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Adobe admits challenges in changing economy due to pandemic

A huge Adobe Max conference is on the way. It doesn’t seem as if the company has cut back at all. This year’s show has 56 hours of live broadcast, 275 sessions and is free ...

DxOmark is really chasing the pixel

(Source: DxOmark) DxOmark can trace its roots back to the early 2000s when DxO Labs founded it as the image quality evaluation division. It worked primarily with phone manufacturers to profile displays and publish its evaluations ...

Online gaming has been coming; has it arrived?

We’re working remotely, playing remotely, and changing the computer landscape. Most digital gaming is an all or nothing proposition: you win, you lose and you blame your equipment. Now, some kinds of gaming are getting ...

Do dual AIBs help?

If you read my article on multi-GPUs you know that SLI and Crossfire have been retired, and Nvidia has introduced NVLink. The intrepid Mark Poppin of BabelTech Reviews wanted to find out if adding a ...

Will Sony re-invent S3D?

(Source: Sony)   Sony Electronics announced the debut of its Spatial Reality Display (SR Display), a new Stereo 3D display made with Sony’s Eye-Sensing Light Field Display (ELFD) technology. The display does not require virtual ...

Three new Alienware monitors

Alienware has always been a style leader. The company epitomized that with the revolutionary Area 51 chassis. There’s not much you can do with a monitor design-wise. A big flat panel on a stand is ...

Imagination Technologies new B-series multi-core GPU IP

  Late last year, Imagination Technologies introduced its IMG A-Series. At the time, they said it was their most important GPU launch since the mobile PowerVR GPU, 15 years ago. Now, 11 months later, the ...

If you like Zen2, you’ll love Zen3

(Source:  AMD) AMD created an extraordinarily good design with the Zen architecture in April 2017. You can measure that by the steady generation-to-generation improvements the company has made with Zen’s various derivatives. The latest iteration ...

From 3m to 30 Suns: see how spaceships stack up in the world

If you’ve ever watched a science fiction movie or TV show, you’ve seen the fabulous space ships the artists have created. Some of them have become icons like the Star Trek Enterprise, or the Star ...

Google doubles down on Stadia; expands its catalog

It’s a big season for gaming news. As it turns out, pandemic season is always a big season for gaming news. Google, not always the most communicative of companies, has made an impressive effort to ...

Nvidia introduces the RTX A6000 WS AIB

(Source: KPF. Beijing Century City)   As mentioned in my Siggraph blog, the coronavirus pandemic has shifted the way content is created and consumed. Work now often involves teams dispersed worldwide, working remotely on high-resolution ...

Nvidia kicks off GTC Fall

Nvidia and its founder, CEO Jensen Huang, deserve credit for building and delivering an astounding blivit. A blivit for those new to this channel is 5 pounds of stuff in a 10-pound bag. In the ...