I, Artist: Why We’re Turning to Artists, and Asimov, to Illustrate DirectStylus
Robots. Ubiquitous displays. Algae bars.Isaac Asimov in 1965.Fifty years ago this month, science fiction author Isaac Asimov – inspired by the 1964 World’s Fair – made a series of predictions about...
View ArticleWhy the Future of Self-Driving Cars Depends on Visual Computing
Everybody hates driving through cross-town traffic. This week, Google said they’re doing something about it, announcing that they’ve shifted the focus of their Self-Driving Car Project from cruising...
View ArticlePower to the People: Jetson TK1, the First Mobile Embedded Supercomputer, Now...
We’re now shipping the Jetson TK1 development kit, the first supercomputer for developing embedded applications and devices– the digital technologies built into the world all around us.Jetson TK1 is...
View ArticleBeat Me in St. Louis: Student Bot Builders Battle for Championship
Insane deadlines. Fiendishly advanced technology. High pressure.We’re not talking about tomorrow’s hyper-competitive workplace. We’re talking about the FIRST Robotics Championship. Held in St. Louis...
View ArticleLive Graphics Transforms America’s Cup, Earns Five Emmy Nominations
Competitive sailing is a complex sport. Races take place amid lashing winds and churning waves. More challenging still, lead changes between teams are invisible to the naked eye.Yet the 34th America’s...
View ArticleCustomers, Partners Make NVIDIA GRID the Talk of Citrix Synergy
New capabilities. New partners. Strong customer stories. In 2013, we introduced our GRID vGPU technology at Synergy, Citrix’s global IT conference for virtualization, mobility, networking and cloud...
View ArticleParallel Lives: Women in GPU Computing
Today we’re launching the Women Who CUDA campaign. Our goal is to highlight the work of women who are innovators in the area of GPU computing. As part of this effort, we’re opening up a “call for...
View ArticleHow Our Amazing DirectStylus Will Bring Out Your Inner Leonardo (Video)
Creating a quick sketch? Crafting the next Mona Lisa? You need a digital tool that can respond with the speed and subtlety of putting pencil to paper. You can’t paint a masterpiece with a mop.Where art...
View ArticleNVIDIA Response to Heartbleed Security Vulnerability
By now you’ve no doubt heard about the “Heartbleed” security bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptographic software library. OpenSSL is widely used by software applications and web servers around the...
View ArticleLamborghini Huracán Blends Supercar Brawn with a Supercomputer Brain
Carbon ceramic brake rotors. A 5.2-liter, 610-horsepower V-10 engine. A chassis built from carbon fiber and aluminum. There can be no doubt the $237,250 Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 is a supercar. The...
View ArticleThe Greatest PC Games of All-Time – ‘Half-Life 2′ and...
Surprise! We announced last month that we’ve been working with Valve to bring the critically acclaimed game Portal to SHIELD. Today, we can share some more exciting news.SHIELD owners can also download...
View ArticleNVIDIA’s Tegra K1 Powers Xiaomi’s First Tablet
Fast. Xiaomi does everything fast.They sell phones fast. They develop blazing fast devices. Its Tegra 4-powered Mi3 was the world’s fastest phone at launch. They’re growing fast, too: Xiaomi is now one...
View ArticleChinese University of Hong Kong Goes Deep, as One of 31 New CUDA Centers
We’ve added Chinese University of Hong Kong, a pioneer in the field of deep learning, to our roster of CUDA Research Centers. It’s among the 31 newly designated CUDA Research and Teaching institutions...
View ArticleIf You Build It, We Will Come: Don’t Miss Us at Maker Faire
A 25-foot mechanical octopus will shoot flames into the air. Giant soap bubbles and robotic drones will float through the skies. Vendors will sell sticky sweet funnel cakes and cold beer.But the...
View ArticleHacker’s Delight: NVIDIA Makes an Impression at Maker Faire (Video)
Microsoft was there. NASA was there. So were 100,000-plus hobbyists, hackers, makers, and enthusiasts of all kinds. The annual Maker Faire at the San Mateo County Fairground is our kind of crowd.Giant...
View ArticleTake a Peek at the Future of Product Design with Iray VCA (Video)
Want a glimpse at the future of product design? Look no further than this video showcase of our demos at last week’s Excite 2014 conference in Munich, Germany.Virtual prototypes replacing expensive...
View ArticleGet on the GRID: Take a Free 24-Hour Test Drive of NVIDIA GRID (Video)
A virtualized desktop can be a great desktop. With our NVIDIA GRID Test Drive, now available for Windows in North America, we can prove it.You should demand that proof. Companies have rolled back...
View ArticleLucky 7 — GPU System Wins Student Supercomputing Competition Again
For the seventh time in a row, a GPU based system powered the winning team in a student cluster competition.This time, it was the team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) taking the top spot in...
View ArticleComputex Is Gamer Heaven – and It’s Stocked With NVIDIA Gear
If you love PC gaming, then there’s no better place in the world right now than Taipei.Our NVIDIA Gamers’ Day, held in the run-up to Computex, attracted a crowd of gamers, IT enthusiasts, bloggers, the...
View ArticleBig Beauty: NVIDIA Powers World’s Largest Ultra-HD 4K Screen at Kentucky Derby
Mint juleps. Outlandish hats. Outsized bets. Amid all the distractions of race day, Kentucky Derby attendees once had a hard time catching the action. No longer.That’s thanks to the largest ultra-HD 4K...
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