iPhones after updating to iOS 14.6. iPhone users are accustomed to seeing the battery power go down by a few points overnight, but users are reporting of ‘excessive’ battery drainage after updating to iOS 14.6. One user said that their iPhone XS battery drained to 30 percent in the morning after fully charging it before going to sleep. This is to say the battery drained by a massive 70 percent even when the phone was left idle.
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It appears the smallest design from Apple’s 2020’s phones may stick around for the iPhone 13, after all.
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That’s just one of several predictions about the next generation of iPhones from noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to an investor note obtained and reported by 9to5Mac on Monday, Kuo stated that we may see “four models and the same screen sizes” in the iPhone 13 lineup, just as we did with Apple’s 2020 phones, which included the iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max.
This seems to contradict earlier rumors that the Mini may be on the chopping block. Earlier reports suggested that the Mini is not selling particularly well, with a report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners stating it accounted for just 6% of sales in the months immediately following its launch. But Kuo has previously predicted four phone sizes for the 2021 lineup, and he’s usually spot on.
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