The game engine giants, Unreal and Unity are gathering in capabilities to make their platforms more powerful and attractive for users. Epic, having grown fat on Fortnite, has made several significant purchases for its Unreal Engine over the last 12 months or so. The company kicked off 2018 with the acquisition of Cloudgine, a powerful tool to boost the capabilities … Read more
Back in 2015 when the crypto-mining boom was taking off, one of the problems miners had was getting enough AIBs into a compact package. A few Taiwanese and Chinese companies built specific cases, and many miners built their own. In late 2018, Azultec was formed by people from Alphacool, a water-cooling manufacturer, and Aquatuning, and announced the Cube 300, a … Read more
The software market is vibrant, growing, and changing. As always hardware is an engine for accelerating the capabilities of software, but technology advances and new ideas about digitalization are providing new opportunities for software. Huge opportunities. One of the most notable examples in engineering and design is the drive to link software information to real-world processes. In the digital content … Read more
PlantSight combines the real world and digital information to provide a digital twin for plants. (Source: Bentley Systems/Siemens) Bentley Systems and Siemens have teamed up to demonstrate the kind of future enabled by cloud-based computing. PlantSight, a digital twin tool for plant management is a cloud-based tool for plant management built on technology from both partners and it provides … Read more
The subtext of Siggraph in Vancouver has generally been about the evils and advantages of outsourcing. The whole reason the North American version of Siggraph ever left the U.S. is because so many content creation jobs had moved to Canada – many of them, just up the road from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Just how short that road can become … Read more
The world is suffering a little bit from Apple fatigue. More accurately, the world says, no no no, do not tell us about the next big thing, we’re still dealing with a backlog of next big things. Blessedly, Apple cut us all a little slack this year for its big-deal World Wide Developers Conference. … Read more
Cloudgine technology will give developers working in Unreal the ability to offload compute jobs to cloud processing. Epic is adding on to its arsenal of capabilities with a middleware provider, Cloudgine. The company has acquired Edinburg-based Cloudgine, for its technology to enable gaming on the cloud. Cloudgine was founded in 2012 in Edinburgh by former Grand Theft Auto co-founder David … Read more
Returns to a fulltime role in Adobe executive offices Scott Belsky came to Adobe with the acquisition of his company Behance in 2012 for a reported $100-150 million. Behance, founded in 2006, is a site that allows people to share their portfolio and work in progress. It serves as a job site where people can find creative people, but the … Read more
