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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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Google Maps now Providing Pandemic Warnings
I do wonder about the liability for giving information that leads to transmission? COVID-19 Google Maps updatesIf your area is affected by COVID-19, you can use...
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Measuring Why Users Click on Fraudulent Emails
What seems a useful measurement scale for understanding this. Its still very basic behavior.The Phish Scale: NIST-Developed Method Helps IT Staff See Why Users...
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Exploring World of Smart Contracts with MadMax
A space we have now looked at for some time, a somewhat technical example well worth going through. Note close attention to 'vulnerabilities' which remain at...
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Vulnerability Disclosure in Cryptocurrencies
Very good, piece. Its been difficult to accept the vulnerabilities that have been revealed to expose monetary systems to it. A good review of recent examples...
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Amazon Refreshes Echo Lineup
Amazon Echo Moves forward, looks to be a considerable update.Amazon refreshes Echo lineup with new custom chip By Stephanie Condon for Between the Lines | in ZDNet...
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AI Decoding Emotions?
A problem we spent much time on, depends on what you expect from such a classification. Much like: could you hire a human 'expert' to do this? Training and...
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Bouncing Balls and Quantum Computing
Of interest: Bouncing Balls and Quantum Computing: A lighthearted method for calculating π is analogous to a fundamental algorithm for quantum computing.By Don...
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Participation Washing?
Stated term was new to me, but a important in any kind of data that is crowd sourced. Should always be a consideration. A fix? Not that either.Participation...
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Advances in Splitting Water into Hydrogen/Oxygen efficiently
This could be a very big deal, considerable details at the link. Had a job in a chem lab long ago that looked at this problem. Researchers develop a solar tech...
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Security Risk Analytics from IBM
Rarely carefully done in the enterprise, glad to see IBM doing this. Historically we worked with IBM on large scale problems, and don't remember them bringing...
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Mimicking the Sense of Touch
We examined how consumers interacted with product in retail.Glove-Like Device Mimics Sense of Touch University of New South Wales Sydney Newsroom, Caroline Tang...
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Research Teaches AI How People Move with Internet Videos
New ideas continuing to emerge. Here in how video can be enhanced, utilized. Research Teaches AI How People Move with Internet VideosThe Michigan Engineer News...
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Microsoft Licenses OpenAI’s GPT-3 Language Model
Exclusively. Now this is very good and somewhat unexpected. Thinking of ways it might be used within the context of work needs in Teams. Say for example constructing...
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More on Endpoint Security
More on this topic by Cisco, see the other parts of this pointed to. Note its particular relevance for remote work.Why Endpoint Security Matters in Protecting Remote...
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Future of Work by Microsoft Teams
Nice to see Microsoft Teams expanding their capabilities. Have now used Teams now many times, like it. Now lets see more assistance built in.Microsoft aims to...
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Europeans Would Consider Augmentation
Depends on what you mean by augmentation, we already pay for lots of it already. Health vs intelligence, vs requested assistance? Inevitable if properlyMajority...
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When Bots Negotiate, Will Human's Deceive?
Interesting piece that approaches the meaning of 'cooperation'. When bots do the negotiating, humans more likely to engage in deceptive techniques by University...
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Google Does Fact Checking of Images
Hmm ... 'more likely to know? I like the idea. And who will get the benefit of likelihood? Any changes in the pictures having been made? Ones that make them...
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Colds Have Nearly Vanished?
Fascinating piece. Colds Nearly Vanished Under Lockdown. Now They’re Coming Back in Wired.The return of non-Covid respiratory illnesses is putting a new strain...
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