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Singapore has deployed robots to patrol public areas
Singapore has started testing a robot named Xavier, putting a couple of them to work by having them patrol and survey a public area.
Everything NVIDIA unveiled at CES 2018
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang is very excited about autonomous cars, video games and really anything else that uses a GPU. His enthusiasm was so high that he spent two hours on stage last night waxing poetic about everything NVIDIA has accomplished in the past few years and introduced it's super-quick Xavier system-on-a-chip for self-driving AI and a partnership with Volkswagen. That's great if you have a few hours to spare, but if you're in a hurry, check out our supercut of the event. Click here to catch up on the latest news from CES 2018.
NVIDIA unveils its powerful Xavier SOC for self-driving cars
As the need increases for more powerful processors in self-driving and semi-autonomous cars, NVIDIA is making sure it stays ahead of the competition. At CES, the GPU-building powerhouse unveiled the Xavier system-on-a-chip (SoC) for AI car platform, which the company announced back at last year's CES.
NVIDIA made a self-driving car with its Xavier supercomputer
At NVIDIA's CES 2017 keynote address, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced his company's plan to turn your car into "your most personal robot." Specifically, NVIDIA announced the company's AI car supercomputer, the Xavier -- an auto-grade, 512-core Volta GPU and AI platform that's capable of learning how to drive by watching a human driver. To show it off for the CES crowd, Nvidia installed the system in an autonomous Lincoln called BB8 and let it loose on the streets of Silicon Valley.
New Nintendo eShop releases: Mario Kart 8 DLC, Sonic Boom
Mario Kart 8's first major content pack is available now, and for $8 and 1GB of Wii U space you can fill your racing roster with the likes of Link, the Master Cycle, and a circuit based on F-Zero's Mute City. Or, to summarize for numerophiles, three characters, four karts and eight tracks. Don't forget, you can also get the DLC as part of the $12 package that bundles in a pre-order for the second pack, due in March 2015. The eShop's not just about Mario Kart 8 this week... 'cos Mario Kart: Super Circuit brings GBA racing to the Wii U Virtual Console. We josh, kartophobes, there's plenty of other stuff to download. There are the console and handheld editions of Sonic Boom, the Wii U port of pop-up beauty Tengami (check out our impressions of it on iOS), and the belated stateside arrival of Pokemon Trading Card Game on 3DS Virtual Console. Since it's November and another one of those content-packed weeks, our digestible list of new releases should prove handy. You'll find that below the break. and if you're after sales and permanent discounts, point your clicker here.
