Bringing a new medical treatment to market is a slow, laborious process — and for a good reason: patient safety is the top priority. But when recruiting patients to test promising treatments in clinical trials, the faster the better. “Many people in medicine have ideas of how to improve healthcare,” said Wout Brusselaers, CEO of Read article >

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From pedicabs to yellow cabs, hailing rides has been a decades-long convenience. App-based services like Uber and Lyft have made on-demand travel even faster and easier. With the advent of autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing promises to raise the bar on safety and efficiency. Known as robotaxis, these shared vehicles are purpose-built for transporting groups of people Read article >

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Matthew Putman, this week’s guest on the AI Podcast, knows that the devil is in the details. That’s why he’s the co-founder and CEO of Nanotronics, a Brooklyn-based company providing precision manufacturing enhanced by AI, automation and 3D imaging. He sat down with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz to discuss how running deep learning networks Read article >

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The GPU Technology Conference is like a new Star Wars movie. There are always cool new robots scurrying about. This year’s event in San Jose, March 22-26, is no exception, with at least six autonomous machines expected on the show floor. Like C3PO and BB8, each one is different. Among what you’ll see at GTC Read article >

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The future of government will come into focus in Silicon Valley next month when experts from industries and government converge to discuss AI and high performance computing at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. Following on the success of GTC DC 2019, GTC 2020, taking place March 22-26 in San Jose, Calif., will bring together hundreds Read article >

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Imagine if fashion houses knew that teal blue was going to replace orange as the new black. Or if retailers knew that tie dye was going to be the wave to ride when swimsuit season rolls in this summer. So far, there hasn’t been an efficient way of getting ahead of consumer and market trends Read article >

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How do you train someone to deactivate a landmine, work with pathogens in a lab or triage disaster victims with head injuries? Very, very carefully. Typically, training for hazardous, high-risk jobs is an expensive production involving dozens of individuals playing roles, supervisors taking notes and an environment that doesn’t account for unexpected issues that can Read article >

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The progress of self-driving cars can be seen in test vehicles on the road. But the major mechanics for autonomous driving development are making tracks in the data center. Training, testing and validating self-driving technology requires enormous amounts of data, which must be managed by a robust hardware and software infrastructure. Companies around the world Read article >

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Tuberculosis is an issue close to home for Pune, India-based healthcare startup DeepTek. India has the world’s highest prevalence of the disease — accounting for over one-quarter of the 10 million new cases each year. It’s a fitting first project for the company, whose founders hope to greatly improve global access to medical imaging diagnostics Read article >

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Beta testing is a common practice for intangible products like software. Release an application, let customers bang on it, put bug fixes into the next version for download onto devices. Repeat. For brick-and-mortar products like buildings, beta testing is unusual if not unheard of. But two Salt Lake City entrepreneurs now offer a system that Read article >

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We’ve informed GSMA, the organizers of MWC Barcelona, that we won’t be sending our employees to this year’s event. Given public health risks around the coronavirus, ensuring the safety of our colleagues, partners and customers is our highest concern. MWC Barcelona is one of the world’s most important technology conferences. We’ve been looking forward to Read article >

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This weekend’s Academy Awards show features a twice-nominated newcomer to the Oscars: AI-powered visual effects. Two nominees in the visual effects category, The Irishman and Avengers: Endgame, used AI to push the boundaries between human actors and digital characters — de-aging the stars of The Irishman and bringing the infamous villain Thanos to life in Read article >

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What John Madden was to pro football, Neda Cvijetic is to autonomous vehicles. No one’s better at explaining the action, in real time, than Cvijetic. Cvijetic, senior manager of autonomous vehicles at NVIDIA, drives our NVIDIA DRIVE Labs series of videos and blogs breaking down the science behind autonomous vehicles. A Serbian-American electrical engineer, Cvijetic Read article >

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For the 12th consecutive year, NVIDIA Quadro GPUs have powered the stunning visuals behind every Academy Award nominee for Best Visual Effects. The red carpet will roll out for the five VFX-nominated films at the 92nd annual Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 9. They are: Avengers: Endgame The Irishman The Lion King 1917 Star Wars: Read article >

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Today we’re making GeForce NOW — and PC gaming — accessible to more gamers. More than 1.2 billion players have made the PC the world’s largest gaming platform, yet only a fraction have a modern PC with the power to play their favorite games. GeForce NOW lets you use the cloud to join in. It’s Read article >

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Putting on a pair of prescription glasses for the first time can feel like instantly snapping the world into focus. Suddenly, trees have distinct leaves. Fine wrinkles and freckles show up on faces. Footnotes in books and even street names on roadside signs become legible. Upscaling — converting lower resolution media to a higher resolution Read article >

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Get ready for trash-talking garbage cans. Hassan Murad and Vivek Vyas have developed the world’s largest garbage dataset, dubbed WasteNet, and offer an AI-driven trash-sorting technology. The Vancouver engineers’ startup, Intuitive AI, uses machine learning and computer vision to see what people are holding as they approach trash and recycling bins. Their product visually sorts Read article >

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The gallery of galaxy images astronomers produce is multiplying faster than the number of selfies on a teen’s new smartphone. Millions of these images have already been collected by astronomy surveys. But the volume is spiraling with projects like the recent Dark Energy Survey and upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which will capture Read article >

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If AI skills could help advance your career, the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute can help you get there. Growth in hiring for AI specialists — with expertise in fields like robotics and natural language processing — has gone up by an average of 74 percent per year since 2015, a recent LinkedIn report found. The Read article >

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