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How far will legacy take the PC industry?

The shift to the cloud is a declining asymptote for the PC.

AIB unit sales continue to slide in Q3’22, see first Y-Y decline since the pandemic

Quarter-to-quarter graphics add-in board shipments decreased significantly by -33.5% and by -31.9% year to year.

Krakatoa MY and XMesh MY open source, oh my!

AWS renders the two Autodesk Maya plug-ins open source after making them free a few months ago.

Keep the faith on the metaverse

So says a VR developer who, despite Meta’s challenges, believes the metaverse’s time will come.

DaVinci Resolve gets push to version 18.1

Blackmagic Design’s latest update includes support for vertical resolution and the DaVinci Neural Engine.

Nvidia part of team to win a Bell Prize for Covid-19 mutation prediction

The groundbreaking work in predicting new virus variants entailed the application of large language models to gene sequences.

Unreal Engine 5.1 releases with major improvements to lighting

The newest update to Epic’s Unreal Engine adds many new features, including some to the Lumen system and animation.

Sony is rejoining the VR royale with the PS VR2

The VR headset market is ready for a shake-up, and Sony is among those expected to enter the ring with its new offering early next year.

After two years, Nvidia finally releases PhysX 5

Nvidia’s PhysX 5 SDK is now available outside of Omniverse, fortunately with the same open-source license terms as PhysX 4.

Nvidia’s Instant NeRF named as one of the year’s top innovations

Time magazine recognizes Nvidia’s new 3D technology as one of the Best Inventions of 2022.

34 inches at 175 Hz—see faster with Alienware AW3423DW

Plus, this display has amazing blacks with quantum dots.

Twins and ’verses—not really new stuff

But it’s much more than pigs with lipstick.