Julian Bass, a 20 year-old Georgia State university student, has won over an array of Hollywood names with this TikTok video showing off his impressive visual effects skills. When Julian posted the video on Twitter, he added the note, “If y’all can tweet this enough times that Disney calls that’d be greatly appreciated”. The video […]
A new campaign for the UK government has been launched to promote the safe reopening of the UK for business after lockdown restrictions have been lifted. The ‘Enjoy Summer Safely’ TV ad shows people returning to places they missed during lockdown and some of the new safety measures in place. Brands involved in the campaign […]
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 […]