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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
Google: Duo and Meet: Making Moments that Matter
In the Google Blog, thoughts on making meetings more productive, and their package 'Meet'. Seems I have used most other packages lately , but not their Meet. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is expected to be able to be able to 'break' some forms of encryption, thus the concerns mentioned.China joins Google in claiming quantum supremacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking Microservices
Had cause to talk the concept recently, in InfoQ, here is a somewhat technical look at the concept and its uses and details. Most of the details and useful links...
From insideHPC
Woolpert Acquires Data Cloud Solutions to Expand Data Visualization and Awareness to New, Existing Markets
Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 23, 2020 — Woolpert has acquired Data Cloud Solutions, LLC, a systems integrator, cloud solutions provider and consulting services firm based...
From insideHPC
QPM Address Medical Life Sciences Challenges
In this sponsored post from our friends over at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), review how QCT brings out the concept called QCT Platform on Demand (QCT POD), which...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Announces New Working Group Leadership for 2021
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Administrative Group is pleased to announce the UA working group leadership selections for the 2021 term (1 January...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
In 2011, I predicted that the iPhone would have 1TB of storage in 2020
Someone reminded me of a prediction I made in 2011: Your iPhone will have 1TB of storage by 2020, assuming exponential growth, see my plot: http://t.co/iDiT1J7y...
From Schneier on Security
Investigating the Navalny Poisoning
Bellingcat has investigated the near-fatal poisoning of Alexey Navalny by the Russian GRU back in August. The details display some impressive traffic analysis.confession...
From insideHPC
The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: 2 Dell Distinguished Engineers Talk Compute Optimization and Extreme Scaling Problem Areas
In this interview, we speak with Garima Kochbar and Michael Pittaro, distinguished engineers at the Dell EMC HPC & AI Innovation Lab, which designs solutions at...
From insideHPC
SiPearl Joins ETP4HPC to Help Drive Europe’s Sovereignty for HPC
SiPearl, the company designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, is joining ETP4HPC, an association that groups...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on SolarWind: A Kill Switch
FireEye on the SolarWind backdoor, from last week.And work by Microsoft on the problem:FireEye, Microsoft create kill switch for SolarWinds backdoor By Lawrence...
From insideHPC
Report: Global 5G Coverage to Grow 253% by 2025
Data presented by Bankr indicates that the 5G technology global coverage will grow by 253.84 percent in the next five years. By 2025, about 53 percent of the global...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyundai Buys Boston Dynamics
More on this, implications? From what I have seen the largely remotely operated tele-robotic systems have particular value in remote security and remote data and...
From insideHPC
Rich Brueckner Scholarship Awards: The HPC Community Steps Up
The year 2020 will stand out in our memories, and sad to say, many of those memories are not happy ones. In the HPC community, this includes the untimely passing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud
We are already there and working hard, but how that will be done efficiently still remains to be established. Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to WorkThe...
From Schneier on Security
Eavesdropping on Phone Taps from Voice Assistants
The microphones on voice assistants are very sensitive, and can snoop on all sorts of data: In Hey Alexa what did I just type? we show that when sitting up to half...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toward Hybrid Approaches of Problem Solving
We knew this long ago, but only since approaches like machine learning have done some surprising things have we become ready for more contextually useful advances...
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Joins MLCommons to Accelerate the Machine Learning Community
Taipei, Taiwan, December 22nd 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced GIGABYTE as one of...
From insideHPC
Massive Scalable Cloud Storage for Cloud Native Applications
In this comprehensive technology white paper, "Massive Scalable Cloud Storage for Cloud Native Applications,"written by Evaluator Group, Inc. on behalf of Red Hat...
From The Eponymous Pickle