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NVIDIA wants to make video calls better with AI

October 5, 2020
Video calling has become more common than ever following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. To help your calls look and sound better, NVIDIA has unveiled an AI-powered suite of tools that video call app developers can tap into. NVIDIA Maxine powers a range of features including resolution upscaling and background noise removal. It can adjust your camera’s focus to place you in the center of the…
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Nvidia’s GTC event will shine a spotlight on 200 AI startups

October 3, 2020
Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) kicks off Monday with a keynote speech by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company has become one of the most powerful in the tech world with a market value of $322 billion. And the event will run alongside Arm DevSummit, which is a coincidence as Nvidia has agreed to buy Arm for $40 billion. Normally held as a physical event, the virtual event will…
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IBM joins NIH effort to diagnose schizophrenia using AI

October 3, 2020
IBM today announced that, in collaboration with researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Stanford University, and the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, it will undertake a new initiative funded by the U.S. National…
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YouTube now does AI noise cancellation for Stories on iOS

October 2, 2020
You may notice a marked improvement in the audio quality of some YouTube Stories going forward, thanks to a new speech enhancement feature Google rolled out. A couple of years ago, the tech giant debuted the “Looking to Listen” AI technology that can pick out voices in a crowd. Now, it’s making the technology available to creators recording YouTube Stories on iOS devices. Google taught…
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MIT CSAIL claims its AI system can predict and classify pulmonary edemas

October 2, 2020
An MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) team claims to have developed an AI system that can analyze X-rays to anticipate certain kinds of heart failure. By detecting signs of excess fluid in the lungs, a condition known as pulmonary edema, the researchers say it can quantify heart failure severity on a four-level scale correctly more than half the time. Every year, roughly…
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