SAS expands support for additional cloud providers

Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud join growing list

VIRTUAL SAS GLOBAL FORUM 2021 - SAS continues its commitment to ensuring advanced analytics run where customers locate their data. As part of its strategic partnership with Microsoft, SAS Viya was released in November on Microsoft Azure. Raising the bar, SAS now expands cloud-native support for Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, with Red Hat OpenShift coming later this year.

Sony’s BRAVIA XR Series is the World’s First Cognitive Intelligence TV

As announced at the CES 2021, Sony Electronics is launching the world’s first TV lineup powered by a “Cognitive Processor XR” chip that uses a completely new processing method, designed to replicate the way our brains think and respond.

This is the new generation of smart TVs where it just got even smarter! 

The Cognitive Processor XR which is powered by cognitive intelligence, is designed to make you feel the reality of what you’re watching to present a more human perspective on-screen – for an experience that’s closer to the real world and puts you deeper into every scene.

Imagine yourself casually watching television and you unconsciously focus on certain points of an object. 

Realme Buds Q2 launches on May 20, guarantees ‘audio made even better’

The no. 1 smartphone brand in the Philippines is set to launch its latest TWS offering with better style, quality, and listening experience.

In just a short period since its launch in 2018, the country’s no. 1 smartphone brand realme has emerged as one of the best-selling TWS brands in the Philippines, with an overall brand portfolio of over 150,000 users as of April 2021.

Following the impressive market performances of the realme Buds Q and the realme Buds Air series, realme continues to strengthen its position in the AIoT (artificial intelligence of things) category with the upcoming launch of its newest TWS (True Wireless Stereo) device -- the realme Buds Q2.

Promising audio made even better, the realme Buds Q2 offers improved style, listening experience, connectivity, and quality, that digital-savvy Filipinos are sure to appreciate.

Fashion and function: Things to love about the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip

Samsung changed the smartphone landscape with its portfolio of foldable smartphones. Galaxy Z Flip, for example, did not just define a new form factor. Lauded as a luxury smartphone that functions as both a mobile device and fashion accessory, Galaxy Z Flip’s stylish body designed for trendsetters used to the finer things in life is a fresh take among sleek and futuristic powerhouses.

The Galaxy Z Flip’s Mirror Black and Mirror Purple exterior can be compared to a gem, shifting colors as it catches the light when in motion. It’s the final touch to any outfit worthy of best-dressed lists. When not in use, it is compact enough to be stored in the pocket or a fashionable clutch.

When folded, a minimalist cover screen alerts its user when a call, text, or notification comes in. App Continuity lets users tap the notification and seamlessly transitions to the app when the cover screen is tapped and the smartphone is unfolded. Samsung’s Hideaway Hinge gives a graceful folding motion, inspired by the elegance of lotus blossoms. 

vivo-ZEISS partnership unleashes groundbreaking smartphone camera capabilities in the X60

Customers can now pre-order the flagship smartphone vivo X60 from May 15 to May 21

Have you been trying to nail that Instagrammable portrait in one of those midnight sessions with your friends with just a smartphone? Or to capture that winning shot from your son’s intense basketball game in high definition?

Crystal clear photos of these magical moments were only possible using professional cameras before. But as innovations in smartphone camera technology accelerates, these beautiful life moments can now be recorded conveniently and spontaneously with just a single tap on a single light and thin device.

Get your hands on the new flagship vivo X60 ahead of everyone by pre-ordering from May 15 to 21. The vivo X60 is the first innovation of vivo’s partnership with master lens maker ZEISS. Some of its first-in-smartphone features are the Extreme Night Mode 2.0, Optical Image Stabilization and the different Scene Modes like HDR Super Night Portrait and Pro Sports.

Google to hold University Verification Workshops to help fight misinformation in the country

Google News Initiative (GNI) will be hosting free University Verification Workshops from May 24 to June 9, 2021 for students, journalists, and fact-checkers. Interested participants may register via this form.

GNI is a Google program that aims to help journalism to thrive in the digital age by strengthening and elevating quality journalism, and empowering news organizations to leverage technology for newsroom innovation.

Epson launches first 76-inch Industrial Dye-Sublimation Textile Printer with LcLm Inks and Fluorescent Solution

Epson expands its 76” printer series and offers customers greater flexibility with the SC-F10030H, a new dye-sublimation printer that comes with two additional colour options: Fluorescent Yellow and Fluorescent Pink or Light Cyan and Light Magenta, to address the market’s fluorescent and light ink colour demand.

This new dye-sublimation textile printer is the first in Epson’s textile large format printer genre with 6 new PrecisionCore™ Micro TFP printheads and the option for Light Cyan and Light Magenta (LcLm) inks. Working together, these new features enable the highest productivity possible in continuous printing of bright, vibrant textiles.