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Adobe moves to two-year cycle, adds .5 release

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Kathleen Maher

Adobe introduced CS5.5 at its San Francisco offices Adobe is making significant changes to the way it rolls out products, ...

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Pachube crowdsourcing real-world data for fun and progress

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Kathleen Maher

Want to track radiation levels in Japan? How about harnessing the data from the world’s Internet-enabled refrigerators? Where there is ...

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Plume digs deeper to add quality haze to Rango

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Randall Newton

Industrial Light and Magic’s first full animation needed a retooling of their famed fluid solver/renderer and faster GPUs. Tools from ...

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Excellent new white paper compares four neutral 3D formats

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Randall Newton

If you don’t understand the differences between STEP, 3D XML, JT, and 3D PDF, this free white paper from interoperability ...

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CUDA 4.0 Toolkit now publicly available

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Randall Newton

The latest release-candidate version enables software developers to port their applications to Nvidia Graphic Processor Units. NVIDIA today announced the ...

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The SmartGeometry Conference explores new approaches to design

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Kathleen Maher

Copenhagen was the site of this year’s SmartGeometry Conference, a heady blend of theory and practice that lets participants unplug ...

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Image Metrics looks for new opportunities

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Kathleen Maher

Image Metrics, best known for its facial animation technology used in leading games, surprised the industry with a reverse merger ...

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Hair today … Cebas and Cyber Radiance team up

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Kathleen Maher

Rendering companies make alliances and field new products. Cebas Visual Technology, yet another up and coming rendering company, has announced ...

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Art and Commerce and Beer Goggles: SXSW

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Kathleen Maher

South By Southwest started as an annual celebration of the arts but has become a conference where a telecom VP ...

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Drop what you are doing and try Psykopaint!

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Randall Newton

A French start-up with a unique paint tool is the talk of the Seedcamp USA tour. Is it a toy, ...