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Porsche and Epic Games show off new lighting features for Unreal Engine

Aug14
by on August 14, 2018 at 12:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, creative, Design & Dev, gaming


Epic Games today showed off an amazing real-time lighting demo in Unreal Engine 4 featuring the new Porsche 911 Speedster concept car. Best of all, the demo ran on a pair of Nvidia’s just-revealed Turing RTX graphics cards, showcasing the hardware’s real-time ray tracing capabilities. The Porsche 911 Speedster concept car is the first vehicle to be visualized with real-time ray tracing, a graphics feature that renders photo-realistic lighting and reflections. Christian Braun, Manager of Virtual Design at Porsche, said : Porsche’s collaboration with Epic and NVIDIA has exceeded all expectations from both a creative and technological perspective. The achieved…

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Analyst: Renewable energy will be ‘effectively free’ by 2030

Aug14
by on August 14, 2018 at 12:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Analysts at Swiss investment bank UBS believe that by 2030, we could all be living without much of a carbon footprint — at least at home. The analysts believe that the cost of renewable energy will continue to dive heading into the next decade, and that by 2030, costs will be so low they will “effectively be free,” according to new research published this morning in the Financial Times (paywall). The analysis explained that solar and wind farms are getting bigger a move that is “great news for the planet, and probably also for the economy.” With its increased popularity…

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Analyst: Renewable energy will be ‘effectively free’ by 2030

Aug14
by on August 14, 2018 at 12:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Analysts at Swiss investment bank UBS believe that by 2030, we could all be living without much of a carbon footprint — at least at home. The analysts believe that the cost of renewable energy will continue to dive heading into the next decade, and that by 2030, costs will be so low they will “effectively be free,” according to new research published this morning in the Financial Times (paywall). The analysis explained that solar and wind farms are getting bigger a move that is “great news for the planet, and probably also for the economy.” With its increased popularity…

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FBI warns of massive ATM scam that could affect banks worldwide

Aug13
by on August 13, 2018 at 9:24 pm
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently warned banks that cybercriminals are poised to carry out an “ATM cash-out,” an operation that gives thieves access to untold sums of money by bypassing security measures on an ATM. If successful, the operation has the potential to be a heist unlike any we’ve ever seen. The FBI told banks on Friday: The FBI has obtained unspecified reporting indicating cyber criminals are planning to conduct a global Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cash-out scheme in the coming days, likely associated with an unknown card issuer breach and common referred to as an ‘unlimited operation‘.…

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