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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
UK Protecting Critical Undersea Cables
This piece made me think. And consider from who, using what .... and what are the implications?New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea cables in the...
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Consider the Humble Roundabout
In my very early days of analytics, much involved with civil engineering data. So this transcript of a Freakonomics article on the traffic roundabout was good...
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Refining Audience Advertising Context Mixing
Interesting method altering acquired video and mixing it to change advertising context. Would seem the same method could be used for advertising with augmented...
From Geeking with Greg
Wisdom of the trusted
Flood-the-zone disinformation is a problem for crowdsourced data. Wisdom of the crowds, mass amateurization, and rejection of gatekeepers no longer works with coordinated...
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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...
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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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