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The Cult of Maker prays for a burst-resistant bubble

3D printing shows signs of resiliance Most of us at Jon Peddie Research are old enough to have witnessed more bubble moments in the tech industry than we care to recall. Like stock market bubbles ...

The Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco

The GDC attracts over 22,500 attendees, and is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games. This conference features over 400 ...

Nvidia announces Grid

Nvidia today made good on past promises, announcing its new Nvidia Grid Computer Appliance. The device delivers remote GPU acceleration and a turnkey sensibility, enabling what Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang calls graphics as a service. ...

Bentley Pointools reveals prehistoric artwork on Stonehenge

Turning 850 gigabytes of 3D scan data into one coherent visualization led to the discovery of 71 carvings.The UK’s York Archaeological Trust was recently commissioned to use contemporary technology to spatially and digitally record England’s ...

The Workstation market settles into more sustainable growth pattern in Q4’12

While numbers on the surface weren’t much to cheer about, a deeper look at the results show a market that appears to be settling into a healthier, sustainable growth pattern. Subscribers can download the new ...

The foreseeable future is wearable

Functional accessories will be the next hardware trend. Google has demonstrated its Google Glass technology and is hard at work getting production-ready units built in time for a 2013/2014 release. The company’s New York office ...

Nvidia extends Quadro line with four new Kepler-class cards

Nvidia is now shipping four new cards in its Quadro line of professional graphics cards. The power consumption of the Quadro K4000 running the previous generation Fermi technology was 420 Watts; in the Kepler edition ...

Sony’s processor choices give them the edge

The PS3 came out in 2006 with a new IBM-Power-based SIMD CPU structure they called the Cell. Now, in 2013 Sony introduced the PS4 with an X86-based architecture that looks like a PC. The eight ...

Crytek on why it’s impossible for consoles to match the power of gaming PCs

Crytek boss Cevat Yerli before the PS4 launch party: “We used Moore’s Law, If you predict how hardware evolves at the current speed of evolution, and then take consumer pricing evolution, already two years ago ...

What goes around, comes around

Watch out, looks like bricks and mortar are coming around. Somewhere, some time or another I’m reasonably sure someone around here predicted the end of bricks and mortar, and just a few short years ago, ...

Year-end surge pushes Autodesk to record fourth quarter

A late sales surge lifted Autodesk to record fourth-quarter revenue to close its fiscal year 2013. For the full year Autodesk revenue has roughly returned to where it was in 2008. Revenue for the fourth ...

Graphics add-in board shipments crash

Worst seasonal drop since 2008, -25x of 10-year average, JPR found that AIB shipments during Q4 2012 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, but the drop was considerably more dramatic. AIB shipments ...