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Sensing the Household
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sensing the Household

Talk about potential  invasions of privacy ....  note the use of multiple sensors and analysesHousehold Radar Can See Through Walls and Knows How You’re Feeling...

Some Details of SpaceX Starlink
From The Eponymous Pickle

Some Details of SpaceX Starlink

 Some interesting details of the progress and details of the effort.   Will the earth soon be wrapped with a coating of sensors and transceivers?  Following. SpaceX...

Perfect Product Launch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Perfect Product Launch

 Simplified, but useful look at product at product launchThree Fundamentals to a Strong Product Launch February 1, 2021, Scott McPhaden, SCB Contributor and Drew...

Detecting Cancer Cells
From The Eponymous Pickle

Detecting Cancer Cells

A Computational means of differentiating cells.Computational Tool Reliably Differentiates Between Cancer, Normal Cells From Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data     By...

Drones Tracking Smells
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones Tracking Smells

 We did lots of work examining smells, and sought means to detect and track them. Here an update in the space. Could have used tested for forestry and agriculture...

AI and Tacit Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Tacit Knowledge

Useful, mostly non-technical paper on the topic.  We learned much about this when we trained with explicit rules.  How do we effectively leverage the statement:...

Deep Learning Searches for Covid-19 Treatments
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning Searches for Covid-19 Treatments

Treatments using deep learning, based on human gene interactions with drugs.Computer Model Makes Strides in Search for Covid-19 TreatmentsOhio State News, Emily...

Adapting Liquid ML Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Adapting Liquid ML Networks

Adapting ML networks over time is an important idea.  How much better will this be than simply recreating the networks with new data?  Automating maintenance would...

History of the VPN
From The Eponymous Pickle

History of the VPN

Intriguing history, now finally becoming universal.  Saw it first in the enterprise. Everything VPN is New Again in ACM QueueThe 24-year-old security model hasDavid...

IBM  and Quantum  Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and Quantum Computing

 IBM seeing the future of quantum computing.IBM unveils ambitious plan for quantum computing software  By Jeremy Kahn in FortuneThe company wants to make it easier...

Microsoft Releases Speech Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Releases Speech Services

Useful capability for speech production from Azure/AIMicrosoft opens limited access to its neural text-to-speech AI in EngadgetAT&T and Warner Bros. used the tech...

Counting Google Searches for Boredom and Loneliness
From The Eponymous Pickle

Counting Google Searches for Boredom and Loneliness

Whew, most interesting ... or a more general privacy invasion that can be leveraged?How Google Searches Reveal the Hidden Cost of LockdownUniversity of WarwickResearchers...

Work From Anywhere Here to Stay
From The Eponymous Pickle

Work From Anywhere Here to Stay

Mentioned this previously, Irving Wladawsky provides more links and backgrounds.Is Work-from-Anywhere Here to Stay?  (many links in the below are shown by clicking...

More on Solarwinds Malware
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Solarwinds Malware

Schneier provides more 'Solarwinds' News this morning,  lots of links to other analyses and opinions. Including some suggestions for addressing these kinds of threats...

Autonomous Vehicles as Criminal Drug Mules
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autonomous Vehicles as Criminal Drug Mules

I recall this coming up in innovation meetings a number of years ago.  And of course the vehicles involved will be automatically tracked and usage charged to someone...

Rearchers Can Now Achieve 'Quantum Advantage'
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rearchers Can Now Achieve 'Quantum Advantage'

Intriguing claim.  Based on my knowledge of quantum physics this may lead to some very counter intuitive results.   Especially for 'combinatorial', or many-many...

GameStop  and Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

GameStop and Retail

Interesting points made with commentary. Agree its mostly about the ability to manipulate stocks in general.  Does not seem to have a broader retail effect.  What...

On Historical Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Historical Robots

Not really directly useful, but I like thinking about history as it predicts the future.   Da Vinci is a good, and very early example.  Superb Historical Robots...

IBM Cuts its Blockchain Team
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Cuts its Blockchain Team

 Quite a considerable twist,   seems quite a move since their work with HyperLedger we followedIBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses...

Dynamics Spot Gets Long Distance Control
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dynamics Spot Gets Long Distance Control

400 sold and apparently a better way to control it from a distance.  Continuing to follow the possibilities involved.  No further autonomy claimed of what I understand...
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