Air quality is a vastly underestimated problem, said NASA research scientist Christoph Keller in a talk at this week’s GTC DC, the Washington edition of NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference. Nine in 10 people breathe polluted air, and millions of deaths a year are attributed to household or outdoor air pollution. Poor air also lowers crop Read article >

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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays the coming of autonomous vehicle technology, according to the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS Wednesday discussed the results of its autonomous mail delivery pilot with NVIDIA DRIVE ecosystem member TuSimple at GTC DC. The discussion follows the announcement earlier this week that the USPS Read article >

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The U.S. government’s CTO and CIO on Tuesday joined other key tech decision makers, lawmakers, and industry leaders at the start of the two-day GPU Technology Conference in Washington D.C. Federal CIO Suzette Kent led a panel of civilian agency leaders explaining how they’re using AI.  Moments later, U.S. CTO Michael Kratsios led a discussion Read article >

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Doina Precup is applying Romanian wisdom to the gender gap in the fields of AI and computer science. The associate professor at McGill University and research team lead at AI startup DeepMind spoke with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about her personal experiences, along with the AI4Good Lab she co-founded to give women more access Read article >

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Those who are keeping score in AI know that NVIDIA GPUs set the performance standards for training neural networks in data centers in December and again in July. Industry benchmarks released today show we’re setting the pace for running those AI networks in and outside data centers, too. NVIDIA Turing GPUs and our Xavier system-on-a-chip Read article >

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The AI revolution is here — as near as the closest mailbox — and the time’s right to put AI to work solving your organization’s biggest challenges, NVIDIA’s Ian Buck said Tuesday. Kicking off the Washington edition of our GPU Technology Conference, Buck, NVIDIA’s VP for accelerated computing, detailed a new generation of technologies that Read article >

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The AI revolution is here — as near as the closest mailbox — and the time’s right to put AI to work solving your organization’s biggest challenges, NVIDIA’s Ian Buck said Tuesday. Kicking off the Washington edition of our GPU Technology Conference, Buck, NVIDIA’s VP for accelerated computing, detailed a new generation of technologies that Read article >

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From David LaChapelle to M. Night Shyamalan to Dave Grohl, the world’s leading creative minds have descended upon Los Angeles this week for Adobe MAX to talk about how technology is improving the way they work. This year, we’re helping supercharge creativity with NVIDIA RTX technology. Over 40 top creative and design applications are being Read article >

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From finding the best sushi near you to improving the manufacturing process of industrial components to making the car you drive safer, AI is advancing convenience, productivity and reliability across industries. But taking advantage of the power of AI is not feasible without a skilled workforce. In fact, industry research indicates that lack of AI Read article >

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Conference opportunity: To learn more about robotics, sign up here for our GPU Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., where you can find the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute course Getting Started with AI on Jetson Nano. Stock cars zigzag to the finish line. Spectators cheer. Pit crews high-five. It’s not NASCAR but a hardware co-working space Read article >

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Weeds compete with neighboring crops for light, water and nutrients, costing the farming industry billions each year in agricultural yield. To keep a better eye on fields, improve crop yields and reduce the use of pesticides, farmers and agriculture researchers are turning to AI. “We believe the digital agriculture revolution will help in reducing the Read article >

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When it comes to gaming, new graphics means a new way to see the world. The NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture powers both the GeForce RTX 20-Series and GTX 16-Series cards. As the world’s most advanced architecture, Turing brings exceptional performance and efficiency as well as next-generation shading technology to the latest games. Additionally, the NVIDIA Read article >

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Our phones, homes and televisions have all had an IQ upgrade in the past decade. Now, it’s time for the way we travel to get smart. At the Smart Mobility Conference in Tel Aviv this week, members of the NVIDIA DRIVE ecosystem showed the latest in autonomous vehicle development as the industry moves toward production. Read article >

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Israel-based technology company NoTraffic is using AI to transform intersections from danger zones to intelligent decision makers, cutting time delays and carbon dioxide emissions. Next week, NoTraffic’s Yoav Valinsky, a computer vision researcher, will be going to GTC DC to discuss how the company is operating at the edge in a presentation called, “From Theory Read article >

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When your appliances break, the last thing you want to do is spend an hour on the phone trying to reach a customer service representative. Using computer vision, Drishyam.AI is eliminating service lines to help consumers more quickly. Satish Mandalika, the CEO and founder of the deep learning-based image recognition platform, spoke with AI Podcast Read article >

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When the price went way up on a key service a small Washington, D.C., firm was using to protect its customers’ internet connectivity, the company balked. After not finding a suitable alternative, the company decided to build its own. The result was a whole new business, called DNSFilter, which is casting a wide net around Read article >

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