Talk about solar-powered homes and the discussion quickly swerves to tax breaks, loans and other tools that help consumers cover equipment costs. But price isn’t the big hold-up, according to the founders of Oakland, Calif.-based startup PowerScout. ...

Tom White doesn’t care if you have anything to smile about this holiday season. The New Zealand researcher’s deep learning smile bot brings joy to the world by putting a happy face on a picture of anyone — naughty or nice. Thanks to White’s ...

Some prepare for Christmas by trimming trees, stuffing stockings and building a gingerbread house or two. That’s kids’ play for Lee Franzen, a senior program manager at NVIDIA’s Austin, Texas, office. Lee begins planning his dazzling, ...

Canada has joined the ranks of countries aiming to increase road safety and ease traffic congestion with the development of self-driving cars. Recently a vehicle dubbed the Autonomoose autonomously drove a crew of Ontario Ministry of Transportation ...

By Jake Rubin, Founder & CEO, AxonVR; and Zvi Greenstein, NVIDIA Six months ago, most people would have had to look up the word “haptics.” Now, it seems to be on everyone’s lips in the world of VR and AR. So what does “haptics” really mean? And what ...

Dr. Alvin Rajkomar remembers the exact moment he realized how urgently he needed a faster way to read patients’ medical images. His patient in the intensive care unit of University of California at San Francisco Medical Center was showing signs of a ...

Maybe you don’t live where it snows. Maybe you hate the cold. Maybe you realize playing with actual ice cannons is a little, you know, irresponsible. The new Winter Wonderland-themed mod for NVIDIA VR Funhouse, our free-to-play VR game, has just ...

When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in volcanic ash more than 2,000 years ago, it also buried a library of scrolls in the nearby town of Herculaneum that scholars have struggled to read since their discovery more than 250 years ago. But Herculaneum, ...

Robots recklessly driving cheap electric kiddie cars. Autonomous machines shining lasers at ants — and spraying water at bewildered cats — for the amusement of cackling grandchildren. Hobbyists are just getting started with deep-learning ...

Born of research in the Amazon forest, the Plantix mobile app is helping farmers on three continents quickly identify plant diseases using artificial intelligence. For several years in the Brazilian rain forest, a team of young German researchers ...