Triggered by the big rise in remote working caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, HPE has announced that it is buying networking company Silver Peak for $925 million. Silver Peak’s SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) technology, complements HPE’s own Aruba products, and will be incorporated into that business unit. “The need for edge-to-cloud architectures has never […]
Can this new tool from Mirriad help producers to dig for gold in their back catalogues? Library sales to streaming companies have helped to keep revenue flowing for content owners during lockdown. Now, they can take advantage of a new technology that can digitally insert branded products and promotional items into finished content. Mirriad can […]
Unlike many industry sub-sectors , VFX has been able to adjust to remote working relatively quickly and easily, writes Barclay’s Head of Media Lorraine Ruckstuhl in Broadcast. Content security, adapting workflows, structuring teams correctly and kitting them out have occupied tech departments full-time and bandwidth“has become the new obsession”. A lot of effort has been […]
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 […]