When it comes to baking 3D textures and materials on designs, NVIDIA RTX gives Substance Painter an extra boost. Nikie Monteleone, a lead look development artist in the animation industry, creates 3D graphics and images by integrating colors with complex, stylized patterns on all types of surfaces. Part of her design process is sculpting and Read article >

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Florida native Terry Olkin, accustomed to warm weather, had a problem with his new home of Colorado: Snow blocked the driveway. “I couldn’t get my car out of the driveway to get to work — I thought, ‘Why aren’t there robots yet to do this?’” Olkin said. The moment led the busy entrepreneur and a Read article >

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Autonomous driving technology aims to eliminate the human at the wheel. However, the latest plans for the car of the future envision a greater integration of human-machine interaction throughout the rest of the vehicle. At CES 2020, companies showed how they’re working toward safer and more efficient transportation. Drawing inspiration from creative concepts in other Read article >

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Reading one book on a particular subject won’t make you an expert. Nor will reading multiple books containing similar material. Truly mastering a skill or area of knowledge requires lots of information coming from a diversity of sources. The same is true for autonomous driving and other AI-powered technologies. The deep neural networks responsible for Read article >

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Italy is well known for its architecture, culture and cuisine. Soon, its contributions to AI may be just as renowned. Taking a step in that direction, a national research organization forged a three-year collaboration with NVIDIA. Together they aim to accelerate AI research and commercial adoption across the country. Leading the charge for Italy is Read article >

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NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference — the world’s premier AI event — returns to San Jose in March, bringing together leading developers, researchers and executives to share the latest advancements in AI, high performance computing and computer graphics across a broad range of industries. More than 10,000 attendees from 70 countries are expected to attend the Read article >

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Some like their pies with extra cheese, extra sauce or double pepperoni. Zack Fragoso’s passion is for pizza with plenty of data. Fragoso, a data science and AI manager at pizza giant Domino’s, got his Ph.D. in occupational psychology, a field that employs statistics to sort through the vagaries of human behavior. “I realized I Read article >

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National Pothole Day is Jan. 15. Its timing is no accident. All over the Northern hemisphere, potholes are at their suspension-wrecking, spine-shaking worst this month. Thanks to AI, one startup is working all year long to alleviate this menace. Benjamin Schmidt, president and co-founder of RoadBotics, is using the tech to pave the way to Read article >

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What began as two classmates getting their hands dirty at a farm in the French Alps has hatched a Silicon Valley farming startup building robots in Detroit and operating in one of the world’s largest agriculture regions. San Francisco-based FarmWise offers farmers an AI-driven robotic system for more sustainable farming methods, and to address a Read article >

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RTX Studio systems are a sight to see, and at CES this week there will be a lot to look at: top PC makers and system builders have announced new RTX Studio products. And starting January 13, qualifying RTX Studio laptops and desktops will receive a 3-month complimentary Adobe Creative Cloud membership, for both new Read article >

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CES 2020 will be bursting with vivid visual entertainment and smart everything, powered, in part, by NVIDIA and its partners. Attendees packing the annual techfest will experience the latest additions to GeForce, the world’s most powerful PC gaming platform and the first to deliver ray tracing. They’ll see powerful displays and laptops, ultra-realistic game titles and Read article >

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PC gaming is bigger than ever — in large part because we’ve spent a decade making gaming laptops smaller than anyone thought possible. The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14, which makes its debut at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, tells the tale. The world’s first 14-inch GeForce RTX laptop packs a Read article >

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For artists working on product designs and visualizations, time is an important factor — they want to quickly iterate and deliver results without waiting hours for renders to complete. This is why 3D artist David Baylis chose NVIDIA Quadro RTX graphics to create high-quality renders for his clients. He’s able to cut rendering times on Read article >

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When natural disasters strike, responders race against time to deploy critical resources and save lives. Fanned by strong winds, a forest fire raged through a remote southwestern corner of China’s Sichuan province in early April. Drones equipped with high-resolution cameras and infrared detection technology were dispatched to the mountainous terrain, from where they transmitted footage Read article >

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Top transportation companies are using NVIDIA DRIVE to lead the way into the coming era of autonomous mobility. Electric vehicle makers, mapping companies and mobility providers announced at the GPU Technology Conference in Suzhou, China, that they’re leveraging NVIDIA DRIVE in the development of their self-driving solutions. By joining the DRIVE ecosystem, each of these Read article >

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Putting AI to work on a massive scale, Alibaba recently harnessed NVIDIA GPUs to serve its customers on 11/11, the year’s largest shopping event. During Singles Day, as the Nov. 11 shopping event is also known, it generated $38 billion in sales. That’s up by nearly a quarter from last year’s $31 billion, and more Read article >

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