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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
Shutters for Star Watching
Watching the skies for anomalous behaviour in real time:NASA to demonstrate new star-watching tech with thousands of shuttersby Lori Keesey, NASA's Goddard Space...
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Google's Summarization Performance: Pegasus
A kind of AI. Summarization is useful and powerful concept. But consider that summarization also exists in a context. Its output is only useful in a particular...
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Amazon Echo Flex: Plug+Simple speaker
Amazon seems ready to inexpensively (for now $20) replace every wall plug with a link to Alexa. Now lets give these devices something more intelligent to do...
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AR Games for Grocery Aisles
Interesting, but how well will this interact with traffic in store? Gets in the way of of basic goals I believe. Article contains other examples of the concepts...
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Sorting Legos is Intelligent
An example of sorting that is fun and interesting. Discerning, categorizing and selecting is a classic kind of intelligenceAI-powered Lego sorter knows the shape...
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Vehicle Hacking Spreads
Increasing amount of vehicle hacking is occuring. Note the increasing ability to effect these cybercrimes remotely. Some telling statistics.New Study Showsin...
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Video: Optimizing Flash at Scale at CEA
In this video from the DDN User Group at SC19, Gael Delbray from CEA presents: Optimizing Flash at Scale. "The major challenges that the HPC will face in the coming...
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XSEDE Supercomputers Advance Skin Cancer Research
In this TACC podcast, UC Berkeley scientists describe how they are using powerful supercomputers to uncover the mechanism that activates cell mutations found in...
From Putting People First
Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing
The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing, a multi-sited research project based at UCL Anthropology, employs a team of 11 anthropologists conducting simultaneous...
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IBM Launches Quantum Computing Initiative for Japan
IBM and the University of Tokyo have announced an agreement to partner to advance quantum computing and make it practical for the benefit of industry, science and...
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Digital Twin for Electricity Grid
Grids have a potential for hacking, also the potential for reacting to things like solar mass ejections and other completely natural events. So stimulating them...
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Hacking Connected Cars
No doubt increasingly connected cars are the future. And they can be hacked like other IOT systems can. Here a short piece on how this is evolving and companies...
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Data Science in Film Industry
Fairly generalized thoughts, but an areas which is underdeveloped. How Data Science Is Used Within the Film IndustryAs Data Science is becoming pervasive across...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predicting When P=NP is Resolved
Has it outlasted the ability to estimate when? Composite of src1, src2 Ryohei Hisano and Didier Sornette wrote in 2012 a paper titled, “On the distribution of time...
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Student Cluster Winners Get Ready to take ISC by Storm
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC recaps the recent CHPC National Conference in South Africa. "Now a 5-day conference with two days of workshops as book-ends,...
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The Coming Age of Extreme Heterogeneity in HPC
Jeffrey Vetter from ORNL gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "In this talk, I'm going to talk about the high-level trends guiding our industry. Moore’s Law as we know...
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Sweden Examining E-Krona
After the recent information from China. Interest in E-Currency expanding.Accenture Picked to Build Sweden’s E-Krona Digital Currency PilotBy Danny Nelson in Coindesk...
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Recorded Future Engine for Security Intelligence
Interesting look at an analytical and visual approach that is worth a look. Note the long term use of data, and the Digital Twin model evoked.The Engine RF Uses...
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Apple, Google and Amazon
More on this, good direction for assistants. And security is a good place to start. This is key way to make the average consumer invest in such infrastructure...
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