M-Disc offers Blu-ray discs that 'last for 1,000 years'
A new Blu-ray Disc promises to keep data fresh long after it might have decayed on other discs.
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Mac Pro 2013 release date and rumours
The new Mac Pro release date is one of the biggest questions professional Mac users have right now. Here's what we know now.
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Amon Tobin brings ISAM 2.0 to Britain
An upgraded version of last year's best live show comes to London and Bexhill-on-Sea. See what's new here.
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Start-Up Loan pot to help new businesses launch grows to £110m
The £30 million boost increases the total sum available to new businesses to £110 million over the next three years.
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Tobii to release REX device for controlling PC with user's eyes
Developers will be able to buy the REX next week, and Tobii will make it more widely available later this year.
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Evil Eye builds a 3D VFX sand vortex for Cirque Du Soleil Worlds Away
Cirque Du Soleil is known for its real acrobatics, and Evil Eye's work was confined to the narrative parts of the film.
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Toshiba to launch 20mp digital camera sensor
Toshiba is preparing a 20-megapixel image sensor for digital cameras that it says will be the highest resolution of its kind.
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RNIB's free Tiresias font makes text easier to read for the partially sighted
Tiresias allow blind and partially sighted people better access to information through a well-designed typeface that's easy to read and can be machine-read.
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Adobe buys Behance to make it part of Creative Cloud
Will you have to pay for Creative Cloud if you want to continue using Behance? The answer appears to be 'no, but maybe'.
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Life of Pi's storm VFX revealed
Some nifty VFX techniques from MPC allowed the stormy sea to be animated in different ways to induce fear and awe in the audience.
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12foot6's Christmas animation is a charming mix of stop-motion and cartoon animation
We've been sent a lot of Christmas animations this week, but this is the first we've wanted to feature on the Digital Arts site.
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The Best of 2012: Interviews
Our favourite interviews of the year, featuring Noma Bar, Anthony Burrill, Marion Deuchars, Johanna Basford, Ben Grossmann, Bruno Maag and Craig Ward.
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Out now! The brand-new January 2013 issue
Kickstarter success. Fight rip offs. Pete Fowler interview. Papercut animation. Britain's creative education crisis. Dirty 3D type.
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UK government to add new copyright laws to make copying easier
Business secretary Vince Cable has unveiled the government’s plans to reform copyright laws in the UK.
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The Best of 2012: Illustration
2012 has been another outstanding year for illustration. Read our pick of the best features and projects from the past 12 months.
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Spy Films charts 100 years of flight in 3D for cinema ident
The film shows how the depiction of flight in movies has changed over the century – from early barnstormers to sci-fi spaceships.
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Google creates online archive of 5,000 massively detailed Dead Sea Scrolls images
Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority have posted the 1,215dpi images of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls online.
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HTML5 is feature-complete; now here comes HTML5.1
The World Wide Web Consortium has a roster of proposed enhancements, including better forms, spell checking, and video captioning
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Moving Brands mixes conductive inks, papercraft and Arduino to create a glowing Christmas ornament
Project taps into some of our favourite hackable tech – and you can get to play with them too.
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Ben The Illustrator gets festive for The Polyphonic Spree
Somerset-based illustrator creates tour merchandise for the populous psychedelia act's December US tour