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Category: Technology News
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Virtual Production & Real-Time VFX, Virtual Production Beginners MZed, and more.
Virtual Production & Real-Time VFX this week: MZed’s new course ‘Virtual Production for Beginners,’ taught by Biro Florin of Masterwork Films, explicitly rejects; and Virtual production via LED volumes has matured from a high-end novelty…
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New Software Tools & Updates, Scene Auditor Pro targets Blender bloat, and more.
New Software Tools & Updates this week: Scene Auditor Pro, a $15 Blender add-on, introduces systematic dependency visualization and cleanup targeting; and Blackmagic Design has released Fusion Studio 21.
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Circular Fashion & Advanced Recycling, REWIND PET Process Validated, and more.
Circular Fashion & Advanced Recycling this week: A consortium of Axens, Jeplan, and Ifpen has validated the REWIND PET chemical recycling process for textiles at a; and Vinted’s €8B secondary share valuation cements its position as the…
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AI & Digital Tools for Design, Retail, AI-Driven Apparel Image Retrieval, and more.
AI & Digital Tools for Design, Retail & Operations this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Integrated impact of image; and A PatSnap patent landscape analysis reveals a 20-year…
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Digital Product Passports & RFID, SML s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award, and more.
Digital Product Passports & RFID Compliance this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID embedded tag has won the 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award; and RAIN RFID adoption is moving from operational efficiency to regulatory compliance and…
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Techtextil Signals, Techtextil Techprocess 2026 Navigating, and more.
Techtextil Signals this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Techtextil and Techprocess 2026; and This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Speed…
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AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts, AI-Driven Apparel Image Retrieval, and more.
AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Integrated impact of image; and This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to…
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Fashion Signals, Fashion PLM Blog Tech Packs Costing Production Supply, and more.
Fashion Signals this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: The State of Fashion AI Where; and This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: PLM ERP…
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Pluralistic: Trump’s fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)
Hacker Community this week: Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic newsletter analyzes the political-economic bind facing the Trump administration: while; and A detailed teardown of a camera recovered from a downed Iranian Shahed-136 drone in…
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Roundup: VFX Tools & Talks, VES publishes on-set data guide, and more.
Industry Workflows, Guides, and Events this week: The Visual Effects Society has published the On-Set VFX Data Collection and Usage Guide, a standardized playbook for; and SIGGRAPH 2026’s initial Production Sessions lineup features…