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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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Amazon’s Halo disappears: Tech giant discontinues health devices and service, promises refunds

GeekWire

The company today also started notifying employees impacted by its latest round of job cuts in Amazon Web Services, HR, Twitch and Amazon Advertising. In 2017, we envisioned building a new service and products dedicated to helping customers improve their individual health and wellness. The subscription was $3.99/month,

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Amazon Web Services gets set to ignite space accelerator program’s third stage

GeekWire

Startups in this year’s AWS Space Accelerator program include, from left, Lunasonde, which is developing a space-based radar sounding system; Raven Space Systems, which is building 3D-printed re-entry capsules; and Rogue Space Systems, which focuses of space robotic systems.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

Cloud Service Broker ) - Traditional system integrators will finally realize that their current product and labor based business model is about to go the way of the dinosaurs. They will insist on the use of more agile commodity IT services in the development of their custom systems of record.

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Rainway’s Andrew Sampson on powering xCloud, challenging Google, and reimagining desktop apps

GeekWire

We are building Rainway App Services and a product called Instant Apps that allows you to take your desktop applications — video games, 3D architecture software, whatever sort of traditional desktop app can be used — and push them to our data center infrastructure and start using them immediately inside of your web browser.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. Comments ().