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Let Loose the Autonomoose: Canada’s First Self-Driving Car Hits the Roads

Danny Shapiro — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:01:52 GMT

Canada has joined the ranks of countries aiming to increase road safety and ease traffic congestion with the development of self-driving cars. Recently a vehicle dubbed the Autonomoose autonomously drove a crew of Ontario Ministry of Transportation officials to the podium of a launch event to introduce the first car approved to hit the roads […]

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AxonVR Brings Lifelike Touch to Virtual Reality Using NVIDIA PhysX

Zvi Greenstein — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:00:52 GMT

By Jake Rubin, Founder & CEO, AxonVR; and Zvi Greenstein, NVIDIA Six months ago, most people would have had to look up the word “haptics.” Now, it seems to be on everyone’s lips in the world of VR and AR. So what does “haptics” really mean? And what does it look like when you bring it […]

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Hello Kitty: How Pictures of Cats Help Computers Read Chest X-Rays

Jamie Beckett — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:00:06 GMT

Dr. Alvin Rajkomar remembers the exact moment he realized how urgently he needed a faster way to read patients’ medical images. His patient in the intensive care unit of University of California at San Francisco Medical Center was showing signs of a life-threatening lung condition that requires immediate treatment. Rajkomar, an assistant professor at UCSF, […]

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VR Funhouse Redecorates for Winter

Victoria Rege — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:00:00 GMT

Maybe you don’t live where it snows. Maybe you hate the cold. Maybe you realize playing with actual ice cannons is a little, you know, irresponsible. The new Winter Wonderland-themed mod for NVIDIA VR Funhouse, our free-to-play VR game, has just arrived to help. Available on the Steam Workshop page, Winter Wonderland includes all the […]

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Just Scroll with It: AI Could Reveal Text on Ancient Papyrus Buried by Vesuvius

Jamie Beckett — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:15:16 GMT

When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in volcanic ash more than 2,000 years ago, it also buried a library of scrolls in the nearby town of Herculaneum that scholars have struggled to read since their discovery more than 250 years ago. But Herculaneum, the only surviving library from the classical world, could soon reveal its hidden […]

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AI for Hobbyists: DIYers Use Deep Learning to Shoo Cats, Harass Ants

Brian Caulfield — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:00:12 GMT

Robots recklessly driving cheap electric kiddie cars. Autonomous machines shining lasers at ants — and spraying water at bewildered cats — for the amusement of cackling grandchildren. Hobbyists are just getting started with deep-learning technologies that give them cheap, off-the-shelf capabilities that put Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars program to shame. In the latest edition of […]

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Digital Green Thumb: How AI Helps Farmers Combat Plant Disease

Tony Kontzer — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:00:46 GMT

Born of research in the Amazon forest, the Plantix mobile app is helping farmers on three continents quickly identify plant diseases using artificial intelligence. For several years in the Brazilian rain forest, a team of young German researchers studied the emission and mitigation of greenhouse gases due to changing land use. The team’s analysis was […]

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GeForce Grabs eSports Grand Slam

James Grunke — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 02:19:09 GMT

With our spot at this weekend’s Boston Major, we’re capping a year where GeForce GTX earned a place at each of this year’s four biggest professional gaming events. The Boston Major DotA 2 championship features 16 of the world’s top ranked pro teams, a $3 million prize pool, and action powered by our GeForce GTX […]

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NVIDIANs Assemble for 10th Annual Project Inspire

Liz Austin — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 18:24:31 GMT

Nearly 1,650 volunteers assembled at Oak Grove High School in San Jose, Calif., last weekend for Project Inspire, our annual community service event. Project Inspire – now in its 10th year – has grown from a one-day 500-person event to a two-day extravaganza that will see more than $500,000 worth of materials, project management services […]

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NVIDIA GPUs Speed Nickelodeon’s Animation Workflow on Albert

Gail Laguna — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:00:38 GMT

Albert is Nickelodeon’s first original animated TV movie, telling the story of a tiny Douglas fir tree named Albert who loves Christmas and dreams of being the Empire City Christmas tree. The movie premieres tonight at 7 pm Eastern/Pacific. Albert was created almost entirely in-house and features a look that is unique to Nickelodeon. Texture […]

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AI Podcast: Where Is Deep Learning Going Next?

Brian Caulfield — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:30:40 GMT

We’ll know AI really works when we hardly notice it at all, according to Bryan Catanzaro, a key figure in the field. “AI gets better and better until it kind of disappears into the background,” says Catanzaro — NVIDIA’s head of applied deep learning research — in conversation with host Michael Copeland on this week’s […]

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Man, Machine and Medicine: Mass General Researchers Using AI

Jim McHugh — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:00:33 GMT

A team from the Massachusetts General Hospital was among the researchers talking about how they’re using AI at GTC DC earlier this year. The Mass General researchers joined colleagues from across the healthcare industry to help tell the story of how deep-learning – which is already used by hundreds of millions of people on smartphones […]

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Hollywood Meetup Pulls Back Curtain on Cinematic VR

David Weinstein — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 19:00:51 GMT

Virtual reality is taking Hollywood by storm. From cinematic VR experiences based on The Martian and Wild, to new VR categories at major film festivals and awards programs, it’s clear VR is changing how content is created, distributed and enjoyed. About 150 entertainment industry execs, content creators and moviemakers gathered last week at NVIDIA’s Cinematic […]

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NVIDIA Delivers AI Supercomputer to Berkeley

Jim McHugh — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:00:02 GMT

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang delivered our NVIDIA DGX-1 AI supercomputer in a box to the UC Berkeley AI Research Lab

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Project Inspire Blurs Line Between Work, Fun

Brian Caulfield — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:31:52 GMT

Don’t get between NVIDIA founder Chris Malachowsky and his morning coffee. When he arrived at Oak Grove High School in San Jose, Calif. — where more than 700 volunteers had gathered Friday to spruce up the campus — he found himself parked just on the other side of a long fence from where steaming coffee […]

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Deep Learning Pioneer Yann Lecun and NVIDIA DLI Announce Teaching Kit for University Professors

Kimberly Powell — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 17:20:33 GMT

With demand for graduates with AI skills booming, we’ve released the NVIDIA Deep Learning Teaching Kit to help educators give their students hands on experience with GPU-accelerated computing. The kit — co-developed with deep-learning pioneer Yann LeCun, and largely based on his deep learning course at New York University — was announced Monday during a […]

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Catch Us at Gartner’s Data Center Conference Next Week

Christina Olmsted — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:30:57 GMT

A GPU-accelerated data center is a key competitive advantage, NVIDIA’s Jim McHugh will tell attendees at Gartner’s Data Center, Infrastructure, & Operations Management Conference, in Las Vegas next week. McHugh, who serves as VP and GM of Enterprise Products, will explain how GPUs can accelerate data processing and analysis by 10-100x over traditional compute and […]

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Anchors Away: We’re Launching an AI Podcast, Here’s How to Tune In

Brian Caulfield — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:59:40 GMT

Few things are more interesting than good conversation. And, right now, few things are more worthy of a good conversation than AI. Driven by deep learning — a technology that’s mysterious even to some of the people who have conjured it — AI is remaking everything in the world around us. That’s why we’re launching […]

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Titan Supercomputer Hunting for Better Biofuel in Massive Molecular Simulation

Ali Albanese — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:00:38 GMT

Henry Ford once called ethanol “the fuel of the future.” That day may be moving closer, thanks to the Tesla GPU-accelerated Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A corn-derived biofuel, ethanol has the potential to be a widely used renewable transportation fuel, but its biomolecular structure has kept it from being economically viable to […]

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How VR Training Keeps Fighter Pilots on Top of Their Game

John Chaney — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 16:00:59 GMT

Virtual reality is all the craze today. It’s come a long way since its start in the 1920s. Yes, it’s been nearly 100 years since the development of the world’s first flight simulator, designed as a training device for novice pilots. Today, VR is widely used by the military to keep pilots’ perishable combat skills […]

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