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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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What is a Semi-Fungible Token?
All sort of levels of fungibility are now floating about. Trying to keep it straight. What Is a ‘Semi-Fungible’ Crypto Token?Concert tickets, gift vouchers and...
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Alexa Developer Highlights
Was unable to visit this live, but here they are. Continue to .fo things that are ground breaking in delivering intelligent assistance to consumerAlexa Live 2021...
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Advances in Quantum Error Correction
Always heard that error correction is the key challenge of quantum computing, here what appear to be advances by Google. Implications, some suggested here. ...
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Personalized Cancer Treatment
Is this the future? Personalizing cancer treatment with quantum computingPress Release / August 10, 2021As a partner of the Fraunhofer Competence Network Quantum...
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Amazon Surpasses Wal-Mart Sales
Continued online retailer expansion.Amazon has surpassed Walmart as the world's top retail seller outside China; FactSet says people spent $610B+ on Amazon inNew...
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Qualcomm Launches 5G and AI to Target Commercial Drones
Qualcomm 5G Drones using AI for Commercial Connectivity PlatformSmartphones in the sky: Qualcomm launches first 5G and AI platform targeting commercial dronesAfter...
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Combat Drones Catching Rides
Saw this demonstrated in simulated concept, expect to see more swarm and group applications.DARPA's New Combat Drones Could Catch a Ride from Other Aircraft By...
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Saving the Grape Crop with Robots and AI
AI linking with sensors for agricultural analysis.Robots and AI Help Save Multibillion Dollar Grape Crop By Cornell University, August 18, 2021 Researchers at...
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Updating Google Mps
Impressive capabilities.Three new ways anyone can update Google MapsWith all the change our world saw over the past year, people are relying more than ever onTo...
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Building TimeSeries Databases
Spent much of our careers working with timeseries data in supply chain analysis...Not enough metadata considered? Always-on Time-Series Database: Keeping Up ...
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Neuromarketing
We touched on this years ago, as part of a broader cognitive science analysis of marketing, it seems to have slipped behind the curtain since then.A relook at...
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Programmable Virus Traps?
Here on the face of it quite a claim. Human tests still years away. Programmable Trap Can Kill Viruses By R. Colin Johnson in CACMCommissioned by CACM Staff,...
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Quantum Error Correction
Brought back to my attention, with lots of links to more detail, From Google Research, Technical.Demonstrating the Fundamentals of Quantum Error CorrectionWednesday...
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Robot Apocalypse
Recalled some of the points made here. Some of our plant machinery was dated, and not likely to be replaced soon. Yet also included advanced 'robotics' and controllers...
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Robotic Surgeries Better?
Useful to see some measurement of qualityAre Robotic Surgeries Really Better?By The New York Times, August 17, 2021Surgical procedures performed with the aid of...
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IBM Using Digital Twins to Optimize AI
Spent years using simulation to optimize business process, the idea of a Digital Twin came along to better utilize sensor context to leverage better solutions....
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11 Examples of Blockchain Use
Lisa Morgan in InformationWeek ... Blockchain Gets Real Across IndustriesBlockchain use cases are exploding across industries because these days trust is 'a thing...
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Are You too Small For AI?
Given the author, you can predict the answer. Partially agree. But saw the same things early on for 'simpler' classic applications like analytics, which have some...
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Simulating Building Energy use in Context with Digital Twins
A good example of the use of 'digital twins'. Challenge will be to get the required detail for so many buildings with different ages, designs, updates, designs...
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