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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 …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Proposals: Climate Change AI Innovation Grants
The Climate Change AI (CCAI) organization, which is composed of volunteers from academia and industry who believe that tackling climate change requires concerted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solar Storms and Undersea Cables
Brought this up recently, a long time area of interest. Note the particular mention that undersea cables would be at particular risk.Bad Solar Storm Could Cause...
From insideHPC
Argonne Picks AMD EPYC CPUs for Polaris
Santa Clara — Aug. 30, 2021 — AMD today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has chosen AMD EPYC processors to power...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution
A decade yet, but also will happen as we need combinatorial solutions. Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution.Expert: Now is the time to prepare for the quantum...
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Bending Light for a Cheaper Internet
Who Can Bend Light for a Cheaper Internet?By MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in CACMMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers...
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What have Language Models Learned?
InterestingWhat Have Language Models Learned?Large language models are making it possible for computers to write stories, program a website and turn captions into...
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China to get out of Crypto Mining
A rumor, or not? Or in what sense? China is getting out of crypto mining. Is North America ready to embrace it?Aug 12, 2021 at 21:07 in CoindeskBeijing has been...
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Drone Deliveries Build
Following this closely for for delivery, inspection, maintenance.Wing Approaches 100,000 Drone Deliveries 2 Years After Launch By TechCrunchTwo years after its...
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Wharton Book and Podcast: On Serious Gamification
Book and podcast on the subject:Gamification Is Changing How We Work — and Succeed‘For the Win’ authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter discuss the revised and updated...
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Spies for Hire
More Evidence of Global HackingSpies for Hire: China's New Breed of Hackers, By The New York Times, August 27, 2021A web of front companies controlled by China's...
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NVIDIA Launches AI Enterprise
Some interesting details of INVIDIA AI Enterprise offer. Here are some of the outline, with links to the details.The Lead[1] Nvidia launches AI Enterprise in[2]...
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Wagyu Beef 3-D Printed
Impressive, beef printed from stem cells.Scientists Reveal World's First 3D-Printed Wagyu BeefInteresting Engineering, Derya Ozdemir, August 25, 2021Scientists...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA-Industry Virtual Roundtable on Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research
The CRA-Industry Committee invites you to attend the Virtual Roundtable on Best Practices on using the Cloud for Computing Research on September 15, 2021, from...
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Deepfakes are Making Business Pitches
Been recently involved with a business pitch, so fascinating. How far could this get you in creating the outline of a pitch. Deepfakes Are Now Making Business...
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More on Schnuck's Store Robotics
Retailwire looks at this, with further expert retail comment.Are robots taking over Schnucks’ stores?Aug 27, 2021 by George AndersonSchnuck Markets is going to...
From Schneier on Security
Excellent Write-up of the SolarWinds Security Breach
Robert Chesney wrote up the Solar Winds story as a case study, and it’s a really good summary.
From insideHPC
XTREME-D Launches HPC G4 Instance on Bare Metal High-Speed Computing Environment
Tokyo, August 26, 2021 – Platform as a service provider XTREME-D today announced the launch of a new instance on its bare metal high-speed computing environment...
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Waymo Autonomous Taxis
Not a personal self driving car, but an hailed auto taxi service. Being pushed by Waymo/Alphabet (Google) Implications for liability in use? Would this be an...
From insideHPC
5 PhD Students Nems New Frontiers Graduate Fellows
The New Frontiers Initiative, in collaboration with the Blue Waters Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is pleased to announce the selection...
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