Arman Toorians isn’t your average classic car restoration hobbyist. The NVIDIA engineer recently transformed a 1974 Triumph TR6 roadster at his home workshop into an EV featuring AI. Toorians built the vehicle to show a classic car can be recycled into an electric ride that taps NVIDIA Jetson AI for safety, security and vehicle management Read article >

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Flying, driving, gaming, racing… amid the first-ever virtual Consumer Electronics Show this week, NVIDIA-powered technologies spilled out in all directions. In automotive, Chinese automakers SAIC and NIO announced they’ll use NVIDIA DRIVE in future vehicles. In gaming, NVIDIA on Tuesday led off a slew of gaming announcements by revealing the affordable new RTX 3060 GPU Read article >

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There’s a new brand of automotive intelligence equipped with the brains — and the battery — to go the distance. SAIC, the largest automaker in China, joined forces with etail giant Alibaba to unveil a new premium EV brand, dubbed IM, or “intelligence in motion.” The long-range electric vehicles will feature AI capabilities powered by Read article >

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NVIDIA is the second-best place to work in the U.S. according to a ranking released today by Glassdoor. The site’s Best Places to Work in 2021 list rates the 100 best U.S. companies with more than 1,000 employees, based on how their own employees rate career opportunities, company culture and senior management. The survey’s top Read article >

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Cooking on video calls with friends. Getting to the end of Netflix’s endless content well. Going 10 months without a haircut. Over the past year, we all found different ways to keep ourselves occupied. Gaming, however, is a longer-term trend that promises to continue remaking global culture for years to come. Over 2.5 billion gamers Read article >

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The latest NVIDIA Studio laptops, powered by new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs, are empowering the next generation of creativity. And they bring a host of updates to change how fast creators work. New models come equipped with up to 16GB of video memory, pixel-accurate displays with 1440p and 4K options, and GPU Read article >

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Bringing more gaming capabilities to millions more gamers, NVIDIA on Tuesday  announced more than 70 new laptops will feature GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs and unveiled the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card for desktops. All are powered by the award-winning NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture, the second generation of RTX with enhanced Ray Tracing Read article >

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We’re at a pivotal moment to unlock a new, AI-accelerated era of discovery and medicine, says Kimberly Powell, NVIDIA’s vice president of healthcare. Speaking today at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference, held virtually, Powell outlined how AI and accelerated computing are enabling scientists to take advantage of the boom in biomedical data to power faster Read article >

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Electric vehicle upstarts have gained a foothold in the industry and are using NVIDIA DRIVE to keep that momentum going. Nowhere is the trend of electric vehicles more apparent than in China, the world’s largest automotive market, where electric vehicle startups have exploded in popularity. NIO, Li Auto and Xpeng are bolstering the initial growth Read article >

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The journey to making the upcoming film Gods of Mars changed course dramatically once real-time rendering entered the picture. The movie, currently in production, features a mix of cinematic visual effects with live-action elements. The film crew had planned to make the movie primarily using real-life miniature figures. But they switched gears last year once Read article >

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When photographers take long-exposure photos, they maximize the amount of light their camera sensors receive. The technique helps capture scenes like the night sky, but it introduces blurring in the final image, as in the example at right. It’s not too different from cryo-electron microscopy, or cryo-EM, which scientists use to study the structure of Read article >

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Chinese electric automaker NIO will use NVIDIA DRIVE for advanced automated driving technology in its future fleets, marking the genesis of truly intelligent and personalized NIO vehicles. During a global reveal event, the EV maker took the wraps off its latest ET7 sedan, which starts shipping in 2022 and features a new NVIDIA-powered supercomputer, called Read article >

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The AI cockpit has reached galactic proportions with the new Mercedes-Benz MBUX Hyperscreen. During a digital event, the luxury automaker unveiled the newest iteration of its intelligent infotainment system — a single surface extending from the cockpit to the passenger seat displaying all necessary functions at once. Dubbed the MBUX Hyperscreen, the system is powered Read article >

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Canadian high schooler Ana DuCristea has a clever solution for the quarantine slump. Using AI and natural language processing, she programmed an app capable of setting customizable reminders so you won’t miss any important activities, like baking banana bread or whipping up Dalgona coffee. The project’s emblematic of how a new generation - with access Read article >

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Penn State University pals Brad Bogolea and Mirza Shah were living in Silicon Valley when they pitched Jeff Gee on their robotics concepts. Fortunately for them, the star designer was working at the soon-to-shutter Willow Garage robotics lab. So the three of them — Shah was also a software engineer at Willow — joined together Read article >

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Brendon Cassidy, CTO and chief scientist at Super Hi-Fi, uses AI to give everyone the experience of a radio station tailored to their unique tastes. Super Hi-Fi, an AI startup and member of the NVIDIA Inception program, develops technology that produces smooth transitions, intersperses content meaningfully and adjusts volume and crossfade. Started three years ago, Read article >

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Much of 2020 may look best in the rearview mirror, but the year also held many moments of outstanding work, gems worth hitting the rewind button to see again. So, here’s a countdown — roughly in order of ascending popularity — of 10 favorite NVIDIA videos that hit YouTube in 2020. With two exceptions for Read article >

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