Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4.21, an update that ups the ante on Epic’s newfound religion around wireless and also adds considerable power for collaboration and non-gaming applications, especially CAD. For game development, Epic wants you to know the new release enables you to “work smarter, create faster, and produce world-class results with Unreal Engine.” Speed improvements include … Read more
AMD has its own kind of quiet, competent glamor, which means that the company isn’t always appreciated in-between its big announcements or stock market leaps. With its latest announcements, the company has brought the spotlight back around to its significant achievements and its plans for the future. At a recent event named AMD Next Horizon, the focus was clearly on … Read more
Adobe is a machine and the machine is running smoothly. At least that’s how it looks from the company’s third-quarter report. Adobe continues growing its base of users, which helps the company cinch up its ownership of a significant portion of creative users. The company reported 24% year over year growth with quarterly revenue of $2.29 billion. Digital Media grew … Read more
Whether it be hardware or software, it's no longer enough to build bigger, faster, more efficient products. They gotta be smarter. That's what we're seeing this Fall. Every meeting we've attended that introduced new semiconductor technology has dutifully listed hardware features: cores, process, busses, and transistors but has also stressed software enhancements. Software introductions list features, lots of features including AI, … Read more
Microsoft announced its plans to acquire GitHub last June. At the time the announcement inspired considerable gnashing of teeth. No surprise there. GitHub is a community of developers—free-spirited, open-source type of developers. We actually found it interesting that the revulsion was not so vehement. The announcement made us realize that GitHub is actually company. Yes, of course, it is a … Read more
We confidently tell ourselves technology works when it disappears. Perhaps the biggest AI shift will slip in right under our noses. In fact, maybe it already has in the form of voice interaction. As evidenced by fruitless arguments with Siri, voice can be among the most frustrating interfaces when they don’t work. But several long-term relationships with Alexa prove that … Read more
Just a whole lot of stuff going on at Adobe Max 2018. (Source: JPR) This year’s Adobe Max, the company's user conference featured familiar tools in new packages. Last year, Adobe introduced a cloud- based version of Lightroom. At that time, we were pretty sure it was a harbinger of the future and this year, Adobe confirmed it with the … Read more
Micron Technology, in its 40th year and flush with new revenues from the huge amounts of memory being used by data centers, AI, gaming, visualization, etc., announced at the new event, Insight ’18, its future plans that include support for AI startups and developers. Micron staked out its position as being at the front of several technology transitions and highlighted … Read more
PlantSight combines the real world and digital information to provide a digital twin for plants. (Source: Bentley Systems/Siemens) Bentley Systems and Siemens have teamed up to demonstrate the kind of future enabled by cloud-based computing. PlantSight, a digital twin tool for plant management is a cloud-based tool for plant management built on technology from both partners and it provides … Read more
Altair has acquired SimSolid and the company says it will change the process of analysis. SimSolid, founded in 2015 was based on technology developed by Victor Apanovitch who was also the co-founded of SimSolid. The company has pioneered meshless analysis. The software is able to run structural simulations on actual CAD models rather than requiring models to be simplified for … Read more
Netflix has been extremely influential this year with its spending on content and on marketing its content. (See Report from Telluride.) At IBC in September 2018, the company has also announced its Netflix Post Technology Alliance for tools providers. The company has nailed down its requirements for content in several areas including animation, audio, color grading, etc. Content creators will … Read more
In honor of IBC, Adobe updated its video tools new features and long-awaited fixes. In addition, Adobe introduced new mobile tools called Project Rush. This latest update pushes Adobe’s video tools into new territory and gives it more power for finishing as well as animation and immersive content. As the film and video industry move into awards season, Adobe is … Read more
