As its current generation of Xeon CPUs appear to hit a performance plateau, analysts are predicting that, for the first time, NVIDIA is about to overtake Intel in the semiconductor stakes and become the US’s largest processor supplier by market capitalisation, according to this article in Barron’s. NVIDIA GPUs are getting more powerful and the […]
Following what’s been described as “a conversation” between the UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and Tom Cruise, leading Hollywood actors and crew arriving in England to resume work on British productions are being offered a 14 day Covid-19 travel quarantine exemption to allow a number of major productions to get back underway. The actor’s two […]
When the 55th. Top500 supercomputer rankings were published, in at number 7 with a bullet was newcomer Selene, which is owned by NVIIDIA and uses AMD’s Rome EPYC 7742 processors (64 cores, clocked at 2.25GHz) and NVIDIA’s own latest A100 accelerators. Selene is now a part of the world’s fastest AI supercomputer, Saturn V, clocking […]
Deluxe Entertainment Services, the distribution side of the business, has been bought by Platinum Equity. Deluxe’s creative services companies, EFILM, Company 3, Encore and VFX outfit Method Studios are not part of the deal. Cyril Drabinsky, who left Deluxe in 2016 to found CineVizion, which was also acquired by Platinum Equity and whose digital cinema […]
The space suit believed to have been worn by Dr. David Bowman (Keir Dullea) when he destroyed HAL in the groundbreaking 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is the standout lot at an auction of space memorabilia taking place in Beverly Hills on 17 and 18 July. It is estimated that it will fetch between $200,000 […]
Working in partnership with ETH Zurich, Disney Research has made a significant technical breakthrough by devising a fully automated, neural network-based face-swapping method that can be used for, for example, changing the age of an actor, incorporating a deceased actor into a scene or for when a stunt double is required. When a face swap […]