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How Laika Uses Intel ML to Hide the Seams in Stop Motion Animation
The Oscar-nominated animators at Laika are practitioners of a grueling art. The 15-year-old movie studio – which has so far released Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two ...Full Article
NSF, VMware Partner on IT Sustainability
An oft overlooked virtue of virtual machines is the replacement of IT infrastructure like servers with a more energy-efficient abstracted version of hardware. That advance has contributed to sustainability ...Full Article
GPU Market Posts Unexpected Q2 Gains
The booming graphics processor market is not immune to pandemic uncertainty, with forecasting metrics such as “seasonality” becoming increasingly problematic. For instance, graphics board shipments jumped 6.6 percent sequentially ...Full Article
IDC: AI Spending Expected to Double Globally to $110B by 2024
Global spending on artificial intelligence technologies will double to $110 billion by 2024 as AI use grows to bolster the competitiveness and digital transformations of more businesses and other ...Full Article
Blockchain Network Filecoin Looks to Disrupt Cloud Storage
A blockchain-based effort expected to be launched next month is intended to do nothing less than decentralize and disrupt the highly-concentrated cloud storage market. The Filecoin Network is promoted ...Full Article
Getting Maximum Value from AI Deployments
Artificial intelligence presents tremendous business opportunity, and organizations are increasingly investing in this technology to experience the value it can deliver. One survey of leading companies shows that the ...Full Article
Fueling AI to Grow the Economy Is Goal of 5 New NSF AI Institutes
AI research by the National Science Foundation will expand to a broader range of businesses across the U.S. economy through five new NSF AI institutes being created at a ...Full Article
AI Emerges as US Priority in Budget Talks
Among a lengthy list of U.S. technology initiatives included in pending budget legislation is a proposed National Artificial Intelligence Initiative that would be managed across several science agencies. The ...Full Article
NOAA Awards Nearly $700,000 to Enterpreneurial Machine Learning Projects
In the computing sphere, the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may be most well-known for its massive weather and climate models, which predominantly run on correspondingly ...Full Article
DARPA Strengthens Ties with Arm
Arm Ltd. is expanding its partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to provide greater access to its semiconductor intellectual property portfolio under an umbrella DARPA microelectronics initiative. ...Full Article
