Spate of Cloud Outages Plague Microsoft Azure

A good problem to have? Following brisk cloud adoption from businesses, Azure is once again hit with service disruptions. Read more »

Voxeet’s HD Concall App Takes Static Out of Virtual Meetups

PRODUCT REVIEW: Little-known Voxeet has come up with a new, free-of-charge conference call app that enables talk-overs, cuts static—and just works. Read more »

Itus Networks Taps Kickstarter for Home Gateway Security

VIDEO: Co-founders of Itus Networks detail their bid to revolutionize home Internet security. Read more »

PanTerra Adds Mobile Functionality to SmartBox Cloud

The platform also offers improved security features, including built-in multi-factor authentication (MFA) and in-transit and at-rest encryption. Read more »

Networking in Unconventional Locations: 10 Common Challenges

Rugged environments require hardware and software that is specially designed to increase reliability and decrease the chance of failure. Read more »

Collective Crowd Formation Transform with Mutual Information–Based Runtime Feedback

This paper introduces a new crowd formation transform approach to achieve visually pleasing group formation transition and control. Its core idea is to transform crowd formation shapes with a least effort pair... Read more »

Boundary Handling at Cloth–Fluid Contact

We present a robust and efficient method for the two-way coupling between particle-based fluid simulations and infinitesimally thin solids represented by triangular meshes. Our approach is based on a hybrid method that... Read more »

Probably Approximately Symmetric: Fast Rigid Symmetry Detection With Global Guarantees

We present a fast algorithm for global rigid symmetry detection with approximation guarantees. The algorithm is guaranteed to find the best approximate symmetry of a given shape, to within a user-specified threshold,... Read more »

Local Painting and Deformation of Meshes on the GPU

We present a novel method to adaptively apply modifications to scene data stored in GPU memory. Such modifications may include interactive painting and sculpting operations in an authoring tool, or deformations resulting... Read more »

Memory Considerations for Low Energy Ray Tracing

We propose two hardware mechanisms to decrease energy consumption on massively parallel graphics processors for ray tracing. First, we use a streaming data model and configure part of the L2 cache into... Read more »