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Graphisoft’s Archicad 23 arrives

Graphisoft has achieved several significant milestones with its release of Archicad 23. The company claims to be the fastest BIM product in the industry. The company has had multi-processor support since 2017. That work has ...

PTC acquires Onshape, ends quarter on a high note

It’s been a busy fall in the design and engineering industry, but PTC and Onshape still managed to shake up the industry. PTC announced plans to acquire Onshape for $470 in cash. PTC used its ...

Vectorworks 2020 opens up connections to data

It’s the season for new CAD releases and given that it’s also 2020, every release is feeling momentous in its own special way. Vectorworks has found strong points of differentiation for its tools and this ...

SolidWorks 2020 continues weaving links to Dassault’s 3DExperience platform

What a company says about its strategy and its attitude towards its customers is always important. SolidWorks says every new release is built around customer requests. With the release of SolidWorks 2020, the company’s PR ...

Gemini Man gets mixed results at the box office

Gemini Man will go down in movie history as a breakthrough film, it’s just too bad, it’s not a better movie. Gemini Man has come up against another not-great movie Joker, and it’s losing at ...

Experience art through technology with Looking Glass

Three dimensional (3D) virtual worlds provide rich interaction in a realtime environment, thus maintaining the interest of users. The desktop holographic display designed by Looking Glass Factory enables 3D creators to create, view, and share ...

Key Smart’s Nano Torch—one very bright, pixel

  We chase pixels here at Mt. Tiburon Testing Labs, so when Key Smart’s rep asked if I’d like to look at the company’s new flashlight, I thought, why? But then I thought. What is ...

Google’s IBC 2019 keynote: YouTube has changed media forever

The European head of YouTube, Cecile Frot-Coutaz gave Google’s keynote presentation at IBC 2019. Six longstanding broadcast industry organizations which include standards bodies, professional engineering representatives, trade associations, and research organizations manage the IBC. They ...

Corel picks up the AI brush for Painter products

The Painter family of products has its origins in MetaCreations, a digital arts development powerhouse in Santa Barbara. They were early pioneers in computer graphics software for artists and the work they did lives on ...

Famous graphics chips: The Integrated Graphics Controller

Integrated graphics have been with us since 1991 in the workstation space, and since 1995 in the PC, and earlier than that in workstations. They found their way into smartphones, tablets, automobiles, and game consoles. ...

Adobe at IBC: the power of AI further expands the role of software

Adobe at IBC focused on the capabilities of content-aware fill quite a bit—not that the technology is new, but that it can do so much. This demonstration showed that it’s possible to remove the orange ...

Intel’s new 14-nm Xeon W 2200 processors

  Intel once envisioned a 2018 where 10-nm processors were shipping out of its fabs, followed by a subsequent introduction of a major new core microarchitecture. However, the company’s well-chronicled delays with 10-nm meant another “optimization” ...