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US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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iPhone 14 is sending emergency alerts when users are on rollercoasters

Apple’s new iPhone 14 brings a horde of new features. One of them is Crash Detection, which essentially alerts emergency services in your location when you are in a car crash. But it has a funnily unfunny side. It is reportedly calling the emergency number 911 in the US when the iPhone 14 user is enjoying their ride on a rollercoaster.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the Crash Detection feature on the iPhone 14 is sending law enforcement to amusement parks several times as the user was having all the fun on a rollercoaster. The functionality is allegedly mistaking the ride’s twists, turns, and sudden braking for a car mishap and sending the 911 team to the location.

The new feature

The Crash Detection feature on the iPhone 14, Watch Series 8, Watch SE, and Watch Ultra is a part of iOS 16 and uses a gyroscopic sensor and high-g accelerometer to determine car crashes. The iPhone 14 sensors detect the impact and alert emergency services. When calling law enforcement, the Crash Detection feature would play an audio message that confirms to authorities that you have been in a car crash. The location is also sent alongside.

In the case of the rollercoaster, the iPhone 14 sensors may have detected the same impact as during a car crash. Moreover, the audio recording sent to the authorities consisted of screams and loud music, simulating a car crash.

How it happened

According to the WSJ report, the iPhone 14 of a user who was strapped to a rollercoaster in a Cincinnati amusement park sent the car crash alert by making a call to 911. The robotic voice on the call informed the 911 operators that there was a severe crash and that the person was not responding. It is important to note that Apple’s algorithm affirmatively said there was a crash, not there might have been a severe crash.

A previous test by WSJ journalist Joanna Stern showed the Crash Detection feature is not reliable at all times, but it certainly is efficient enough to ruin your fun when riding on a rollercoaster. So the next time you are going to an amusement park and are planning to hop on a rollercoaster, either make sure to leave your iPhone 14 behind or put your iPhone 14 on the airplane made (no network means no call or SMS) or disable the feature.

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