TechWatch

AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors

AMD introduced its Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors based on the Zen 3 core architecture. The new processors are designed for premium business laptops and include  AMD’s hardware-based PRO technologies for enterprise-class security features. ...

Smart driving with Trimble’s new best friend—LeddarTech

Trimble and LeddarTech have announced an alliance around LeddarTech’s VayaVision and Trimble’s machine control technology. The companies say they’ll be able to develop an innovative hardware and software portfolio to improve autonomous machine performance and ...

Future game programmers are MADE

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment—the MADE was founded in 2011 by Alex Handy and is the first dedicated, playable videogame museum in the US. The museum got started when Handy realized old game ...

AMD’s Radeon 6700 XT is surprising

AMD is putting out some very impressive gaming AIBs that may be overlooked by gamers in general. These boards are giving mainstream gamers impressive performance at the midrange price point.  AMD’s reference design Radeon 6700 ...

Unity expands AEC business with acquisition of VisualLive

Doesn’t this picture make you think about how badly this could go on a real site where there are loose nails, and other surprises lying around? Still, AR has found a place in AEC. (Source: ...

Remember the memory crunch of 1988?

Back when the PC was just a toddler, memory prices dropped after spiking. “About 1985, the personal computer market was tremendously overextended,” Texas Instruments spokesman Stan Victor told the Chicago Tribune. “There were a lot ...

The state of the PC industry

The PC industry has been on a rollercoaster ride for the past decade or longer: up, down, up, down, up. In 2010, when Paul Otellini was Intel’s CEO, he forecasted robust growth for the PC ...

Bentley Systems to acquire Seequent for $1.05 Billion

The company says the deal will advance environmental resilience by “deepening” Infrastructure Digital Twins. Bentley Systems has announced plans to acquire Seequent, a well-known provider of geospatial tools, geophysical modeling, and geotechnical stability mining based ...

Autodesk is acquiring Innovyze for water infrastructure solutions

Autodesk has announced the acquisition of Innovyze, a water infrastructure software company, for $1 billion in cash. Surpassing Autodesk's PlanGrid acquisition for $875 million in 2018, this is the biggest acquisition in Autodesk’s history. The company ...

Your next Kindle may be in color

Source: PocketBook    E Ink launched the first generation of its Kaleido color eReader display in Q2 2020. Conceptually, the Kaleido was not unlike previous E Ink color eReader displays. That is, it was an ...

Autodesk knitting together the Construction Cloud

Since its debut in 2019, the Autodesk Construction Cloud has been growing and a structure has been developing. The company has been adding on to its Construction portfolio with small affordable basic capabilities and complex ...

Assimilate strengthens its onset and remote reviews tools

Realtime has come to post. Now, what do we call it? Assimilate has added new capabilities that enable more extensive onset work and also easier, more spontaneous reviews. This is not at all shaping up ...