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DisplayLink finds a home at Synaptics

It used to be a pain to hook up two or more monitors to a single computer. But with DisplayLink, it got much easier. You could plug one display into the video output (VGA, DVI) ...

Dreaming of AR—DreamGlass 4K

Augmented Reality Where We All Will Live   Founded in 2016 in San Mateo, CA by Dr. Kevin Zhong, DreamWorld has developed an AR viewing headset that can offer the user a virtual 4K display. ...

AMD Ryzen 4000 Series DT APUs with bigger GPUs

AMD has introduced its 7 nm Ryzen 4000 and 3000 Series desktop APUs with Radeon graphics and says they are designed for OEMs and pre-built PCs for consumer and commercial markets. The company has introduced ...

Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence

Source: Depositphotos   Leonardo Chiariglione, an Italian engineer best known as the co-founder and former chairman of MPEG, is proposing to establish a new organization called Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence ...

VR in lieu of F2F conference?

XRSpace, the VR HMD startup founded by the former CEO of HTC’s VR group thinks the COVID shut down can be compensated for by selling HMDs to potential attendees to conferences and The Taiwan External ...

Foundry rolls out Nuke 12.2 update

With Nuke 12.2 Foundry is adding support of USD. Users can bring in geometry from USD using the ReadGeo node. This is just the start says the company, it will be expanding USD support overcoming ...

Lenovo’s ThinkStation P620 is the first Threadripper PRO workstation

Photo courtesy Robert Bye   Lenovo’s launch of the ThinkStation P620 marks the beginning of a new generation of workstations. It’s the first workstation to be based on AMD’s brand new Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor single-socket ...

AMD’s new Ryzen 3000XT gaming processor series is here

AMD announced three new additions to its 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen desktop processor family—the AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT, and AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT processors. The company has introduced the XT branding ...

The Last of Us Part II may be best CGI console game ever

The Last of Us part II is as much a CG movie as it is a CGI game. Developed by Naughty Dog, and published by Sony, it is a breakthrough game on many levels.  One of ...

GPU scheduling—don’t be late

Source: Daily Mail GPU Scheduling—was is it, who needs it, who wants it? The (May 2020, ver. 2004) updated Microsoft’s Windows 10’s DirectX API got a new optional feature called Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling—a feature ...

On working at home

Source: Allie@acreativegangster Working at home is going to be the way business operate now that we know how to do it and the massive benefits of doing it. This week, we published a short news story ...

FMX features Phil Tippett in conversation

The FMX conference continues this year as a digital production and is combining its greatest hits with new content. Coming up, FMX will feature “A Phantasmagorical Journey with Phil Tippett,” Monday, July 20, 8 PM CET/11 ...