A Czech AI startup says it can detect drones by sound for €150 per sensor, and it wants to wire up power grids first

TL;DR Czech startup Neuron Soundware built Sound Shield, an AI acoustic drone detection system using €100-150 sensors that consume 1W each. Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built an AI-powered acoustic detection system called Sound Shield that identifies drones by the sound of their engines using microphone sensors that cost between €100 and €150 each. The…

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Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Reality Elite and a white-label toolkit for AI glasses, betting the next platform is not a phone

Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Reality Elite and a white-label toolkit for AI glasses, betting the next platform is not a phone

TL;DR Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon Reality Elite for MR headsets and START, a turnkey smart glasses toolkit. CEO says 40+ AI wearable designs are underway. Qualcomm announced two products on Tuesday aimed at positioning the company as the silicon supplier for whatever computing device eventually displaces the smartphone. The first is Snapdragon Reality Elite, a mixed…

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Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next major computing platform won’t be a phone at all. To power that vision, Qualcomm is…

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