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Last Cortana Speaker is Recalled
From The Eponymous Pickle

Last Cortana Speaker is Recalled

 What seemed like a very credible assistant offering, the Harmon Kardan Intent Speaker, which included the Microsoft assistant Cortana, has left the field.  Further...

BIG COMPUTE 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report
From insideHPC

BIG COMPUTE 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report

Rescale’s role as an intelligent cloud automation platform means the company has a unique vantage point of how R&D-driven organizations are adopting cloud. This...

Nvidia Unveils AI Enterprise Software Suite with VMware vSphere 7
From insideHPC

Nvidia Unveils AI Enterprise Software Suite with VMware vSphere 7

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 09, 2021 – Nvidia today announced AI Enterprise, a software suite of enterprise-grade AI development tools and frameworks supported by...

A Brain for Autonomous Mobile Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Brain for Autonomous Mobile Robots

Brought to my attention with its specific applications in retail like inventory checking.What is BrainOS?BrainOS® is a pioneering AI software platform that powers...

Microserver Exchange Server Attack
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microserver Exchange Server Attack

The Web Continues to move into a More Dangerous StateMicrosoft Exchange Server Attack Escalation Prompts Patching PanicUS government officials weigh in on the attacks...

Starlink to Connect Vehicles as Well
From The Eponymous Pickle

Starlink to Connect Vehicles as Well

Further general connectivity.SpaceX plans to beam its Starlink internet to vehicles, not just homes   By Trevor MoggSpaceX wants to beam internet from its Starlink...

Robots Could Save you From Drowning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Could Save you From Drowning

Seems little end to what robots could do.Autonomous Underwater Robot Saves People From Drowning  By Fraunhofer Institute (Germany)March 8, 2021A research team from...

CoolIT Systems and AMAX to Deliver Custom Thermal Management for Data Center Products
From insideHPC

CoolIT Systems and AMAX to Deliver Custom Thermal Management for Data Center Products

CALGARY, AB, March 8, 2021 – CoolIT Systems announced today a collaboration with AMAX to deliver a thermal management solution for scalable, high-density computing...

Alexa Custom Assistant Announced
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Custom Assistant Announced

 Was expecting something like this, now here it is, will this be widely used?   Implications? Check out what Chrysler is doing.   Introduction below:AnnouncingLearn...

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 32 – Autonomous Flight and Landing on Mars with Behçet Açikmeşe (Part 2)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 32 – Autonomous Flight and Landing on Mars with Behçet Açikmeşe (Part 2)

A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari Douglas (CCC Senior...

CEA-Leti Envisions LiDAR Systems Based on Integrated Optical Phased Arrays
From insideHPC

CEA-Leti Envisions LiDAR Systems Based on Integrated Optical Phased Arrays

GRENOBLE, France – March 8, 2021 – Taking a step toward developing LiDAR systems for widespread commercial applications, CEA-Leti has developed genetic algorithms...

Small Business Exporters
From The Eponymous Pickle

Small Business Exporters

From friend Steve King, who has run this blog on small business needs for years:Barlow Research on Small Business ExportersBarlow Research   is one of our go-to...

Podcast: How Spies Think
From The Eponymous Pickle

Podcast: How Spies Think

At the link, podcast provided by Recorded Future, who we worked with long ago.  The link below leads you to the podcast.  Makes me think:  How do spies think differently...

Microsoft Retracts Quantum Computing Paper
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Retracts Quantum Computing Paper

This seems to indicate the scientific method system is working. But don't retraction alerts get far less attention than the original paper?   I do note that Wired...

Explaining Reinforcement Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Explaining Reinforcement Learning

 Been recently involved with reinforcement learning, and found this interesting.   I see some advances in this space worth following.  Especially in RL, you need...

Qumulo Extends Qumulo Protect Data Services with Commvault Integration  
From insideHPC

Qumulo Extends Qumulo Protect Data Services with Commvault Integration  

SEATTLE – March 9, 2021 – Qumulo, focused on enterprise file data management across hybrid-cloud environments, today announced a full integration with Commvault...

Intel Developing ASIC Accelerator for DARPA ‘Holy Grail’ Cybersecurity Project
From insideHPC

Intel Developing ASIC Accelerator for DARPA ‘Holy Grail’ Cybersecurity Project

Intel has joined the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) in a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) program that takes aim at the “holy grail” of cybersecurity...

Alexa Entities Build with Knowledge Graphs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Entities Build with Knowledge Graphs

Announcements in the Alexa Development blog about new means to connect knowledge graph data to voice interactions with Entities.    With code and Dev examples. ...

Computational Complexity and Quantum
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computational Complexity and Quantum

Computational complexity provides measures of how hard things are to compute.   Taught in many as part of analytics curriculum..   Which define classes of complexity...

From Computational Complexity

When do I need to warn about Spoilers?

In a recent post here I mentioned in passing a plot point from the last season of The Big Bang Theory. Note that the last season was in 2019.  WARNING- do not read...
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