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Amazon EcoVistas
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Amazon EcoVistas

 Like the idea that this is addressing a system rather than just one, or a few simplistic measures.  Amazon EcoVistas to Guide Sustainable Dam SitingThe Engineer...

Amazon and Whole Foods
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Amazon and Whole Foods

Inevitable moves  to make retail more labor efficient and error free. Here Comes the Full Amazonification of Whole Foods, By The New York Times, March 2, 2022"Would...

More Biometric Doorbells
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More Biometric Doorbells

Expect more biometrics for security. In the Future, Amazon's Ring Doorbell Might Use Biometric Data to Surveil NeighborhoodsThe company has been awarded patents...

Will No-Code Win?
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Will No-Code Win?

 Great piece,  continuing to consider Will No-Code Crack the Code?By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 1, 2022The history of computing is rife...

Deep Learning is a Bad Idea for Security
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Deep Learning is a Bad Idea for Security

Deep Learning Is a Bad Idea for SecurityBy Fortune  February 28, 2022Zulfikar Ramzan is the chief scientist and CEO of Aura Labs.Ramzan holds a controversial belief...

Defense of  Personal Data
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Defense of Personal Data

Chip said to aid personalizationToward a Stronger Defense of Personal DataBy MIT News February 25, 2022Saurav Maji and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute...

Automating Data Science
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Automating Data Science

 Long, insightful piece, good insights,  somewhat technical, but useful.   A favorite topic we experimented with since very early days.Home/Magazine Archive/March...

Adversarial Collaboration
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Adversarial Collaboration

In the Edge:Adversarial Collaboration: In the EdgeIntro below. worth reading. Ultimately robotics and AI need to be able to do this.   - FAD [EDITOR'S NOTE: In"People...

Defeating Ransomware
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Defeating Ransomware

Still booming, some general thoughts on protection. Three Ways to Defeat Ransomware, By Jeff Orloff on March 01, 2022 in SecurityWeekRansomware is very difficult...

Simulating 3D cells
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Simulating 3D cells

 Simulating cell behavior with Nvidia GPUsResearchers Simulate Behavior of Living 'Minimal Cell' in Three DimensionsUniversity of Illinois News Bureau, Diana Yates...

Shrinking AI?
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Shrinking AI?

AI, computational demand, complex contextual scenarios.    Can we make it happen? Shrinking AI?   By Chris EdwardsCommunications of the ACM, January 2022, Vol.The...

Kirkland Brand Has Done Well
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Kirkland Brand Has Done Well

 Costco's Kirkland signature brand has done very well.  Comparison to CPG giants. by Tom RyanThe Kirkland Signature brand exceeded $59 billion in sales in Costco...

Pretraining for Autonomous Systems
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Pretraining for Autonomous Systems

More on Microsoft's pretraining system Microsoft Research BlogCOMPASS: COntrastive Multimodal Pretraining for AutonomouS SystemsPublished February 23, 2022By Shuang...

Hypergraphs Examined
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Hypergraphs Examined

Always interested in better ways to use visuals to come to useful conclusions in contexts.  Is this one?  Has anyone some good concrete examples?A Group Effort ...

Thinking innovatively like a Kid
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Thinking innovatively like a Kid

McKinsey writesKids have a special way of cultivating creativity--and some even see their crafty ideas develop into lucrative business opportunities. Did you know...

Driverless Cars Building Virtual Cities
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Driverless Cars Building Virtual Cities

Virtual city models developed from car imaging to create  tests, training from virtual models. Google, Waymo Used Driverless Cars to Make Virtual San FranciscoBy...

NHTS Approval of LED Headlights
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NHTS Approval of LED Headlights

Further automotive directions, regulations, Adaptive LED Headlights Get NHTSA Approval in the U.S.By motor1.com, February 18, 2022The U.S. National Highway Transportation...

Ransomware used in Ukraine Attacks
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Ransomware used in Ukraine Attacks

Such tools will likely become tools in other kinds of cyberattacks.Ransomware Used as Decoy in Destructive Cyberattacks on Ukraine in SecurityWeek  By Ionut Arghire...

A Cyber Security Social Contract
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A Cyber Security Social Contract

The current state of the affairs', and related threats are pointing to a need for  this.The Cyber Social Contract  in Foreign AffairsHow to Rebuild Trust in a Digital...

Predictions from O'Reilly Group
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Predictions from O'Reilly Group

 From  OReilly AI: emerging tech Radar  1. What’s ahead for AI, VR, NFTs, and more?Mike Loukides makes some Predictions:Thoughtful looks.  
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