Happy Lovers (c. 1760-65) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, is one of about 800 objects that American art collector Norton Simon purchased from Joseph Duveen. Over the years, Simon sold most of the collection off, but about 130 objects remain at the Norton Simon Museum in California. British art dealer Joseph Duveen once said, rather ...
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At Nvidia’s keynote today to kick off GTC, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spent most of his time discussing Nvidia’s various deep learning initiatives and pushing the idea of Tegra as integral to the self-driving car. He did, however, take time to introduce a new Titan X GPU — and to discuss the future of Nvidia’s roadmap. When Nvidia’s next-generation GPU architecture arrives next year, codenamed Pascal, ...
Chinese classified information website 58.com officially announced that the company has acquired the real estate information website Anjuke.com for USD267.01 million in cash and stock. After the acquisition, 58.com will establish a real estate business cluster to integrate the real estate businesses of 58.com and Anjuke.com and the company will develop a full-sector business covering ...
Last week, we covered the announcement of the Khronos Group’s Vulkan API, as well as information on how AMD’s Mantle formed the fundamental basis of the new standard. Now that some additional information on Vulkan has become available, it seems likely that this new API will form the basis of Valve’s SteamOS push, while Direct3D 12 remains the default option for Microsoft’s PC and Xbox gaming initiatives. ...
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