NVIDIA ray-tracing on ‘Minecraft’ looks surprisingly cool

Microsoft developer Mojang and NVIDIA added a type of ray tracing called "path tracing" to the Windows 10 version of the game. That realistically simulates a variety of lighting conditions, including direct light sources like the sun or glowing lava, hard and soft shadows, diffuse global illumination, reflections, refraction and atmospheric scattering.The final result is…

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MIT experts find a way to reduce video stream buffering on busy WiFi

Now a team from MIT have come up with a tool to help multiple people share a limited WiFi connection. The group from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed the Minerva system which analyzes videos before playing them to check how much they would be impacted by being played at a…

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