Nvidia VXGI + Unity: Voxel-based Rendering Demo Using Direct3D 12 Graphics Backend.
Nvidia VXGI + Unity: Voxel-based Rendering Demo Using Direct3D 12 Graphics BackendImage by authorVoxel-based global illumination is a set of techniques that exploits the voxel representation of the scene. Voxels can contain different metrics: for example, the amount of light reflected off the geometry they represent.When voxels are stored in mipmap-like data
Read moreThe Overflow #179: Brag about your code
Welcome to ISSUE #179 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: chatting about OWASP ZAP, computing with rolling stones, and jQuery lives. From the blog Keep ‘em separated: Get better maintainability in web projects using
Read moreInstant classic
“Instant classic” is, of course, an oxymoron. A classic is something that has passed the test of time, and by definition that cannot happen instantly. But how long should the test of time last? In his book Love What Lasts, Joshua Gibbs argues that 100 years after the death of
Read moreHow the creator of Angular is dehydrating the web (Ep. 574)
Miško Hevery, creator of Angular and longtime Googler, tells Ben about building the future of web applications in his new role as CTO of Builder.io. Episode notes: Angular is an open-source web framework used by millions of developers. Explore the Angular community. Miško is currently CTO at Builder, an API-driven,
Read moreThe FDA will apparently let Elon Musk put a computer in a human’s brain
Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink says it has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to launch its first in-human clinical study. If this is true, it means that actual humans could be getting a device from Neuralink implanted in their heads.
Read moreFord EVs will use Tesla’s charging plug starting next year
A Ford Mustang Mach-E sitting at a Tesla Supercharger | Image: Ford Ford CEO Jim Farley and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that in early 2024 more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers will be operational with Ford vehicles. Farley also announced that next-generation Ford vehicles would come equipped with the North
Read moreElon Musk and Ron DeSantis’ fiasco shows they didn’t realize Twitter needs TV
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images A bad cover version. Look, Elon Musk just hosted the launch of Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces, and I could say some things about hypocrisy — Musk insisting that “for Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically
Read moreOccupancy problem distribution
Suppose you have a random number generator that returns numbers between 1 and N. The birthday problem asks how many random numbers would you have to output before there’s a 50-50 chance that you’ll repeat a number. The coupon collector problem asks how many numbers you expect to generate before
Read moreAccelerating the Cloud: Transitioning to Cloud Native
In this third article in our Accelerating the Cloud series, we explore a checklist of items to consider before redeploying applications. Continue reading Accelerating the Cloud: Transitioning to Cloud Native on SitePoint.
Read moreAn Android app started secretly recording users almost a year after it was listed on Google Play
Innocent-seeming apps can be trojan horses for your information. | Image: Amar Toor / The Verge An Android recording app called iRecorder Screen Recorder began as an innocent screen recording app but turned evil nearly a year after it was first released, as detailed by Ars Technica. The app first
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