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AMD has plans to support a little known chip for at least another 16 years — and no, it is neither a Ryzen, nor a Threadripper or an Epyc CPU

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Spartan UltraScale+ is the latest addition to AMD‘s extensive portfolio of cost-optimized Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and adaptive SoCs. It has been introduced to replace the Xilinx Spartan 6 and Spartan 7 lines.

The new Spartan UltraScale+ devices are designed for a wide range of I/O-intensive applications at the edge. AMD says its latest FPGAs can deliver up to 30 percent lower total power consumption compared to the previous generation – energy efficiency is a hot topic right now – while boasting the most robust set of security features in the AMD’s cost-optimized portfolio.

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Geologists reject the Anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch — after 15 years of debate

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After 15 years of discussion and exploration, a committee of researchers has decided that the Anthropocene — generally understood to be the age of irreversible human impacts on the planet — will not become an official epoch in Earth’s geological timeline. The ruling, first reported by The New York Times, is meant to be final, but is being challenged by two leading members of the committee that ran the vote.

Twelve members of the international Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) voted against the proposal to create an Anthropocene epoch, and only four voted for it. That would normally constitute an unqualified defeat, but a dramatic challenge has arisen from the chair of the SQS, palaeontologist Jan Zalasiewicz at the University of Leicester, UK, and one of the group’s vice-chairs, stratigrapher Martin Head at Brock University in St Catharines, Canada.

In a 6 March press statement, they said that they are asking for the vote to be annulled. They added that “the alleged voting has been performed in contravention of the statutes of the International Commission on Stratigraphy” (ICS), including statutes governing the eligibility to vote. Zalasiewicz told Nature that he couldn’t comment further just yet, but that neither he nor Head had “instigated the vote or agreed to it, so we are not responsible for procedural irregularities”.

The SQS is a subcommittee of the ICS. Normally, there would be no appeals process for a losing vote. ICS chair David Harper, a palaeontologist at Durham University, UK, had confirmed to Nature before the 6 March press statement that the proposal “cannot be progressed further”. Proponents could put forward a similar idea in the future.

If successful, the proposal would have codified the end of the current Holocene epoch, which has been going on since the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago, and set the start of the Anthropocene in the year 1952. This is when plutonium from hydrogen-bomb tests showed up in the sediment of Crawford Lake near Toronto, Canada, a site chosen by some geologists to be designated as a ‘golden spike’ as capturing a pristine record of humans’ impact on Earth. Other signs of human influence in the geological record include microplastics, pesticides and ash from fossil-fuel combustion.

But pending the resolution of the challenge, the lake and its plutonium residue won’t get a golden spike. Selecting one site as such a marker “always felt a bit doomed, because human impacts on the planet are global”, says Zoe Todd, an anthropologist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. “This is actually an invitation for us to completely rethink how we define what the world is experiencing.”

A cultural concept

Although the Anthropocene probably will not be added to the geological timescale, it remains a broad cultural concept already used by many to describe the era of accelerating human impacts, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. “We are now on a fundamentally unpredictable planet in ways that we have not experienced for the last 12,000 years,” says Julia Adeney Thomas, a historian at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana. “That understanding of the Anthropocene is crystal clear.”

The decision to reject the designation was made public through The New York Times on 5 March, after the SQS had concluded its month-long voting process, but before committee leaders had finalized discussions and made an official announcement. Philip Gibbard, a geologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who is on the SQS, says that the crux of the annulment challenge is that Zalasiewicz and Head objected to the voting process kicking off on 1 February. The rest of the committee wanted to move forward with a vote and did so according to SQS rules, Gibbard says. “There’s a lot of sour grapes going on here,” he adds.

Had the proposal made it through the SQS, it would have needed to clear two more hurdles: first, a ratification vote by the full stratigraphic commission, and then a final one in August at a forum of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

Frustrated by defeat

Some of those who helped to draw up the proposal, through an Anthropocene working group commissioned by the SQS, are frustrated by the apparent defeat. They had spent years studying a number of sites around the world that could represent the start of a human-influenced epoch. They performed fresh environmental analyses on many of the sites, including studying nuclear debris, fossil-fuel ash and other markers of humans’ impact in geological layers, before settling on Crawford Lake.

“We have made it very clear that the planet we’re living on is different than it used to be, and that the big tipping point was in the mid-twentieth century,” says Francine McCarthy, a micropalaeontologist at Brock University who led the Crawford Lake proposal1. Even though the SQS has rejected it, she says she will keep working to highlight the lake’s exceptionally preserved record of human activities. “Crawford Lake is just as great a place as it ever was.”

“To be honest, I am very disappointed with the SQS outcome,” says working-group member Yongming Han, a geochemist at the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Xi’an. “We all know that the planet has entered a period in which humans act as a key force and have left indisputable stratigraphic evidences.”

For now, the SQS and the ICS will sort out how to handle Zalasiewicz and Head’s request for a vote annulment. Meanwhile, scientific and public discussions about how best to describe the Anthropocene continue.

One emerging argument is that the Anthropocene should be defined as an event in geological history — similar to the rise of atmospheric oxygen just over two billion years ago, known as the Great Oxidation Event — but not as a formal epoch2. This would make more sense because geological events unfold as transformations over time, such as humans industrializing and polluting the planet, rather than as an abrupt shift from one state to another, says Erle Ellis, an ecologist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Baltimore. “We need to think about this as a broader process, not as a distinct break in time,” says Ellis, who resigned from the Anthropocene working group last year because he felt it was looking at the question too narrowly.

This line of thinking played a part in at least some of the votes to reject the idea of an Anthropocene epoch. Two SQS members told Nature they had voted down the proposal in part because of the long and evolving history of human impacts on Earth.

“By voting ‘no’, they [the SQS] actually have made a stronger statement,” Ellis says: “that it’s more useful to consider a broader view — a deeper view of the Anthropocene.”

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How 19 years of Amazon Prime has satisfied our need for speed

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Just as Engadget was hitting publish on its first posts, I was putting a freshly minted English degree to use working at an indie bookshop in Los Angeles. In seemingly unrelated news, Amazon had just reported its first profitable year after switching from selling books to selling “everything” four years before. (It still sold a lot of books.)

Our bookstore did a good job keeping shelves stocked with a balance of the more worthy popular hits and smaller, better fare. But we couldn’t have every book a customer might want, so we offered to order any in-print title. If a distributor had it, it’d take about a week to get in, longer if we had to go through the publisher. That seemed fine for most customers.

But sometimes “about a week” was too long. A few people came right out and said, “Nah, I’ll order it on Amazon.” In 2005, Amazon launched Prime, the membership program that, for $79 a year, gave customers unlimited two-day shipping on most orders. At launch, CEO Jeff Bezos called it “‘all-you-can-eat’ express shipping.” No one knew at the time how hungry the world was for Amazon’s brand of convenience. And now, nearly two decades later, we’ve seen the shifts that accommodate that buffet — in labor, retail and the entire customer experience.

Prime wasn’t an overnight success. It’s estimated that six years after launch, just four million households paid for the service. But 10 years later, in 2021, Bezos claimed it had accrued 200 million members worldwide. Outside of that milestone, Amazon hasn’t made its membership numbers public, but it’s likely the figure is higher now.

That shipping should be both free and fast has become an expectation, and no company has done more to alter the landscape of logistics than Amazon. On its own, the company operates over a hundred warehouses in the US, each ranging from 600,000 to four million square feet. Each one employs between 1,000 and 1,500 people, and an army of around 750,000 robots works alongside humans in many locations.

The company operates a fleet of cargo planes, is experimenting with drone deliveries and deploys thousands of delivery vans — though none of those Amazon-branded vans are driven by actual employees. Rather, separate companies, known as delivery service partners (DSP), subcontract drivers to operate those vans. Amazon employs 1.5 million people either full or part time (with one million in the US), but those figures don’t include independent contractors and temporary personnel. In addition to the DSP program, Amazon Flex lets individuals use their own cars to deliver smile-emblazoned packages to porches. The company outsources delivery to traditional providers too, relying on both UPS and the US Postal Service, the latter it has compelled to deliver packages on Sundays since 2013.

Such vast orchestration to deliver Stanley Quenchers and pimple patches faster than anyone has paid off. However, it’s hard to look at growth and revenue numbers without considering the human costs. Contracted drivers pee in bottles because meeting quotas leaves no time for bathroom breaks. Workers sustain serious injuries at automated warehouses. The company has been sued for retaliatory firing, intrusive employee surveillance practices and failure to follow COVID safety guidelines. Amazon again made the dirty dozen list in 2023 for workplace safety, according to the advocacy group National COSH. And while it has taken steps to improve, with better compensation, the company takes anti-union actions typical of a massive corporation, joining others in calling the National Labor Relations Board “unconstitutional.”

Apart from worker issues, Amazon’s dominance has made life harder for retail businesses in general, particularly the big chains. The Amazon Effect became shorthand for the mall-emptying squeeze of e-commerce on traditional retail. Even businesses that team up with Amazon don’t fare well. Third-party sellers on the site are subject to punitive measures and must contend with increasing fees, which sometimes put them out of business. Sellers who do perform well have seen products copied and sold by Amazon’s private label. Notable partnerships have had dismal results, such as when Borders outsourced its early web sales or the exclusivity deal with Toys ‘R’ Us. Of course, Borders no longer exists, and Toys ‘R’ Us filed for bankruptcy in 2017.

Trying to beat Amazon on speed and price is pointless. Joining them is unwise. So retailers compete in other ways. At the bookstore, we focused on our strengths: a varied, multi-talented staff who could size up a customer’s reading tastes and stick a good book in their hands. If someone came into our store circa 2005 and said they were into fantasy, there’s a good chance our book buyer would pass them a copy of George R.R. Martin’s latest, years before HBO had anything to do with it.

We had a curated ‘zine section and hosted live events with bestselling authors, cult magazine founders and local writers. But mostly, we capitalized on folks who wanted something more from their shopping experience than just speed and convenience, people who didn’t mind if it took a week to get a book, as long as it came with a little local community. Some just wanted to browse books while sitting under the tree (there’s a tree in the middle of the store), petting a cat (in my day, that was Lucy) and listening to what we felt were pretty wicked playlists.

Today, Skylight Books is still a force of creativity and verve in the Los Feliz neighborhood, and it has even expanded into an annex next door. In general, after the initial casualties from the retail apocalypse and COVID, independent bookstores are doing OK, with established names staying put and new stores opening. Elsewhere in the retail industry, big chains continue to close locations, but independent retail seems to be growing. Personally, I enjoy the new bakeries, brewpubs and bulk stores that have sprung up around the neighborhoods where I now live.

I can’t, as a commerce writer, ignore that a decent portion of my job directs readers to Amazon’s website. The company is playing a part in displaying the very words you’re reading, as Engadget’s site is facilitated by Amazon Web Services (AWS) through Yahoo’s cloud partnership. The company is one of the biggest on the planet, the second largest employer in the US and a good portion of every retail dollar spent in the US goes into Amazon’s revenue chest.

With its acquisition of Whole Foods’ 500+ stores, Amazon is doing fine in the physical retail sector. Yet the company doesn’t tend to win when it tries to fabricate other retail experiences. Amazon Books, Amazon Style and Amazon 4-Star were all small-scale retail spaces that tried to leverage Amazon’s brand, massive trove of buyer data and cutting-edge retail technology. At their peak, those stores comprised about 70 brick-and-mortar locations, all of which are now closed. The cashierless Amazon Go still has more than 20 locations in the US, but Amazon shut down nine of them in 2023 and hasn’t announced plans to open more.

Those misfires could be statistically inevitable; more than half of new businesses go under before they hit the 10-year mark. But perhaps those stores failed because, as physical spaces, they couldn’t capitalize on Amazon’s primary strength: zero-effort buying. Shopping at Amazon.com isn’t particularly pleasant. The website is cluttered and confusing. Suspect products and fake reviews erode shoppers’ trust. It isn’t even the cheapest place to shop. But that 1-Click™ buy button and turbo delivery makes stuff appear on our doorsteps like it slid there on greased rails.

Yet when people get up the energy to leave their homes, they may hope for more: human experiences created by people from their own neighborhoods who do what they do out of passion, not because market data indicates dollars to be had in a given sector. With its trillion-dollar valuation, Amazon isn’t going anywhere, but under its massive shadow, there’s still room for businesses that focus on the human element of commercial transactions, places where people might want to spend some of the time Amazon’s speed and convenience may have saved them.

To celebrate Engadget’s 20th anniversary, we’re taking a look back at the products and services that have changed the industry since March 2, 2004.

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Good news for coral reef restoration efforts: Study finds ‘full recovery’ of reef growth within four years

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While the majority of the world’s reefs are now under threat or even damaged potentially beyond repair, a new study reported in the journal Current Biology on March 8 offers some encouraging news: efforts to restore coral reefs not only increase coral cover, but they can also bring back important ecosystem functions, and surprisingly fast.

“We found that restored coral reefs can grow at the same speed as healthy coral reefs just four years after coral transplantation,” says Ines Lange of University of Exeter, UK. “This means that they provide lots of habitat for marine life and efficiently protect the adjacent island from wave energy and erosion.”

“The speed of recovery that we saw was incredible,” she says. “We did not expect a full recovery of reef framework production after only four years.”

The work by Lange and her international colleagues represents the first reef carbonate budget trajectories at any coral restoration sites. The study was conducted at the Mars Coral Reef Restoration Programme in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, one of the largest restoration projects in the world. The project relies on transplanting corals and adding substrate to restore reefs badly damaged by blast fishing 30 or 40 years ago. Without human intervention, those reefs had shown no signs of recovering due to the presence of loose coral rubble that prevents young coral larvae from surviving.

The restoration effort has added a continuous network of sand-coated steel structures to consolidate the rubble and offer a structure for transplanting coral fragments. The question was whether and how quickly such restored sites would recover. To find out, the researchers measured the carbonate budgets of 12 sites that had been restored at different times, up to four years ago.

“Corals constantly add calcium carbonate to the reef framework while some fishes and sea urchins erode it away, so calculating the overall carbonate budget basically tells you if the reef as a whole is growing or shrinking,” Lange says. “Positive reef growth is important to keep up with sea-level rise, protect coastlines from storms and erosion, and provide habitat for reef animals.”

They wanted to know how long it takes to bring back healthy reef growth and its associated functions. Their data show that rapid growth of transplanted corals supports the recovery of coral cover and carbonate production. In fact, just four years in, the net carbonate budget had tripled such that it matched that at healthy control sites.

There were some important differences, however. Because branched corals had been transplanted preferentially over other corals, the makeup of the restored reef communities differs. The researchers say those differences “may affect habitat provision for some marine species and resilience to future heatwaves, as branching corals are more sensitive to bleaching.”

While longer-term study is necessary to see what happens over time and under stress, the findings show that active management actions can help to boost the resilience of reefs and bring back important ecosystem functions that are critical for marine life and local communities in relatively short periods of time, according to the researchers. They’re hopeful that, over time, restored reefs will naturally recruit a more diverse mix of coral species. However, they note that what will happen in any given location around the world will depend on many factors, including environmental conditions and restoration techniques.

“As is so often the case, there is no one-size-fits-all solution, but we hope that this positive example can be used as inspiration for other reef restoration projects around the world,” Lange says.

“These results give us the encouragement that if we can rapidly reduce emissions and stabilize the climate, we have effective tools to help regrow functioning coral reefs,” says Tim Lamont, a study co-author at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK.

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The Volkswagen Golf is 50 Years Old in 2024

No matter which generation – the secret of success was and still is the sum of all its characteristics. This is because the Golf has always been a perfect companion for everyday life, embodying versatility, functionality, reliability and quality. Over the decades, the portfolio has been expanded to include further variants: whether Golf GTI, Golf Cabriolet or Golf Variant, or many others. With each new model generation, state-of-the-art technologies, safety concepts and convenience features have been incorporated into the compact class. The Volkswagen Golf has thus democratised not just technologies such as the monitored catalytic converter and anti-lock braking system, but also airbags, cruise control and electronic assist systems as well as mild and plug-in hybrid drives.

In the anniversary year 2024, Volkswagen will present the evolutionary development of the eighth Golf generation. It will impress with visually refined features, new assist systems and powertrains, and also next-generation infotainment systems and software. The world premiere of the new Golf is just a few weeks away, with pre-sales scheduled for spring 2024.

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2.6 billion personal records have been compromised in 2 years

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An Apple-commissioned study has been released this week that reports threats to consumer data stored in the cloud have grown dramatically since the last report was published in December 2022. Report states that 2.6 billion personal records have been compromised by data breaches in past two years, highlighting the need for end‑to‑end encryption.

The study, conducted by MIT professor Dr. Stuart Madnick, reveals a disturbing trend. Data breaches have tripled between 2013 and 2022, and the situation further worsened in 2023. The report, aptly titled “The Continued Threat to Personal Data: Key Factors Behind the 2023 Increase,” provides a comprehensive overview of the escalating threats to personal data.

End‑to‑end encryption

End-to-end encryption is a method of secure communication that prevents third-parties from accessing data while it’s transferred from one end system or device to another. In end-to-end encryption, the data is encrypted on the sender’s system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it. Nobody in between, be it an internet service provider, application service provider, or hacker, can read it or tamper with it. Here are the key points to understand:

  • Encryption and Decryption: Data is transformed into a secure form (encrypted) before transmission and is only transformed back into its original form (decrypted) at the destination. This encryption and decryption happen only at the endpoints.
  • Keys Involved: End-to-end encryption typically involves public and private keys. The sender uses the recipient’s public key to encrypt the message. The recipient then uses their private key to decrypt it. This ensures that only the intended recipient can read the message.
  • Data Security During Transit: The data is unreadable to any servers, routers, or other systems it passes through. This is crucial for sensitive information, as it protects the data from potential interception or hacking attempts during transmission.
  • Applications: This form of encryption is widely used in various applications like messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal), email services (ProtonMail), and in transferring sensitive data over the internet.
  • Limitations and Challenges: While end-to-end encryption is effective at securing data in transit, it doesn’t protect against endpoint vulnerabilities. If a device is compromised, the data can be accessed. Additionally, if a user loses their private key, they lose access to their encrypted data.
  • Privacy and Legal Implications: End-to-end encryption is a crucial tool for ensuring privacy. However, it can also pose challenges for law enforcement, as it can make it difficult to access potentially critical information during investigations.

The increasing digitalization of personal and professional lives is a significant factor contributing to the rise in data breaches. As more data is stored in the cloud, it becomes an attractive target for cybercriminals. The report reveals that over 80 percent of breaches in 2023 involved data stored in the cloud, and attacks targeting cloud infrastructure nearly doubled from 2021 to 2022.

Despite robust security practices, even the most secure organizations are not immune to these threats. Consumer data can still be compromised by hackers, underscoring the importance of strong protections like end-to-end encryption.

Advanced Data Protection for iCloud

In response to these growing threats, Apple has introduced Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. This feature employs end-to-end encryption, offering users an additional layer of protection for their iCloud data in the event of a data breach. iCloud already protects 14 sensitive data categories using end-to-end encryption by default, and this number rises to 23 for users who enable Advanced Data Protection.

Apple’s commitment to data security is reflected in its innovative features like Lockdown Mode and Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. These features, combined with Apple’s long track record of engineering powerful and innovative solutions, make its products some of the most secure on the market. The threat landscape, however, continues to evolve. In 2023, the number of data breaches nearly tripled compared to 2013, and this trend is set to worsen, with nearly 20 percent more breaches in the first nine months of 2023 than in any prior year.

Ransomware attacks, in particular, have seen a significant increase in 2023. There were nearly 70 percent more attacks reported through September 2023 than in the first three quarters of 2022. In fact, there were more ransomware attacks through September 2023 than in all of 2022 combined, leading to alarming trends both in the U.S. and abroad.

The study underscores the urgent need for strong data protection measures in the face of escalating threats to personal data. The increasing digitalization of our lives, coupled with the growing sophistication of cybercriminals, makes robust security measures like end-to-end encryption more critical than ever.

As the threat landscape continues to evolve, companies like Apple are at the forefront, developing innovative solutions to protect consumer data. However, the responsibility for data protection is a shared one, requiring a collective effort from organizations, individuals, and policymakers alike.

Read the report The Continued Threat to Personal Data: Key Factors Behind the 2023 Increase in full to learn more about the personal records that have been compromised over the past two years. Here are some other articles you may find of interest on the subject of Apple iCloud :

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Samsung celebrates 54 years with discounts for Samsung Week

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Samsung is celebrating its 54-year anniversary and the company is kicking off Samsung Week with a range of discounts on various Samsung devices. This included devices like the Samsung Galaxy Fold5, the 77-inch OLED TV, the Samsung Odyssey G9 monitor, and much more.

Samsung is offering these discounts on their devices between the 23rd of October and the first of November and you can see more information on what they have planned below.

Kicking off Monday, October 23, through Wednesday, November 1, our loyal customers and innovation seekers are invited to start the gift giving season off right with savings during Samsung Week! And to make this year’s celebration even more special, beginning on Wednesday, October 25, we’re giving you the chance to turn your smart home wish list into a reality with 8 days of $4,000 awarded in prizes, totaling $32,0001. Here’s how it works:

  • On October 25 at 12pm ET, head to Samsung.com and create a shopping cart made up of your favorite Samsung products.
  • Then, submit a photo of your shopping cart, along with your name and e-mail, to enter for a chance to get $2,000 worth of products from your cart on us. Check back here on Wednesday to save the submission link and make sure to submit the photo of your cart before 11:59 pm ET each day!
  • Two random winners will be selected each day through November 1, for a total of 16 winners throughout the week. A new day means a new chance to win, so make sure to start each morning on Samsung.com for the chance to win a suite of Samsung products!

You can find out more information about the range of discounts that Samsung are offering on various devices over at their website at the link below.

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Audi TT celebrate 25 years

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The Audi TT is 25 years and 2023 is the final year of production for the TT, we are expecting to see the car in the future, although the next model will be an electric vehicle and it may launch under a different name.

Audi has been celebrating 25 years of the TT on the Isle of Man, the took the first generation TT along with the TTS Roadster Final Edition and TT RS Iconic Edition for a final photo shoot.

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“The TT was such a pivotal model for Audi back in the Nineties, and we’re still basking in its afterglow almost three decades after the original concept car became an overnight sensation,” says Director of Audi UK Andrew Doyle. “It was one of the key catalysts behind the incredible transformation our brand has undergone over the past quarter of a century, and in this special anniversary year its history and legacy richly deserve celebration.”

Final TT

Throughout its colourful life, the TT has been a particular favourite of performance car devotees in the UK, which has consistently ranked as one of its biggest markets. Overall, across the three generations, and factoring in every variant including S and RS, a total of just over 157,000 examples found homes here.

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You can find out more information about the Audi TT over at Audi’s website at the link below, the car has been iconic over the last 25 years and we are looking forward to seeing its replacement.

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Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro to get 7 years of software updates

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The new Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones were made official last week, the handsets come with Android 14 and Google has also revealed that these new smartphones will come with 7 years of software updates.

According to Google the 7 years of software updates for the latest Pixel smartphones will include Android OS updates, feature drops, and also security updates, you can see more details below.

Extending our commitment with Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro was a natural progression for us, especially as we’re seeing people use their Pixel phones longer and longer. To make this possible, we’ve been working to secure long-term commitments from partner teams, and put the necessary testing infrastructure in place.

We also dug into how we can deliver the highest quality, best tested updates to Pixel users on a consistent basis. As part of this effort, our security updates, bug fixes and feature updates won’t roll out on a specific day each month. Instead, we’ll deploy updates as soon as they’ve completed the necessary tests to ensure they improve the experience for all Pixel customers.

Seven years of software updates for the new Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro certainly sounds very impressive, you can find out more details over at Google’s website at the link below.

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