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Why is Amazon Dominating the Market?
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Why is Amazon Dominating the Market?

Amazon continues to thrive.   What is driving them in retail?These 3 Numbers Explain Why Amazon Is Dominating Everything Right NowAmazon reported earnings on Thursday...

DNA Based Archival Storage
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DNA Based Archival Storage

Seems a strange idea, but its a look at forms of data, like DNA and the needs for computing.  A form of biomimicry.$25M Project Will Advance DNA-Based ArchivalGeorgia...

Swarming Defense Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Swarming Defense Drones

Drones by their more flexible nature are creating new options with different kinds of precision, scale and application.   Here a Defense example.DARPA is testing...

Top ACM Technews Articles of 2019
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Top ACM Technews Articles of 2019

A group I have written for for over a decade, and who I have a member of for much longer.   Kept me up to date in many ways.  They gather, distribute and expand...

Aiming to Dupe AntiFraud Systems: Digital Doppelgangers
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Aiming to Dupe AntiFraud Systems: Digital Doppelgangers

Quite an interesting discovery.  Constructing fake user profiles to facilitate fraud.   Goes back to the need for stronger means of constructing foolproof realDark...

Avast Shutters Jumpshot
From The Eponymous Pickle

Avast Shutters Jumpshot

Followed this because of recent revelations and our look at data as an asset.  At one time had been using Avast.Avast shutters data-selling subsidiary amid user...

McKinsey on Future of Work
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McKinsey on Future of Work

Some good comments on future of work.Getting Practical About the Future of WorkJanuary 2020 | ArticleBy Bryan Hancock, Kate Lazaroff-Puck, and Scott RutherfordArticle...

Fuzzing for Testing Security Vulnerabilities
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Fuzzing for Testing Security Vulnerabilities

Of interest from Communications of the ACM:"Fuzzing: Hack, Art, and Science," by Patrice Godefroid, recommends fuzz testing to detect security vulnerabilities in...

Web Scraping is now Legal
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Scraping is now Legal

Should be considerable changes in behavior for certain kinds of data.   Still some trguation about crawling in this way.Web scraping is now legalHere’s what that...

Man Diagnosed with Coronavirus Treated Largely by Robot
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Man Diagnosed with Coronavirus Treated Largely by Robot

Achieving isolation for treatment appears to the primary goal.Man Diagnosed with Wuhan Coronavirus Is Being Treated Largely by a RobotCNN  by Nicole ChavezThe first...

Eclipse Foundation for Open Inno and Collaboration
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Eclipse Foundation for Open Inno and Collaboration

Eclipse FoundationThe Platform for Open  Innovation and CollaborationThe Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organizations withIBM...

Tracking Shoppers: Paper from the CACM
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Tracking Shoppers: Paper from the CACM

An area we worked in for years,  in our labs and in real stores. here a n excellent update from the ACM:"Tracking Shoppers," by Keith Kirkpatrick, explains how...

NIST Privacy Framework
From The Eponymous Pickle

NIST Privacy Framework

Brought to my closer attention this week.   An excellent checklist for important privacy issues in current and approaching technology contexts.  Currently reviewing...

Cisco Validated Designs for IOT
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Cisco Validated Designs for IOT

Of interest via Cisco, new to me, much more below:Internet of Things (IoT)New Cisco Validated Designs offer customers more recipes for IoT successBryan TantzenIn...

IBM Transforms Workplace Experiences
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IBM Transforms Workplace Experiences

A move forward in related capabilities using AIIBM Transforms Workplace Experiences With New AI Capability For Intelligent Real Estate And Facility ManagementIBM...

Rules for Crypto Business in Singapore
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Rules for Crypto Business in Singapore

Interesting as an example of what kind of regulations are being written.  An note the connection to business models. How about process models?  Installation ofThe...

AI and Web Development
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AI and Web Development

Like to see more specific examples of this, since it bears on the elements of complex goal directed process. Also the specific elements of efficiency.   But would...

Complexity of Showing How AI Decides
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Complexity of Showing How AI Decides

Thoughtful piece on the problem of how to reasonably provide explanation.  Have now looked at several means of addressing the problem.   Consider carefully theGrilling...

Met Police to Use Live Facial Recognition Cameras in London
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Met Police to Use Live Facial Recognition Cameras in London

Not surprising at all to me, given the broad use of cameras already in the UK.   And despite all the complaints regarding privacy, this will be the future of such...

Avast Data to be Sold
From The Eponymous Pickle

Avast Data to be Sold

Currently looking at the process of how data is gathered, enhanced and sold ... here a good exampleAvast packaged detailed user data to be sold for millions ofThe...
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