Month August 2022
With annual CG confab SIGGRAPH slated to start Monday in Vancouver, DreamWorks Animation announced its intent to release its proprietary renderer, MoonRay, as open-source software later this year. Hollywood Reporter reports: MoonRay has been used on feature films such as… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to KC Brown, 2022 Winner of the LIT-SIS Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award
Written by Jean Willis, member of the LIT-SIS Awards & Grants Committee, 2021-22 We are very pleased to announce the recipient of the 2022 Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award, Kincaid (KC) Brown, Director of the University of Michigan Law… Continue Reading →
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) DuckDuckGo, the privacy-minded search company, says it will block trackers from Microsoft in its desktop web browser, following revelations in May that certain scripts from Bing and LinkedIn were getting a pass. In a blog post,… Continue Reading →
Amazon this morning announced plans to acquire iRobot for an all-cash deal valued at $1.7 billion. From a report: The home robotics firm, best known for pioneering the robotic vacuum, was founded in 1990 by MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab members… Continue Reading →
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It’s time for the next step in how we break down the PACER paywall. Link to original post https://free.law/2022/08/05/send-us-your-notifications/ from Teknoids NewsRead the original story
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo, written by Jody Serrano: In the early aughts, my wheezing dialup connection often operated as if it were perpetually out of breath. Thus, unlike my childhood friends, it was near to impossible… Continue Reading →
Warner Bros. Discovery revealed its second-quarter results — its first quarterly earnings since the $43 billion merger. The total number of direct-to-consumer subscribers across HBO, HBO Max and Discovery+ was 92.1 million in the second quarter of 2022, up 1.7… Continue Reading →
GitLab plans to automatically delete projects if they’ve been inactive for a year and are owned by users of its free tier, The Register reported Thursday. From the report: The Register has learned that such projects account for up to… Continue Reading →
During the 2021-2022 academic year, the average college student spent between $628 and $1,471 on textbooks and supplies. Since the price of textbooks typically increases an average of 12% with each new edition, this cost will only continue to balloon… Continue Reading →