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Cars stand parked ready for export in Wilhelmshaven port on July 16, 2022 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. ... [+] The German economy is facing challenges stemming from global supply chain shortages as well as Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. (Photo by David Hecker/Getty Images)Getty ImagesHere's one reason why GM may have ditched Cruise robotaxis: carmakers will earn more than half of their revenue from software and digital services by 2035.That's according to a report from IBM, Alliance for Automotive Innovation, AWS, and Red Hat, which surveyed 1,200 industry executives to predict what's next for cars. In short: electric, software designed and some, but not full, autonomy.Three-quarters of respondents predicted that vehicles will be "software defined" and powered by AI.A software-defined vehicle (SDV) is when everything about the car is controlled by software, not just the entertainment or navigation, but how the car works, its features, and even how it drives and that includes driverless technologies, with two-thirds of industry execs believing customers will expect autonomous features of some sort by 2035. Potentially, SDVs can be upgraded via their software, sort of like when Apple releases an iOS update that adds tools to an iPhone."They foresee an extensive transformation where software and AI are applied not just to in-car experiences but to the very core of the vehicle its controls, its functions, and its interactions with the driver and the world around it," the report said.MORE FOR YOUDriverless dollars nowAnd car execs expect to make 51% of their revenue across such digital services and car software by 2035, up from 15% today. The shift to a subscription model could boost margins in the industry and that means higher costs for customers.Indeed, IBM predicted that autonomous driving features will help generate $269 in monthly recurring revenue by 2035.Some of that will come from "over the air" (OTA) upgrades, with car owners able to upgrade features in order to extend the life of the vehicle or take advantage of new services. The survey showed that six in ten execs believe customers will want this function by 2035.Not driverless, but some autonomyNo wonder carmakers are stepping away from robotaxis GM pulled funding for autonomous taxi firm Cruise, in favour of investing in autonomy for private vehicles.A Cruise, which is a driverless robot taxi, is seen during operation in San Francisco, California, ... [+] USA on July 24, 2023.Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe report noted that 18% of carmakers plan to invest to develop in-house capabilities for developing vehicle technology systems, including automation.Of course, being able to extract extra cash from car owners doesn't mean there's no money to be made in robotaxis after all, Waymo just expanded to Tokyo, its first foreign market. But the reports findings do point to an easier, faster route to paying for driverless development by adding autonomy to cars for a fee, just as Telsa has long done.Indeed, Tesla charges $99 for what it calls supervised full-self driving, though that requires an eligible vehicle. In the US, Ford charges $49.99 a month for BlueCruise, its version of level-2 driverless autonomy, but again only on eligible vehicles; there's also an option for a one-off payment of $2,495.Slow road to driverless and SDVsWhile the report predicts two-thirds of car drivers will expect some autonomous features by 2035, they believe those features will stay limited to level two and level three levels of autonomy where the driver must maintain attention and be ready to take back the wheel. The execs predicted fewer than a quarter of the market will have more advanced features by then.A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi is stopped at a light while driving along a street on ... [+] March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Beginning today, Waymo One is offering robotaxi services in a 63-square mile area of greater Los Angeles including Santa Monica, Venice and downtown with over 50,000 people on the wait list. Waymo is owned by Alphabet, Googles parent company. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Getty Images"Even if the technical challenges for high-level autonomous driving are cleared, regulatory issues and societal acceptance take more time and effort," the report quoted Kenichi Takagi, Vice President, Connected Systems R&D, Denso International America, as saying.Autonomy and SDVs both face challenges. One is security after all, a hacked car is a scary thought indeed while another is skills, as carmakers need staff with strong software talents alongside knowledge in vehicle development. The biggest challenge, according to the study, was complexity, with a need for standard interfaces between technology layers to allow in-car systems to safely share information."Automakers are increasingly moving to highly centralized, powerful high-performance compute (HPC), or domain control, units that can separate hardware and make software more manageable and easier to update," the report noted. "But this shift is exposing issues, with 79% of executives citing the technical complexity of separating the hardware and software layers as a moderate or significant SDV challenge. In fact, 47% say it is their number-one challenge."And that means that SDVs may have a hard road ahead to arrive in force by 2035, regardless of what execs say today.

Villi Iltchev raised $160 million for his debut seed fund, Category Ventures.Villi IltchevBulgaria-born Villi Iltchev built an unlikely career as an early investor in now-public GitLab generating $900 million in profits from one deal among other unicorns like Remote. Now with Category Ventures, hes hoping to do it again this time for himself.After years working on the Autopilot driver assistance software at Elon Musks Tesla, entrepreneur Ian Glow wasnt impressed by the investors circling his simulations startup, Zeromatter. Then he met with Villi Iltchev, a managing director at Two Sigma Ventures.Iltchev didnt need him to explain why computer simulations were valuable for any industry using sensors to train for safety exceptions, Glow said. And Iltchev didnt presume to tell Glow how to run his business, despite Zeromatter being not much more than a pitch deck at the time.Villi understood my life arc as it related to my business, said Glow, who decided to work with Iltchev over several name-brand firms. He knew that Id reported to Elon for a while, and I didnt want a boss in a VC.A Bulgarian immigrant who came to the U.S. alone as a teenager and scrapped his way through schools far from Stanford and the Ivy League, Iltchev took an uphill journey to the ranks of top VCs. He paid his dues in executive roles at companies including LifeLock, Salesforce and Box before becoming a full-time venture investor. Even then, he opted to take partner roles at smaller firms August Capital and Two Sigma over flashier brands. At age 48, hes not a hotshot new arrival. Where others post thought leadership bait on social media hoping to go viral, he shares pictures of his lost collection of old (mostly bootleg) tape cassettes.Soft-spoken but with a hyper-competitive personality, Iltchev has quietly built a venture track record that stands up to more pedigreed peers. When GitLab went public in 2021, his lead check in the $20 million Series B of the developer software maker in 2016 returned August Capitals entire $450 million fund more than twice over, generating hundreds of millions in profits from just one deal. (GitLab now trades at a market capitalization just under $10 billion.) In 2020 at Two Sigma, Iltchev led an $11 million seed round in Remote that valued the distributed work software maker at about $30 million, according to startup data tracker PitchBook; within two years, Remote raised $300 million in fresh funding at a valuation exceeding $3 billion.Now, Iltchev is looking to do it again this time as the boss at a new firm, Category Ventures. He has raised $160 million for Categorys first fund, which plans to write checks of $1.5 million to $5 million to pre-seed and seed-stage startups on his longtime turf of enterprise software. Focuses will include applications, infrastructure and developer tools, as well as artificial intelligence.Iltchev raised the fund alone, making it one of the larger first-time solo funds to debut in recent years. He does plan to add more partners in upcoming months, with a goal of building a lasting venture brand for the next several decades.I cant control my judgment always being right, and I cant control the outcomes, Iltchev told Forbes. What I can control is what I bring to the table in terms of my ability to help and do the hard work.In Bulgaria, Iltchevs father was a physicist with a PhD and his mother a civil engineer when its communist regime toppled in 1990, plunging both their careers into turmoil. He was 15 when they moved to nearby Greece, where his father took up construction work and his mother became a maid. Eager to improve his prospects, Iltchev applied to a number of boarding schools in the U.S. and the U.K., hoping to receive a scholarship, even if it meant leaving his family behind.When a small school in Georgia obliged, Iltchev jumped at the opportunity, quickly improving his English and parlaying his talent as a youth champion at tennis back in Bulgaria into another scholarship to a small Christian college in South Carolina. From there, he worked his way up the ladder: a graduate accounting degree from Clemson University led to a job at PwC; an MBA from the University of Virginia secured a ticket to San Francisco via a banking job at Merrill Lynch. Next, it was the tech industry itself, through a string of corporate development and strategy roles starting at HP in 2008, then Salesforce, LifeLock and Box, a startup he met and helped back through Salesforce Ventures, the tech giants venture capital arm.Iltchev was an executive at Box when it went public in January 2015.Associated PressAfter Boxs 2015 initial public offering, Iltchev considered launching his own small private equity firm, but settled upon venture investing as a young partner at a 20-year-old firm, August Capital. There, he backed GitLab and helped bring in SendBird and MaintainX, both of which later reached billion-dollar valuations. Then, in late 2018, August imploded. Tempted to launch his own fund, Iltchev met with potential backers but ultimately balked. Instead, he joined Two Sigma Ventures, the venture arm of the multi-billion-dollar trading firm Two Sigma.As Two Sigmas billionaire founders began a messy public feud earlier this year (in August, they announced they would both step down as co-CEOs), Iltchev was growing restless. A market opportunity existed in venture, he believed, for a relatively bigger but still early-stage-only firm to take more ownership of seed rounds. An outfit like that could win head-to-head against multi-billion-dollar multi-stage firms he believed couldnt offer the same focus and hustle.Investors in venture funds, including funds-of-funds and institutions like the University of Chicago, were quick to agree. There are some excellent enterprise investors in the Bay Area, but they tend to sit in different kinds of vehicles, said Beezer Clarkson, who leads investing in venture funds for Sapphire Partners. Accolade Partners managing partner Atul Rustgi said Iltchevs track record was one of the best weve seen out there among first-time funds. His background is very important, too, said Rustgi. Working his ass off to come here and work his way up, thats motivation that is hard to quantify.Word of Iltchevs fundraising plans were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.Founders who worked with Iltchev said they werent surprised to see him launch Category. At startup Candu, cofounder and CEO Jonathan Anderson said Iltchev had made about 200 introductions for the product experience software startup since pre-empting its seed round, ten times more than other investors on the cap table. Hes exactly as he presents, Anderson said.When Iltchev does tell founders to rethink their strategies as he did at Candu about its pricing model, and more recently at Zeromatter, where CEO Glow resisted setting up even a simple corporate website that has since proven a major source of job applications hes often right, they added.A year ago, when one of Remotes cofounders was looking for a new place to live in San Francisco, Iltchev helped find him a nearby home, said CEO Job van der Voort. Theyre still happily next-door neighbors. Thats a pretty good data point that Villis a pleasant person to work with, said van der Voort. And apparently, he makes good pizza.For Iltchev, Category Ventures now represents the chance to build something for himself to outlast him finally, the face of the operation after a career as the self-described immigrant kid who had nobody, stumbling through.If I didnt do this, Id regret it. Its such an opportunity, Iltchev said. If I fall on my face, Ill be fine, and I want my kids to see it. And if Im successful, I want my kids to see that, too.

Why it matters: Search for PSPs on any second-hand marketplace and you'll find scores with broken screens, but maybe those owners wouldn't let go of such a treasured artifact if they knew about the "PS Placeable." This clever new mod gives those old units an awesome second life as a cute, pint-sized retro gaming console. The PS Placeable is the brainchild of Retro Mod Works. Essentially, they've taken the guts from a PSP-2000 or PSP-3000 model and transplanted them into a miniature recreation of the classic PlayStation 2 design. Images on the site also show the shell in several colors, including red, blue, white, and silver.The result is an adorably tiny console that can play all your old PSP games on a TV using the system's original UMD discs. You can even connect a wireless DualShock 4 controller just like you would with a regular PlayStation.Of course, PSP fans have been able to get their favorite games on TV, PC, and mobile for years through workarounds like emulation. But the PS Placeable is unique in that it provides a true console experience while still taking advantage of the original hardware and game discs.Perhaps that's why the mod has been a huge hit so far the site shows it's already out of stock. The creator says they've received over a hundred orders in just 24 hours. That's impressive considering the console doesn't exactly come cheap at $274.99.Alternatively, you can supply your own PSP and pay $175 for Retro Mod Works via a "custom order" to do the conversion. Or for the ultimate cost savings, you can buy just the components for under $100 and handle the intricate modding process yourself using their instructions. // Related StoriesAll said, the PS Placeable is pretty ingenious when you think about it. There are countless old PSPs out there with broken screens or other issues that render them unplayable. This gives them a new purpose.The PS Placeable isn't a perfect solution, though. You still have to deal with PSP games not being optimized for TV resolutions. Pairing wireless controllers also requires using a separate web app. Still, for retro gamers who have been holding onto their PSP collections, it's undoubtedly a cool way to re-experience those classic games in a whole new way.

Rumor mill: Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, which spearheaded a recent push to promote Arm-based Windows, have exclusively powered laptops so far. However, new reports suggest that the company's next-generation lineup will fulfill its promise to expand into desktops following its canceled mini PC. Established leaker Roland Quandt believes the previously leaked follow-up to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite series of CPUs is intended for desktops. Numerous laptops featuring the chips launched earlier this year running an Arm-based version of Windows, and the company aims to expand into other form factors.The Snapdragon X2 Elite (or possibly X Elite 2), codenamed Project Glymur, initially appeared in international import-export databases in late September, according to WinFuture. Hardware details are scarce, but Qualcomm previously used special housing to test the NAND and RAM chips for a new flagship processor with the model number SC8480XP.I think Qualcomm is coming for the desktop with Snapdragon "X Elite 2". They're testing "Project Glymur" SC8480XP with an AIO liquid cooler feat 120mm fan(s?), just like what you'd use in a (gaming) desktop Roland Quandt (@rquandt.bsky.social) December 9, 2024 at 8:26 PMQuandt reports that the company has begun testing the CPU with AIO liquid coolers resembling those typically used for gaming desktops, suggesting Qualcomm is aiming for higher-end sectors. Snapdragon X Elite laptops have demonstrated modest gaming performance thus far, but seeing what they can accomplish with higher power budgets could be intriguing.The company announced plans to bring Snapdragon to all PC form factors at a July Computex presentation but has since remained silent on the subject. Qualcomm unveiled a Snapdragon X Elite mini PC for use as a dev kit earlier in the year but abruptly ceased selling and supporting the device in October. // Related StoriesGeekom might become the first company to release a Snapdragon X desktop. The mini PC manufacturer hasn't formally announced the device, but a leaked promo image reveals that it will be called the QS series and house the top-end X Elite CPU in an aluminum chassis.Although various laptop manufacturers released new models featuring Qualcomm's chips, they haven't amassed a significant presence in the overall PC market yet. Lower prices, which the company promises will come next year, could help attract customers.GenAI is a primary selling point of Snapdragon X Elite and other "AI PC" processors, but users have shown little interest in the technology. Instead, Qualcomm's main advantage might be longer battery life, with some laptops featuring the company's chips lasting a whole day on a single charge.The likelihood of desktops running Windows on Arm is expected to increase with the emergence of Arm CPUs from other manufacturers. Nvidia has teased plans for one in 2025, and Arm previously stated that more clients are preparing chips.

Table of ContentsTable of ContentsHell or High Water (2016)Horizon: An American Saga (2024)The Harder They Fall (2021)Unforgiven (1992)Montana Story (2021)After five seasons and plenty of behind-the-scenes drama, YellowstoneIf youre looking for movies that have the same vibe asYellowstone, weve got you covered. Weve pulled together five movies that get at different elements of what made the series great.Recommended VideosWe also have guides to the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu,the best movies on Max,andthe best movies on Disney+.RelatedLionsgate/CBS Films, 2016 / LionsgateBefore Taylor Sheridan createdYellowstone, he was the writer behindHell or High Water. Instead of telling the story of a wealthy ranching family, though,Hell or High Waterfollows two brothers who decide to rob the branches of the bank that has foreclosed on their family home.As they make their way across Texas, theyre chased by a veteran lawman who seems to have a few tricks of his own up his sleeve.Hell or High Waterhas the same cadences and rhythms asYellowstone, but the writing is even sharper, and its complemented by some genuinely thrilling action.You can watchHell or High Water on Amazon Prime Video.Horizon: An American Saga | Official Trailer #2If what you liked aboutYellowstonewas actually its star, then you might be curious to check out what Kevin Costner made instead of the shows final season. Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1is supposed to be the start of a multipart epic about the founding of the American West, but the first movie didnt make enough money to make future chapters inevitable.As incomplete asChapter 1 is, though, theres definitely things about it that are worth watching. The movie is organized into a series of disparate vignettes following various characters, and its incredibly sentimental and sincere. It wont be to everyones taste, but if you find yourself compelled, you should give it a try.You can watchHorizon: An American Saga on Max.The Harder They Fall | Official Trailer | NetflixA revisionist Western that has all the fun the genre can contain at its best,The Harder They Fall tells the story of an outlaw who discovers that his sworn enemy is being released from prison and decides to reunite his former gang in order to take revenge. The twist? The cast of The Harder They Fallis almost entirely Black.The film is lavishly shot and filled with stars, including Idris Elba and Regina King. In fact, the movie is packed with so much charisma that sometimes it seems like its going to burst. What the movie ultimately is, though, is just a heck of a lot of fun.You can watchThe Harder They Fallon Netflix.Warner Bros.One of the great Westerns ever made, Unforgivenis a reflection on Clint Eastwood and the violent legacy of his career. The director and star plays a retired outlaw who gets back in the game to collect a reward for catching two cowboys who disfigured a prostitute.As he clashes with the local sheriff, he reckons with the violence of his own past and his reticence to kill again. Unforgivenis a propulsive, entertaining movie, but its also a brilliant reflection on what the Western genre has wrought, both for good and for ill.You can watchUnforgivenon Max.MONTANA STORY | Official Trailer | Bleecker StreetA quiet, contemplative story set in the modern American West, Montana Storyfollows two siblings who return to Montana to take care of their ailing father. Haley Lu Richardson and Owen Teagues compelling central performances are the main reason to turn this movie on, but the stunning Montana vistas will remind you of Yellowstoneat its most beautiful.There definitely isnt as much soapy intrigue inMontana Storyas there is in a typical hour ofYellowstone, but it is another perspective on life in one of Americas most beautiful states.You can watch Montana Story onHulu.Editors Recommendations

As the year comes to a close, were hearing more about what Nvidia might have in store at CES next month. Not only is the company rumored to launch its RTX 50-series GPUs, which could take Nvidias best graphics cards to the next level, it could also introduce new software features. At least, thats what Nvidia board partner Inno3D is suggesting.The company, which is an exclusive Nvidia board partner, posted a press release detailing what it will cover at CES next month. In addition to its various GPU models, including the Frostbite range with a new liquid cooling solution and the SFF range for small form factor PCs, Inno3D highlighted an AI feature set including advanced DLSS technology, improved AI-driven upscaling, and neural rendering capabilities.Recommended VideosWeve already learned a lot about Nvidias RTX 50-series GPUs through various leaks and speculation, but thats all been related to the hardware itself. We havent heard anything about Nvidias future plans for Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). Inno3Ds press release might provide a few hints.Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming With the launch of the RTX 4090 in this past generation, Nvidia introduced DLSS 3. Its been a monumental achievement for Team Green, with the feature oftentimes justifying the purchase of an Nvidia graphics card. Since then, weve seen a big pickup in AMDs FSR 3, which matches the DLSS 3 package, and the introduction of Intels XeSS 2.RelatedAlthough AMD and Intel have tried to match what Nvidia is offering, DLSS has maintained a lead in features up to this point. Theres a good chance Nvidia wants to maintain that lead with the next version of DLSS, so its possible well see that next version arrive alongside the launch of RTX 50-series GPUs. Thats certainly what Inno3Ds press release suggests.The post says that the company will highlightnewAI-accelerated capabilities at CES, suggesting that this isnt just fluff about existing DLSS technology. Thats always a possibility, but weve heard suggestions about what future versions of DLSS might look like before. Nvidias CEO Jensen Huang has suggested DLSS will even generate textures and objects in the future, while Nvidias Bryan Catanzaro has mused about DLSS 10, where rendering wont even require a graphics card.At this point, there hasnt been anything concrete about a new version of DLSS, and certainly nothing confirming that itll arrive next month. However, its clear that DLSS is technology that Nvidia is invested in and wants to continue building upon. Inno3Ds press release isnt a confirmation that well see a new version of DLSS next month, but it certainly suggests that something new is coming down the pike.Editors RecommendationsTopics Jacob RoachLead Reporter, PC HardwareJacob Roach is the lead reporter for PC hardware at Digital Trends. In addition to covering the latest PC components, from The RTX 4070 Super is one of the best graphics cards you can buy, and it has a price to match, with most models going for $600 on Amazon. However, one lucky Redditor scored a model for just $49. No, it wasn't some steep sale, and most people would see a price like that and assume it's a scam. But sure enough, two days after finding a Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super Gaming OC for $48.94 on Amazon, the card showed up in the mail.You should absolutely assume that a price that's too good to be true is a scam on Amazon. We've seen just this year how scammers can infiltrate the third-party listings on Amazon to sell fake graphics cards, but this listing for the RTX 4070 Super was different. It was sold and shipped by Amazon Canada and there was only one card in stock, suggesting it was either mismarked or someone seriously needed some extra warehouse space. Read more Surprise -- the internet is upset. This time, it's about a recent article fromPC Gameron the future of generative AI in video games. It's a topic I've written about previously, and something that game companies have been experimenting with for more than a year, but this particular story struck a nerve.Redditors used strong language like "pro-AI puff piece," PC Gamer itself issued an apology, and the character designer forBioshock Infinite's Elizabeth called the featured image showing the character reimagined with AI a "half-assed cosplay." The original intent of the article is to glimpse into the future at what gamescould look like with generative AI, but without the tact or clear realization of how this shift affects people's jobs and their creative works. Read more We may not talk about feelings much when discussing the best processors, but a mountain of leaks and rumors have been swirling about AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 9800X3D -- and they're becoming too big to ignore. The most recent development is a post on the Chiphell forum (via Wccftech) that claims the processor will be announced on October 25, with a release in the first week of November.On its own, this isn't anything too exciting. We see claims about hardware launches all the time, but the past two weeks have been riddled with murmurs about what is undoubtedly AMD's most-anticipated CPU this generation. Just a few days ago, a leaked slide from an internal MSI presentation pitted the Ryzen 7 9800X3D against last-gen's Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and showed anywhere from a 2% to 13% improvement. The slides were originally shared by HardwareLuxx, but the post was removed, suggesting the images were probably real (VideoCardz has the images archived). Read more

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