Academic medical centers worldwide are building new AI tools to battle COVID-19 — including at Mass General, where one center is adopting NVIDIA DGX A100 AI systems to accelerate its work. Researchers at the hospital’s Athinoula A. Martinos Center ...

Anyone can tell an eagle from an ostrich. It takes a skilled birdwatcher to tell a chipping sparrow from a house sparrow from an American tree sparrow. Now researchers are using AI to take this to the next level — identifying individual birds. André ...

There are as many ways to define a smart city as there are cities on the road to being smart. From London and Singapore to Seat Pleasant, Maryland, they vary widely. Most share some common characteristics. Every city wants to be smart about being a ...

Some dream of code. Others dream of beer. NVIDIA’s Eric Boucher does both at once, and the result couldn’t be more aptly named. Full Nerd #1 is a crisp, light-bodied blonde ale perfect for summertime quaffing. Eric, an engineer in the GPU systems ...

Self-driving trucks are coming to an interstate near you. Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple and truck maker Navistar recently announced they will build self-driving semi trucks, powered by the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX platform. The collaboration is one ...

During a stroke, a patient loses an estimated 1.9 million brain cells every minute, so interpreting their CT scan even one second quicker is vital to maintaining their health. To save precious time, Taiwan-based medical imaging startup Deep01 has ...

Your online loan application just got declined without explanation. Welcome to the AI black box. Businesses of all stripes turn to AI for computerized decisions driven by data. Yet consumers using applications with AI get left in the dark on how ...

While a thunderstorm could knock out your neighborhood’s power for a few hours, a solar storm could knock out electricity grids across all of Earth, possibly taking weeks to recover from. To try to predict solar storms — which are disturbances on ...

Only 846 people in the world hold the title of Woman International Master of chess. Evelyn Zhu, age 15, is one of them. A rising high school junior in Long Island, outside New York City, Zhu began playing chess competitively at the age of seven and ...

Eli Gorovici loves to take friends sailing on the Mediterranean. As the new pilot of Trigo, a Tel Aviv-based startup, he’s inviting the whole retail industry on a cruise to a future with AI. “We aim to bring the e-commerce experience into the ...