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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 Eponymous Pickle
Differences Between Simulation and Digital Twins
Interesting. Have done lots of Monte Carlo style simulation modeling, much less using digital twins. Is this a good description? For what contexts? . We also...
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Honeywell Quantum Spinoff
More quantum spin offs and directions. Here Honeywell is involved.Honeywell to Spin Off Quantum Unit in Merger With Software Firm By Thomas BlackJune 8, 2021...
From Schneier on Security
Peloton Vulnerability Found and Fixed
Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Peloton stationary bicycles, one that would give the attacker complete control over the device. The attack requires...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Supply Chains run by Smart Contracts?
Fascinating thought. How would the 'contracts' be written to adapt to the autonomous aspects of the system?The Age of Autonomous Supply Chains by Paul Brody, ...
From Schneier on Security
Intentional Flaw in GPRS Encryption Algorithm GEA-1
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data standard that was widely used in the early 2000s. The first encryption algorithm for that standard was GEA-1...
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Waymo Drives Autonomous Trucks
Will include a trained driver and technician, at least at first.Self-Driving Waymo Trucks to Haul Loads Between Houston, Fort Worth By Ars TechnicaWaymo and trucking...
From insideHPC
Lenovo Expands HPC System at Leibniz Supercomputer Center
Research Triangle Park, NC – Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, Intel and the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities...
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Sleuthing Crypto Ransom Payments?
Found this most interesting. Very technical look at the approach. Includes all the Wolfram code. reviewing now. Could this be further developed? Makes me think...
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Advances in 3D Implant Construction
Technique Breaks the Mold for 3D-Printing Medical ImplantsRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)By Gosia KaszubskaThe development of three-dimensionally...
From insideHPC
Preparing for Exascale: Aurora Software Development – Packaging and Early Hardware
By coordinating efforts to improve early exascale hardware stability at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), computer scientist Servesh Muralidharan...
From Computational Complexity
Benny Chor (1956-2021)
Benny Chor passed away on June 10, 2021. Luca Trevisan had a blog post on the news.We present a guest post on Benny Chor's life and works by Oded Goldreich. The...
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Making Sense of Contradictory Science Results
How do we make make sense of contradictory results?How to Make Sense of Contradictory Science Papers in Nautil.usPublished research is less about conclusions than...
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Wheelchairs with Smarter Voice Controls
Seems a very natural solution. Especially for integrating with chair and smartphone and other aids. Incudes data important to data and operator.Permobil Connects...
From Schneier on Security
Paul van Oorschot’s Computer Security and the Internet
Paul van Oorschot’s webpage contains a complete copy of his book: Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels. It’s worth reading.
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Turn a Single Image into a Looping Video: Uses?
Experimented with something like this. Took a single image of part of a machine or process, then applying some images of specific known maintenance issues, and...
From insideHPC
MLCommons Launches MLPerf Tiny AI Inference Benchmark
Today, open engineering consortium MLCommons released a new benchmark, MLPerf Tiny Inference to measure trained neural network AI inference performance for low-power...
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DeepMind Learns Football from Motion Capture
Intriguing, with the implication that you can go from direct motion capture to broader contexts. Team work, which implies both individual skills, planning and...
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Redefining What a map Can be With New Information and AI
Google re-defining mapping. Very nicely done. Started with Google maps, and the ability to link in data as needed for usage contexts. And AI being used to...
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Update: Director Kothe Talks Progress, Annual Meeting Highlights
In this recent interview, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the effort to deliver a capable...
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