When the COVID-19 shutdown began in March throughout the United States, my team at Adobe had to face a stark reality: Business as usual was no longer an option. Suddenly, over just a single weekend, we had to shift our global workforce of over 22,000 people to working remotely. Not surprisingly, our existing processes and workflows weren’t equipped for this abrupt change. Customers, employees…
In my last article, I shot images with both the Canon R5 and Canon R6 to compare the ISO performance of both cameras. As always, this lead to a lot of comments, emails, and DMs asking me if I could also compare the different file formats of these cameras. While I still have…
In the latest development of the legal battle between Apple and Epic Games, the Fortnite developer announced it has filed for a preliminary injunction that would put its game back in the app store and restore its developer account.
Today we asked the Court to stop…
Nvidia’s DLSS AI-upscaling SDK now supports VR
September 5, 2020
Nvidia’s DLSS neural upscaling technology now works with virtual reality titles.
In a Reddit comment yesterday Nvidia’s Randy Niu revealed the change. It’s also now listed in the DLSS Unreal Engine changelog.
Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) uses the Tensor cores in GeForce RTX graphics cards to power a detail-enhancing neural network. In monitor-based titles, DLSS 2.0 can upscale…
Read Epic’s new, full argument why a court should force Apple to reinstate Fortnite
September 5, 2020
Shortly before midnight on the Friday before Labor Day weekend — we’re curious about the timing — Epic Games pushed the button on its next legal action against Apple’s ban on the immensely popular Fortnite.
There was no question that Epic would file for a…
Hands-on: iOS 14 beta 7 changes and features [Video]
September 5, 2020
Yesterday Apple released the seventh iOS 14 beta, and it comes bundled with a couple of noteworthy updates. Watch our brief hands-on video walkthrough as we explore new iOS 14 beta 7 changes and features.
What’s new in iOS 14 beta 7?
Updated App Library categories
New…
My wife bought a toy game controller for our baby girl. I couldn’t have been prouder. Our six-month old already loved to drum her feet on my DualShock 4 — a born gamer.
So I started absentmindedly fiddling with the so-called “Fisher-Price Game & Learn,” impressed by how many sounds they’d managed to cram into one toy.
Then, a funny idea struck me. I started pressing the buttons in…
Teenage Engineering's next product is probably a Bluetooth speaker
September 5, 2020
When Teenage Engineering started teasing it was working on a “magic apparatus,” people got understandably excited. After all, this is the company that has released some of the most offbeat but capable synths (and IKEA products) in the last couple of years, and…
Doom and Doom II get official widescreen support, 27 years later
September 5, 2020
Doom is the game that just won’t die, no matter how many times you blast those demons away — and owner Bethesda has seen fit to give the 27-year-old original quite a number of upgrades this year. After adding 60fps support and community-made add-ons in January, the…
NVIDIA's RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless
September 5, 2020
Teraflops have been a popular way to measure “graphical power” for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in marketing messages found in the launch of consoles like the Xbox Series X. With GPU core counts reaching five figures, it’s nice to have a…
