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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Deaf See Conversations via Subtitles
The general idea fairly obvious, How well is important. AR Glasses Allow Deaf People to 'See' Conversations by Turning Audio into SubtitlesEuroNews, Aisling N...
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New Technique for Quantum Computing
New Error Correcting method. New Technique Brings Quantum Computers Closer to Their PromiseBy CNet, August 4, 2022The achievement could eventually lead to developments...
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Baidu PaddlePaddle for China Industry
Baidu PaddlePaddle, new to me, Here is a quick look. Examining other potentials.Baidu’s PaddlePaddle Spins AI up to Industrial Applications China’s ease with...
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Science and Technology links (August 7 2022)
Increase in computing performance explain up to 94% of the performance improvements in field such as weather prediction, protein folding, and oil exploration: information...
From Computational Complexity
The Held Prize for comb. opt. AND Disc Opt AND Alg AND Complexity theory AND related parts of CS.
Dan Spielman asked me to blog about the Held Prize. I first present what he send me, and then have some thoughts.FROM DAN: ------------------------------------...
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Who Owns Teslas Data?
The Ownership of data developed in process.Who Actually Owns Tesla’s Data? The company, says the company—but other interpretations persist By MARK HARRIS in...
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Privd AI for Differential Privacy
Surveillance privacy from CamerasResearchers from MIT CSAIL Introduce ‘Privid’: an AI Tool, Build on Differential Privacy, to Guarantee Privacy in Video Footage...
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Quantum Provides Truly Secure Communication
Still the case? Quantum Encryption Could Support Truly Secure CommunicationSilicon Republic, Leigh McGowran, July 27, 2022A new form of quantum cryptography could...
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Fiber-Optic Cables Could Be Used to Spy on People a Kilometer Away
Optical fiber speech sensor. Fiber-Optic Cables Could Be Used to Spy on People a Kilometer AwayNew ScientistKarmela Padavic-Callaghan, July 27, 2022A device built...
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Predicting Illness
Disease Diagnosis by ChipAm I Getting Sick?, By R. Colin JohnsonCommissioned by CACM Staff, July 14, 2022A microfluidic chip for diagnosing diseases, which uses...
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Drones and Contraband
Remember being asked this question a while back ... Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons Wired, Jeff LinkLaw enforcement officers face...
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Amazon Goes for iRobot
Quite the expected thing...Amazon to Acquire iRobot For $1.7 Billion The deal will give the e-retail behemoth even more access to our homes EVAN ACKERMANThis morning...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategies – A How-to Guide for HPC Managers
While it's safe to assume that most senior managers in the HPC community are in favor of hiring and promoting more women and people of color within their organizations...
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Lenovo Brings a Decade of Liquid Cooling Experience to the Faster, Denser, Hotter HPC Systems of the Future
[SPONSORED CONTENT] HPC systems customers (and vendors) are in permanent pursuit of more compute power with equal or greater node density. But with that comesLenovo...
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Flexible Hand Grip
Safe? Flexible Robot Hand with Precise Grip Lifts 1,000 Times Its Own WeightBy New Scientist, August 4, 2022Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology have...
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Complexity of Personalized Bartending
The task of bartending has often been proposed as a classic automatable human interaction, here a new development of interest. Social aspects claim to be included...
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Closing Malls?
Been watching the closing of local malls, repurposing of space, seems contrary to the following: New stores are opening in malls, inflation or no by Matthew Stern...
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Redesigning Streets with AI
Worked with civil engineers early in my career who worked with this kind of designing, fascinating approachThink Your Street Needs a Redesign? Ask an AIBloomberg...
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Fan Robotics in Space
Fan Robotics in SpaceNASA's Space Robots Hit Another MilestoneZDNet, Liam Tung, July 26, 2022The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Astrobee...
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