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Nvidia's Omniverse is full of interesting tools and applications for creators, designers, researchers and engineers. The latest addition to its toolset is Omniverse Avatar, a technology platform to create interactive AI avatars that see, speak, and interpret spoken intent, all rendered with ray-traced 3D graphics. Omniverse Avatar opens the door …

GTC returns in November and as usual, Nvidia will be holding a keynote, hosted by none other than CEO Jensen Huang, joined by multiple AI research and industry leaders, including Tim Sweeney from Epic Games. During this keynote, Nvidia plans to unveil new AI technologies, an increasingly big focus for …

AMD recently announced that one of its goals is to increase the energy efficiency of AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct accelerators by 30x in AI and HPC. To put this into perspective, to achieve this goal, AMD will have to be 2.5x faster at increasing energy efficiency than the …

Activision is no stranger to cheaters in its games, with Call of Duty being a target of cheat makers each year due to its popularity. Recently, a new kind of cheat was discovered, using machine learning and automatic input commands to allow aimbot on consoles. As you would expect, Activision …

Following its 10-year sustainability roadmap, Razer has partnered up with ClearBot to design a new ocean cleaning robot. In related news, Razer also announced more Sneki Snek merchandise because it reached two more tree planting milestones. ClearBot's robot uses AI-vision to detect plastic in the ocean and collect it to …

In the lead up to the PS5 launch, Sony patented a bunch of new AI-driven gaming tech, mostly driven around providing tips and walkthroughs during gameplay. Now, another patent has surfaced, this time for an AI feature that could take control and play a game for you.  The patent, first …

In September last year, Nvidia announced that it reached a deal to acquire ARM for $40 billion. A number of tech companies have raised concerns over this and regulators are investigating the deal, but Nvidia remains confident that approval will be gained and the deal will go through in 2022. 

For the final day of GTC 2021, Nvidia revealed its latest AI developments. Utilising the Nvidia Omniverse platform and a new tool called GANverse3D, users can create 3D models, complete with mesh and textures, from a single 2D image, all using a trained AI. To showcase this tech in action, …

Last night during Jensen's GTC 2021 keynote, Nvidia announced a new ARM-based CPU. Known as "Grace", Nvidia's latest CPU utilises ARM core architecture and aims to deliver 10x more performance for systems training AI models and other high-performance computing workloads.

Update (12/04/21): While we only just heard about Microsoft's negotiations to acquire Nuance in the last 48 hours, things have moved quickly. This afternoon, Microsoft officially announced that it is acquiring Nuance in a deal worth $19.7 billion – the second largest acquisition in the company's history. As expected, this …

Samsung has announced a new type of HBM. Named HBM-PIM, this is the world's first High Bandwidth Memory integrated with artificial intelligence processing power. Featuring a processing-in-memory design, HBM-PIM is aimed at data centre use, HPC systems, and AI-enabled mobile applications.

During the Computex 2021 International Online Press Conference, it was announced that Computex 2021 will return to its physical format from June 1 to 4, 2021. Additionally, it was also announced that the tradeshow will take advantage of AI to create a smart Online-Merge-Offline exhibition platform to gather the tech community …

MSI is planning to launch a new series of curved gaming monitors with ‘AI' features. The first monitor of the MSI Artymis series will be the MPG Artymis 343CQR – “the world's first 1000R AI curved gaming monitor”. Technical specifications of the MPG Artymis 343CQR were not fully disclosed yet, but we …

The University of Florida and NVIDIA have announced a plan to build the “world’s fastest AI supercomputer in academia” – capable of delivering 700 petaflops of compute performance. The project is made possible by $25 million donation from alumnus and NVIDIA co-founder Chris Malachowsky, in addition to a $25 million …

It's been a busy few days for Intel, as the company has announced a new product portfolio that includes “Processor, Memory, Storage and FPGA Solutions”, with one of the highlights being the introduction of new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. According to Intel itself, the company doesn't want to …

ASUS has become the latest in a long line of companies to announce a form of noise-cancelling technology. The Taiwanese giant has unveiled noise-cancelling tech for its microphones and said that its “smart mic reduces distracting chatter, keyboard clatter and mouse clicks by up to 95%”. Over the past year, more …

AMD has announced that the third generation of Nvidia DGX A100, “the world’s most advanced AI system“, features 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors equipped with 128 cores. The AI system from Nvidia is capable of delivering 5 petaflops of computational performance and is designed to handle “diverse AI workloads such …

Nvidia researchers have successfully used a generative adversarial network AI called GameGAN to produce a fully functional version of the 40-year-old game PAC-MAN. GameGAN was trained through watching 50,000 PAC-MAN episodes, after which the AI become capable of recreating the classic game – without an underlying game engine. GameGAN is built using a …

Since shifting away from becoming a games launcher, Discord has been doubling down on becoming a better VOIP and chat app. One new feature just launched on the desktop version of Discord this week, an AI-based background noise suppressor to make voice chats clearer.  The feature is developed in partnership …

Last week, we got news that Intel was in the midst of shaking up its AI strategy, with plans to drop a previously announced AI training chip from Nervana and re-focus on hardware from Habana Labs. Since then, Intel has been in touch, sharing a statement confirming the new changes. …

Intel has been looking to pin its flag in the AI market for years now, with efforts to create AI chips kicking off with the purchase of Nervana in 2016 and extending to a huge $2 billion acquisition of Israeli firm, Habana Labs. While Intel only just announced new Nervana …

As the UK prepares to officially leave the European Union this Friday (31st January), the European Processor Initiative (EPI) is priming the first prototype of its HPC processor designed for advanced computing applications. The EPI was set up by the European Commission as part of the Framework Partnership Agreement, with …

The AI chip market has been growing significantly over the years and all of the big tech giants are looking to score a piece of the pie. Intel is making some big moves in this space right now, announcing the acquisition of Habana Labs in a deal worth $2 billion. …

Sony announced earlier today that it would be establishing a new organisation within the company, focusing on the development of Artificial Intelligence. Unlike many other AI projects however, Sony is tackling the technology in order to “[f]ill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”, and “unleash[ing] …

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Intel has announced a new wave of artificial intelligence. Its Nervana Neural Network processors are designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge, with a new class of AI hardware. At a gathering of industry influencers, Intel demonstrated its new Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T1000) …

Just one day after earning the Accenture Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the virtual reality industry, Oculus CTO, John Carmack, has announced that he will be taking a step back from Oculus and will be spending more time working on artificial intelligence instead. Carmack has been the Chief Technology …

In any game with a chat function, you’ll inevitably come across offensive messages. Google and FACEIT are attempting to tackle this issue with its new Minerva AI, which uses machine learning to issue warnings to, as well as ban, toxic players. If early tests are any indication, it seems to …

At this point, the smart home craze is in full swing and most major tech companies are looking at ways to break into the market. On Microsoft's side, the Xbox One is getting voice command support for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa in addition to Microsoft's own digital assistant, Cortana. …

Facebook is fighting battles on many fronts, from criticism of its data handling to the regulation of content that appears on its platform. In an attempt to bolster political integrity ahead of India’s elections, the social network is utilising advancements in artificial intelligence to weed out accounts that violate its …