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Teams Improving Capabilities with Cortana, Stadium Seating
From The Eponymous Pickle

Teams Improving Capabilities with Cortana, Stadium Seating

Teams adds group meeting features.   More competition putting together useful capabilities for group remote meetings.   Transcripts.    Like to see what kind of...

Lenovo Standing Up Liquid-cooled Neptune System at Max Planck Society
From insideHPC

Lenovo Standing Up Liquid-cooled Neptune System at Max Planck Society

Lenovo is installing a Neptune liquid cooled supercomputer at the Max Planck Society, a delivery that began two months ago and is scheduled to be completed early...

Inspur Introduces Leading Designs of A100 Servers for AI and HPC
From insideHPC

Inspur Introduces Leading Designs of A100 Servers for AI and HPC

In this special guest feature, our friends over at Inspur write about how the company is delivering new servers that address the most demanding performance from...

How Have People Responded to Pandemic?
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Have People Responded to Pandemic?

Fascinating piece, recall using data from 'discovered' cameras to determine  city walking traffic patterns.   Also using data from public cameras, with scrubbed...

Traffic Analysis of Home Security Cameras
From Schneier on Security

Traffic Analysis of Home Security Cameras

Interesting research on home security cameras with cloud storage. Basically, attackers can learn very basic information about what's going on in front of the camera...

New Lab to Tackle Ethical Implications of Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Lab to Tackle Ethical Implications of Tech

Another effort in the space.   Good to have multiple efforts addressing this problem to get competing analyses and solutions.Notre Dame, IBM Launch Tech EthicsNotre...

AI gets a Poor grade of B- in Covid-19 Fight
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI gets a Poor grade of B- in Covid-19 Fight

A look about how AI is helping with vaccine development efforts. Sounds like a reasonable criticism, mainly that the event is too novel to learn from.   But isKai...

Biomimicry for Regenerative Medicine
From The Eponymous Pickle

Biomimicry for Regenerative Medicine

Could the cells in these simple worms point towards a mechanism for regeneration of organs in humans?  Considerable,  non technical article with links to more ....

IBM to Buy WDG Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM to Buy WDG Automation

IBM linking process to detect AI opportunities to approaches like RPA.   And they already have integrated BPL capabilities.  WDG Automation is in the process of...

Walmart+  vs Amazon Prime
From The Eponymous Pickle

Walmart+ vs Amazon Prime

Good expert comments on the just announced Walmart+ vs Amazon Prime.   With some more details and comments by experts in the area.  Like I have said, the competition...

The Need for Loaded Dice
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Need for Loaded Dice

I remember having to explain to managers why dice had to be 'loaded' in some of the simulations we built.  Isn't that biased?  Yes, but being loaded is required...

The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner and Mike Bernhardt Talk Exascale, HPC Marketing: How the HPC Community Tells its Story to the World
From insideHPC

The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner and Mike Bernhardt Talk Exascale, HPC Marketing: How the HPC Community Tells its Story to the World

After more than three decades in supercomputing as a strategic marketing and communications executive, Mike Bernhardt has seen the HPC community evolve throughThe...

New Qualcomm Mobile Chip
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Qualcomm Mobile Chip

Advances in hardware improve where and how efficiently problems can be solved.  We are moving forward.Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 Plus is its most powerful mobile...

Short examples of the Value of Emergent Analytic Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Short examples of the Value of Emergent Analytic Tech

O'Reilly puts together four interesting examples of the use of emergent tech.  Worth a look.O'Reilly Radar by Nat TorkingtonFour short links: 8 July 2020   AI Weirdness...

Tool Turns Math into Pictures
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tool Turns Math into Pictures

Lovely thought, you can browse the images, and edit or choose the best.  To produce a best explanation.   A means to communicate math concepts with management,Carnegie...

Half a Million IoT Passwords Leaked
From Schneier on Security

Half a Million IoT Passwords Leaked

It is amazing that this sort of thing can still happen: ...the list was compiled by scanning the entire internet for devices that were exposing their Telnet port...

Wal-Mart Vs Amazon  with Premium Subscription Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Vs Amazon with Premium Subscription Services

Not too surprising, but closely follow the effectiveness of the execution used.  I like the emergence of competition here.Walmart Spent Years on a Secret Plan to...

Marc Pritchard Says Consumer Expectations Are Greater Than Ever
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marc Pritchard Says Consumer Expectations Are Greater Than Ever

in AdWeek   A former colleague of mine discusses consumer expectations of business,Marc Pritchard Says Consumer Expectations Are Greater Than EverIn his first keynote...

Conifer: Revisiting Web Pages
From The Eponymous Pickle

Conifer: Revisiting Web Pages

Brought to my attention again, how effective is this to use?    Will be testing.Conifer:  Collect and revisit web pages.Conifer is a web archiving service thatFree...

Google Unveils 1st Public Cloud VMs using Nvidia Ampere A100 Tensor GPUs
From insideHPC

Google Unveils 1st Public Cloud VMs using Nvidia Ampere A100 Tensor GPUs

Google today introduced the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family on Google Compute Engine based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU, launched inGoogle...
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