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NieR Perfect: GeForce NOW Loops Square Enix’s ‘NieR:Automata’ and ‘NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…’ Into the Cloud
19 Dec 2024
Catch 4 games available to stream in the cloud this week, including the ‘NieR' franchise and ‘Zenless Zone Zero.’
AI’s in Style: Ulta Beauty Helps Shoppers Virtually Try New Hairstyles
19 Dec 2024
An AI app by Ulta Beauty, the largest specialty beauty retailer in the U.S., uses selfies to show near-instant, highly realistic previews of desired hairstyles.
Imbue’s Kanjun Qiu Shares Insights on How to Build Smarter AI Agents
19 Dec 2024
Kanjun Qiu, CEO of Imbue, discusses the rise of AI agents and how modern AI systems are evolving to work collaboratively with users.
AI at Your Service: Digital Avatars With Speech Capabilities Offer Interactive Customer Experiences
19 Dec 2024
AI avatars are addressing key concerns and enhancing operations across industries. One key benefit of digital humans is the ability to offer consistent, multilingual support and personalized guidance for a variety of use cases.
NVIDIA Awards up to $60,000 Research Fellowships to PhD Students
18 Dec 2024
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program announced awards for Ph.D. students involved in research that spans all areas of computing innovation.
AI in Your Own Words: NVIDIA Debuts NeMo Retriever Microservices for Multilingual Generative AI Fueled by Data
17 Dec 2024
Enterprises can now expand their generative AI efforts into accurate, multilingual systems using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices.
Ready Player Fun: GFN Thursday Brings Six New Adventures to the Cloud
12 Dec 2024
Catch Nightdive Studios' 'The Thing Remastered' as part of 6 games now available to stream this week on GeForce NOW.
Driving Mobility Forward, Vay Brings Advanced Automotive Solutions to Roads With NVIDIA DRIVE AGX
12 Dec 2024
Vay, a Berlin-based provider of automotive-grade remote driving technology, is offering an alternative approach to autonomous driving with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX.
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Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.