Two graphics card vendors are pushing the price button to put 3D and TV capabilities within the grasp of mainstream users.
Orchid Technology's first 3D card, the Fahrenheit Video 3D is based on the ubiquitous S3 ViRGE accelerator and comes with 2Mb EDO RAM as standard, at about £128 on the street.
ATI's TV Tuner card will cost from under £90. Based on the ATI Multimedia Channel that also appears in IBM, ICL and Mitsubishi Apricot systems, it can be upgraded to support hardware MPEG.
Robotic indoor farms can grow food anywhere, anytime
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This is how researchers can now track 3D printed guns, weapons
Hardware fingerprints could be a way to stem the flow of uncontrolled, dangerous 3D printing.
3D printed mini-brains grown in test tubes used to study degenerative disease
The brains have been grown from stem cells to mimic the progression of disease including Alzheimer's.
Chinese city to launch artificial moon in hopes of replacing street lights
Chengdu Aerospace Science is planning to launch its illumination satellite in 2020, which it says will be eight times brighter than the moon and bright enough to replace street lights. ...
Samsung opens seventh AI centre in Montreal
Samsung Electronics has opened its latest AI centre in Montreal, its seventh globally and fourth in North America.
Chemist Warehouse looks to deploy 1,000 sensors at each store
An augmented reality guide is also on the cards, Chemist Warehouse's technology partner has revealed.
Amazon plans machine learning, software engineering, R&D hiring spree in UK
1,000 new 'Silicon Valley' jobs to be created in Manchester, Edinburgh and Cambridge.
Yep, there's a second Apple event this fall, and it's later than it's been in a decade
Tim Cook will be giving an ethics speech in Europe right around the time we thought there would be a new product event. So what's really going to happen? We have no idea, but we can guess ...
Will blockchain be mainstream by 2025?
New report shows consumer products, retail, and manufacturing companies are planning adoption.
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