Have you ever wondered what it takes to produce the complex imagery in films like Star Wars or Transformers? The man behind the magic, Colie Wertz, is here to explain. Wertz is a conceptual artist and modeler who works on film, television and video ...

Some teens might feel the pressure of having an older sibling as accomplished as 19-year-old Kavya Kopparapu, a Harvard sophomore named last year a U.S. Presidential Scholar and one of TIME’s 25 Most Influential Teens. But high school senior ...

In the wake of Amazon’s boffo Alexa voice debut, a University of Michigan team published pioneering research on building conversational AI, attracting a wave of customer interest. Jason Mars, a professor advising them, suggested they form a startup. ...

Move over, Emmy awards. Real-time ray tracing just stole the spotlight in broadcast television. Riot Games used The Future Group’s Pixotope mixed-reality virtual production software to deliver the first real-time ray-traced live broadcast, at The ...

Leading into TwitchCon — the world’s top gathering of livestreamers — we’re announcing the RTX Broadcast Engine, a new set of RTX-accelerated software development kits that use the AI capabilities of GeForce RTX GPUs to transform livestreams. ...

In the future imagined by Pinar Yanardag, a postdoctoral research associate at MIT Media Lab, AI will collaborate with humans, not replace them. This is the concept behind her project, “How to Generate (Almost) Anything,” which she created with ...

Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced...

Despite being treatable, tuberculosis kills 1.6 million people every year. This is because TB treatment is time- and cost-intensive, requiring extensive patient monitoring. In developing countries, where the disease is most deadly, monitoring ...

One of the world’s leading architecture firms is taking its path-breaking designs to the next level with ray tracing, using NVIDIA RTX technology. Zaha Hadid Architects, based in London, has created some of the world’s most singular building ...

Bananas are the world’s favorite fruit. If you don’t count tomatoes as fruit. (And really, who does?) But banana crops around the globe are afflicted by diseases and pests that threaten the livelihoods of small-scale farmers, most of whom rely on ...