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Nvidia Made Its PhysX Code as Open Source On GitHub

Describing Nvidia as the most open-source-friendly company would be wrong. However, yesterday Nvidia has announced the release of the PhysX code as an open source. For newbies, PhysX is a physics engine that Nvidia acquired when it bought Ageia, which worked in Physics Processing Units. Since then, this technology has been closely tied to GPUs and green giant technologies, including the well-known CUDA.

PhysX is used in multiple fields within computing for physics simulations, including Artificial Intelligence, robotics and computer vision, self-driven vehicles, and high-performance computing.

Published under the 3-clause BSD license (BSD 3), this distribution modality has reached iOS, macOS, Android ARM (version 2.2 for the SDK and 2.3 for code snippets), Linux (testing on Ubuntu) and Windows XP and higher, but the EULA remains unchanged for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. On the other hand, its SDK is currently integrated into the Unreal Engine 3 and four engines and in Unity3D to be used by all developers who want to use it in their projects.

nvidia Made Its PhysX Code as Open Source On GitHub

However, it seems that at least at the moment the execution of PhysX in AMD GPU is an impossibility, so this advance will only serve for those who use NVIDIA GPU because this change has not come to the implementation of this technology for video game consoles.

Another detail to emphasize is that this could be more oriented to corporate solutions and the areas mentioned above than to the end users. Until now, PhysX has not been lavished much in products oriented to the end user compatible with GNU/Linux, besides that the users of the Open Source system expect other movements on the part of the multinational of Santa Clara.

The PhysX code has been published under BSD 3 and can be obtained from GitHub.

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Cryptocurrencies Market Dropped Today As Microsoft Acquired GitHub Code Repository

Mircosoft acquired GitHub code repository and the cryptocurrencies prices fell on Monday, today, as the crypto community is not yet sure how this acquisition will influence cryptocurrencies market. Bitcoin (BTC) fell by more than 2.9% after it had risen to $7,754. However, BTC has dropped below the 7,500 USD mark earlier and now is trading at $7,488.

Most virtual currencies collapsed in May after the U.S. Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into the possibility that traders are manipulating the Bitcoin (BTC) market.

All major cryptocurrencies have also fallen today as Microsoft acquired GitHub

Besides Bitcoin (BTC), the Ethereum (ETH), the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, dropped to $587, shedding about 4.65% in the last 24 hours.

The third cryptocurrency by market cap, the Ripple (XRP) has fallen by 1.93% to 0.65, while the Litecoin (LTC) has reached the level of $119 after dropping by 5.30%.

The cryptocurrency community has not taken very well the news that the software giant Microsoft acquired GitHub, a well-known code repository that hosts many blockchain and cryptocurrencies projects.

In fact, on GitHub, the cryptocurrency community’s members can contribute to or gain a deeper insight into the code of the future projects. Now, as Microsoft has been announced that it acquired GitHub, many Twitter and Reddit users are concerned about the impact that a massive company, that is Microsoft, could have on the decentralized blockchain community on GitHub and beyond it.

A new cryptocurrency trading platform has been introduced in Europe

Besides the allegedly bad news that GitHub has been sold to Microsoft, Gibraltar, a British territory, has launched a regulated and licensed cryptocurrency trading platform called the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange.

This is a subsidiary of the Gibraltar stock market, therefore, it would be one of the first cryptocurrency trading platforms to be regulated by a European Union stock market.

Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange cryptocurrency trading platform has started to operate with limited trading but the platform already has more than 300 retail accounts and even some institutional investors.

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