How Nvidia’s Maxine uses AI to improve video calls Super-resolution with neural networks The first feature shown in the Maxine presentation is “super resolution,” whichaccording to Nvidia, “can convert lower resolutions to higher resolution videos in real time.” Super resolution enables video-conference callers to send lo-res video streams and have them upscaled at the server. This reduces the bandwidth requirement of video conference applications and can make their performance more stable in areas where network connectivity is not very stable....

The richest person in the world is worried about money. Elon Musk, whose net worth isestimated at $310 billion, says his space company faces the threat of going bust. In an email to SpaceX staff that wasfirst obtained by Space Explored, Musk said the firm could go under due to issues producing Raptor rocket engines. The Raptor engines power SpaceX’s Starship rockets, which the company hopes to take people to the moon and Mars....

How do you make money off Twitter? A firm from China takes on an interesting business model where it “incubates” Sina Weibo (China’s Twitter equivalent) accounts then later sells them for a price. An active Sina Weibo user (@jiuhongbinglan) actually runs a company with a core business of collecting followers for microblog accounts that are sold at a later date. A Sina weibo account with over 200,000 followers wasreportedlysold to an enterprise at the price of “several hundred thousand rmb....

Peter Shankman is the founder ofHAROand founder and CEO ofGeek Factory, and a self-avowed steak lover. Normally that last piece of information wouldn’t be included in an introduction to just who Peter Shankman is, except that this time, it’s a very relevant piece of information. Getting up at 3:30am to fly out of Newark to Tampa, for a lunch meeting, only to fly back to Newark on the same day, Shankmanwrites in his blog, “I knew I was in for a long day....

When I began speaking to Ryan Ozimek on the phone, the first thing I asked him was how – in a world where a social networking sitegets major coveragefor surpassing 10 million users – an open source product like his can quietly reach over 20 million without much fanfare. Ozimek, president of the nonprofit that overseesJoomla, the product in question, told me that nonprofits often have less incentive to publicize such milestones....