When French classmates Guillaume Jourdain, Hugo Serrat and Jules Beguerie were looking at applying AI to agriculture in 2014 to form a startup, it was hardly a sure bet. It was early days for such AI applications, and people said it couldn’t be done. But farmers they spoke with wanted it. So they rigged together Read article >

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Call it an intellectual Star Wars bar. You could run into just about anything at GTC. Princeton’s William Tang would speak about using deep learning to unleash fusion energy, UC Berkeley’s Gerry Zhang would talk about hunting for alien signals, Airbus A3’s Arne Stoschek would describe flying autonomous pods. Want to catch it all? Run. Read article >

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Thanks to smartphones you can now point, click, and share your way to superstardom. Smartphones have made creating—and consuming—digital photos and video on social media a pastime for billions. But the content those phones can create can’t compare to the quality of those made with a good camera. British entrepreneur Vishal Kumar’s startup Photogram wants Read article >

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Spring. Rejuvenation. Everything’s blooming. And GeForce NOW adds even more games. Nature is amazing. For today’s GFN Thursday, we’re taking a look at all the exciting games coming to GeForce NOW in April. Starting with today’s launches: OUTRIDERS (day-and-date release on Epic Games Store and Steam) As mankind bleeds out in the trenches of Enoch, Read article >

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When freak lightning ignited massive wildfires across Northern California last year, it also sparked efforts from data scientists to improve predictions for blazes. One effort came from SpaceML, an initiative of the Frontier Development Lab, which is an AI research lab for NASA in partnership with the SETI Institute. Dedicated to open-source research, the SpaceML Read article >

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Drawing on his trifecta of degrees in math, music and music technology, Tlacael Esparza, co-founder and CTO of Sunhouse, is revolutionizing electronic drumming. Esparza has created Sensory Percussion, a combination of hardware and software that uses sensors and AI to allow a single drum to produce a complex range of sounds depending on where and Read article >

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In the sea of virtual exhibitions that have popped up over the last year, the NVIDIA AI Art Gallery offers a fresh combination of incredible visual art, musical experiences and poetry, highlighting the narrative of an emerging art form based on AI technology. The online exhibit — part of NVIDIA’s GTC event — will feature Read article >

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Got a conflict with your 2pm appointment? Just spin up a quick assistant that takes good notes and when your boss asks about you even identifies itself and explains why you aren’t there. Nice fantasy? No, it’s one of many use cases a team of some 50 ninja programmers, AI experts and 20 beta testers Read article >

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