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Wikipedia describes Homestar Runner as “a blend of surreal humour, self-parody, and references to popular culture, in particular video games, classic television, and popular music.” But after launching in 2000, the web-based cartoon became a cultural p… Continue reading How ‘Homestar Runner’ Re-Emerged After the End of Flash
Nvidia has unveiled its latest lineup of graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 40 series. Built on a new third-generation architecture, the cards are claimed to boast twice the performance of the RTX 30 series, with a focus on boosting frame rates and ray tr… Continue reading Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series doubles power of last gen’s GPUs
UnknowingFool writes: After a decades long partnership with Nvidia, EVGA has announced they are ending their relationship. Citing conflicts with Nvidia, EVGA CEO Andrew Han said the company will not partner with Intel nor AMD, and will be exiting the G… Continue reading EVGA Abandons the GPU Market, Reportedly Citing Conflicts With Nvidia
Canva, the Australian graphic design business valued at $26 billion, is introducing a new suite of digital workplace products that “represent a direct challenge to Google Docs, Microsoft Office, and Adobe, whose digital tools are mainstays of the moder… Continue reading Canva, the $26 Billion Design Startup, Launches a Productivity Suite To Take On Google Docs, Microsoft Office
The Raspberry Pi 4 has hit a major graphics milestone, adding support for a more modern Vulkan 3D APIa. Ars Technica reports: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton announced the Pi 4’s Vulkan 1.2 conformance on Monday. Support isn’t available yet in downloadable… Continue reading Raspberry Pi 4 Expands 3D Potential With Vulkan Update
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Intel is slowly moving into the dedicated graphics market, and its graphics driver releases are looking a lot more like Nvidia’s and AMD’s than they used to. For its dedicated Arc GPUs and the arch… Continue reading As Intel Gets Into Discrete GPUs, It Scales Back Support For Many Integrated GPUs
Intel Linux GPU driver developers have released an update that results in a massive 100X boost in ray tracing performance. This is something to be celebrated, of course. However, on the flip side, the driver was 100X slower than it should have been bec… Continue reading Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing
On July 7th Art News explained how 95-year-old Austrian artist Herbert W. Franke “has recently become a sensation within the art world the crypto space,” describing the digital pioneer as a computer artist using algorithms and computer programs to visu… Continue reading SF Writer/Digital Art/NFT Pioneer Herbert W. Franke Dies at Age 95
[dukope] is writing a game, Return of the Obra Dinn, with a fantastic visual style. One of the choices was to make everything in glorious one-bit color, otherwise known as …read more Continue reading Dithering Makes Everything Cooler: Now Even Animated
UnknowingFool writes: The current Linux kernel in development, 5.19, added 495,793 new lines of code for graphic driver updates. David Airlie sent in the new lines as part of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem of Linux. The majority of additions … Continue reading Linux 5.19 Adds 500K Lines of New Graphics Driver Code