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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
Human Robot Cooperation
More good thoughts on the complexity of human-robot cooperation.How many robot helpers are too many?Khari Johnson @kharijohnson March 20, 2021 6:21 AM TechCrunch...
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Fast Random Number Generation with Lasers
Fast Random Number Generation with LasersPointer to this in Schneier: In school one of my particular areas of interest was random number use and leverage....
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Further Emerging Smart Toothbrush
Showing how package goods, like Colgate and my former employer P&G are building smart devices to improve consumer health processes. Smart Device Push Brings IT,...
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Self-Folding Nanotech Creates Origami Bird
A combination of favorite topics, small robots(nanoscale here) and Origami representations. Includes images and video of their prposed development and use.Self...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Closing an Erdős Problem
Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.—Tina Fey Daniela Kühn is the Mason Professor...
From insideHPC
DOE to Provide $12M for Research on 5G and Quantum Networking
March 19, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide up to $12 million for basic research on advanced 5G and quantum networking...
From insideHPC
Indiana U. Team First to Test Sandia’s Open-Access Quantum Computer
Albuquerque — March 19, 2021 — Sandia National Laboratories has announced its Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed, QSCOUT, is now operational and available...
From Schneier on Security
Details of a Computer Banking Scam
This is a longish video that describes a profitable computer banking scam that’s run out of call centers in places like India. There’s a lot of fluff about glitterbombs...
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Bats Hunting
Good example of the potential use of biomimicry Tiny Computers Reveal How Wild Bats Hunt So EfficientlyAarhus University (Denmark), Peter F. Gammelby; Laura Stidsholt...
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Data Privacy via Fully HomoMorphic Encryption
In CoinDeskUsing ‘Holy Grail’ of Data Privacy Technology Dec 21, 2020 at 7:51 a.m. EST By Tanzeel AkhtarFHE is an emerging technology – often described as the "holy...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $34.5M for Data Science and Machine Learning for Climate Solutions
Washington, DC — March 19, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $34.5 million for research tools for scientific discoveries, including...
From insideHPC
Driver-Optional Monarch Tractor Closes $20M Series A with Global Partners
Livermore, CA — Monarch Tractor, a fully electric, driver-optional, smart tractor manufacturer, announced the closing of its $20 million Series A funding round....
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AI for Personalized Cancer Vaccines
Seems quite a big move forward. Will we be able to learn which amino acid sequences will work best to fight cancer? Using Machine Learning to Develop Personalized...
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Predicting Your Order
Have been experiencing fast food faster over these months, and also wondered how fast, precise and predictive it can be. Here quick look at some examples.....
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project’s EQSIM Team Helps Assess Infrastructure Earthquake Risk
By Rob Farber for the Exascale Computing Project As part of the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), the Earthquake Simulation (EQSIM) application...
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DARPA Announces FPGA-to-ASICs Program with Intel to Expand US-based Chip Making for Defense
March 18, 2021 — DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) today announced the Structured Array Hardware for Automatically Realized Applications (SAHARA)...
From Schneier on Security
Easy SMS Hijacking
Vice is reporting on a cell phone vulnerability caused by commercial SMS services. One of the things these services permit is text message forwarding. It turns...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CredChain to Safeguard Your Identity?
Blockchains to share credentials. More technical details at the link. Interesting here, but have not validated anything shown. CredChain: Take Control of Your...
From insideHPC
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Takes Delivery of Atos Quantum Learning Machine
Paris and Munich — March 18, 2021 — Atos today said it has delivered an Atos Quantum Learning Machine (Atos QLM), a commercial quantum simulator, to the Leibniz...
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