Communications of the ACM
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August 2021
From insideHPC
Atos Increases Galician Supercomputing Center’s HPC Capacity 12x with ‘Finisterrae III’
Atos has followed up its acquisition of HPC cloud platform provider Nimbix, announced last week, with the news that it has been selected by the Galician Supercomputing Center (CESGA) to deliver the “Finisterrae III” supercomputing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benefits of Ransomware
Makes the usual case, we have been alerted.
Could Ransomware Attacks Ultimately Benefit Consumers? in HBR by Rahul Telang
Summary.
In the past year alone, ransomware attackers have collected hundreds of millions of dollars…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Fast Food Robotic Kitchen
Towards robotic cookery.
Kitchen robot in Riga cooks up new future for fast food by Imants Liepins in TechxPlore
A pasta order comes in and the robotic arm springs into action at the Roboeatz eatery in Riga. After five minutes…From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa now with Alternative Phase Triggers
Interesting, but still very simplistic. I still have to know the exact phrase to make it work. Now have had Alexa in place for years, and I still have to do trial and error for many interactions. She has trained me for many…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Launching A Space Wide Web
Stretching our communications to the edge of of our needs.
The Space Wide Web is Ready to Launch
By TechRepublic, July 26, 2021
The new space race is truly underway following Richard Branson's monumental first passenger trip toThere…From BLOG@CACM
Software Learning: The Art Of Design Regret
How should software engineers try to classify their reflections?
From Schneier on Security
The European Space Agency Launches Hackable Satellite
Of course this is hackable:
A sophisticated telecommunications satellite that can be completely repurposed while in space has launched.
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Because the satellite can be reprogrammed in orbit, it can respond to changing demands…From Computational Complexity
Do Four Colors Suffice?
(Guest Post by David Marcus)
Comment by Bill: Haken and Appel proved that all planar maps are 4-colorable. Or did they? David Marcus emailed me that its not quite true and I asked him to post on it, so here it is. The meta point…From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Gives some Quick AI Examples
Some good examples, from SAS:
3 ways industries are using AI-powered decisions
By OLIVIA OJEDA on JULY 6, 2021
Having the ability to know what the best decision is in any given scenario sounds like a superpower. What may surprise…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Makes a Time Crystal
Idea is new to me, but reminded me of some 'forever clock' ideas that were brought up in the 80s with the 'Long Now' effort. See the tag. Is this at all related? Do you 'evade the second law of thermodynamics"? and make…