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California Approves Nuro for Delivery
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California Approves Nuro for Delivery

Have been following Nuro for some time.  With showed an interesting looking vehicle.  Especially by the examination by Kroger.  An autonomous delivery method. Nuro...

Shoe Fitting Augmented Reaity
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Shoe Fitting Augmented Reaity

Likely we will commonly see AR type methods for trying on clothes.Does the Shoe Fit? Try It On with Augmented RealityThe New York Times   By Kate CongerRetailers...

Worldwide Opinions on Impact of AI
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Worldwide Opinions on Impact of AI

 Results of surveys by country.   Quite bit of detail.  Source is PEW Research. Here's how opinions on the impact of artificial intelligence differ around the world...

Machines to Understand Human Goals
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Machines to Understand Human Goals

Human goals are an important kind of context, so the ability is broadly useful.Building Machines That Better Understand Human GoalsMIT NewsBy Rachel Gordonhttps...

ORCam Pen Reads Aloud Text
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ORCam Pen Reads Aloud Text

 Seems quite a useful development: The OrCam Read is a pen-like AI-based device that reads aloud text to people with reading challenges. OrCam's AI-Based Reading...

AI Predictions
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AI Predictions

Some end of year predictions for next year.   I much like the title mentions, which I do think are important.  But don't necessarily fully agree with all of the...

Google: Duo and Meet: Making Moments that Matter
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Google: Duo and Meet: Making Moments that Matter

In the Google Blog, thoughts on making meetings more productive, and their package 'Meet'.   Seems I have used most other packages lately , but not their Meet. ...

Chinese Quantum Computing
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Chinese Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is expected to be able to be able to 'break' some forms of encryption,  thus the concerns mentioned.China joins Google in claiming quantum supremacy...

Talking Microservices
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Talking Microservices

 Had cause to talk the concept recently,  in InfoQ, here is a somewhat technical look at the concept and its uses and details. Most of the details and useful links...

More on SolarWind: A Kill Switch
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More on SolarWind: A Kill Switch

 FireEye on the SolarWind backdoor, from last week.And work by Microsoft on the problem:FireEye, Microsoft create kill switch for SolarWinds backdoor  By Lawrence...

Hyundai Buys Boston Dynamics
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Hyundai Buys Boston Dynamics

More on this, implications?  From what I have seen the largely remotely operated tele-robotic systems have particular value in remote security and remote data and...

Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud
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Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud

 We are already there and working hard, but how that will be done efficiently still remains to be established.  Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to WorkThe...

Toward Hybrid Approaches of Problem Solving
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Toward Hybrid Approaches of Problem Solving

 We knew this long ago, but only since approaches like machine learning have done some surprising things have we become ready for more contextually useful advances...

Limitations of Deep Learning
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Limitations of Deep Learning

About limitations of deep learning problems with higher dimensional data. Technical.Geometric Deep Learning Advances Data Science   By Samuel GreengardCommunications...

Is it the Year the Password will Die?
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Is it the Year the Password will Die?

Still a few things to think through,  but looking forward to it. Microsoft: 2021 is the Year Passwords Die    By NeowinRemoving the password. Microsoft is making...

Thinking Assistive Disaster AI
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Thinking Assistive Disaster AI

A clear example of the interactions of sensors, logic, decisions and leveraging experience.  Some general ideas of the possibilities.Assistive AI in DecreasingAssistive...

Security with Threat Hunting
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Security with Threat Hunting

Is this ultimately the means to thwarting security failures?Threat Hunting Offsets the Technology GapsCaitlin Mattingly, Recorded FutureOur guest this week is John...

Why Business Transformation Projects Often Fail
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Why Business Transformation Projects Often Fail

 Thoughts and links from an IBM exec we worked with: Why Business Transformation Efforts Often Fail  by Irving Wladawsky-BergerA 2019 study found that the average...

Eye Movements Predicting Mental Health
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Eye Movements Predicting Mental Health

What appears to be a reasonable pattern detection type applicationAI gauges the mental health of cancer patients through eye movementsIt's an early project, but...

Netflix Digital Experiments with Content Decisions
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Netflix Digital Experiments with Content Decisions

With lots of interesting links to presentations I am looking at.   How Netflix works with its content has always interested me.   Exploring this:Netflix at MITNetflix...
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