NextGeneration

The NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed provides a conceptual framework and a physical space to foster collaboration between research and operations to test and evaluate emerging technologies and science for NWS operations. Here, a scene from the 2020 Spring Experiment. Credit: NOAA Each winter, spring, and summer, extreme weather forecasters and researchers meet to test the latest, most promising severe weather forecast tools and…

AMD's Markham, Ontario-based office is looking for a system-on-chip verification engineer to work on a next-generation complex SoC. Developers from Canada typically work on numerous projects involving graphics processors, including GPUs and console SoCs, which may mean that AMD is already gathering engineers for next-generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony. Or is it? We have some doubts. "The team behind the chip powering Xbox, PlayStation, and the latest RDNA-family graphics chip is hiring for its Markham location…

LG Display has announced its next-generation OLED technology — dubbed OLED EX — which, according to the company, will increase brightness by up to 30 percent, boost picture accuracy and allow for smaller bezels in finished products.As per an announcement from the company, these improvements are due to two key changes. The first is the use of an element known as deuterium in the chemical make-up of LG's OLED panels, and the second is the incorporation of algorithmic image processing.LG said that the latter will predict the…

During today’s Google I/O event, the company gave us a quick teaser of what we can expect from its next revolutionary smartphone: The Pixel 7. Although the focus was primarily on the Pixel products that are coming now — the Pixel 6a, Pixel Watch, and Pixel Buds Pro — Google also wants to make sure it’s whetting our appetites for the next big entry in its smartphone lineup. While it’s not launching until later this year, we’d already heard enough to know not to expect any significant design changes, so today’s teaser…

Apple has started widespread internal testing of several new Mac models with next-generation M2 chips, according to developer logs, part of its push to make more powerful computers using homegrown processors.The company is testing at least nine new Macs with four different M2-based chips — the successors to the current M1 line — with third-party apps in its App Store, according to the logs, which were corroborated by people familiar with the matter. The move is a key step in the development process, suggesting that the…