Startup Aids Visually Impaired with Guided Service Powered by AI
It all started with a blind communications professional. Brothers Sujeeth and Suman Kanuganti, tech industry veterans, wondered whether they could harness Google Glass and AI to develop an OnStar-like...
View ArticleHow AI Is Changing Medical Imaging
From images of cats to handwritten numbers, neural networks have been used for years to process visual data. Deep learning models can identify features in images, enhance image quality, and spot...
View ArticleShifting Ground: AI Analyzes Volcanoes for Signs of Eruption
Seattle, Naples and Tokyo are separated by thousands of miles, but they share a common neighbor: potentially devastating volcanoes. Around the world, about 800 million people live within 100 kilometers...
View ArticleWhat Is a Battle Royale? Why a New Generation of Gamers Prize GPUs
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Fortnite. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – Blackout. Apex Legends. If you’re a gamer, you spend some of your best moments immersed in these worlds. If you’re not, you may not...
View ArticleUnder the Dome: Childish Gambino’s Pharos Festival Dazzles with Interactive...
Imagine watching your favorite artist perform and then noticing the crowd isn’t the only thing dancing with the music — the concert backdrop is too. That’s exactly what attendees experienced at the...
View ArticleVisualize Risk: Startup Provides Bird’s-Eye View of Properties for Underwriters
You might call entrepreneur Ryan Kottenstette a fortune teller. That’s because he can tell how deep learning and computer vision can spot hidden opportunities for traditional industries. His latest...
View ArticleHow Dell EMC and NVIDIA Are Simplifying the AI Enterprise Data Center
Many organizations have begun to infuse AI into their products, services and supply chains, but IT departments need to scale these efforts in a systematic way. The newest DGX reference architecture —...
View ArticleNVIDIA Turing Now Starts at $219
NVIDIA today launched worldwide the GeForce GTX 1660, which joins the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to supercharge the latest, most popular games. The Turing-powered GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, introduced last month,...
View ArticleNVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Announces New Courses in Data Science and...
A lack of appropriate skills is one of the biggest barriers organizations face in adopting AI, according to a study by McKinsey. To address this gap, the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute is launching...
View ArticleBlue Hexagon AI Swats Down AI Cyberattacks in Blink of Eye
Cybersecurity firms battling hackers are now in a game of AI vs AI. Cyberattacks are coming at a blinding pace: at least four new malware variants are created each second, according to security...
View ArticleHow to Watch NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote Monday at GTC
Kicking off a frenzied week of innovation, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will deliver on Monday the opening keynote address at the 10th annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Silicon Valley....
View ArticleAI and Clinicians a ‘Winning Combination,’ Healthcare Luminary Eric Topol...
Deep learning is putting the “care” back in healthcare. “It used to be we just talked about deep sequencing. Now we talk about deep everything in medicine,” healthcare luminary Eric Topol told a packed...
View ArticleHome Helper: Startup’s Robot Can Tidy Up a Messy House
The robot rolls up to a towel, drops an arm to grasp it and then scoots along to release it in a laundry bin. It zips up to pens scattered across the floor to grab and then place them into a box. Take...
View ArticleSeeing Stars: Astronomers Turn to AI to Track Galaxies as New Telescopes Come...
Good news: astronomers are getting new tools to let them see further, better than ever before. The bad news: they’ll soon be getting more data than humans can handle. To turn the vast quantities of...
View ArticleShift Happens: Virtual Ride and DRIVE Gears Up GTC Attendees
The AI car of tomorrow opened its doors for a virtual spin this week at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. The DRIVE AutoPilot simulator experience on the GTC show floor combines the latest NVIDIA...
View ArticleError Parer: How AI Could Help Cardiologists Detect Heart Defects Without...
Nearly a third of physicians will be sued at least once in their careers — most commonly for an error in diagnosis. Medical errors are also the third-leading cause of death in the United States,...
View ArticleSnack Shacks: Startup Shows Off Self-Service Stores
A credit card swipe gets you into the checkout-free miniature convenience store. After that, just grab Oreos, Pringles or other munchies, check your receipt and go. Startup AiFi presented its automated...
View ArticleCatching Some Rays at GDC: Ray Tracing a Breakout Hit at World’s Biggest Game...
From all the announcements, demos and technology showcases on the show floor this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, one thing is clear: ray tracing was the hit of the show. From...
View ArticleBetting on Monte Carlo: GPUs a ‘Game Changer’ for Nuking Noise in Nuclear...
Andras Wirth is like many early AI researchers: His deep learning ambitions only turned into reality because of a sea change in technology. A physicist, Wirth wanted to run Monte Carlo algorithms to...
View ArticleAI in the Fast Lane: Automotive Tech Accelerates at GTC 2019
From start to finish, this week’s GPU Technology Conference was buzzing with automotive innovation. Sleek vehicles greeted attendees at the front door of the San Jose Convention Center. Autonomous...
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