graphics

  • AMD: Catalyst Is Dead, Long Live Radeon Software

    campbellsimpson

    Six weeks ago, AMD formed the Radeon Technologies Group, a subset of the company focused on cutting-edge graphics and exploring the potential of virtual reality and DirectX 12. As part of that shift, AMD is ridding itself of Catalyst, the driver brand that has been around since 2002 — and the future is all about…

  • A Close Look At The Crazy Interfaces From The Avengers: Age Of Ultron

    A Close Look At The Crazy Interfaces From The Avengers: Age Of Ultron

    Casey Chan

    One of my favourite things about watching movies is seeing the film’s vision of the user interfaces on screens and computers. They’re almost always over the top (like they were in the first Avengers) but I love to imagine that we’ll see all those exploded graphics in our future and pretend that all that information…

  • What Happens When The Weatherman’s Computer Fails

    What Happens When The Weatherman’s Computer Fails

    Adam Clark Estes

    The weather team down at ABCNews4 just made the most of a horrific, live computer crash. Apparently, the computer that generates the graphics for the TV weather forecasts failed recently, but instead of just standing up there and talking in front of a blank screen, the team created some super half-arsed chicken scratch pen drawings…