Royal Bank of Canada built a DGX-powered cloud and tied it to a strategic investment in AI. Despite headwinds from a global pandemic, it will further enable RBC to transform client experiences. The voyage started in the fall of 2017. That’s when RBC, Canada’s largest bank with 17 million clients in 36 countries, created  its Read article >

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Whether tackling complex visualization challenges or creating Hollywood-caliber visual effects, artists and designers require powerful hardware to create their best work. The latest application releases from Foundry, Chaos Group and Redshift by Maxon provide advanced features powered by NVIDIA RTX so creators can experience faster ray tracing and accelerated performance to elevate any design workflow. Read article >

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Driving requires the ability to predict the future. Every time a car suddenly cuts into a lane or multiple cars arrive at the same intersection, drivers must make predictions as to how others will act to safely proceed. While humans rely on driver cues and personal experience to read these situations, self-driving cars can use Read article >

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The University of Florida and NVIDIA Tuesday unveiled a plan to build the world’s fastest AI supercomputer in academia, delivering 700 petaflops of AI performance. The effort is anchored by a $50 million gift: $25 million from alumnus and NVIDIA co-founder Chris Malachowsky and $25 million in hardware, software, training and services from NVIDIA. “We’ve Read article >

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From Knight Rider’s KITT to Ironman’s JARVIS, intelligent copilots have been a staple of forward-looking pop culture. Advancements in AI and high-performance processors are turning these sci-fi concepts into reality. But what, exactly, is an AI cockpit, and how will it change the way we move? AI is enabling a range of new software-defined, in-vehicle Read article >

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Whether you want to know if your squats have the correct form, you’re at the mirror deciding how to dress and wondering what the weather’s like, or you keep losing track of your darts score, the Smells Like ML duo have you covered — in all senses. This maker pair is using machine learning powered Read article >

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After an exhausting 12-hour shift caring for patients, it’s hard to blame frontline workers for forgetting to sing “Happy Birthday” twice to guarantee a full 30 seconds of proper hand-washing. Though at times tedious, the process of confirming such detailed, protective measures like the amount of time hospital employees spend sanitizing their hands, the cleaning Read article >

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Ahmed Elnaggar and Michael Heinzinger are helping computers read proteins as easily as you read this sentence. The researchers are applying the latest AI models used to understand text to the field of bioinformatics. Their work could accelerate efforts to characterize living organisms like the coronavirus. By the end of the year, they aim to Read article >

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Whether designing buildings, complex highway interchanges or water purification systems, the architects and engineers at Burgess & Niple have a common goal: bringing data together to develop incredible visuals that will be the blueprint for their design. B&N, an engineering and architecture firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with approximately 400 employees, specializes in the designing Read article >

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Understanding the U.S. tax code can take years of study — it’s 80,000 pages long. Software company Intuit has decided that it’s a job for AI. Ashok Srivastava, its senior vice president and chief data officer, spoke to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about how the company is utilizing machine learning to help customers with Read article >

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Known around the world for its broad range of personal computers, phones, servers, networking and services, Lenovo also has years of experience in designing and delivering high performance computing and AI systems. NVIDIA and Mellanox have been long-time collaborators with Lenovo and now this relationship is expanding in a big way. This fall, Lenovo will Read article >

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Researchers are racing to discover the right drug molecule to treat COVID-19 — but the number of potential drug-like molecules out there is estimated to be an inconceivable 1060. “Even if you hypothetically checked one molecule per second, it would take longer than the age of the universe to explore the entire chemical space,” said Read article >

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The NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU has landed on Google Cloud. Available in alpha on Google Compute Engine just over a month after its introduction, A100 has come to the cloud faster than any NVIDIA GPU in history. Today’s introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family featuring A100 makes Google the first cloud service Read article >

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Amid the continued spread of coronavirus, extra care is being taken by just about everyone to wash hands and wipe down surfaces, from countertops to groceries. To spotlight potentially contaminated surfaces, hobbyist Nick Bild has come up with Deep Clean, a stereo camera system that flags objects that have been touched in a room. The Read article >

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In construction, DroneDeploy is used by one-quarter of the world’s 400 largest building contractors and six of the top 10 oil and gas companies, according to the company.

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With a new university campus nearby and an airport under construction, the city of Liverpool, Australia, 27 kilometers southwest of Sydney, is growing fast. More than 30,000 people are expected to make a daily commute to its central business district. Liverpool needed to know the possible impact to traffic flow and movement of pedestrians, cyclists Read article >

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A team in Israel is making a splash with AI. It started as biz school buddies Netanel Eliav and Adam Bismut were looking to solve a problem to change the world. The problem found them: Bismut visited the Dead Sea after a drowning and noticed a lack of tech for lifeguards, who scanned the area Read article >

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Rendering is a critical part of the design workflow. But as audiences and clients expect ever higher-quality graphics, agencies and studios must tap into the latest technology to keep up with rendering needs. SuperBlimp, a creative production studio based just outside of London, knew there had to be a better way to achieve the highest Read article >

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For many organizations, the coronavirus pandemic has created a permanent shift in how their employees work. From now on, they’ll have the option to collaborate at home or in the office. NVIDIA is giving these millions of professionals around the world a boost with a new version of our virtual GPU software, vGPU July 2020. Read article >

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