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Category: Technology News
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Silhouette 2026 gets smarter roto and 3D heads
Visual Effects and CGI this week: Boris FX’s Silhouette 2026 release advances its ML toolset for rotoscoping and 3D tracking, focusing on multi-object; and Pilgway has launched the public beta for 3DCoat 2026, introducing a new…
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AI and Data-Driven Fashion Retail, AI-Driven Apparel Image Retrieval, and more.
AI and Data-Driven Fashion Retail this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Integrated impact of image; and PatSnap’s 2026 analysis of apparel size recommendation patents reveals a shift…
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Behind-the-scenes VFX breakdowns, practical digital creatures Alien Earth, and more.
Behind-the-scenes VFX breakdowns this week: FX’s ‘Alien: Earth’ series, a prequel created by Noah Hawley, employed a hybrid visual effects pipeline for its; and Framestore released a VFX breakdown for ‘Ted’ season 2, showcasing the…
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Digital Product Passports and RFID, SML s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award, and more.
Digital Product Passports and RFID Compliance this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID technology, an embedded RFID tag designed to survive garment washing and dyeing, has won a; and RAIN RFID adoption is shifting from operational efficiency to…
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New software releases and updates, Silhouette 2026 gets smarter roto 3D heads, and more.
New software releases and updates this week: Silhouette 2026 introduces updates focused on reducing manual labor in roto and paint workflows through enhanced ML; and Pilgway has released 3DCoat 2026 into public beta, featuring a new…
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SML’s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award
FashionTech this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID embedded tag has received the 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award; and Tunisian knitwear manufacturer Tunicotex Group implemented Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan, replacing manual.
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SML’s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award
FashionTech this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID technology, which embeds wash-resistant RFID tags at the raw material or early assembly; and Coats Digital, a provider of manufacturing software to the apparel industry, has appointed Himanshu…
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Flipper Zero Transmits APRS With No Extra Parts
Hacker Community this week: A developer has modified the Flipper Zero, a popular RF hacking tool, to transmit APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting; and Cory Doctorow argues that ‘age verification’ is a political consensus hallucination, akin…
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Virtual Production Trends and Guides, Das szenische Portal RT, and more.
Virtual Production Trends and Guides this week: Andreas Resch’s ‘Das szenische Portal RT’ is a prototype real-time hybrid stage system built in Unreal Engine; and MZed’s new ‘Virtual Production for Beginners’ course, taught by studio…
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AI Integration and Its Impact on VFX, AI Is Rewriting VFX Rulebook 2026, and more.
AI Integration and Its Impact on VFX this week: AI integration into VFX pipelines has moved from speculative to operational in 2026, with specific tools; and A 2026 industry review describes AI as a foundational layer across filmmaking…