Blender 2.77 Released
Speaking of open-source animation software, the Blender Foundation has just released Blender 2.77. This is a relatively minor update, maintaining compatibility and structure with other 2.7x versions, but it...
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Digital Video and Dwango “Create” OpenToonz
This is a bit of a complicated situation to condense into a single headline. Digital Video is a research and software development studio out of Rome, who specializes in computer graphics (as…
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Mozilla to Preview Servo in June
Mozilla, the open-source creators of Firefox and Thunderbird, have announced that their Servo project will reach public alpha in June. Nightly builds will be available, presumably around that time, for...
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Details about NVIDIA’s GameWorks 3.1 Update…
Most of our readers should have some familiarity with GameWorks, which is a series of libraries and utilities that help game developers (and others) create software.…
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AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Released
New graphics drivers from AMD have just been published, and it's a fairly big release. First, Catalyst 16.3 adds Vulkan support to main-branch drivers, which they...
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Ashes of the Singularity Goes Live on March 31st
Ashes of the Singularity, by Oxide Games and Stardock, the RTS that spawned from the Star Swarm demo, will be released on March 31st. Unless something sneaks in before then, this…
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Ubuntu 16.04 Deprecates AMD fglrx Driver Support
AMD has been transitioning their kernel driver from the closed-source fglrx to the open-source AMDGPU driver that was announced last year. This forms the base that both closed and open user-mode drivers…
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Android N Preview Published and Pixel C for Devs Discounts
With basically zero warning, Google has released Android N previews for the Nexus 5X, the Nexus 6, the Nexus 6P, the Nexus 9, the Nexus Player, and the Pixel C. It…
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NVIDIA Pulls 364.47 WHQL and Releases 364.51 Beta
The last couple of days were not too great for software patches. Microsoft released a Windows 10 update that breaks 5K monitors, and NVIDIA's driver bug, mentioned in the last...
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Microsoft Cancels Fable Legends
Officially, Microsoft has not yet shut down Lionhead Studios, but they have canceled Fable Legends. They “are in discussions with employees about the proposed closure of Lionhead Studios in the...
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NVIDIA Releases 364.47 WHQL Drivers… with Vulkan
This new driver for NVIDIA brings Vulkan support to their current, supported branch. This is particularly interesting for me, because the Vulkan branch used to pre-date fixes for Adobe Creative...
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Tesla Motors Hires Peter Bannon of Apple
When we found out that Jim Keller has joined Tesla, we were a bit confused. He is highly skilled in processor design, and he moved to a company that does not design…
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