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Teen’s Gambit: 15-Year-Old Chess Master Puts Blundering Laptop in Check with Jetson Platform

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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 has worked her way up to being one of Read article >

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It’s Not Pocket Science: Undergrads at Hackathon Create App to Evaluate At-Home Physical Therapy Exercises

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The four undergrads met for the first at the Stanford TreeHacks hackathon, became close friends, and developed an AI-powered app to help physical therapy patients ensure correct posture for their at-home exercises — all within 36 hours. Back in February, just before the lockdown, Shachi Champaneri, Lilliana de Souza, Riley Howk and Deepa Marti happened Read article >

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Meet the Maker: ‘Smells Like ML’ Duo Nose Where It’s at with Machine Learning

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Whether you want to know if your squats have the correct form, you’re at the mirror deciding how to dress and wondering what the weather’s like, or you keep losing track of your darts score, the Smells Like ML duo have you covered — in all senses. This maker pair is using machine learning powered Read article >

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You Can’t Touch This: Deep Clean System Flags Potentially Contaminated Surfaces

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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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Heads Up, Down Under: Sydney Suburb Enhances Livability with Traffic Analytics

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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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Sand Safety: Startup’s Lifeguard AI Hits the Beach to Save Lives

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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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Best AI Processor: NVIDIA Jetson Nano Wins 2020 Vision Product of the Year Award

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The small but mighty NVIDIA Jetson Nano has added yet another accolade to the company’s armory of awards. The Edge AI and Vision Alliance, a worldwide collection of companies creating and enabling applications for computer vision and edge AI, has named Jetson Nano its 2020 Vision Product of the Year Award for “Best AI Processor.” Read article >

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Insights Expedited: AI Inference Expands Its Scope and Speed

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AI is spreading from agriculture to X-rays thanks to its uncanny ability to quickly infer smart choices based on mounds of data. As the datasets and the neural networks analyzing them grow, users are increasingly turning to NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate AI inference. To see inference at work, just look under the hood of widely Read article >

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Revved Up Retail: Mercedes-Benz Consulting Optimizes Dealership Layout Using Modcam Store Analytics

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Retailers are bringing the power of AI to their stores to better understand customer buying behavior and preferences and provide them a better experience. AI startup Modcam, based in Sweden, uses smart sensors to provide detailed data on retail, showroom and office space traffic. These sensors, powered by NVIDIA Jetson Nano modules, perform real-time compute Read article >

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To Combat Diabetes-Related Blindness, Taiwanese Med-Tech Firm Brings AI to the Edge

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With more than 400 million people around the world afflicted with diabetes, screening for diabetic eye disease has grown increasingly commonplace. But it’s a practice that faces numerous obstacles. Symptoms of diabetic retinopathy, as it’s known, are often hard to diagnose, even from high-resolution images of the eye’s interior. And spotty internet connectivity at many Read article >

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COVID Caught on Camera: Startup’s Sensors Keep Hospitals Safe

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Andrew Gostine’s startup aims to make hospitals more efficient, but when the coronavirus hit Chicago he pivoted to keeping them safer, too. Gostine is a critical-care anesthesiologist at Northwestern Medicine’s 105-bed Lake Forest hospital, caring for 60 COVID-19 patients. He’s also the CEO of Whiteboard Coordinator Inc., a startup that had a network of 400 Read article >

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How NVIDIA EGX Is Forming Central Nervous System of Global Industries

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Massive change across every industry is being driven by the rising adoption of IoT sensors, including cameras for seeing, microphones for hearing, and a range of other smart devices that help enterprises perceive and understand what’s happening in the physical world. The amount of data being generated at the edge is growing exponentially. The only Read article >

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Field Day: AI Startup Cultivates Robo Tractors for ‘Swarm Farming’ Disruption

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Professional pyrotechnician Zack James is lighting his next fuse under the tractor market. The founder of Rabbit Tractors develops autonomous farm robots intended for multiple tasks and to be scaled up in number as needed, challenging traditional tractors. Based in northwest Indiana, Rabbit Tractors is a so-called swarm farming startup among a field of like-minded Read article >

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Red Zone Alert: Netherlands-Based Rolloos Taps AI to Make Oil Rigs Safer for Workers

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Bram Masselink doesn’t mind rocking the boat. While in college, the Dutch entrepreneur founded a company that provided training courses that helped 15,000 students a year with their final exams — in a country that frowns upon privatized education. Later, he decided to look for a less controversial, but equally challenging opportunity, preferably in a Read article >

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Robotics Duo Digs Into the Weeds with Winning AI Project at Hacketer.io

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Kevin Patel and Nihar Chaniyara grew up among rural India’s herbicide-treated crops of corn, sugarcane and mangos. Today they cultivate organics with data, vision models and GPUs. Twenty-somethings from farming families, they developed Nindamani, an AI-driven, weed-removal robot prototype that took top honors at the recent AI at the Edge Challenge on Hackster.io. Hackster.io is Read article >

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Go Robot, Go: AI Team at MiR Helps Factory Robots Find Their Way

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Like so many software developers, Elias Sorensen has been studying AI. Now he and his 10-member team are teaching it to robots. When the AI specialists at Mobile Industrial Robots, based in Odense, Denmark, are done, the first graduating class of autonomous machines will be on their way to factories and warehouses, powered by NVIDIA Read article >

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Silicon Valley High Schooler Takes Top Award in Hackster.io Jetson Nano Competition

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Over the phone, Andrew Bernas leaves the impression he’s a veteran Silicon Valley software engineer focused on worldwide social causes with a lot of heart. He’s in fact a 16-year-old high school student, and he recently won first place in the AI for Social Good category of the NVIDIA-supported AI at the Edge Challenge. At Read article >

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Namaste to AI: Yoga App Among 10 Winners of Hackster.io Jetson Competition

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The developers behind MixPose, a yoga posture-recognizing application, aim to improve your downward dog and tree pose positions with a little nudge from AI. MixPose enables yoga teachers to broadcast live-streaming instructional videos that include skeletal lines to help students better understand the angles of postures. It also enables students to capture their skeletal outlines Read article >

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Meet Six Smart Robots at GTC 2020

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The GPU Technology Conference is like a new Star Wars movie. There are always cool new robots scurrying about. This year’s event in San Jose, March 22-26, is no exception, with at least six autonomous machines expected on the show floor. Like C3PO and BB8, each one is different. Among what you’ll see at GTC Read article >

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