NVIDIA Discontinues Mental Ray One Year After Relaunch
Back in SIGGRAPH 2016, NVIDIA announced that they would take control of Mental Ray’s licensing and development. The new product was in beta at the time, boasting a new global...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 19, 2017 | General Tech | 1
Back in SIGGRAPH 2016, NVIDIA announced that they would take control of Mental Ray’s licensing and development. The new product was in beta at the time, boasting a new global...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 14, 2017 | Graphics Cards | 4
There have been a few NVIDIA datacenter stories popping up over the last couple of months. A month or so after Google started integrating Pascal-based Tesla P100s into their...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 9, 2017 | Graphics Cards | 3
When we report on graphics drivers, it’s almost always for AMD or NVIDIA. It’s Intel’s turn this time, however, with their latest 15.60 release. This version supports HDR playback on NetFlix and…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 6, 2017 | General Tech | 0
The Unity Educator Toolkit was created by Unity3D to integrate learning game development into the K-12 public curriculum. Now zSpace, which we’ve mentioned a few times, is joining in...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 6, 2017 | Mobile | 12
The Pixel 2 XL launch hasn’t been going so well for Google. Early complaints were about the screen: how it had alleged burn-in problems within the first few days, and how it…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 6, 2017 | General Tech | 1
Over the last few years, Blizzard has been progressively opening up StarCraft II for non-paying customers. These initiatives ranged from allowing whole parties to share the highest expansion level of any one…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 5, 2017 | General Tech | 0
About a week ago, the Blender Foundation held their annual Blender Conference. The event was sponsored by AMD, same as last year, who is putting quite a bit of time and money…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 1, 2017 | Graphics Cards | 7
Remember last month? Remember when I said that Google’s introduction of Tesla P100s would be good leverage over Amazon, as the latter is still back in the Kepler days (because...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Nov 1, 2017 | General Tech | 0
As we head into another batch of holiday releases, NVIDIA has published another GeForce driver: 388.13. While they don’t explicitly call this out in the release notes, the CustHelp page...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Oct 21, 2017 | General Tech | 0
One of the highlights of the Adobe MAX show is their Sneaks segment, where they show off cute demos from their research labs. Some, but not all of these end up in…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Oct 10, 2017 | Graphics Cards | 2
NVIDIA gave their graphics drivers a decent version bump today, from 385.69 to 387.92. When the first number jumps, it seems to mean that we are on a new feature...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Oct 8, 2017 | Mobile | 14
Windows 10 Mobile has been in a holding pattern for a couple of years now. Microsoft has not really announced any new hardware initiatives, but they were also saying, consistently, that the…
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