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UK Protecting Critical Undersea Cables
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UK Protecting Critical Undersea Cables

This piece made me think.  And consider from who, using what .... and what are the implications?New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea cables  in the...

Consider the Humble Roundabout
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Consider the Humble Roundabout

In my very early days of analytics, much involved with civil engineering data.    So this transcript of a Freakonomics article on the traffic roundabout was good...

Refining Audience Advertising Context Mixing
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Refining Audience Advertising Context Mixing

 Interesting method altering acquired video and mixing it to change advertising context.  Would seem the same method could be used for advertising with augmented...

Human Robot Cooperation
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Human Robot Cooperation

 More good thoughts on the complexity of human-robot cooperation.How many robot helpers are too many?Khari Johnson  @kharijohnson   March 20, 2021 6:21 AM TechCrunch...

Fast Random Number Generation with Lasers
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Fast Random Number Generation with Lasers

Fast Random Number Generation with LasersPointer to this in Schneier:       In school one of my particular areas of interest was random number use and leverage....

Further Emerging Smart Toothbrush
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Further Emerging Smart Toothbrush

Showing how package goods, like Colgate and my former employer P&G are building smart devices to improve consumer health processes. Smart Device Push Brings IT,...

Self-Folding Nanotech Creates Origami Bird
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Self-Folding Nanotech Creates Origami Bird

A combination of favorite topics,  small robots(nanoscale here) and Origami representations. Includes images and video of their prposed development and use.Self...

Bats Hunting
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Bats Hunting

Good example of the potential use of biomimicry Tiny Computers Reveal How Wild Bats Hunt So EfficientlyAarhus University (Denmark), Peter F. Gammelby; Laura Stidsholt...

Data Privacy via Fully HomoMorphic Encryption
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Data Privacy via Fully HomoMorphic Encryption

In CoinDeskUsing ‘Holy Grail’ of Data Privacy Technology Dec 21, 2020 at 7:51 a.m. EST By Tanzeel AkhtarFHE is an emerging technology – often described as the "holy...

AI for Personalized Cancer Vaccines
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AI for Personalized Cancer Vaccines

 Seems quite a big move forward.    Will we be able to learn which amino acid sequences will work best to fight cancer? Using Machine Learning to Develop Personalized...

Predicting Your Order
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Predicting Your Order

 Have been experiencing fast food faster over these months,  and also wondered how fast, precise and predictive it can be.  Here  quick look at some  examples.....

CredChain to Safeguard Your Identity?
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CredChain to Safeguard Your Identity?

 Blockchains to share credentials.  More technical details at the link. Interesting here, but have not validated anything shown. CredChain: Take Control of Your...

Cybersickness in VR Solved by AI?
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Cybersickness in VR Solved by AI?

 Recall we looked at this issue when thinking about how ads might be presented universally in space.  Here now closer to being solved?    For other applications...

Morgan Stanley Offers Bitcoin to Clients
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Morgan Stanley Offers Bitcoin to Clients

Much more, podcast at the link. Morgan Stanley Is First Big Bank Offering Bitcoin to Wealthy Clients,  in Coindesk,  Mar 17, 2021, Nathaniel Whittemore LThree funds...

Chrome Announces Captioning for Audio and Video
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Chrome Announces Captioning for Audio and Video

Conversion from audio.  Considerable thing. Chrome can now caption audio and video  in the Google BlogCaptions make online content more accessible. If you’re in...

Walmart Validating Vaccines
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Walmart Validating Vaccines

Good to see them doing this:Walmart becomes largest U.S. vaccine provider to join push for digital vaccination credentials.March 17, 2021, 2:14 p.m. ETMarch 17,...

Recorded Future to Acquire Gemini Advisory
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Recorded Future to Acquire Gemini Advisory

We followed Recorded Future here since its beginningRecorded Future acquires Gemini Advisory in $52 million deal  in ZNetThe company will leverage the purchaseBy...

Atypon: Technology for publishing Important content
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Atypon: Technology for publishing Important content

Brought to my attention:   AtyponAtypon:  Technology for publishing the world’s most important content.  Atypon helps online publishers deliver mission-critical...

Models Including Skepticism About Data
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Models Including Skepticism About Data

Deep Learning with embedded skepticism about inputs and data.    Useful for imperfect sensor data, and data from human interactions and queries.   Leading to safe...

Non Reproducible Machine Learning
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Non Reproducible Machine Learning

 Always thought this was problematical.   How many experiments in papers are ultimately repeated, validated, with the same data?   Or ultimately are they just 'experientially'...
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