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Fasten your seatbelts. NVIDIA Research is revving up a new deep learning engine that creates 3D object models from standard 2D images — and can bring iconic cars like the Knight Rider ’s AI-powered KITT to life — in NVIDIA Omniverse . Developed by the NVIDIA AI Research Lab in Toronto, the GANverse3D application inflates flat images into realistic 3D models that can be visualized and controlled in virtual environments. This capability could help architects, creators, game developers and designers easily add new objects to their mockups without needing expertise in 3D modeling, or a large budget to spend on renderings. A single photo of a car, for example, could be turned into a 3D model that can drive around a virtual scene, complete with realistic headlights, tail lights and blinkers. To generate a dataset for training, the researchers harnessed a generative adversarial network, or GAN, to synthesize images depicting the same object from multiple viewpoints — like a … [Read more...] about Knight Rider Rides a GAN: Bringing KITT to Life with AI, NVIDIA Omniverse

We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more . A helping hand Google is also partnering with public health agencies to provide vaccine-related information to underserved communities. Babu Mohan 25 Jan 2021 0 Source: Android Central What you need to know Google is making some of its facilities across the U.S. available as needed to help with vaccination efforts. It is partnering with One Medical and public health authorities to open sites in select cities across the country. Google has also pledged $150 million to promote vaccine education. Google today announced that it is opening its select facilities in the U.S. available as needed for vaccination clinics. In a blog post detailing what the search giant is doing to help get vaccines to more people, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote: To help with vaccination efforts, starting in the United States, we'll make select Google facilities—such as buildings, parking lots … [Read more...] about Google is turning its U.S. offices into COVID-19 vaccination sites

Massachusetts regulators sought the revocation of Robinhood 's broker-dealer license after charging that it encourages inexperienced investors to place risky trades without limits, while the online brokerage sued to invalidate a new rule underlying the case. Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin sought the revocation in a revised administrative case announced shortly after Robinhood sued in state court in Boston to challenge a fiduciary standard of conduct his office adopted last year. Robinhood, which is seeking to go public through an initial public offering, in a blog post called the regulator "elitist" and said it was seeking to "reinstate the financial barriers that Robinhood was founded to break down." Galvin announced the case against Menlo Park, California-based Robinhood in December, before the social media-driven rally in stocks like GameStop, driven by retail investors using Robinhood and other apps, drove up their shares' prices. Galvin, the state's top … [Read more...] about Massachusetts regulators seek to revoke Robinhood’s license; brokerage sues

Seoul: SK Telecom Co, South Korea's largest mobile carrier, said on Wednesday that it will create a new holding company for its non-mobile subsidiaries to accelerate growth in promising fields and help parent group tighten its grip on its chip-making affiliate, SK hynix Inc . The telecom operator said that it will conduct a spin-off to form the holding company, which will oversee operations of its non-mobile affiliates and subsidiaries, such as memory chip giant SK hynix Inc., e-commerce firm 11Street Co and ride-hailing company T Map Mobility Co, among others. The new holding company will also focus on investments in semiconductor-related companies. While SK hynix has made active investments in the past, such as acquiring Intel 's NAND memory business in October last year for $9 billion, its parent SK Group wants to tighten its grip on the chipmaker and help it aggressively expand investments. The remaining entity will focus on the mobile carrier's traditional … [Read more...] about South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom to split into two firms

Retail brokerage Robinhood Financial did not report a certain type of stock trade it executed for customers last year to a public data feed, according to regulatory data analyzed by Reuters and a source familiar with the matter. So-called fractional shares are offered by many brokerages. They let investors buy a slice of a share instead of the whole thing, so rather than forking out more than $3,000 on a share of Amazon.com Inc , an investor can buy as little as $1 worth. Brokerages are required to report all their trades to trade execution facilities (TRFs), according to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules. FINRA's enforcement has fined other brokerages, including Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank AG 's U.S. securities division, for violations of its reporting and supervisory rules in the past. Robinhood launched its fractional share service in December 2019, according to its website, but only began … [Read more...] about Robinhood failed to disclose certain trade executions to public feed:Report