The (tech) world is getting good
We need a new category—SciFi no longer applicable When I was a kid, I read the comics (OK, I still do). We read them because we didn’t have TV, hadn’t even heard of it. Our ...
A lot of people in the U.S. watching TV
Almost one in three in front of a TV As of this moment, there are estimated to be 323 million people in the U.S. And, according to o Nielsen’s National Television Household Universe Estimates, there ...
Adobe reinvents OCR
Really? Adobe’s Sensei teaches old dogs a trick or two It can be hard to get worked up about an innovation in PDF, even though the technology has become ubiquitous and we all depend upon ...
MSI unveils its 17-inch gaming notebook
Joins the ranks of the monster octal Micro-Star International (MSI) has re-introduced its GT75VR gaming notebook that it showed at Computex. It features a 17-inch display, Intel's top-end CPU and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 or ...
The workstations are coming, the workstations are coming
AMD and Intel have launched a slew of new workstation CPUs Get ready for a stream of workstation news over the next few months. We have two new ones in the lab right now, and ...
VR developments—no end in virtual sight
What is the reality of the virtual or mixed reality market? There are now four (that we know of) VR daily newsletters, and they seem to have an unlimited source of material to write about. ...
PTC’s Project Chalk makes AR accessible
A digital version of: look, do it this way Sometimes, it’s the obvious app, that makes the value of a technology screamingly obvious. People have argued that AR is soon to be ubiquitous. In fact, ...
All those add-in boards
Are being used for different kinds of games now How the GPU defies gravity and continues to have an increasing market demand. Since the introduction of the PC, which was 1981 believe it or not, ...
SPEC—how could we live without it?
The most honest benchmarks available I first encountered the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Group (SPEC/ GWPG) in 1987 while they were still managed by the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA). They were a bunch of ...
Lightworks Slipstream
Customizing visualization for enterprise CAD customers The CAD industry is nothing like the games industry or entertainment content creation in general. Yeah, pretty obvious. Just as obvious, there are great synergies between the fields and ...
Graph streaming processor from ThinCI
Former GPU developer has what they think is the next gen architecture Sacramento-based startup ThinCI unveiled its entry into the world of DNN accelerators Hot Chips in Cupertino. The fledgling company, with fewer than 70 ...
The economy of graphics
It’s all Ethereum to me Last week, as we all know, AMD strutted its stuff for a few days of talks and meetings to promote its new architecture. At those meetings, the company also pledged ...