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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 Schneier on Security
Newly Unclassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s
This is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: “New Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography...
From Computational Complexity
Trump, Facebook, and ComplexityBlog
I care about the Facebook decision to ban Trump, but I do not have a strong opinion about it. I have heard arguments on both sides now, from up and down, and still...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Clearer Communications in Unclear times
Well done piece in HBR on implied rules of communications. Have they changed? Been made more important in hybrid times? Now that we have a dozen more ways to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI for Contract Negotiations
Nothing mentioned about 'smart contracts', but surely you can see the possibilities linking from this. ? They say that Walmart has been a user of the idea. How...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining 3D Customer Experiences
Nicely put short piece in Customer Think about how customers will be attracted and engagedwith 3D experiences. And some notable examples like IKEA Place, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pushes 2-Factor Authentication
Am a long time proponent of the idea. Its not perfect security, but is a big step forward.Google Gets Serious About Two-Factor Authentication. Good! in WiredThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia and Claro Chile deploy Private Wireless Network for Minera Gold Fields
Ultimately how to get security, build private networks. makes sense for gold mining, and most every other business. Nokia and Claro Chile deploy private wireless...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Drone Delivery Experiment
Had not heard much of this, but Kroger is apparently testing at a Centerville Ohio Kroger not far from us. Can someone from there provide some observations? Some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey: How to Get Re-Skilling Right
Might be just the thing we need post pandemic.Monthly Highlights, May 2021Dear Franz,We know that demands on your time are intense and information overload isWe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Physics: On Year Update: How’s It Going?
With a physics background, always found this somewhat ungraspable, but on it goes. And now an update. I have yet to hear that traditional physics is applauding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accenture: Get a Secure, Trustworthy Internet
Good, considerable piece by Accenture, pointed to below. Who we worked with in the past. Have been of late become involved in related efforts and find some their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Hair Untangling
This got some rare general press, since it deals with a real concern/chore in the home. And I do have a general 'hair care' link below from my Consumer package...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Nets Used to Rethink Material Design
Somewhat different approach, training from equations. Closer to the efforts we used during the early uses of neural nets. Combining learning methods and existing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart All-in on Telehealth
Wal-Mart wants to do Telemedicine.Walmart is going all in on 24/7/365 telehealthBy George Anderson n RetailwireWalmart announced yesterday that it has acquiredThe...
From insideHPC
Winter Classic Student Cluster Invitational – Winners of Rich Brueckner Scholarships to Be Named Today
By Dan Olds Today, Friday May 7, is the 2021 Winter Classic gala awards ceremony, from 4 – 5 pm Pacific Time on a Zoom webinar. Here’s the link. We reveal the winning...
From insideHPC
SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ NVMe-based Software-Defined Storage for the Edge
London – SoftIron Ltd., a data center solutions company, has announced their newest Ceph-optimized, software-defined storage appliance family, HyperDrive Performance...
From insideHPC
VAST Data: $83M in Series D Funding
New York – May 4, 2021 – VAST Data, the storage software company, today announced $83 million in Series D funding, led by Tiger Global Management, at a post-money...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Serverless Computing as the Next Phase of Cloud
What's next? What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud ComputingBy Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Anurag Khandelwal, Joao...
From Schneier on Security
Teaching Cybersecurity to Children
A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity: The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old...
From The Eponymous Pickle