Media
15th Anniversary of “Heavy Rain” – Art of Gaming
Guillaume de Fondaumiere is the Co-CEO of the Quantic Dream Studio based in France, which developed games such as, "Fahrenheit" (2005), "Heavy Rain" (2010), and in collaboration with Sony Computer Entertainment, the PS3 exclusive title, "Beyond: Two Souls", starring actors Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe (2013). Today, on the 15th anniversary of “Heavy Rain,” he finds himself reminiscing: “In the mid-2000s when we started production on “Heavy Rain” I was executive producer on the project. I was also responsible for managing...
Discerning Real Music in the AI Era
Artificial intelligence is impacting the music industry at a rapid pace, offering tools for impromptu creation, production, and even performance. Along with text, images, and videos, generative AI can also produce music, assist with songwriting and production, and even replicate voices in a matter of seconds. Deep learning is based through its training data, which through its underlying patterns and structures is used to produce new data based on the input, which often comes in the form of natural language prompts. There...
Dìdi – A new coming-of-age movie Taiwanese American style by Director Sean Wang
It's been one incredible year for Bay Area first-time feature filmmaker, writer-director, Sean Wang. Last January, his first full feature-length film, Dìdi, (meaning "Younger Brother") had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast. In the same week, his documentary short, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó, which premiered at the 2023 South by Southwest, where it won both the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award, was nominated...
An Afternoon with Ted Lasso’s Jason Sudeikis at RSA2024
BELIEVE As I was shifting through the RSA Conference 2024 program guide, with it's impressive comprehensive five day agenda, there was an enormous amount of activities going on to easily fill anyone's calendar as an attendee for the week. 33 keynote presentations given on two stages in the West and South Stages at the Moscone Center, 650 speakers across 425 sessions, the Expo floors in the South and North Halls had over 600 exhibitors. As I glanced into the program's "keynote" section, I noticed one that immediately caught my eye...
20 Days of Mariupol: An Essential Documentary
20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL directed, produced and filmed by MSTYSLAV CHERNOV. Courtesy of PBS When watching the evening news every night on television with its almost repetitive nature of headlines covering yet another senseless mass killing somewhere in the U.S, I often hear criticism from others claiming there is hardly any media coverage in other parts of the world whose acts are even more tragic and horrific. This is true, especially in those countries that do not represent human rights and whose brutal leaders do not want the “truth”...
National Association of Broadcasters
- Free Local Broadcasting Powers $1.19 Trillion in U.S. Economic Activity, Underscoring its Essential Role in National Infrastructure
- NAB Backs House Leaders’ Call for FCC to Modernize Broadcast Ownership Rules
- Bipartisan House Majority Opposes Performance Tax on Local Radio
- NAB Launches Effort to Keep Live Sports on Broadcast Channels
- 2026 NAB Show Registration Opens with First Look at Major Program Enhancements
NVIDIA
- How to Train an AI Agent for Command-Line Tasks with Synthetic Data and Reinforcement Learning
- How to Write High-Performance Matrix Multiply in NVIDIA CUDA Tile
- NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Delivers Super Resolution Upgrades and New Dynamic Multi Frame Generation
- Learn How NVIDIA cuOpt Accelerates Mixed Integer Optimization using Primal Heuristics
- Reimagining LLM Memory: Using Context as Training Data Unlocks Models That Learn at Test-Time