2019年3月27日
Sony announced what's next for PlayStation with a Nintendo-style
Sony showed off a full slate of upcoming PlayStation 4 games during a special video presentation on Monday called “State of Play.” The presentation showed off gameplay footage from 10 upcoming games. Half of those titles are designed for use with Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, demonstrating Sony’s commitment to developing virtual reality.
Sony debuted its upcoming action adventure game “Concrete Genie” last year, but State of Play offered a closer look at the game’s story. A teenager named Ash is charged with restoring his abandoned hometown with a magic brush, but he’ll have to escape bullies and battle monsters to bring colour back to the town.
“Marvel’s Iron Man VR” is a virtual reality game that lets players control Tony Stark in his signature suit. Early gameplay shows players using Tony’s repulsors to shoot down enemies while managing flight resources in midair.
“Days Gone” is a zombie survival game. While it looks similar to “The Last of Us” on the surface, Sony has promised a larger open world narrative pitting players against zombies, hostile gangs and wild animals.
The upcoming games are split evenly between the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR, showing that Sony is committed to virtual reality.
The digital freight start-ups disrupting the global logistics industry
Startups are the lynchpin of this transformation, pinpointing areas of need that can be tackled by cutting-edge digital solutions, including digital freight services, warehouse robotics, AI in the supply chain, delivery robotics, and autonomous driving software. Monitoring these startups thus offers unique insight into the development of the transportation and logistics industries at large, and how incumbents are defending their turf.
Freight forwarders organize the movement of goods by finding land, air, and sea-based logistics carriers that are willing and able to ship their clients’ parcels. Thus, businesses to turn to digital freight startups, which manage and track all these shipments through an online or mobile interface, they typically offer instantaneous quotes.
Moreover, these upstarts often connect directly to low-power IoT sensors placed on ships and trucks that offer a level of visibility unmatched by incumbents. It can synthesize and analyze shipping trends to predict when certain geographies will be particularly busy and adjust shipments accordingly.
Startup: Convoy
Founded: 2015 - Convoy operates a mobile app that connects companies shipping goods with available truckers. The company’s ability to constantly introduce new, unique features to its app. It will likely expand into Europe and Asia to try and capture a share of the burgeoning cross-border e-commerce market, which projects will reach $1.18 trillion in 2021.
Startup: Flexport
Founded: 2013 - Flexport is a full-scale digital freight forwarder that organizes, manages, and tracks customers’ freight loads. On average, the company only takes a 15% cut of what it costs to ship a container, while its competitors typically charge a 25% fee. The company will continue its international expansion, fortifying existing offices in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, while also likely launching new ones throughout the Asia-Pacific Region.
Startup: Full Truck Alliance (FTA), also known as the Mangbang Group
Founded: 2017 - FTA, which operates an Uber-like app that connects shippers with truck drivers in China. In China, logistics spending will grow nearly 7% to reach a whopping $43.5 billion in 2018. It’s therefore likely that the company’s sky-high valuation — its latest funding round valued it at $6.5 billion, making it the most valuable company to crack our list — will only continue to climb.
A preview of Huawei's new flagship smartphone, the P30 Pro
Huawei, the second-biggest phone maker in the world behind Samsung, has added two new flagship phones to its P series of devices – the P30 and the P30 Pro. The Huawei P30 Pro starts at £899 ($US1,187) for 8GB RAM and 128GB of storage, while the P30 starts at £699 ($US923) for 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.
The iridescent design — which Huawei refers to as “pearlescence” — is beautiful, but presumably would remain hidden under your phone cover. The curved glass back and front look stunning, and the phone feels comfortable and premium in the hand.
The P30 Pro also ditches the familiar home button, allowing for more screen real estate. The P30 Pro comes with a 6.47-inch OLED, FHD+, FullView display, and a 19:5:9 aspect ratio. There’s no headphone jack, as they dropped the headphone jack with the P20 Pro. There’s no earpiece on the P30 Pro, because the screen vibrates to transmit call audio.
There’s an impressive four rear cameras, although it’s worth noting this many sensors adds some bulk to the back. The P30 Pro runs on Android 9 Pie and Huawei’s flagship Kirin 980 chipset, features a 4,200mAh battery and can charge up to 70% in half an hour on a wired charge.
