IBM Builds Superest of Supercomputers with Nvidia Voltas
In 2014, a disruptive approach to HPC enabled IBM to be awarded two contracts to build the next generation of supercomputers as part of the US Department of Energy’s ...
Apple Introduces ARKit 2
The world is suffering a little bit from Apple fatigue. More accurately, the world says, no no no, do not tell us about the next big thing, we’re still ...
Frost is About to Get Hot
Twelve years ago, some game developers at EA DICE not being able to find an engine that would do all things they wanted to, decided they would just have to develop their own engine, they ...
I Can See You, AND What You’re Holding
We’re catching up with science-fiction. The idea of being able to hold a personal device and scan a room and the people in it, to learn in real time if any of them are of ...
Siemens PLM Connection Americas 2018
PLM Connection is a worldwide conference series for customers of Siemens PLM Software run by the PLM World user group. I was at the Americas version in 108F-degree Phoenix, where 2,000 attended; weeks earlier, the ...
Whatchamacallits — Tablet, Detach Whatevers
I have an electronic tablet, in fact I have several, ranging from 6-inches to 9-inches, sometimes I use one of them, once in a while. I have a lot of notebooks. On some of them, ...
Who Wants an Old-Fashioned Game Machine
The same kind of people who collect vinyl records, postage stamps, old train sets, or automobiles also want the great memories of the past in form of gaming. The open source low cost Arduboy Several ...
Money Can’t Buy You Love
In computer graphics, too much is not enough. I first said that in 1980 I think, and its been true ever since. That’s why I’m such a pixel pig, sitting here writing this with 50 ...
Arm Expands Bifrost to New Mali-G76
Arm has been steadily improving the Mali GPU since they acquired it from Falanx twelve years ago. The little GPU has found its way into TVs, phones and tablets, automobiles, and various consumer and industrial ...
THX Wants to be All Around You
THX came to NAB 2018 with a big agenda and thanks to investment from Razer, some budget to work with. Razer is a major investor in THX and the company’s CEO Min-Liang Tan is currently ...
Handheld Gaming Console — the Tragedy of Sinclair ZX
In March 2016, we wrote about the Retro Computer’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum handheld game machine—The Vega+. If you had any interest or involvement with computers in the eighties and nineties, chances are you heard of, ...
Nvidia Slows the Pace, while AMD Promises More
AMD and Nvidia, despite how they poster and position themselves, have limited resources; and since there are only 25 hours in a day, they have to pick their priorities carefully. And even though there was ...