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Apple will once again license technology from Imagination Technologies, the chip designer that used to provide graphics processors for the iPhone and iPad, the UK-based company announced today. The Verge reports: In a short statement posted on its webs… Continue reading Apple Reunites With iPhone Graphics Chip Partner To License Technology
MojoKid writes: At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii this week, Qualcomm unveiled the new Snapdragon 865 Mobile Platform, which enable next year’s flagship 5G Android phones with more performance, a stronger Tensor-based AI processor and a very int… Continue reading Qualcomm To Offer GPU Driver Updates On Google Play Store For Some Snapdragon Chips
dryriver writes: When you run a real-time video processing algorithm on a GPU, you notice that some math functions execute very quickly on the GPU and some math functions take up a lot more processing time or cycles, slowing down the algorithm. If you … Continue reading Ask Slashdot: How Much Faster Is an ASIC Than a Programmable GPU?
Adobe, Twitter, and The New York Times Company have announced a new system for adding attribution to photos and other content. A tool will record who created a piece of content and whether it’s been modified by someone else, then let other people and p… Continue reading Adobe and Twitter Are Designing a System For Permanently Attaching Artists’ Names To Pictures
Freshly Exhumed shares a report from Fast Company: Hold your favorite graphic design tome close. We now know what the classic typeface Helvetica would look like if it came from the underworld. Yes, it will keep type enthusiasts up at night. The design … Continue reading Helvetica’s Evil Twin, Hellvetica, Will Haunt Your Nightmares
MojoKid writes: NVIDIA is expanding its GeForce GTX family of GPUs today with a pair of new Turing-based graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super and GeForce GTX 1650 Super. As their mode numbers suggest, these new cards reside above their “non-Super… Continue reading Nvidia Launches GeForce GTX 1660 Super For Faster 1080p Gaming
Wired recently remembered Flash as “the annoying plugin” that transformed the web “into a cacophony of noise, colour, and controversy, presaging the modern web.”
They write that its early popularity in the mid-1990s came in part because “Microsoft ne… Continue reading Wired Remembers the Glory Days of Flash
A new article this week on Motherboard argues that Flash “is responsible for the internet’s most creative era,” citing a new 640-page book by Rob Ford on the evolution of web design.
[O]ne could argue that the web has actually gotten less creative ov… Continue reading Was Flash Responsible For ‘The Internet’s Most Creative Era’?
An anonymous reader quotes Forbes:
Nvidia has a lot riding on the success of its GeForce RTX cards. The Santa Clara, California company is beating the real-time ray tracing drum loudly, adamant on being known as a champion of the technology before AMD… Continue reading NVIDIA’s Job Listings Reveal ‘Game Remastering’ Studio, New Interest In RISC-V
MojoKid writes: The Raspberry Pi 4 is one of the cheapest single-board computers around. The new 4th generation is a solid performance lift over its predecessor and good bang for the buck if you’re interested in learning Linux, working with embedded co… Continue reading You Can Now Overclock a Raspberry Pi 4 For Some Nice Performance Gains