It is sometimes hard to avoid seeing videos and social media posts showing how busy people have been in the kitchen during lockdown. Ahead of GTC Digital, has anybody been more productive than NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang? Rumours have been circulating for weeks about what he will announce during his keynote. Could it be that […]
Will Strauss is Editor of SVG Europe, which “supports the professional community in Europe that uses video, audio, and broadband technologies to produce and distribute sports content“. He will be a regular contributor on the Informed Sauce podcast. Here he is doing his day job. In the third of three joint webcasts with the IABM […]
It is reported today on deadline.com and screeendaily.com that the DCMS (Dept. of Media, Culture and Sport) has confirmed that socially-distanced film and TV production can resume in the UK for the first time since the lockdown began on March 23. This will come as a big relief o anybody reading this post, but what […]
Lockdown could turn out to be responsible for the birth of new programmes, formats and even genres, if the latest animated political satire Tooning Out The News, from Stephen Colbert (pictured) and which made its CBS debut in the US on April 7, is anything to go by. The concept is very appealing – a […]
Writing in Forbes, venture capitalist Rob Toews asks if the growing ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence is responsible for a re-evaluation of chip architecture. Designing new processors specifically for AI is “one of the largest market opportunities in all of hardware today”. CPUs, which process sequentially, not in parallel, lack the power required for deep learning, […]
It is popularly thought that so much work is being done in the field of machine learning and content creation, it is only a matter of time before a cinema release or TV programme is written and directed by an AI. Here, Forbes has listed some already significant achievements in similar fields that would seem […]