Ever notice that when you take a picture of the sunset, the sun appears misshapen, as if it’s bending and contorting just to ruin your photo? That phenomenon has nothing to do with the camera. Rather, it’s the result of atmospheric turbulence that distorts the trajectory of light rays. And it’s been a source of […]

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Small IT teams often have to play big to keep up with their firm’s global operations. That’s the case at Whitney Bailey Cox & Magnani, LLC (WBCM), an architecture, engineering and construction services group that designs and builds projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, Lockheed Martin, the Ritz-Carlton and […]

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Small IT teams often have to play big to keep up with their firm’s global operations. That’s the case at Whitney Bailey Cox & Magnani, LLC (WBCM), an architecture, engineering and construction services group that designs and builds projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, Lockheed Martin, the Ritz-Carlton and […]

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Noitom may spell motion backwards, but the Beijing-based startup is quickly moving forward with plans to deliver a complete virtual reality solution for businesses. With Project Alice, Noitom has created something that’s never been an option for business-to-business initiatives: High-quality, immersive simulation and virtual training environments at a reasonable cost. It’s applicable to a variety […]

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With recently added top apps and games, and more great features to come, SHIELD is the best platform to experience your favorite media — and it keeps getting better. At Google I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, several announcements were made that offer something for all SHIELD users. Media streamers can enjoy native Android TV apps […]

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NVIDIA today opened the path toward virtualizing all enterprise applications with the introduction of NVIDIA GRID with the new NVIDIA Tesla M10 GPU.

The most badass graphics card ever. Insane. A beautiful powerhouse. A dramatic leap forward. Crazy. The reaction to the launch of the GeForce GTX 1080 from the press has been surpassed only by the shocked reaction from fans when we launched our new flagship GPU earlier this month. That was mass hysteria. The press, by contrast, […]

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The stakes could hardly be higher in pediatric intensive care units. Children arrive with complex, often chronic conditions, including respiratory illnesses, trauma, post-surgical care issues, sepsis and other infections. Many come as emergency cases. To find the best drug treatments for them, David Ledbetter, a data scientist at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and his […]

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Now there’s a better way to cheat at crossword puzzles—with artificial intelligence. Researchers from three universities designed a system that uses a type of AI known as deep learning to help computers understand language more quickly and effectively. As a bonus, the researchers built a web-based tool that’s handy when a particularly baffling crossword clue […]

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More than seven decades after the end of WWII, radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project is still awaiting cleanup. Progress at sites around the country—the largest is Hanford in southeastern Washington—has been slow, costly and plagued with problems. Cleaning up radioactive waste is incredibly complicated. It’s a little separating certain grains of sand from the […]

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GPUs have helped researchers spark a deep-learning revolution that’s given computers super-human capabilities. They’ve already enabled breakthrough results on the industry-standard ImageNet benchmark. They’re powering Facebook’s “Big Sur” deep learning computing platform. They’re also accelerating major advances in deep learning across a broad range of fields. GPUs have become the go-to technology for training deep […]

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Asthma. Cystic fibrosis. Emphysema. The only way to diagnose chronic lung diseases like these, and to measure how well your lungs are working, is by seeing a doctor. But in the developing world, many people don’t have a doctor nearby or can’t afford to see one. What people in developing countries do frequently have is […]

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Encouraged by rapid advances in VR technology, Audi is transforming its approach to selling vehicles. But it’s not always been a smooth ride. When it started working with VR in its retail setting four years ago,  the German carmaker kept hitting speed bumps arising from inadequate frame and latency rates, making for an unrealistic experience. […]

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Want to analyze a chest X-ray? There’s a neural network for that. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, have developed a deep learning-powered framework that detects diseases from chest X-rays. Their system then creates detailed captions for the X-rays, making it easier for doctors to screen patients and detect critical diseases […]

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With the launch of our GeForce GTX 1080, we’re announcing the first virtual reality experience we’ve created from the ground up — NVIDIA VR Funhouse — to highlight what our NVIDIA Pascal-based GPU can do for VR. VR Funhouse is built to bring a new level of immersion to VR by enhancing what you see, […]

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With the launch of our first NVIDIA Pascal gaming GPU, we’re dramatically expanding VRWorks to bring new levels of realism to virtual reality through sight, sound and touch. True presence in VR must be convincing to all your senses. An incorrectly lit object or missing echo can quickly undermine the 3D reality being created. So […]

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Game photography is a new form of art. You can see the very best screenshots from game developers and professional game photographers in exhibitions, printed and elegantly framed. As a gamer, I love to take beautiful screenshots, but today’s tools are incredibly limited. Getting the perfect shot requires hitting the Print Screen key rapidly, all […]

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Whaaaatt? WHAT! Crazy! I WANT IT. HOLY %#%! And those are just the shouts we can report here. Hundreds of gamers gathered for a surprise event shrieked with delight and yelped encouragement as NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made a slew of gaming announcements, unveiling the GeForce GTX 1080 — the first gaming GPU based on […]

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