Avatar cloud engine from NVIDIA debuts Gen AI models
Tuesday, January 9, 2024 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA recently introduced production microservices for the NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) that allow developers of games, tools, and middleware to integrate state-of-the-art generative AI models into the digital avatars in their games and applications.
The new ACE microservices let developers build interactive avatars using AI models such as NVIDIA Omniverse ...
Best investment cryptos revealed by Van Winkle
Tuesday, January 2, 2024 by Richard Harris
A crypto analyst who goes by Ripple Van Winkle on YouTube noted that the Ripple (XRP) crypto will see an influx of institutional money, and this, coupled with its deflationary properties could exponentially increase its price.
Everlodge (ELDG) is also making significant waves among Web3 circles with its presale, as it solves key issues found in the $280 trillion real...
TRON integration simplifies crypto transactions
Tuesday, January 2, 2024 by Richard Harris
TRON has announced an integration with Blockchain.com Pay. This move is set to innovate the way cryptocurrency transactions are handled for TRON’s extensive user community.
Blockchain.com Pay, aims to provide web3, gaming, and retail sectors with advanced crypto services. This integration with TRON is a significant stride toward simplifying the crypto experienc...
Gutter Cat Gang announces an immersive experience at Miami Art Week
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 by Richard Harris
The Gutter Cat Gang (GCG), a leading NFT collection in the crypto space, has announced their long-anticipated event, "Gutter Cat Gang: The Outpost," slated to take place during Miami's Art Week at Ace Props + Studios located at 398 NE 78th Street Miami, FL 33138. In collaboration with Gutter Cat Gang partners and sponsors Sandbox, REEF Technology, Bar Lab,...
MAPS software improves efficiency and shortens development time
Thursday, August 29, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
ADLINK Technology announces a new generation of all-in-one software solutions: Measurement, Automation, and Platform Suite (MAPS). To improve process efficiency and shorten development time and effort, developers working with DAQ and PXI modules may immediately begin work with MAPS software packages such as ADLINK Connection Explorer (ACE), diagnostic tools, and easy-to...
Kubernetes as a Service lands from DigitalOcean
Monday, December 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
DigitalOcean announced that its managed Kubernetes service is now available with production-ready functionality and full customer support. Since launching its early access release in May of this year, 30,000 developers and teams have already signed up for access. Starting today, the service is available to all developers worldwide.
With the May early access release, ...
Neural network SDK has been announced by Imagination
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
Imagination Technologies announced their PowerVR CLDNN SDK for developing neural network applications on PowerVR GPUs. The neural network SDK makes it easy for developers to create Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) using PowerVR hardware. Both an API and SDK are included, as well as an image for flashing on to an Acer Chromebook R13 for hardware development.Imaginati...
HacknPlan 1.0 game developer project management tool launches
Monday, April 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
HacknPlan is a collaborative project management tool tailored for game developers and producers. With HacknPlan, teams can create tasks and assign them to members, set up milestones and deadlines, create game design documentation, track the progress and generate metrics and statistics to evaluate the performance of the team. This way, game developers can avoid or minimi...
The problems with agile development
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Matt Bridges
In many industries, agile development has become standard practice for creating software applications. The benefits are clear: the methodology produces faster results, and often, superior software. So, what are the drawbacks to agile? For the project manager, the drawback is risk. Project managers live with the reality that software estimation is messy and uncertain, an...
MapR Connector for Teradata released
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
MapR Technologies, Inc., a Converged Data Platform, has announced availability of a new MapR Connector for Teradata, an analytics solutions company. This provides high speed, parallel connections from Teradata to the MapR Converged Data Platform, improving bulk data transfers, and enabling scalable agile analytics across the ecosystem. The new connector is also certifie...
Why continuous delivery is key for developer career success
Monday, January 30, 2017 by Martin van Vliet
When people talk about Continuous Delivery, it’s usually in the context of how it improves the software delivery process and contributes to generating business revenue. Both are true and valid points, but they don’t directly address the opportunities for career growth Continuous Delivery offers for developers. But keep in mind that Continuous Delivery is not a flash in ...
Sales of laptops from the Summer of 2016 reached $2.2 billion, Apple still king
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
According to new research from 1010data, online sales of laptops from the summer of 2016 reached $2.2 billion and grew 12 percent year over year. 1010data uncovered how consumer purchases impacted the biggest players in the laptop space online from June – August 2016. And it turns out that Apple is winning as a brand and as a retailer. This comes from 1010dat...
New uTest Community Offers QA and QE Software Testing Network
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Matt Johnston from Applause to learn more about how their new uTest serves to provide QA and QE professionals world-wide with job seeking tools and networking connections to help advance their careers. Johnston is Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at Applause and has more than a decade of marketing experience at companies ranging from...
Cisco, AirWatch and Others Lead ACE Tech Consortium to Create Industry Standards for Enterprise App Deployment
Monday, March 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
AirWatch, Box, Cisco, Workday and Xamarin are leading a consortium of companies who are attempting to create an industry standard for enterprise app deployment. The new App Configuration for Enterprise (ACE) consortium is attempting to create a standard, scalable way to configure and secure enterprise apps.ACE leverages the latest APIs available from Android and Apple i...
Malaysian Video Game Development Industry to Be Represented at GDC
Sunday, March 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Multimedia Development Corporation of Malaysia (MDeC) will be bringing the Malaysian game development industry to GDC this year. The attending companies will include ACE EdVenture Studio, Forest Interactive, Inspidea, Lemonsky, Mediasoft Entertainment, Motiofixo Visuals, Streamframe, Streamline, Terato Tech and WIGU.This is the first year the Malaysian gaming indust...
Tobii Eye Tracking Offers Project Root Gaming Technology Demo At CES 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
OPQAM and Tobii Tech are demonstrating a new level of gaming: allowing use of its improved version of Project Root for gamers, using Tobii’s eye tracking technology at CES 2015.Gamers will take on the role of rebel ace Lance Rockport who pilots the advanced F-72 Zonda hover fighter against the ruthless Prometheus Corporation, according to Tobii Tech. Both comp...
Finding the Right Custom Software Development Firm
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Joshua Philips
In the custom software development process, goals tend to evolve dramatically. The application you initially set out to develop often looks very different from the one you end up with, precisely because you learn more about what you need and the best way to accomplish it at every step of the development process. Even at the very beginning, as you select a software ...
IBM Launches Codename – BlueMix as a New Platform as a Service (PaaS) Offering
Monday, April 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
What is IBM Codename: BlueMix? It is a PaaS offering from IBM based on open standards and cloud to build, deploy, manage and run omni-channel applications like web and mobile, big data and other smart services.Platform as a service (PaaS) is a service model where providers deliver not only infrastructure but also middleware (databases, messaging engines and so on) ...
New Premium Video Ads are Facebook’s Latest Move to Dominate Ad Dollars
Friday, March 14, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
How fast can marketers shift their ad dollars to mobile? As fast as they find new ways to do so. And now, Facebook has launched Premium Video Ads as a way for advertisers to drive branding objectives on Facebook. Of course, a few select (i.e. top spending) advertisers are participating in the new program.And since the latest report from Facebook states that revenue from...
GitHub's New Text Editor Atom Leaked But Not Official Yet
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Looking for a text editor built on top of web technologies? It appears GitHub's text editor "Atom" has been leaked out and you can give it a trial run now. Here are a few things we've picked up about the new editor (which resembles Sublime).It looks to use CSS / LESS for
highlighting, and CoffeeScript for client-side programming , or the autocompletion.It doesn't see...
Intel Brings a New 64 bit Processor To Android Named Merrifield
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel is expanding its footprint in mobile with several announcements released at the Mobile World Congress.
From a hardware standpoint, Intel announced its Merrifield 2.13GHz Intel Atom processor Z3480 for Android smartphones and tablets. The 64-bit ready processor is based on Intel's 22nm Silvermont micro architecture and features a PowerVR Series 6 Graphics ...
Monetizing Your App with Game Offers
Monday, December 2, 2013 by Thomas Sommer
Passion is
without doubt the main driver of a developer’s motivation to build great and
beautiful apps. This passion will keep you awake at night and fuel the
creativity and hard work necessary to the completion and perfection of a
beautiful product.However,
passion is not enough.
And
although you may not be in the game for this reason in the first ...