Visual effects winners

“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” “Big Hero 6? and “Game of Thrones” were the big winners at the 13th annual Visual Effects Society Awards Wednesday night. “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” won three awards including the VES’s top award, Visual Effects in a Visual...

Better chips

Improved 4K video capture and console quality gaming performance could be hitting smartphones by this time next year, following the announcement of ARM’s latest processor designs. The firm has just taken the wrapper of the Cortex-A72 chip, which promises a “huge step...

Canuck Oscars

The space station fire in “Gravity.” “Man of Steel”‘s Smallville battle. The volcano eruption in “Star Trek Into Darkness.” Three Canadians behind special effects technologies that helped create those scenes will be feted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

Good-bye Alberta

With the price of oil falling, more and more people are starting to worry about job security. On Saturday, a free workshop held in Calgary was packed with people looking to increase their skill set. The free, one-day HTML500 event taught coding and computer...

Birdfly soars

Despite the attendance of Hollywood celebs like Kevin Bacon, Ryan Reynolds, Nicole Kidman, and Keanu Reeves, the hottest ticket at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was the virtual reality flight simulator Birdly. The custom-made “ride” allows anyone to lie...