To get around, robots need a little help from maps, just like the rest of us. Just like humans, bots can’t always rely on GPS, especially when they operate indoors. And GPS isn’t sufficiently accurate enough outdoors because precision within a few inches is required to move about safely. Instead they rely on what’s known Read article >

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A flood of new smartphone users will come online in the next couple years — and many don’t speak or read a word of English, the internet’s most common language. To make web adoption smoother for hundreds of millions of these new users, one Bangalore-based startup is building AI speech tools for 10 different languages Read article >

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Creative professionals are more mobile than ever. The need to create on the go is vital to meeting tight deadlines and getting content delivered. Whether starting initial edits on set or reviewing rendered ideas with a client at a local coffee shop, the “office” is wherever you need to work. But nothing interrupts creative flow Read article >

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Like Silicon Valley’s plot on fictional startup Pied Piper, Compression AI is a scrappy team of developers working on media-compression technology in a tech incubator. Except instead of being characters in a Hollywood-scripted startup, founders Francis Doumet and Migel Tissera met at a Vancouver coworking space, hired two employees and pulled late nighters to release  Read article >

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Startup Blendid is trekking into the future with smoothie-making robots. The Silicon Valley robotics company is using AI powered by the compact supercomputing of  NVIDIA Jetson to quickly serve up customizable juice and vegetable blends. Co-founder Vipin Jain said the original Star Trek was what inspired him to develop Blendid. “Star Trek’s replicator was an Read article >

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One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. While the words were epic, the grainy, jerky images beamed back as Neil Armstrong clambered out of the Eagle lunar lander and onto the surface of the moon half a century ago — while a technical miracle — could never be described as gorgeous. This Read article >

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Whoa. One of the creative studios behind The Matrix’s virtual world is entering a new kind of virtual environment: GPU-powered virtual workstations. Animal Logic — one of the world’s leading independent creative digital studios —  has had a hand in films including The Matrix, Moulin Rouge! and, more recently, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Read article >

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Climate researchers look into the future to project how much the planet will warm in coming decades — but they often rely on decades-old software to conduct their analyses. This legacy software architecture is difficult to update with new methodologies that have emerged in recent years. So a consortium of researchers is starting from scratch, Read article >

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There’s less than a 50 percent chance that a round of in vitro fertilization — one of the most common treatments for infertility, running up to $15,000 — will succeed. But those odds could be dramatically improved with an AI tool developed by researchers at Cornell University. Introduced in 1978, IVF is a process through Read article >

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When it comes to theater productions, the devil is in the details. Dancers, musicians and actors push themselves to the limit to deliver extraordinary performances. And behind the curtain, orchestra pit and tutus, multitudes of artists and technicians work on bringing art to life. Much of their effort is defining the stage with set pieces, Read article >

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Some need an illustrious career capped with a knighthood or royal wedding to climb the ranks of centuries-old English society. Last week, self-driving cars only needed a winding uphill road through the countryside to make their entrance. NVIDIA partners set records on the racetrack and showed off new vehicles for spectators gathered at the Goodwood Read article >

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Walmart’s the biggest retailer on Earth. It’s also one of the most competitive technology companies around. Two of its sharpest tech tools: NVIDIA GPUs and RAPIDS data science software. Speaking at the VentureBeat Transform conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Walmart Chief Data Officer Bill Groves discussed Walmart’s data processing and machine learning ecosystem. “The Read article >

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Some say style never fades, and now with the help of AI, finding one’s fashion sense is about to get a whole lot easier. Fashion ecommerce startup Stitch Fix is piecing together a seamless balance between AI-powered decision making and human judgement. “We really want to be a partner and personal stylist for people over Read article >

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To help businesses deploy AI infrastructure to power their most important opportunities, our DGX-Ready Data Center program is going global. We’ve also added new services that will help organizations accelerate their progress. We’ve added to the program three new partners in Europe, five in Asia and two in North America. With these additions, customers now Read article >

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Lane markings are critical guides for autonomous vehicles, providing vital context for where they are and where they’re going. That’s why detecting them with pixel-level precision is fundamentally important for self-driving cars.

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You can’t be first if you’re not fast. Inside the world’s top companies, teams of researchers and data scientists are creating ever more complex AI models, which need to be trained, fast. That’s why leadership in AI demands leadership in AI infrastructure. And that’s why the AI training results released today by MLPerf matter. Across Read article >

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No pressure. The DOTA 2 International Tournament 2019 opens in August at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai. The stakes – at $25 million and growing, already twice that of golf’s Masters Tournament  – are huge. And once again, NVIDIA will provide unshakeable reliability and unmatched performance. The tournament will feature GeForce RTX 2080 graphics cards Read article >

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Most gamers don’t buy a GPU to accelerate a single game. They make investments. That’s why — with the deluge of new ray-traced games announced over the past few weeks — we’re doubling down on our gaming GPUs. SUPER, our new line of faster Turing GPUs announced Tuesday — and maybe not our best kept Read article >

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With 10 verb tenses, eight noun cases, three grammatical genders and a strong predilection for compound words, Sanskrit is not an easy language to teach a human — let alone an AI model. But Indologist Oliver Hellwig is undertaking the challenge, training deep learning models that can analyze Sanskrit texts up to 4,000 years old. Read article >

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