Among the greatest concerns for soldiers in conflict areas: hidden improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and the harrowing risks they pose. It’s the mission of CertaSIM, a northern California startup, to help protect them, said its founder Wayne ...

The race is on to understand how cell mutation causes cancer, which kills hundreds of thousands worldwide each year and is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. Setting the pace is Rommie Amaro, associate professor at the University of ...

Search and rescue ain’t what it used to be. Gone are the days of rescue teams and their dogs heading into dangerous situations not knowing what they’re going to face. Technology has transformed the art of rescue into a science. One key advance has ...

Six promising startups walked away with cash and prizes worth more than $650,000 at NVIDIA’s eighth annual Emerging Companies Summit. More than 50 startups participated in the competition, selected from a field of more than 150 applicants from 30 ...

Andrew Ng doesn’t think robots will kill us. But they might take our jobs. “Maybe in hundreds of years, technology will advance to a point where there could be a chance of evil killer robots,” said Ng, a leading machine learning researcher and chief ...

With diversity in high-tech one of the day’s hottest issues, this week’s GPU Technology Conference highlights how some women are beating the odds. Despite being highly under-represented in the field, they’re showcasing breakthrough work in GPU ...

You know something’s awry when your building starts melting nearby cars. London’s year-old 20 Fenchurch Street tower is a stunner. But the same curved glass that gives the 37-storey tower the nickname, “The Walkie Talkie,” also has a knack for ...

Is it real or is it rendered? We’ve been teasing our social media followers for months now by posting stunning images and asking them if they can tell the difference between our computer-generated images and real ones. Thousands have weighed in. And ...

Creating singing volcanoes isn’t, perhaps, a common use case for NVIDIA products. But in a packed session at the GPU Technology Conference, attendees learned that GPUs helped Pixar get the details right in animating Uku, the singing volcano in the ...

A year-old startup that promises to cut production costs for video games and movies, won the second annual $100,000 Early Stage Challenge, at NVIDIA’s Emerging Companies Summit Wednesday. Artomatix, based in Dublin, Ireland, automates content ...