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Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Communication
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Communication

Humboldt Squid communicate by changing their skin patterns and glowing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Just Arvind

Theory and practice [ MIT ] Arvind Mithal—almost always referred to as Arvind—is now the head of the faculty of computer science at a Boston trade school. The school...

CI Fellows 2020 – Applications Now Open
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CI Fellows 2020 – Applications Now Open

Applications are now open for the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program...

Steve Gibson on Why Contract Tracing Won't Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Steve Gibson on Why Contract Tracing Won't Work

I have inserted links below to this analysis of Apple/Google attempts at generalized software based tracking.    See also related Bruce Schneier article:   https...

Bogus Security Technology: An Anti-5G USB Stick
From Schneier on Security

Bogus Security Technology: An Anti-5G USB Stick

The 5GBioShield sells for £339.60, and the description sounds like snake oil: ...its website, which describes it as a USB key that "provides protection for your...

Amazon Echo Look Experiment Ends
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Echo Look Experiment Ends

A look at the history of and now the end of fashion advice from Echo Look. Had some people look at it but it got only rare interest and the experiment ended quickly...

Street Lamps as a Platform for the Urban Smart City
From The Eponymous Pickle

Street Lamps as a Platform for the Urban Smart City

Considerable piece on using Street lights as a platform for the urban smart city.  Have seen this posed a number of times, greet place to start, how often has it...

Infinidat De-risks Storage Infrastructure with New Offerings and Support for NVMe over Fabrics
From insideHPC

Infinidat De-risks Storage Infrastructure with New Offerings and Support for NVMe over Fabrics

Infinidat, a leading provider of multi-petabyte data storage solutions, announced new offerings that reduce storage infrastructure costs, mitigate the risks ofInfinidat...

Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy
From Schneier on Security

Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don't Compromise Privacy

Note that this is "announced," so we don't know when it's actually going to be implemented. Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert...

Microsoft Buying its Way into RPA
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Buying its Way into RPA

Microsoft buys it way into RPA capabilities, announced last week.  Late to the space it seems, but now a flurry of activity.  With claim of AI capabilities.Microsoft...

Simulating Loaded Dice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulating Loaded Dice

Intriguing.  We spent lots of time updating ow we generated random numbers,  sometimes laboriously checking internal random number generators.    I can think of...

Post Covid, our societies will likely be more value-oriented, local and green
From Putting People First

Post Covid, our societies will likely be more value-oriented, local and green

<!-- wp:paragraph --> The world after Corona will not be the same. When the corona wave has passed, our societies will likely be more value-oriented, local and...

The changing role of home during crisis
From Putting People First

The changing role of home during crisis

In the first Constellation of Future Matters, the team of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab of Masoch University considers various aspects, from different...

Mapping an interval of integers to the whole 64-bit range, fairly?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Mapping an interval of integers to the whole 64-bit range, fairly?

In my blog post A fast alternative to the modulo reduction, I described how one might map 64-bit values to an interval of integers (say from 0 to N) with minimal...

ACM Elects CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino as Secretary/Treasurer
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

ACM Elects CCC Council Member Elisa Bertino as Secretary/Treasurer

ACM has announced the election of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Elisa Bertino as Secretary/Treasurer for a two-year term from July 1, 2020...

AI Making Personality Distinctions via Images
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Making Personality Distinctions via Images

Intriguing paper, but I have my doubts that you can determine useful personality distinctions this way.Artificial intelligence can make personality judgments based...

NAM Selects Computer Scientist Ehsan Hoque as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholars
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NAM Selects Computer Scientist Ehsan Hoque as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholars

From a press release from the University of Rochester.   Recently, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced the 2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine...

From Forty Days to Sixty-five Minutes without Blowing Your Budget Thanks to Gigaio Fabrex
From insideHPC

From Forty Days to Sixty-five Minutes without Blowing Your Budget Thanks to Gigaio Fabrex

In this sponsored post, Alan Benjamin, President and CEO of GigaIO, discusses how the ability to attach a group of resources to one server, run the job(s), andFrom...

Wearable Vitamin Sensor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wearable Vitamin Sensor

Another wearable sensor example. Wearable Sensor Tracks Vitamin C Levels in SweatUC San Diego News CenterBy Alison CaldwellA team of University of California, San...

Samsung Health on Newer TVs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung Health on Newer TVs

Preloading TV's with software that addresses current conditions, like stay at homework places.Good way to drive TV sales.  No real mention of 'assistant' functions...
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