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Graphics researchers have created a GPU-run procedural algorithm for creating an equivalent 35.6 GB worth of trees, leaves, and brushes from just 52 kB of data

Anyone who is interested in realistic real-time graphics, be it in games or animation, will know that dense vegetation can be very costly on GPU resources. They either eat up lots of VRAM or shader time, or both. A team of university researchers and AMD staff have come up with a solution, though, that procedurally…

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The Latest on Alienation

After a long hiatus from the public eye the latest Housemarque title, “Alienation,” is once again ready to see the light of day. Since the reveal at Gamescom 2014 very little information has been leaked about the project and all conspiracies have been squashed. But now we are happy to release the latest batch of…

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Innovators Sale: Save Up to 60%, 70% with Plus

PlayStation loves creators, and we’ve put together a sale devoted to industry innovators. Starting now, save up to 60 percent on ambitious puzzlers, Kickstarter-funded student projects, handcrafted roguelikes and more. PlayStation Plus members save up to 70 percent. Head over to PlayStation Store through the weekend to pick up titles like The Witness, Risk of…

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The US government announces strategic ‘prosperity deals’ with Japan and South Korea to ‘drive breakthroughs’ in AI, quantum computing, and more

The US has made many steps to try and put itself at the forefront of whatever developments are to come in the AI space, and a raft of newly announced deals with both Japan and South Korea look to further those goals. As spotted by TechCrunch, the White House website boasts of its new “technology…

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The 25th anniversary of the ISS operationally in orbit reminded me the ESA once challenged an Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry dev to get DOOM running on a satellite

When the original Doom launched over 30 years ago, you needed a pretty beefy PC to run it well. Fast forward three decades, and Id Software’s classic can be powered by a TI-84 calculator (with 100 lbs of potatoes), a USB charging station, and even an Apple Lightning dongle. Beating them all for sheer out-of-this-world…

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