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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 …
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Clearview Facial Recognition for Schools
But they could be used to detect who is approaching/entering a school and flag potential threats. Current errors in their operation can be improved. ACM TECHNEWS...
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Audio Logging a Space
Can we think of other spaces that might be logged this way?Automatic Audio Loggers Map the Sound of NorwayImperial College London (U.K.)Hayley Dunning, May 3,Audio...
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Harnessing the Power of the 4th Industrial Revolution (updated)
McKinsey takes a look at discussion of the 4th revolution as covered at Davos. Heady stuff.Spotlight on Davos: Harnessing the power of the Fourth Industrial...
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Digital Twins of Diseases
Struck me as an interesting angle of the modeling technique. Digital Twins Aid Giving Individual Patients the Right Treatment at the Right TimeLinkoping University...
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Building Reliable AI Models
Below quite interesting, here just the intro, full article linked to. Reviewing. I note the point about changing data in context, which I always emphasize in...
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Looking Further Than Ever
This could be a very big, very revealing thing.. As always, I am following.Astronomers Prepare to Turn Webb Telescope Toward Nearby Super-Earths By Ryan Whitwam...
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Contact Lenses as Computer Screens
Will we see this kind of screen allowing all the time access to anything? Will we want it?Could Contact Lenses Be the Ultimate Computer Screen? By BBC News,Saratoga...
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Virtual Answering Machine
Useful to the very busy, how well might it work?Virtual ‘answering machine’ records the real world while you are in VRPeople using virtual reality at work could...
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James Dyson Working on Home Robotics
I happen to be just reading the (auto)? biography ..... By James Dyson, Invention: A Life Likely to review later. Looking forward to see his take on home...
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Quest for Explainable AI
Yet another explanation, reasonably good intro.The quest for explainable AI Arthur Cole @acole602 in VenturebeatArtificial intelligence (AI) is highly effective...
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Large Scale Quantum Computing
Thinking larger scale, how soon?ACM TECHNEWSApproach May Help Clear Hurdle to Large-Scale Quantum Computing By Harvard Gazette May 4, 2022Researchers at Harvard...
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Use of VPNs to Change Borders?
Considering the use of a VPN to border the web?ACM NEWSHow Millions of Russians are Tearing Holes in the Digital Iron Curtain By The Washington Post, May 6,When...
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Ready for WiFi-7?
Not really, until my supplier wants to invest in the upgrade. But sounds good, much more belowNEWSWhat Is Wi-Fi 7? Great capacity, less latency—here's how IEEE...
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New Tech not Making us More Preductive?
See the US Govt article pointer to below.Why Isn't New Technology Making Us More Productive?By The New York Times, May 25, 2022For years, it has been an article...
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Early Looks at Asteroid Mining
Science, Space, Health & RoboticsAsteroid-mining startup books its first mission, launching with SpaceXAstroforge, a Y Combinator asteroid-mining startup, has scheduled...
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Uber Tries Autonomous Food Delivery
How broadly, how practical? Scale considerations?Uber Launches Robot Food Delivery in CaliforniaBy Reuters, May 26, 2022Uber Technologies Inc. has rolled out pilot...
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NY State to Give Out Robot Companions
Japan is doing a similar thing. We saw early efforts in their Eldercare program. Have not seen ElliQ. Only 800 adults are initially mentioned. NY State WillBy...
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Smart Office Buildings Are Vulnerable to Hacks
Makes sense considering the context, Smart Office Buildings Are Vulnerable to HacksThe Wall Street Journal, Konrad Putzier, May 3, 2022Smart office buildings...
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Future of Life
Brought to my attention, research at the FLI, the Future of Life InstituteARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GRANTS PROGRAMIn 2015, FLI launched the first peer-reviewed...
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