By David Rand Cutting-edge technologies play a major role in the business of filmmaking. We sat down with StudioLAB’s manager of technology innovation research to learn more. For nearly a century, The Walt Disney Studios has held a long and storied reputation for integrating some of the most cutting-edge technologies into the world of entertainment. […]
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Kent gets new £240m film studio
Ashford Council has granted planning permission for Ashford International Studios, a new £240m ($300m) film studio on the site of the town’s former Newtown railway works. The complex is estimated to bring in £100 million ($125 million) a year into Ashford’s economy and around 2,000 full-time jobs. It will include four TV and film studios, […]
NVIDIA GTC Digital keynotes on YouTube
Jensen Huang will front the GTC Digital keynotes, which will appear on YouTube on May 14, at 06.00. Pacific time. Huang will highlight the company’s latest innovations in AI, high performance computing, data science, autonomous machines, healthcare and graphics during the recorded keynote. Participants will be able to view the keynote on demand at www.youtube.com/nvidia. […]
Informed Sauce Podcast Preview Two – remembering London’s first Flame system
The new-look Informed Sauce website will also feature a magazine-style podcast with a regular group of contributors and a rolodex-full of guests. The first programme will appear in early May.. Standalone feature will punctuate the regular mixture of opinions, insights and conversation. To give you an idea of what to expect from these features, here’s […]
YouTube: It was 15 years ago today
CNN Business reminds us that the first YouTube video was published 15 years ago today, 23 April 2005. It features Youtube co-founder Jawed Karim visiting the zoo and it has so far received 90 million views. Within 18 months of publishing ‘Me at the zoo’, Jawed and his co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen had […]
NVIDIA RTX Voice suppresses Working From Home noise
A new plugin from NVDIA, RTX Voice, currently in early access community Beta, has been designed to help remote workers adjust to a “new normal”, with many homes becoming a “shared office, streaming studio, and gaming den all in one”. It uses Nvidia RTX GPUs and AI technology to keep background noise to a minimum when […]