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Dassault comes out of 2020 stronger than ever

Dassault is enjoying the benefits of its diversification strategy and its unbounded optimism. The company has had complete faith in its decades-long vision of a cloud-based integrated set of tools that reach all the way ...

Nvidia takes steps to protect gaming business

(Source:  Sevilay Demirci flicker.com)   Pull off the display connectors and call it a mining machine. That’s basically what Nvidia did with their Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) and it’s a very clever move. Meanwhile, Nvidia ...

Painter Essentials 8 gets updated features from parent product Painter 2021

Painter Essentials 8, the latest addition to Corel’s Painter family, has arrived. Painter Essentials is essentially a slimmed-down version of Corel’s high-end painting tool Painter for digital artists which sells for $429 on the Corel ...

Dassault advances Solidworks capabilities with cloud-based 3DExperience Works

Everyone is a creator: The 3DExperience Grand Challenge this year enlisted the Solidworks employee community to pick 3DExperience Works tools and participate in the design of a space station with teams given the responsibility to ...

Docomo and Arcturus team up to bring volumetric video to 5G mobile customers in Japan

Last week, Japan telecom giant, NTT Docomo, held its annual open house to introduce its current & future technology and activities. In conjunction with this event, Docomo, and USA/Canadian startup, Arcturus Studio, announced their working ...

Meshing around with shaders coming with DirectX Ultimate

In late 2019 Microsoft announced it would make a major upgrade to its Windows API DirectX12. The company said it would add two new shader stages: the Mesh Shader and the Amplification Shader. Mesh shaders ...

Lightmap introduces the Xenon Drop 2 update for HDR Light Studio

The HDR Light Studio interface offers multiple controls for adding, adjusting, and finetuning a variety of lights in a scene. (Source: Lightmap) Rendering is one thing, but lighting can be another. Lightmap, based in Nottingham, ...

Pushing processors to the limit: Siemens NX incorporates new design paradigms

Siemens has achieved some milestones with their latest release of NX. The company has gone to a continuous release in which changes are rolled out regularly. The company expects a cadence of every 6 months ...

Brighton puts your brain on GPUs

Researchers at the University of Sussex in Brighton in the UK have employed GPUs in a desktop PC for a large-scale brain simulation that would typically require a supercomputer. The research builds on the work ...

PTC acquires Migenius for the growing Onshape family

The Perrinn Project 424 is an open-source race car project and a collaboration that includes OnShape, Simscale, and Migenius. (Source: Perrinn Project 424)   Migenius, founded in 2010 by Paul Arden, was a pioneer company ...

The gaming market is huge and takes no prisoners

As the headlines and some investors' money slowly fades, and the echoes of share price surge from the GameStop revolt bubble continue to reverberate, the PC gaming market is worth about $35 billion and growing at about ...

Giant Steps: Adobe Substance 2021.1 updates

Sebastien Deguy heads the 3D & Immersive team at Adobe and introduced the Livestream update for Substance 2021. (Source: Adobe)   Adobe’s Substance team is an integral part of Adobe’s 3D strategy, or more correctly, ...