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Fight for Honor in ‘Men of War II’ on GFN Thursday
17 May 2024
'Palworld' and 'Men of War II' lead the 5 games joining the GeForce NOW library this week. Stream your next adventure in the cloud.
NVIDIA, Teradyne and Siemens Gather in the ‘City of Robotics’ to Discuss Autonomous Machines and AI
17 May 2024
Senior executives from NVIDIA, Siemens and Teradyne Robotics gathered this week to discuss the massive advances coming to the robotics industry.
Needle-Moving AI Research Trains Surgical Robots in Simulation
17 May 2024
ORBIT-Surgical, developed using NVIDIA Isaac Sim and NVIDIA Omniverse, is being presented at the ICRA robotics conference.
Fire It Up: Mozilla Firefox Adds Support for AI-Powered NVIDIA RTX Video
17 May 2024
The popular open-source browser is the latest to incorporate AI upscaling and high-dynamic range for NVIDIA RTX GPUs.
Gemma, Meet NIM: NVIDIA Teams Up With Google DeepMind to Drive Large Language Model Innovation
17 May 2024
Google DeepMind's Gemma will be offered with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, which simplifies the deployment of AI models at scale.
Drug Discovery, STAT! NVIDIA, Recursion Speed Pharma R&D With AI Supercomputer
13 May 2024
BioHive, an engine powered by NVIDIA AI to speed the work of scientists in healthcare, rose more than a hundred spots on the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Generating Science: NVIDIA AI Accelerates HPC Research
13 May 2024
Scientists and researchers are applying generative AI to HPC jobs in code generation, weather forecasting, genetics and materials science using NVIDIA technologies.
Dial It In: Data Centers Need New Metric for Energy Efficiency
13 May 2024
Supercomputer and data center operators lack measures of useful work per unit of energy to gauge their progress toward sustainable computing.
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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.