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Magnetic Spray Transforms Objects Into Insect-Scale Robots for Biomed
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Magnetic Spray Transforms Objects Into Insect-Scale Robots for Biomed

 Quite a remarkable statement.   Just by itself.    Just spray it on.  Awaiting the demos.  Back to my favorite small robotics theme. Magnetic Spray Transforms ...

Amazon Smart Glasses are for Sale
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Amazon Smart Glasses are for Sale

Recall I have been following the idea of 'smart glasses' for a long time.   Since we experimented very early on with prototype glasses to display maintenance diagrams...

Google Announces 3D Object Detection
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Google Announces 3D Object Detection

 Could lead to very  interesting applications.  More phone based marketing and location possibilities? And another round of complaints like we have seen from face...

On IOT Security: Guidelines for Improvement
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On IOT Security: Guidelines for Improvement

 As we depend on many new communicating  'things' in our environment, their design and management over time and context must be done better.IoT Security Is a Mess...

Designing the Echo
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Designing the Echo

 Fast Company looks at the design and redesign of the Amazon Echo since 2014.  Thoughtful examination of how complex consumer design works.Why Amazon radicallyYou...

Modeling Multi  Agent Interacting Systems
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Modeling Multi Agent Interacting Systems

 Fascinating piece.  Aren't we all multi agent interacting systems?  Can we effectively model that to understand it in context?   Berkeley Bair takes a took.  Its...

Supply Chain:  Its Now about Risk
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Supply Chain: Its Now about Risk

Now even more so, its about risk. Measuring, predicting and addressing.Supply Chain Risk Management - Reach the Next Level of Supply Chain Maturity Marcus Evans...

IBM Buys Observability
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IBM Buys Observability

The broader concept of 'observability' was new to me, but as described very useful.    Performance and beyond.  Clearly applicable to AI applications.  Now thinking...

What Blockchain Could Mean for Your Health Data
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What Blockchain Could Mean for Your Health Data

Thoughts about blockchain and health dataWhat Blockchain Could Mean for Your Health Databy Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott  in HBRBig data is perhaps the most powerful...

Enhancing Learning with Praise
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Enhancing Learning with Praise

Praise should work,   but how do you deliver it, and best understand its behavioral implications?  Contextual influence?   This is an example I want to see more...

Amazon Pharmacy Launches
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Amazon Pharmacy Launches

Long awaited, implications will be interesting.  Supply chain in the era of epidemic should be good.  Linked to Prime.Will Amazon’s new online pharmacy disruptBy...

Low-Code Use Expanding
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Low-Code Use Expanding

Will be the future.  Then quickly to No-Code.  With much use of code analysis and adaptation for goals like security, and compliance to standards.  Ultimately to...

Tutorial: Random Forest for Time Series
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Tutorial: Random Forest for Time Series

 Am a long  time proponent of ensemble methods.  Here Jason Brownlee provides a nice tutorial on an often powerful method everyone should know.  As usual, wellRandom...

Autonomous Order Delivery by Wal-Mart
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Autonomous Order Delivery by Wal-Mart

Even Walmart is doing tests of autonomous delivery.Walmart, Cruise Launch Pilot to Deliver Orders via Self-Driving CarsKyle Wiggers in VentureBeatGeneral Motors...

Introducing the Amazon Care Hub
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Introducing the Amazon Care Hub

Brought to my attention, a system that works with existing Amazon devices. Part of the Alexa App. No additional cost.  Which lets you follow the activities of people...

Seoul Goes Drone for Delivery
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Seoul Goes Drone for Delivery

Looks to be a long step forward. with advances getting more autonomous. Drone Taxis, Bags of Rice Take Flight in Downtown SeoulBloomberg    By Youkyung LeeAn autonomous...

Origami Inspired Grip
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Origami Inspired Grip

 Enjoy the inspiration of origami in design and modeling interaction. An origami-inspired robotic fingertip with shape-morphing capabilities   by Ingrid Fadelli...

Power Apps for Teams
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Power Apps for Teams

Like to see this direction, not only as a means to interact, share data and improve collaboration, but Apps that will address particular inefficiencies that already...

Garage Drop Off Examined Again
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Garage Drop Off Examined Again

 Another area we experimented with in the innovation center, and even talked to Amazon about.  Thought it had been discarded, but its back.  With discussion atAre...

Is Blockchain e-Voting a Solution to Elections?
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Is Blockchain e-Voting a Solution to Elections?

 Blockchain Voting.    In Coindesk. New MIT Paper Roundly Rejects Blockchain Voting as Solution to Election Woes  By Benjamin PowersAs media outlets waited to announce...
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