The 3D computer animated LEGO movie from Warner Bros. has been officially named... The LEGO Movie. The film, which features the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman and more, hits cinemas on ...
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Aledia, a developer of LEDs-based on disruptive microwire GaN-on-Silicon technology, announced today that it has made its first LEDs on 8-inch (200mm) silicon wafers. The cost of Aledia’s LED 3D chips based on microwires is expected ...
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Tactus Technologies, a spinoff company from the University at Buffalo, has developed a first-of-its-kind virtual reality training program for forklift operators, a product that company officials expect will reduce work-related injuries and ...
Renesas Electronics' latest system-on-a-chip has eight ARM processing cores to help next-generation, in-car infotainment systems handle multiple streams of 1080p video and augmented reality apps. The R-Car H2 system-on-a-chip is based on ...
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The new 3D animated movie "The Croods" may be about a stone-aged family, but DreamWorks said it is by far its most sophisticated production to date, topping all others in compute cycle hours. The movie, out in theaters last Friday, ...
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Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of a new member of the R-Car Series of automotive system-on-chip (SoC) multimedia processors. The multicore SoC is one of the first commercial chips to implement ARM's big.LITTLE ...
Concerns about the increased cost of compliance with privacy regulations influenced Google's decision to shut down Google Reader from July. According to an anonymous source speaking to AllThingsD, Google is attempting to better manage how ...
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Taiwan-based projector vendor Optoma expects its projector shipments to increase slightly in 2013 by having an improved product mix as well as tackling education segments in emerging economies, according to the company's Asia-based manager ...
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TSMC and Imagination Technologies are working together to develop reference design flows and silicon implementations for Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 GPUs on TSMC’s advanced process technologies, including 16nm FinFET process ...
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Looking for a home-theater setup that would satisfy Dr. Evil? LG Electronics hopes so: Next month it will start selling an 1080p projector that uses a lasers as light source, paired with a special 100-inch diagonal screen. We first heard ...
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In an announcement that makes Sony's $25,000 Ultra HD TV look like a good deal and LG's $17,000 UHD TV look like an absolute steal, Samsung this morning said you can pre-order its own ultra-large Ultra HD TV later this month, provided you ...
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A giant multi-touch glass screen, purpose manufactured by Bedford-based specialists, Paradigm AV, has taken centre stage at the University of Wolverhampton's new six zone Visualisation Centre. Opened in mid-March, and the brainchild of ...
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Sydney will once again be immersed in light, music and creative ideas as Vivid Sydney returns for a fifth year from 24 May to 10 June. For the first time the programme will be streamed live from the web address below. The live streaming ...
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Almelo, the Netherlands: PANalytical, the world's leading supplier of analytical X-ray equipment and software, is set to launch its new software for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) systems. PANalytical developed Stratos, a brand new software ...
Tags: software, XRF systems, coatings, surface layers
Nvidia has introduced the concept of remote graphics acceleration in Windows, Linux or Mac-based clients. Called the Nvidia Grid Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) runs complex video applications such as those from Adobe Systems and ...