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Nvidia offers ray tracing like software filters for non-RT games

(Source: @Atrix256)   In their January 2022 driver update, Nvidia added an option to allow end-users to add ray tracing-like quality to their games through the Nvidia game filters option and Screen Space Ray Traced ...

Cameras aren’t just for taking snapshots

Cameras are everywhere and in everything. The market and applications have exploded in the last ten years. But a cohesive set of standard APIs has been slow to emerge making compatibility challenging. Hoping to wrestle ...

Nvidia proves fat buses offer fat memories

At CES, Jeff Fisher, AKA Mr. GeForce at Nvidia introduced the GeForce RTX 3050, 3080 Ti, 3070 Ti, and 3090 Ti GPUs for desktops and laptops. Somewhere along the way or shortly afterward, word came ...

Ethereum mining GPU days are over—gamers rejoice

Helium was founded in San Francisco in 2013 by Shawn Fanning, Amir Haleem, and Sean Carey, with a mission to make it easier to build connected devices. Mining HNT with blockchain hotspots is done via ...

CES 2022 highlights: AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm

CES 2022 started the year out with a bang, staging an in-person event in that charming little burg in Nevada, However, several dozens of the biggest and smartest companies chose not to go share the ...

Creator Version of Omniverse

AT CES this week, Nvidia announced a new slew of features for Omniverse and made it free for individual creators. Omniverse is a new work environment from Nvidia bringing together 20 years of graphics, AI, ...

Dassault shows of its digital health tools at CES

Dassault is not exactly a common brand in the halls of CES though the giant company has always put effort into establishing its brand throughout the world. Aficionados of the company will remember their wonderful, ...

Shaper updates round out modeling front end

Shapr3D as added new features for documentation, lofting, text, and Windows support. (Source: Shapr3D)   Shapr3D, an ambitious company based in Budapest, Hungary, and founded in 2015 by István Csanády. The company and its 3D ...

Done with ’21, what’s new for ’22

2021 was an uneventful year for GPUs and AIBs. Neither AMD nor Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, and only released AIBs based on derivatives of their 2020 GPUs. It will be mid-February before we ...

Ashlar-Vellum releases new Lithium downloads for Mac and Windows

It starts with a sketch. Ashlar-Vellum, one of the pioneers in industrial design software tools, has introduced Lithium, their new sketch app, which comes at an opportune time for Mac designers. (Source: stock image)   ...

Adobe Express for everybody else

Adobe has introduced a new collection of cloud-based tools to enable anyone to create a quick multimedia something. Adobe suggests banners, flyers, logos, etc. In other words, prepare to see more plain old posts gussied ...

Maxon is busting at the seams; acquisition of ZBrush is just part of the story

Maxon has been spewing news lately; it’s hard to track but it all adds up to a strong play for more of the creatives’ business. The headline is that Maxon plans to buy the assets ...