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 ...

Talk about cold storage. By next year, it should be possible to send a payload to the moon for a cool $1.2 million a kilogram, thanks to work being done to help finance the race to drive a vehicle on the moon. Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh startup that ...

That’s it, gamers. You’ve been replaced. Google has used a new technology called deep learning build a machine that has mastered more than 50 classic Atari video games. And you’ve never seen “SeaQuest” played like this. Talk about the way it’s meant ...

Outsmarting charging dinosaurs, floating in space and slaying dragons can all be done safely in virtual reality. With the right gear, you can be fully immersed in the experience – really there, wherever there is – except if you are connected to a ...

OTOY Inc., a Los Angeles-based cloud graphics specialist, is doubling down on its bet on virtual reality. It’s a move that could help content creators focus on hyper-realistic images and move past the constraints of traditional CGI and filmed media. ...