Didn’t have time to follow the news yesterday? Here’s what stood out on Wednesday, January 4: a new Volkswagen electric sedan announced at CES, a lighting kit to attach to the back of the TV and Microsoft would seek to integrate ChatGPT with Bing. To not miss any news, remember to subscribe to the Frandroid newsletter.
Volkswagen ID.7: a new electric sedan with more autonomy than a Tesla Model 3
During the CES in Las Vegas, the German car manufacturer Volkswagen partially unveiled its very first completely electric sedan, the Volkswagen ID.7. Completing the range alongside the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5 and ID.Buzz in particular, this car has strong claims with an announced range of 700 km on the WLTP cycle. The sedan is also very wide with a wheelbase of 2.97 meters and a length of 4.94 meters long. The new Volkswagen ID.7 will be launched in autumn 2023 in Europe, at a price which has not yet been announced, but which is expected between 50 and 70,000 euros.
No more Ambilight with this bright $100 4D TV kit
Also at CES 2023, the connected lighting manufacturer Nanoleaf unveiled a new product that could appeal to owners of non-Philips televisions. The brand has indeed presented Nanoleaf 4D, an LED strip kit that can be attached to the back of your television to reproduce an effect similar to that of Ambilight technology. To do this, Nanoleaf uses a camera that will analyze the image on the screen and reproduce lights in its tints. In addition, connected lighting requires, it is possible to synchronize the colors of all the lights in the living room with those of the light strip.
Microsoft is reportedly working to merge Bing and ChatGPT to kill Google
Particularly popular for several weeks, the ChatGPT bot, which allows you to converse with a particularly realistic rendering, seems to have caught the attention of Microsoft. According to The Information, the Redmond firm has decided to integrate the conversational robot into its search engine, Bing. The deployment would begin before the end of March and would allow Bing to distinguish itself from Google with much clearer answers not only to queries, but also to questions from Internet users.
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