The infant is struggling to breathe, and you’re a medical student trying to save her life. The emergency room is a frenzy of beeping monitors, bustling nurses and a panicky mother. And nothing you’ve tried is working. It feels real, but luckily it’s all virtual reality. ER doctors need to be prepared for anything, but Read article >

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As the AI ecosystem continues to expand, NVIDIA revealed today that speech analytics startup Deepgram is the newest member of the GPU Ventures portfolio. Founded in 2015, San Francisco-based Deepgram is the first end-to-end deep learning speech recognition system in production that uses NVIDIA GPUs for inferencing and training. “Using GPUs made our inferencing 100 Read article >

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Learning to develop deep learning applications requires real-world skills you can only get through hands-on experience. That’s why we’re introducing a Developer Certification Program designed to verify a student’s ability to solve actual industry problems — from concept to code — using deep learning. The certification is offered by our Deep Learning Institute (DLI), which Read article >

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You can’t see Steven Spielberg’s much anticipated action-adventure movie Ready Player One until it hits theaters worldwide this weekend. But you can journey to the film’s dystopian universe of OASIS this week at the GPU Technology Conference, in San Jose. GTC attendees can get a sneak peek of Ready Player One with NVIDIA Holodeck, a Read article >

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NVIDIA has awarded $200,000 in Global Impact Award prizes to Princeton University and the University of Málaga for their pioneering research efforts to address social, humanitarian and environmental problems. Researchers at Princeton’s Astrophysical Sciences Department have used deep learning to advance the future prospects for fusion energy feasibility, earning a $100,000 Global Impact Award. Unleashing Read article >

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For VR to be an immersive experience, your visual, auditory and tactile senses need to convince your brain that it’s in a believable environment. The new HTC VIVE Pro VR headset, powered by NVIDIA GPUs, makes a persuasive argument. The device, announced at CES, improves display resolution by nearly 80 percent compared with its predecessor (2880 Read article >

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Less than 24 hours until NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote at our ninth annual GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley, and the action’s already begun. The crowd more more than 8,000 surging into the McEnery Convention Center — which includes researchers, press, technologists, analysts and partners from all over the globe — is Read article >

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In Bee Movie, an animated feature from 2007, a friendship between a bee (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld) and a young woman (Renee Zellweger) leads to the world’s bee population reclaiming the honey it produces. A decade later, a young woman who is real and with a self-described “penchant for cute, round things” — working with Read article >

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The brave men and women around the world who work in emergency services go to extreme lengths to rescue people caught up in dangerous situations. They rely on good information and clear communication to assess situations, work as a team and determine the best path of action. Currently, first responders mainly rely on audio forms Read article >

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The slithery spotted eel isn’t really swimming over you, and you’re not surrounded by a school of light blue fish. But it sure feels that way as you plunge into Expedition Reef, the new planetarium show at the California Academy of Sciences. The San Francisco museum’s GPU-powered coral reef experience immerses viewers in a dramatic Read article >

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