Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies
Venture Beat
JULY 6, 2021
Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source, and it will be known as the Open 3D Engine. Read More.
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Amazon's Lumberyard goes open source, it's now called Open 3D Engine, gets wider support
TechSpot
JULY 7, 2021
The Open 3D Foundation results from the collaboration of various developers, aiming to support open-source projects designed to improve the capabilities of 3D graphics, rendering, authoring, and development.
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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 12, 2024
These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer. Torch enables fast and efficient GPU support, focusing on improving flexibility and speed when building complex algorithms.
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How 3D printing will transform the retail industry: The opportunities
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 21, 2012
Power Retail magazine has just published a very nice piece on 3D Printing: The Next Retail Revolution , drawn primarily from an interview with me. The piece begins by discussing the news that a company is developing technology for the 3D printing of meat. The question is: how rapidly will these changes develop?
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Nvidia unveils Workbench for managing AI workloads, updates Omniverse
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 8, 2023
As befits a conference about computer graphics, though, most of the news revolved around Nvidia Omniverse, the company’s platform for real-time 3D graphics collaboration. ChatUSD uses an LLM to answer developers’ queries about how to create and deploy 3D graphical objects, and can respond with text or Python code.
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An Edge Vision for the Metaverse
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 25, 2022
will introduce new dimensions of interaction such as virtual and decentralised 3D worlds and experiences. Developers can also quickly experiment and code on SLE Micro to build apps ranging from wearables to, smart cities, transportation, and many more. This could mean being close to your decentralized 3D worlds. Where Web 2.0
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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 17, 2024
Similarly, clothing brand Under Armour recently produced an ad that used AI-generated 3D models of the British boxer Anthony Joshua, based on videos they took of him in the past. Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO.
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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 18, 2023
Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.
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Data as a service: Top vendors offering data on tap
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 14, 2022
Sometimes it comes from external, oftentimes open, sources, gathered together by the DaaS vendor to help enterprises leverage data assets they might otherwise be unable to deal with themselves. Many of the tools are also following the current fashion of making development simpler and smarter. Synthesis AI.
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Protective face shields made with help of Prime Air drone engineers now for sale at cost on Amazon
GeekWire
JULY 28, 2020
Medical professionals are seen wearing the face shield developed with the help of Amazon. A protective face shield made by 3D printing enthusiasts in Washington state, with the help of Amazon Prime Air drone engineers, is now for sale on Amazon.com. Amazon Photo). Amazon is selling the Pacific Northwest Shields at cost, and at $66.25
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GeekWire Awards: Nuclear power, quantum computing and more Innovation of the Year hopefuls
GeekWire
MARCH 11, 2025
The five finalists are developing everything from a next-generation nuclear power plant to tech that can help law enforcement avoid dangerous weapons pat-downs. Lassen Peak is developing a handheld concealed weapon detection system. Lumotive manufactures semiconductor chips tailored for 3D sensors. Bellevue, Wash.-based
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AI masters language but flunks LEGO 101
Dataconomy
MARCH 27, 2025
The researchers designed a clever benchmark called LEGO-Puzzles precisely because building LEGOs mirrors how humans develop “spatial intelligence.” ” Following those little diagrams requires understanding 3D shapes, how they fit together, their orientation, and the correct sequence of actions. Why test AI with LEGOs?
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Inside the Apple M1 is an incredibly quirky GPU
TechSpot
MAY 15, 2022
In her efforts to develop an open source graphics driver for the M1, Alyssa Rosenzweig recently found a quirk in the render pipeline of the M1's GPU. She was rendering increasingly complicated 3D geometries, and eventually arrived at a bunny that made the GPU bug out.
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Amazon engineers develop face shields for frontline workers
The Verge
MAY 14, 2020
A team of Amazon engineers from its drone delivery unit worked with a group of 3D printing volunteers to develop reusable face shields for frontline workers, the company announced in a blog post Thursday. The design has been approved by the National Institutes of Health and should be for sale on Amazon soon, the company said.
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GTC 2025: The most important AI announcements
Dataconomy
MARCH 19, 2025
Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell series: AI and 3D work redefined Nvidia has officially launched the RTX Pro Blackwell series at GTC 2025, introducing an unprecedented level of power for AI workloads and 3D processing. With Blackwell Ultra, Dynamo, and GR00T N1, Nvidia isnt just leading the AI revolutionits rewriting the rules.
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Computer vision is primed for business value
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 23, 2022
Since last summer, Kroger has opened facilities in Florida, Alabama, Texas, California, Ohio, and Georgia, and has plans to open 17 more facilities, including both hubs and spokes, over the next 24 months. The client] wanted to be able to hire people with disabilities to do counting,” Griffin says. “It
CIO 100 Award winners prove the transformative value of IT
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 15, 2023
In partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft, CarMax worked to develop, test, and iterate GPT-3 natural language models aimed at achieving those results. For a look at how other CIO 100 Award winners are supporting fair elections, see “ Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud.”
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Apple plays nice with others for an OpenUSD metaverse
Computerworld Vertical IT
AUGUST 2, 2023
Apple, Adobe, Pixar, Autodesk, NVIDIA, and the Joint Development Foundation have joined forces to develop a standard that can be used to underpin mixed- and virtual-reality experiences — a move that also undermine Meta's efforts in the AR/VR arena. 6 and Siggraph on Aug 8. To read this article in full, please click here
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Finding the Best ebook Creator | 10 Best ebook creation software
Kitaboo
JANUARY 27, 2020
Sigil – Open-source application for eBook creation. For a first-time author who is trying to develop an eBook, it seems like quite a harrowing task to find the right tools which can efficiently do the job. Sigil is a free, open-source application that allows users to import and edit eBooks in text, HTML and ePUB format.
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The biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
The Verge
MAY 20, 2020
Microsoft’s annual developer conference has officially kicked off, the first yearly developer conference in the consumer tech world we’ve experienced online. Faced with the same circumstances, Microsoft chose to do something remarkable with its developer conference: it put on a developer keynote.
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Blue Origin and Aerojet get in on NASA partnerships for new space technologies
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Aerojet’s Redmond facility will be involved in a follow-up project to develop a new kind of hybrid “green” propellant. are among 17 companies that have struck deals with NASA to develop new technologies for space missions. Elementum 3D of Erie, Colo., Aerojet Rocketdyne Photo). Kent, Wash.-based
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Microsoft reveals new gaming-focused generative AI model ‘Muse’ that could revive classic games
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Muse is a World and Human Action Model, or WHAM, built by the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge in conjunction with the British game developer and Xbox subsidiary Ninja Theory. Lee also notes that Muses ability to visualize and navigate 3D spaces could lead to future breakthroughs in fields such as interior design or architectural modeling.
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What’s New and What’s Next in 2023 for HPC
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 4, 2023
Scaling out and developing large-scale systems : To meet demand, the HPC industry is developing and honing strategies to effectively scale and deploy large systems that are both efficient and reliable. As a community, we keep sharing information and we stay on top of developments to realize the maximum benefits of HPC.
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Scikit-learn
Dataconomy
MARCH 27, 2025
Scikit-learn is an open-source library that simplifies machine learning in Python. History and development Scikit-learn was initiated by David Cournapeau in 2007 as part of a Google Summer of Code project. Matplotlib: Facilitates 2D and 3D visualizations. What is Scikit-learn? SciPy: Critical for scientific computations.
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Epic Games Store expands to carry Windows apps like Brave and Discord
The Verge
APRIL 22, 2021
is arriving on Epic Games Store today, alongside open-source browser Brave, streaming radio app iHeartRadio, 3D model tool KenShape, and open-source painting app Krita. Epic is adding five new PC apps to its Epic Games Store launcher today, in a fresh bid to offer more than just games. Indie game store Itch.io
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Gaming Trends of the Past, 2016 and Beyond
Galido
MAY 10, 2016
3D Effects and the Evolution of Gaming Equipment. We started seeing more color, 3D effects, and first person shooter games. 3D has always been a popular technology; in fact, it existed 100 years ago, but couldn’t progress as much as it has today due to high costs and lack of technology and equipment. Gaming in Color.
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Summary and notes from AIMIA event: Social media and user generated content
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
While I know Blender , the open source 3D animation tool, and in fact spent a Saturday playing with it once, I didn’t know they’ve created completely open source films (animations) that anyone can pull apart and recreate any way they want. Onyx is an open source video mixer. Widgets are exploding.
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Online Training Solutions and the Art of Enterprise Training Delivery
Kitaboo
DECEMBER 17, 2019
Online training solutions, therefore, open up fresh avenues for organizations to customize their learning and development initiatives and gain more from their ROI. However, with the impending phasing out of Flash, companies have now begun to transform their eLearning courses to the popular HTML5 format, an open source web format.
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Who is going to take the lead in corporate virtual worlds?
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 21, 2008
This spin-off from There.com has been developed specifically for the enterprise market, including a range of business settings, and 3D record and playback. Secure work virtual worlds based on the open-source Croquet platform. Platform of tools and libraries to create virtual worlds and 3D widgets. Forterra Systems.
Valve’s Gabe Newell on new games, brain-machine interfaces, and moving employees to New Zealand
GeekWire
JANUARY 27, 2021
OpenBCI’s Ultracortex Mark IV is a 3D-printable headset that can be used by researchers to record brain activity. The idea, as per Newell, is to work with OpenBCI headsets, an open-source project produced in Brooklyn, alongside virtual reality devices. OpenBCI Photo).
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Game Gear Micro review: peak Sega
The Verge
OCTOBER 16, 2020
There are lots of ways to play Game Gear games if you really want to, whether it’s through the 3DS Virtual Console or less official means like the countless open-source emulator handhelds out there. It’s a self-aware passion project developed with care and quality to a fault. Personally, I like what Sega has done here.
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Six Trends that are transforming Living Online: Presentation at Influence conference - Trends in the Living Networks
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 8, 2007
3D TV without glasses is a reality and not far from commercialization. While 3D efforts using colored or polarizing glasses will continue for some time, the real future is in providing different images to each eye, as in Philips’ 3D TV initiatives. It will also be possible to generate realistic 3D images from 2D video.
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GoPro ripped out the guts of the Hero10 Black to give its bones to drones
The Verge
APRIL 12, 2022
If you don’t want to use its two physical buttons or GoPro’s app or optional remote, there’s a third wire you can connect to a flight controller and operate with the likes of the open-source Betaflight software or GoPro’s Open GoPro APIs. You can develop whatever software you want,” Lema says.
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Create your own comic books with AI Comic Factory
Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
As the use of artificial intelligence increases, new models develop, and as these develop, brand-new AI-powered applications emerge. Developed by Julian Bilcke and free to use via HugginFace, AI Comic Factory allows you to design awesome comic books with a few simple prompts and preset styles. image generation model.
SDXL 0.9 is here to change the game
Dataconomy
JULY 3, 2023
has one of the highest parameter counts of any open-source image model. There are many issues that the developers face. billion parameter base model and a 6.6 billion parameter ensemble pipeline (the final output is produced by running on two models and combining the results), SDXL 0.9
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Biology
ForAllSecure
JUNE 30, 2021
It's kind of like trying to develop an exploit without using GDB, trying to kind of land a rock chain, without being able to debug it. Honestly the exploit development mindset is the same as like the science mindset. And maybe it helps you find a crash sooner than maybe let's develop.
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Ayn Odin review: a Nintendo Switch with Android
The Verge
APRIL 16, 2022
Those devices are intended to play games from 2D consoles or, at a stretch, early 3D systems like the original PlayStation and Nintendo 64. The Odin, though, is able to emulate more advanced consoles like the Dreamcast, PSP, and GameCube.
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The ad industry is going all-in on AI
Vox
JUNE 29, 2023
For a week in June, the developing technology was the talk of the beach in the south of France. To rub it in a little, this year, Publicis launched a hate-to-say “I told you so” billboard campaign around Cannes reminding people how prescient they’d been with developing the AI-powered Marcel platform.
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Midjourney pricing plans and free alternatives to try
Dataconomy
JULY 12, 2023
Pixray Artbreeder Fotor Deep Dream Generator Runway ML DALL-E 2 Developed by OpenAI, DALL-E 2 is one of the leading free AI art generators available, often seen as a free Midjourney alternative. Stable Diffusion AI Launched by Stability AI on August 22, Stable Diffusion is an open-source AI art generator.
Everything NVIDIA announced at GTC 2024
Dataconomy
MARCH 19, 2024
Get ready to dive into the latest advancements in artificial intelligence as we unpack everything unveiled at GTC 2024, the premier AI conference for developers, business leaders, and AI researchers. Contribution to Japan’s ABCI-Q supercomputer is made, facilitating high-fidelity quantum simulations across industries.
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What is synthetic data? Generated data to help your AI strategy
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 15, 2022
According to Gartner analyst Svetlana Sicular, by 2024, 60% of the data used for the development of AI and analytics solutions will be synthetically generated, up from 1% in 2021. This can slow down the development of new AI models. Synthetic data use cases. Artificial data has many uses in enterprise AI strategies.
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?
ForAllSecure
JANUARY 27, 2021
It was a 3D puzzle writ large. Maybe you could be contracting out to companies and saying hey we'll put on a game for you, we'll, we'll develop the challenges. If you're doing challenge development, if you're creating the puzzles and the tasks and the activities that the players are going to do. No, what hooked me was Myst.
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?
ForAllSecure
JANUARY 27, 2021
It was a 3D puzzle writ large. Maybe you could be contracting out to companies and saying hey we'll put on a game for you, we'll, we'll develop the challenges. If you're doing challenge development, if you're creating the puzzles and the tasks and the activities that the players are going to do. No, what hooked me was Myst.
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The best Anime AI generator you are looking for
Dataconomy
JUNE 8, 2023
For a better understanding, ZMO is based on the AI development qualities of the following topics: background remover, image input, text input, and so on. This tool allows you to create models that generate a wide range of realistic visual styles, as well as animations and 3D models. Courtesy of ZMO.AI This is Art.
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