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DragonFly 3.0 takes off

Glassbox Technologies is taking the sting out of the complex process of virtual productions, releasing a major update to its cross-platform virtual camera software, Dragonfly, with new camera simulation functionality and features that further streamline ...

Lenovo powers up the latest ThinkPad P series mobile workstation

The ThinkPad P16 mobile workstation is Lenovo’s all-new power offering, delivering the highest levels of support of any ThinkPad P series mobile workstation. Inside is a new class of Intel Core processors with support for ...

Zoey—the newest face of AI

Zoey, the fresh new face of real-time photorealistic autonomous digital humans from the DHG at Digital Domain.   She’s been gifted with brains and beauty. Zoey is personable, funny, smart, a great conversationalist, speaks multiple ...

PTC acquires Intland to strengthen its ALM portfolio

PTC has acquired Intland Software, an application lifecycle management (ALM) company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, for approximately $280 million. Intland Software develops the Codebeamer ALM family of products, which includes a next-generation, cloud-based offering that ...

AIB price inflation on the horizon

With COVID, speculators, and mining behind us, we have seen an expected drop in gouged pricing in the channel. The big three—AMD, Intel, and Nvidia (AIN)—may have to reverse that. High-end AIB retail prices over ...

Intel arcs into notebooks

Intel has had to delay the launch of its Arc dGPUs due to “some software readiness delays, and together with COVID lockdowns impacting global supply chains, OEM designs are only this month becoming more widely ...

AMD introduces trio of new add-in boards for the 6000 series

Today AMD is rolling out three new add-in boards that will round out its 6000 series family. There will be one new board for each market segment. AMD reports that there are 3 billion gamers ...

Real-time ray tracing in AR from Snap

Last week at Snap’s partner summit, the company showed its next-gen AR glasses with a special feature—real-time ray tracing. It was difficult to figure out where the Nvidia RTX graphics AIB was, and that was ...

AMD enters Chromebook market as it declines

HP’s Elite Chromebook   AMD has announced that it is offering its new Ryzen 5000 C-Series chips, including the first 8-core high-performance x86 processor for Chromebook builders. And it has two design wins for the ...

Creo 9: Design on the fast track

PTC has released Creo 9, the latest version of the company’s CAD software, providing features that enable users to take advantage of emerging technologies such as generative design, real-time simulation, and additive manufacturing. Updates to ...

More ‘Unreal’ holograms

Looking Glass Factory is enabling users of Epic’s Unreal Engine 5 to transport their content into the third dimension with the just-released Looking Glass HoloPlay Plugin for UE5. With this plug-in, UE5 users can craft ...

So, what’s the story with GPUs?

The invasion of Ukraine. Inflation. COVID. The price of gasoline and oil. The supply chain. Climate change. Those are some of the news topics driving today’s headlines domestically and abroad. While not as staggering, technology ...