York Yang is a hardcore millennial: He doesn’t wait for restaurants or mass transit — he orders on-demand meals and wheels. And when it comes to grocery checkouts, he takes matters into his own hands. Yang and three co-founders started Caper, a maker of automated shopping carts, to solve their generation’s distaste for waiting in… Continue reading Retail Therapy: Smart Carts Roll Out to Assist Shoppers and Avoid Checkouts
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Road to Recovery: Jakarta Uses NVIDIA Metropolis to Retrieve Unpaid Vehicle Tax
With more than 10 million residents, Jakarta isn’t just one of the world’s most populous cities, it’s also one of the most congested — with 13 million motorcycles, 4.4 million cars and millions more trucks and vans. The costs are heavy for Indonesia’s capital, including lost productivity, wasted fuel and air pollution. The city government… Continue reading Road to Recovery: Jakarta Uses NVIDIA Metropolis to Retrieve Unpaid Vehicle Tax
AWS Outposts Station a GPU Garrison in Your Data Center
All the goodness of GPU acceleration on Amazon Web Services can now also run inside your own data center. AWS Outposts powered by NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs are generally available starting today. They bring cloud-based Amazon EC2 G4 instances inside your data center to meet user requirements for security and latency in a wide… Continue reading AWS Outposts Station a GPU Garrison in Your Data Center
Healthcare Regulators Open the Tap for AI
Approvals for AI-based healthcare products are streaming in from regulators around the globe, with medical imaging leading the way. It’s just the start of what’s expected to become a steady flow as submissions rise and the technology becomes better understood. More than 90 medical imaging products using AI are now cleared for clinical use, thanks… Continue reading Healthcare Regulators Open the Tap for AI
Driving First Class: Mercedes-Benz Gives Ultra-Luxury, Performance the AI Treatment
AI is now riding in the lap of luxury. Mercedes-Benz just took the wraps off the much-anticipated Mercedes-Maybach GLS SUV — the largest model under the ultra-luxury brand today. The marquee feature of the vehicle’s interior is the MBUX intelligent cockpit, powered by NVIDIA. The debut, which took place at the Guangzhou Auto Show, follows… Continue reading Driving First Class: Mercedes-Benz Gives Ultra-Luxury, Performance the AI Treatment
MIT Students Kick Self-Driving Mini-Cars into High Gear with GPU-Powered Data Science Workstations
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are learning about autonomous driving by taking NVIDIA-powered data science workstations for a spin. In an undergraduate robotics class at MIT, 17 students were organized into three teams and given a miniature racing car. Their task: teach it how to drive by itself through a complex course inside… Continue reading MIT Students Kick Self-Driving Mini-Cars into High Gear with GPU-Powered Data Science Workstations
RTX On: Chaos V-Ray GPU Next and Blender Cycles Now Shipping with RTX Support
Image courtesy of © Dabarti Studio, rendered with V-Ray GPU. From animators creating complex scenes with realistic 3D characters to architects designing buildings with accurate reflections, real-time ray tracing and AI are proving to be game-changers across industries. And now more of the world’s top applications have begun shipping with NVIDIA RTX technology to let… Continue reading RTX On: Chaos V-Ray GPU Next and Blender Cycles Now Shipping with RTX Support
NVIDIA and Microsoft Team Up to Aid AI Startups
NVIDIA and Microsoft are teaming up to provide the world’s most innovative young companies with access to their respective accelerator programs for AI startups. Members of NVIDIA Inception and Microsoft for Startups can now receive all the benefits of both programs — including technology, training, go-to-market support and NVIDIA GPU credits in the Azure cloud… Continue reading NVIDIA and Microsoft Team Up to Aid AI Startups
NVIDIA Takes RTX, AI and CloudXR to Autodesk University
From architectural design to virtual productions, NVIDIA RTX is taking visualizations to the next level — and you can see it all at Autodesk University, which runs Nov. 18-21 in Las Vegas. Over 11,000 professionals from the engineering, construction and manufacturing industries will get a glimpse of how RTX accelerates design and visualization applications. A… Continue reading NVIDIA Takes RTX, AI and CloudXR to Autodesk University
Record 136 NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Feature in TOP500 Ranking
The new wave of supercomputers is largely GPU accelerated, the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest systems shows. Of the 102 new supercomputers to join the closely watched ranking, 42 use NVIDIA GPU accelerators — including AiMOS, the most powerful addition to the list, which was released this week. Coming in at No. 24,… Continue reading Record 136 NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Feature in TOP500 Ranking