A few days ago, Redmi officially unveiled the Note 12 line of phones, as well as smartwatches in Europe, as well as the Redmi Watch 3 smartwatch in Europe, and now it has come to the ultra-budget Redmi A2 and Redmi A2+. However, if a lot of attention was paid to other new products (at least they were talked about on the official Xiaomi Europe Twitter), then Redmi A2 and Redmi A2 + were simply added to the catalog on the official Mi.com website.

The characteristics of these models are the same, except that the older version has a fingerprint scanner – it is located in the center of the back panel.

The IPS screen is characterized by a diagonal of 6.52 inches and a resolution of 1600 x 720 pixels. The hardware platform is SoC MediaTek Helio G36, it is supplemented with 2-3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of flash memory. The front camera is 5 megapixel, the main one is 8 megapixel sensor. The battery capacity was 5000 mAh, it supports 10 W charging (and the corresponding power supply is included in the package).

Dimensions are 164.9 x 76.8 x 9.1 mm, weight – 192 grams. There is no NFC in these models, but there are standard headphone jacks.

Redmi has not announced the price of new products, but they are replacing Redmi A1 and Redmi A1 +, which were the most affordable smartphones from the manufacturer. Accordingly, now the title of the most affordable will go to Redmi A2 and Redmi A2 +.

NASA announced the postponement of the first test manned flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner. It will take place not in April, but in May, after the Axiom Mission 2. Reportedly, the team is now assessing the readiness of the ship and conducting final pre-flight checks.

The reason for the delay was the need for additional testing of the Starliner manual control system. It is needed in case of a software failure so that the ship does not lose control.

The first Starliner crew will include astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams. If everything goes according to plan, they will have to spend about two weeks on board the ISS. After the successful return of the ship, it will receive NASA certification for regular manned flights, such as SpaceX previously received with its Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Note that the development of Starliner has been going on since 2014, but so far the ship has not received permission for regular flights.

Looks like the AI ​​race is just getting underway. Former Google China president and Chinese-Taiwan venture capitalist Li Kaifu has revealed that he is launching a new AI project called Project AI 2.0. And this is not just another chatbot similar to ChatGPT. The novelty will be able to offer more than just the generation of pictures and text.

Generated by the Midjourney neural network

Details about the project have not yet been given, but it is already known that Kaifu has funded the computing power for Project AI 2.0 and intends to attract the best specialists from around the world for his project.

According to the businessman, the technology that is being created for Project AI 2.0 may become the most significant in the world in the near future. At the same time, there is no information about the launch date.

Li Kaifu announced his plans after Chinese technology companies including Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent announced their versions of ChatGPT-like chatbots. However, despite the competition, the former head of Google China is confident that Project AI 2.0 will be able to stand out from the rest due to its focus on global reach and productivity applications.