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HONOR 200 series to feature AI-enhanced portrait experience
Flawless, studio-quality smartphone portrait photography
HONOR is set to revolutionize smartphone portrait photography with its upcoming HONOR 200 series. At the VivaTech 2024 event in Paris, France, the company previewed its upcoming line that shall include an AI-enhanced portrait experience.
HONOR revealed that it collaborated with French photography studio Studio Harcourt for the HONOR 200 series. Throughout the process, the two parties leveraged AI technology to recreate the studio’s iconic lighting and shadow effects.
Specifically, HONOR used AI to learn from a vast dataset of Studio Harcourt portraits, breaking the process down into nine distinct steps. This shall help the upcoming smartphones replicate the Studio Harcourt method for “flawless and studio-quality” portraits with every shot.
Fittingly, the HONOR 200 series will launch in Paris on June 12. It will feature MagicOS 8.0, which boasts of an industry-first intent-based UI. The UI features Magic Portal, which understands user behavior and streamlines complex tasks into single-step processes. Magic Portal now supports over 100 apps for seamless AI experiences.
Speaking of which, MagicOS 8.0 will be rolled out to the HONOR Magic V2 and HONOR 90 devices. This makes AI technology accessible to more HONOR users.
HONOR introduces 4-layer AI architecture
Aside from giving the audience a glimpse of the HONOR 200 series, the manufacturer also unveiled its 4-layer AI architecture and how it plans to integrate AI strategically into MagicOS.
The base layer is cross-device and cross-OS AI as foundations of an open ecosystem. Building upon this, the platform-level AI layer enables personalized OS, allowing intent-based human-computer interaction and personalized resources application.
Furthermore, the third layer is app-level AI, which is poised to introduce a wave of innovative and personalized resources allocation. The last layer is interface to cloud-AI services. This provides users easy access to massive cloud services while prioritizing privacy protection.
HONOR expects this multi-layered architecture to lead the future of smart devices and provide users with a holistic and future-forward AI experience.
News
Lenovo’s Legion is coming back to the gaming phone segment
The new Legion Y70 is launching in China next month.
Last year, the gaming phone segment received a huge blow when ASUS pulled the plug on the ROG Phone. Another brand is ready to take its place, though. Lenovo has been teasing the return of the Legion Phone. Lenovo’s gaming-centric brand is releasing the refreshed Legion Y70 in May.
Lenovo picks up where it last left off. Back in 2022, the brand launched the original Y70 in different circumstances. Most especially, it launched in a market with heavy competition from the ROG Phone. Now that the latter has called it quits, Lenovo is ready to step in.
And yes, according to a leaked photo, it does look like a Motorola phone, especially with the rear camera design. After all, Lenovo does own Motorola, so the similarities make sense.
In terms of hardware, it’s unknown which piece of hardware will come to the new phone. Since it’s a gaming phone, you can expect some beefy specs for all your gaming needs. Besides that, it’s confirmed that the device will also feature a heavy heaping of AI to help the performance along.
Now, in a Weibo post, Lenovo has confirmed that the new Legion Y70 is coming in May. That said, it will be a China-exclusive release for now. The brand ahs not confirmed whether the phone will arrive in international markets after the initial launch.
SEE ALSO: The quirky Legion Go Fold stole the show at MWC 2026
Entertainment
Godzilla Minus Zero trailer teases the kaiju’s arrival in New York
The movie premieres in November.
Godzilla Minus One was one of my favorite movies in 2023. Only the second live-action Godzilla in the ongoing Reiwa era, Minus One reintroduced the Japanese version of the legendary kaiju to contrast the blockbuster approach of the American Legendary Pictures franchise. Now, the award-winning movie is getting a sequel: Godzilla Minus Zero.
Set as a direct sequel to the 2023 film, Godzilla Minus Zero takes place in 1949, a few years after the events of the past movie. As the end of the last film portends, the eponymous monster survives the catastrophic attack against it. But as to how it survived and what it’s targeting next, we’ll just have to wait and see.
In a newly released teaser trailer, Minus Zero will once again feature the return of the previous film’s Koichi and Noriko. The latter of which is still sporting the scars of surviving Godzilla’s attack on Ginza. Koichi, however, finds himself back in the cockpit of a fighter plane to unknown purposes.
That’s not all. Godzilla is apparently ditching the Pacific Ocean for the Atlantic. In a brief scene that will surely become iconic as time goes by, the kaiju traipses gingerly but menacingly past the Statue of Liberty.
Thankfully, it’s not a long wait before we find out what the world’s favorite kaiju is up to this time. Godzilla Minus Zero will premiere in Japanese cinemas on November 3 and American cinemas on November 6.
SEE ALSO: Godzilla Minus One is now on Netflix
Gaming
Bloodborne is getting an R-rated animated film adaptation
And it’s going to be produced by Sony and Jacksepticeye.
FromSoftware fans are eating well these days. Though gamers are still anticipating the arrival of The Duskbloods on the Switch 2, the studio’s other franchises are getting well-deserved nods for adaptations: Sekiro, Elden Ring, and now, Bloodborne.
Sekiro has already been slated for an anime adaptation for a while now. Meanwhile, Alex Garland recently confirmed that he is adapting Elden Ring for A24. Today, Sony Pictures has confirmed that the studio is working on an R-rated animated film based on Bloodborne.
Via Variety, Sony Pictures president Sanford Panitch says that the upcoming adaptation will keep the game’s essence of horror and gore. With a name like “Bloodborne,” you can’t have an adaptation without a heaping of blood.
Besides Sony, the animated project has another big name attached to its production: YouTuber Jacksepticeye. Throughout his career, the creator has been vocal about considering Bloodborne as his favorite game of all time. He even has a tattoo of the Hunter’s Mark on his forearm. For this project, Jack will be a co-producer.
Though the creator’s skill in filmmaking is still a relative unknown, Jack’s love for the game should give the project a gamer’s voice. If anything, Markiplier’s recent Iron Lung adaptation offers optimism that YouTubers can also create decent films.
SEE ALSO: Elden Ring Nightreign is getting a DLC update this December
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