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Right to Repair Envisioned, Regulated
From The Eponymous Pickle

Right to Repair Envisioned, Regulated

Including the right to repair.   Rarely an issue in a big company, but useful for the individual.   Still will add significantly to the cost of designs involved...

IPhone Zero-Click
From The Eponymous Pickle

IPhone Zero-Click

Schneier reports on a discovered Zero-Click Exploit for iPhones.    Note that 'Zero Click' means that such a hack does not require you to respond to open a file...

Google Analytics Updates Announced
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Analytics Updates Announced

Considerable product and feature updates for Google Analytics, here just a taste, and beyond.  Some at least impressive. August 2021 - Product UpdatePRODUCT & FEATURE...

The Retail Power of .99?
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Retail Power of .99?

 A bit of retail knowledge from the research lab at Ohio State. This is a very insightful finding. It would be interesting to find out the effect of the price difference...

Rescue with Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rescue with Technology

 Have noted this trend, is moving quickly.   Much more at the link.Technology to the Rescue, By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff,  August 31, 2021In...

IOT Wearables
From The Eponymous Pickle

IOT Wearables

Was of interest, you can get the recording ..Title: Building Smart Health WearablesDate: Tuesday, Aug 31, 2021Time: 9:00 am PDT / 4:00 pm UTCDuration: 60 minutes...

Rent a Robot
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rent a Robot

Makes sense to have such devices available, and use this for maintenance scheduling.Rent-a-Robot: Silicon Valley's Answer to Labor Shortage in Smaller U.S. Factories...

Ericsson 5G Radios for Urban Locations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ericsson 5G Radios for Urban Locations

Spreading 5G Radio in Urban Deployments New Ericsson street solutions equip busy urban locations with low-visibility, high-performance 5G radiosPLANO, Texas, Aug...

Wheat Harvesting Ag Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wheat Harvesting Ag Tech

Impressive effort for autonomous driving and harvesting Agriculture techIn IEEE Spectrum AN ARMY OF GRAIN-HARVESTING ROBOTS MARCHES ACROSS RUSSIAAftermarket AIs...

Smart Helmet Assesses Strokes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Helmet Assesses Strokes

Analysis that leads to treatment. New Smart Helmet Rapidly Assesses Stroke Patients It uses EM waves to distinguish the size, position, and type of stroke  When...

Cebrowski Institute for Military Innovation
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Cebrowski Institute for Military Innovation

Brought to my attention, linked to my early DOD work.The Cebrowski Institute for Military InnovationWhat we are seeing, in moving from the industrial age to the...

Glove Senses and Maps Tactile Stimuli
From The Eponymous Pickle

Glove Senses and Maps Tactile Stimuli

 Connecting more intelligently to the sense of touch.Touchy-Feely Glove Senses, Maps Tactile StimuliBy MIT News, August 9, 2021A team of engineers at the Massachusetts...

Baidu Premium Smart Display
From The Eponymous Pickle

Baidu Premium Smart Display

We examined and tested  the first Baidu smart assistants.Baidu Aims at Premium Market With New X10 Smart DisplayERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on November 5, 2020 at 8:00 am...

High Speed Nanometer Scale Solution of Math Operations.
From The Eponymous Pickle

High Speed Nanometer Scale Solution of Math Operations.

Note specifics of solving light based specific differential calculus analog math,  At nanometer scale?  Possible use for chip scale IOT applications?   Technical...

Solar Storms and Undersea Cables
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solar Storms and Undersea Cables

 Brought this up recently, a long time area of interest.  Note the particular mention that undersea cables would be at particular risk.Bad Solar Storm Could Cause...

Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution
From The Eponymous Pickle

Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution

A decade yet, but also will happen as we need combinatorial solutions. Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution.Expert: Now is the time to prepare for the quantum...

Bending Light for a Cheaper Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bending Light for a Cheaper Internet

Who Can Bend Light for a Cheaper Internet?By MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory  in CACMMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers...

What have Language Models Learned?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What have Language Models Learned?

 InterestingWhat Have Language Models Learned?Large language models are making it possible for computers to write stories, program a website and turn captions into...

China to get out of Crypto Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

China to get out of Crypto Mining

A rumor, or not?   Or in what sense? China is getting out of crypto mining. Is North America ready to embrace it?Aug 12, 2021 at 21:07  in CoindeskBeijing has been...

Drone Deliveries Build
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drone Deliveries Build

Following this closely for for delivery, inspection, maintenance.Wing Approaches 100,000 Drone Deliveries 2 Years After Launch   By TechCrunchTwo years after its...
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