In its Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2020–2024 report, PwC predicts that the global M&E industry will contract by 5.6% in 2020. It’s the sharpest fall in global M&E revenue in the 21-years PwC has been conducting this research and represents a $120 Billion hole in the industry’s finances, For context, in 2009, the last year […]
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Total Recall’s models and VFX remembered
This isn’t new (it dates from 2010) or at all newsworthy, but Models and Skeletons, The Special Effects of Total Recall is a VFX buff’s dream and well worth bringing to some people’s attention for the first time here, especially as the work of many of the people responsible was criminally overlooked in the credits […]
Goodbye Mellanox, hello NVIDIA Networking
Following an extended courtship, NVIDIA and Mellanox finally got hitched in April 2020, involving a $7 Billion dowry, Mellanox has been rebranded as NVIDIA Networking and fully absorbed. The Mellanox website has been updated, with its switches, NICs, and other networking and data centre hardware all now appearing under the NVIDIA banner for the first […]
NeRF-in-the-Wild creates 3D images from snaps
Google Research advances NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) technology, crowdsourcing photos taken by tourists to create detailed 3D images Traditional NeRF struggles with the wide luminance range in different images, coping better with static, controlled images. NeRF-in-the-Wild has been developed to handle many more lighting conditions, angles and formats. The Google Brain ANN (Artificial Neural Network) […]
The Age Of A.I. Ep. 4 – Love, Art & Stories: Decoded
The Age of A.I. is a 8 part documentary series hosted by Robert Downey Jr. covering the ways Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks will change the world. What is love and what defines art? Humans have theorized, debated, and argued over these questions for centuries. As researchers become closer and closer to boiling […]
HPE Greenlake Cloud shows hyperscalers the way
Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri has told CRN that take-up of HPE’s GreenLake on-premise cloud service has grown a ‘record-breaking’ 82% in the quarter ending 31 July, much faster than public cloud adoption. In the same period, Microsoft Azure revenue grew 47%, Google Cloud 43% and Amazon Web Services 29%. If you add in […]