Ahmed Elnaggar and Michael Heinzinger are helping computers read proteins as easily as you read this sentence. The researchers are applying the latest AI models used to understand text to the field of bioinformatics. Their work could accelerate efforts to characterize living organisms like the coronavirus. By the end of the year, they aim to Read article >

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Whether designing buildings, complex highway interchanges or water purification systems, the architects and engineers at Burgess & Niple have a common goal: bringing data together to develop incredible visuals that will be the blueprint for their design. B&N, an engineering and architecture firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with approximately 400 employees, specializes in the designing Read article >

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Understanding the U.S. tax code can take years of study — it’s 80,000 pages long. Software company Intuit has decided that it’s a job for AI. Ashok Srivastava, its senior vice president and chief data officer, spoke to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about how the company is utilizing machine learning to help customers with Read article >

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Known around the world for its broad range of personal computers, phones, servers, networking and services, Lenovo also has years of experience in designing and delivering high performance computing and AI systems. NVIDIA and Mellanox have been long-time collaborators with Lenovo and now this relationship is expanding in a big way. This fall, Lenovo will Read article >

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Researchers are racing to discover the right drug molecule to treat COVID-19 — but the number of potential drug-like molecules out there is estimated to be an inconceivable 1060. “Even if you hypothetically checked one molecule per second, it would take longer than the age of the universe to explore the entire chemical space,” said Read article >

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The NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU has landed on Google Cloud. Available in alpha on Google Compute Engine just over a month after its introduction, A100 has come to the cloud faster than any NVIDIA GPU in history. Today’s introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family featuring A100 makes Google the first cloud service Read article >

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Amid the continued spread of coronavirus, extra care is being taken by just about everyone to wash hands and wipe down surfaces, from countertops to groceries. To spotlight potentially contaminated surfaces, hobbyist Nick Bild has come up with Deep Clean, a stereo camera system that flags objects that have been touched in a room. The Read article >

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In construction, DroneDeploy is used by one-quarter of the world’s 400 largest building contractors and six of the top 10 oil and gas companies, according to the company.

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With a new university campus nearby and an airport under construction, the city of Liverpool, Australia, 27 kilometers southwest of Sydney, is growing fast. More than 30,000 people are expected to make a daily commute to its central business district. Liverpool needed to know the possible impact to traffic flow and movement of pedestrians, cyclists Read article >

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A team in Israel is making a splash with AI. It started as biz school buddies Netanel Eliav and Adam Bismut were looking to solve a problem to change the world. The problem found them: Bismut visited the Dead Sea after a drowning and noticed a lack of tech for lifeguards, who scanned the area Read article >

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Rendering is a critical part of the design workflow. But as audiences and clients expect ever higher-quality graphics, agencies and studios must tap into the latest technology to keep up with rendering needs. SuperBlimp, a creative production studio based just outside of London, knew there had to be a better way to achieve the highest Read article >

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For many organizations, the coronavirus pandemic has created a permanent shift in how their employees work. From now on, they’ll have the option to collaborate at home or in the office. NVIDIA is giving these millions of professionals around the world a boost with a new version of our virtual GPU software, vGPU July 2020. Read article >

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A month after it got FDA approval, a startup’s first product was saving lives on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19. Caption Health develops software for ultrasound systems, called Caption AI. It uses deep learning to empower medical professionals, including those without prior ultrasound experience, to perform echocardiograms quickly and accurately.  The results Read article >

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The pharmaceutical industry has grown accustomed to investing billions of dollars to bring drugs to market, only to watch 90 percent of them fail even before clinical trials. The problem is, and always has been, there’s simply not enough compute power in the world to accurately assess the properties of all possible molecules, nor to Read article >

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Around the world, researchers in startups, academic institutions and online communities are developing AI models for healthcare. Getting these models from their hard drives and into clinical settings can be challenging, however. Developers need feedback from healthcare practitioners on how their models can be optimized for the real world. So, San Francisco-based AI startup Arterys Read article >

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Studios, creative departments and production companies are searching for tools that make it easier to work from home. But one independent studio is staying ahead of the game by being one of the first to completely operate in the cloud. Untold Studios, based in the U.K., is home to 100 artists and producers. Their projects Read article >

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AI startup Trefos is helping foresters see the wood for the trees. Using custom lidar and camera-mounted drones, the Philadelphia-based company collects data for high-resolution, 3D forest maps. These metrics allow government agencies and the forestry industry to estimate the volume of timber and biomass in an area of forest, as well as the amount Read article >

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It’s time to put your comfort zone on display. NVIDIA Quadro View, available now, enhances workspaces and boosts productivity by enabling professionals to manage their displays and arrange their workspaces in a way that best suits them. Workspaces are vital to productivity because they set the tone for how people work. More and more, professionals Read article >

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Anshuman Kumar is sharpening a digital pencil to penetrate the secrets of the coronavirus. He and colleagues at the University of California at Riverside want to calculate atomic interactions at a scale never before attempted for the virus. If they succeed, they’ll get a glimpse into how a molecule on the virus binds to a Read article >

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