How DNEG Helped Win Another Visual-Effects Oscar by Bringing ‘Dune’ to Life With NVIDIA RTX

Featuring stunning visuals from futuristic interstellar worlds, including colossal sand creatures, Dune captivated audiences around the world. The sci-fi film picked up six Oscars last month at the 94th Academy Awards, including for Best Sound and Visual Effects. Adapted from Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel of the same name, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, Read article >

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Your Odyssey Awaits: Stream ‘Lost Ark’ to Nearly Any Device This GFN Thursday

It’s a jam-packed GFN Thursday. This week brings the popular, free-to-play, action role-playing game Lost Ark to gamers across nearly all their devices, streaming on GeForce NOW. And that’s not all. GFN Thursday also delivers an upgraded experience in the 2.0.40 update. M1-based MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Minis are now supported natively. Plus, membership gift Read article >

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Answers Blowin’ in the Wind: HPC Code Gives Renewable Energy a Lift

A hundred and forty turbines in the North Sea — and some GPUs in the cloud — pumped wind under the wings of David Standingford and Jamil Appa’s dream. As colleagues at a British aerospace firm, they shared a vision of starting a company to apply their expertise in high performance computing across many industries. Read article >

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What Is Conversational AI? ZeroShot Bot CEO Jason Mars Explains

Entrepreneur Jason Mars calls conversation our “first technology.” Before humans invented the wheel, crafted a spear or tamed fire, we mastered the superpower of talking to one another. That makes conversation an incredibly important tool. But if you’ve dealt with the automated chatbots deployed by the customer service arms of just about any big organization Read article >

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In the NVIDIA Studio: April Driver Launches Alongside New NVIDIA Studio Laptops and Featured 3D Artist

This week In the NVIDIA Studio, we’re launching the April NVIDIA Studio Driver with optimizations for the most popular 3D apps, including Unreal Engine 5, Cinema4D and Chaos Vantage. The driver also supports new NVIDIA Omniverse Connectors from Blender and Redshift.

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Let Me Shoyu How It’s Done: Creating the NVIDIA Omniverse Ramen Shop

When brainstorming a scene to best showcase the groundbreaking capabilities of the Omniverse platform, some NVIDIA artists turned to a cherished memory: enjoying ramen together in a mom-and-pop shop down a side street in Tokyo. Simmering pots of noodles, steaming dumplings, buzzing kitchen appliances, warm ambient lighting and glistening black ledger stools. These were all Read article >

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Stellar Weather: Researchers Describe the Skies of Exoplanets

A paper released today describes in the greatest detail to date the atmospheres on distant planets. Seeking the origins of what’s in and beyond the Milky Way, researchers surveyed 25 exoplanets, bodies that orbit stars far beyond our solar system. Specifically, they studied hot Jupiters, the largest and thus easiest to detect exoplanets, many sweltering Read article >

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LibreSSL 3.5.2 released

Hot on the heels of OpenBSD 7.1’s release,
LibreSSL
has been updated to 3.5.2!

The complete release notes may be read here:
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-3.5.2-relnotes.txt

By Land, Sea and Space: How 5 Startups Are Using AI to Help Save the Planet

Different parts of the globe are experiencing distinct climate challenges — severe drought, dangerous flooding, reduced biodiversity or dense air pollution. The challenges are so great that no country can solve them on their own. But innovative startups worldwide are lighting the way, demonstrating how these daunting challenges can be better understood and addressed with Read article >

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Tooth Tech: AI Takes Bite Out of Dental Slide Misses by Assisting Doctors

Your next trip to the dentist might offer a taste of AI. Pearl, a West Hollywood startup, provides AI for dental images to assist in diagnosis. It landed FDA clearance last month, the first to get such a go-ahead for dentistry AI. The approval paves the way for its use in clinics across the United Read article >

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April 21, 2022: OpenBSD 7.1 Released

The long spring (or fall) wait is over, the OpenBSD project today formally released OpenBSD 7.1, the 52nd release of our favorite open source operating system.

As usual, the release page lists the main highlights of the new release, which include