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  Acer’s new Swift Edge laptop is the company’s venture into the  portable OLED space , which is currently occupied by only a few other tech companies. The Swift Edge comes in at only 2.58 lbs despite having a decently large 16-in. screen. Its thickness is impressive, too, coming in at only 12.95mm thick. It has a 3840 x 2400 screen resolution, displays in 4K HDR, and has an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U eight-core processor. And with a number of other high-end features, like Wi-Fi 6E compatibility, the  Swift Edge  could be a formidable product in the growing portable OLED field. It starts at $1,499.  In other news, Amazon has announced that it is  scaling back its Scout delivery program . For those that don’t know, Scout is the company’s sidewalk-based delivery system which uses cube-shaped, wheeled robots to deliver packages. While not ending the program all together, Amazon will be ending field tests for the delivery bots. This announcement comes as Amazon’s drone ...

Google has announced its Nest Wifi Pro, which is a high-speed router. It supports tri-band Wi-Fi 6E, is equipped with dual-band 802.11ac capabilities, and can connect to 100 devices per router. There is no backwards compatibility with Wi-Fi features as this new Nest Wifi is built differently. Another interesting feature of the new Wifi Pro is that it can act as a Thread border router, which allows for smart home connectivity and even the ability to act as a Matter hub later this year. There are a  number of other features  and specs to this new Wifi Pro, and it will cost $199 for a single router.  In other news, the audio brand House of Marley has announced the  Get Together 2 XL Bluetooth Speaker . The speaker is designed with sustainability in mind, and using bamboo and reclaimed and recycled fabric in part for its build, it manages to be both water and dust resistant with an IP65 rating. It has two 4-in. woofers, 1-in. tweeters and dual-passive radiators, and can ...

  The metaverse can be defined in many ways, but in a broad sense, it’s an interconnected, virtual, real-time world that is often in 3D and VR, but can also be in 2D. In some ways, it’s no different from the virtual environments such as Second Life or massively-multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) including World of Warcraft, EVE Online, and the like. What’s new in today’s evolving metaverse is increased 3D realism via VR , more interconnectedness between worlds, and improved AI. As a result, brands, institutions, and technology companies — Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is perhaps the most prominent example — are flocking to the space to stake virtual territorial claims. Companies and developers for today’s metaverse are focused on creating more realistic virtual beings, or avatars, which can be operated by actual humans or AI. The increased sophistication and accuracy of natural language processing (NLP) software and computer vision brings greater pot...

  A recent survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce found that the United States is facing a daunting shortage of semiconductor chips , which are used to manufacture cars, electronics, medical devices, and other products. At the moment, median inventory among chip consumers in the U.S. is down to just five days from 40 days prior to the start of the pandemic. This means that if something unforeseen were to happen to current chip production, such as another COVID-19 outbreak, most companies would only be able to manufacture products for 5 days before being forced to shut down.  Between 2019 and 2021, demand for chips has grown a whopping 17 percent while the supply of chips saw no relative growth. Increasing chip-making capacity is a process that requires significant amounts of lead times and financial investment. For example, Intel has announced that it is investing $20 billion to create chip plants in Ohio, but the factories are only set to begin...

The male-dominated tech industry will see a change in the future because more women are getting involved with technology . Women have been scarce in the tech industry for the past few decades, but avenues are opening up for them. The global Tech Up for Women Conference is an all-day event to help women advance their careers by hearing experts speak about the future of tech and connecting with other women in the tech business. “This event started with a woman who said she wanted to learn new technology to advance her career,” said Dawn Pratt, Tech Up For Women’s founder and managing partner. The Tech Up for Women organization is also a larger platform that hosts career and recruitment fairs and conducts the Tech Up Talks webinar series, which is focused on helping women advance their tech knowledge. “Technology is constantly growing and is an important factor to career growth,” said Pratt, “the mission of Tech Up for Women was to spread the belief that knowledge of tech is critical fo...