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AR glasses for normal people

You’d wear them if they didn’t make you look like a dork The power and promise of augmented reality for consumers is too powerful and promising to ignore. Google Glass got a lot of people’s ...

Boxx grows its technology base with the acquisition of Cirrascale

Boxx Technologies is a boutique workstation provider, and as such the company adds value for its customers in design and content creation by understanding what they need and designing for them. The company has been ...

Why is Adobe so successful?

Owning their own market ecosystem doesn’t hurt Adobe continues to make history as it transforms its business model. The company declared the transition to subscriptions complete last year as its revenue reached parity and then ...

AI has emerged from the trough of despond

And the emerging market is exploding The AI market is going to be the biggest, most exciting thing to happen since the introduction of the PC. AI, like VR, AR, and IoT isn’t something new. ...

AMD continues to tease us about Vega and Ripper

Siggraph is the day AMD is going to leverage their new Vega architecture across three product lines, and with multiple SKUs in each category. GPUs are employed in consumer and commercial AIBs, and in laptops ...

AI is so new and exciting, just ask Ananova

She’s 17 this month We visited the emerald-eyed, green-haired virtual newscaster, Ananova, in Leeds England, in July 2001, for her first birthday. I was reminded of her due to all the recent news about AI ...

What’s new is old, again

In a world of unending remakes we seem to love nostalgia Game of Thrones XXIIX, Sound & Fury Returns (for the 20th time), Star Wars 112 at theaters this summer. And so it goes, the ...

Mt Tiburon testing tabs

AMD fills out its entry class Radeon Pro GPUs with Polaris While anticipated release of the upcoming Vega GPU is hogging the limelight, AMD has completed the transition of its Radeon Pro workstation GPU line-up ...

​The truth about Ethereum Mining

GPUs were made for this Ethereum Mining is a computationally intensive work that requires a lot of processing power and time. Mining is the act of participating in a given peer distributed cryptocurrency network in ...

Qualcomm gets into the HIVE

Qualcomm selected by DARPA’s HIVE Project to accelerate the future of deep learning DARPA—The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit (HIVE) project has the objective of creating a graph analytics processor that ...

E3 2017: rise of the machines

PCs were in prominent display at E3—finally No I am not talking about Terminators, I’m talking about PCs—gaming PCs. This year E3 had the most PC presence (by units on the floor) ever in my ...

Today’s VR is so disappointing

Can we finally say the emperor is naked, and move on?     The fact that I am not happy with the state of affairs in VR today is probably not news. But, what you ...