The Pixel 2’s dormant Visual Core chip gets activated in the latest Android developer preview

{rss:content:encoded} The Pixel 2’s dormant Visual Core chip gets activated in the latest Android developer preview http://ift.tt/2hVTEBa http://ift.tt/2AfWWYt November 27, 2017 at 11:01PM  Sadly, not all of the Pixel 2’s surprises have been the good sort since Google’s latest flagship launched. Visual Core is one of the more pleasant ones, though — a custom system-on-a-chip (SoC) that’s just been hanging out in the phone not really doing much of anything. It seemed that the component simply wasn’t ready for public consumption when the phone hit… Read More