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Hey buddy, wanna buy a cheap super computer?

After alerting the media at the Supercomputing Conference in 2016, Nvidia introduced the DGX-1 supercomputer at GTC 2016, as the world's first deep learning supercomputer to meet the unlimited computing demands of artificial intelligence. The ...

Nvidia claims real time ray tracing now possible

At GDC, Nvidia and Microsoft made a joint announcement about the possibility of doing real time ray tracing, something the CG community has striven for since ray tracing was popularized by Turner Whitted in 1979. ...

Toshiba enters the AR market with Vuzix

The deal between Toshiba and Vuzix was announced late last year and now Toshiba has introduced their dynaEdge AR glasses that employ Vuzix’s assembly. The glasses are Toshiba’s first Windows-based smart glasses. They are used ...

Seeing, hearing, and now feeling

Smelling and tasting next? VR resurgence into the consumer space has brought with it a host of wants. It is pretty clear that people want to have VR experiences and want them more realistic. One ...

VRgineers and Leap Motion develop VR headsets

Knowing where your hands are is critical in VR VRgineers is a VR engineering company producing enterprise-grade HMDs for engineering and design professionals. Leap Motion is the developer of hand-tracking technology for VR and AR ...

Big screen TVs used for gaming to be stutter proofed

FreeSynch on HDMI tears our tarring. Why should PC gamers have all the fun? Indeed. Just because you can get a beautiful, large screen 4K UHD monitor and drive it with a powerful GPU that ...

Major new versions of SPECviewperf coming on its 30th anniversary

Major versions of SPECviewperf and SPECwpc (to be renamed SPECworkstation) are on tap for Q2 of this year. SPECviewperf 13 will feature new volume visualization viewsets for energy and medical applications, radically new shaders, and ...

Alienware Ultrawide Curved Gaming Displays

If you’ve got the budget, these monitors can’t be beat I have something to admit; and I never thought this would come to pass. After a motorcycling crash UCL tear (thumb tendon injury) I temporarily ...

The new semiconductor boom:  AI

A scattershot view of the latest news on the front Looks like the first quarter of 2018 is shaping up to be big for the future of AI. Companies in the segment including cloud companies, ...

Microsoft delivers machine learning to every windows developer

ONNX API now available in Windows At the recent Windows Developer Day, Microsoft exec. Kevin Gallo announced a number of new products for developers, the most interesting of which was what he called “the intelligent ...

Gamers have noting to fear from AI

Misconceptions about Microsoft’s recent update Microsoft’s update for Windows 10, the Spring Edition, is going to add new artificial intelligence capabilities which is it calling Windows ML. These capabilities will be open to developers allowing ...

ASRock to enter AIB market

Success with cryptocurrency-mining mother boards leads company to next step According to a report in Digitimes, motherboard supplier ASRock reportedly will enter the AIB market in April and focus mainly on supplying AMD-based products. The ...