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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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Value of Using Google Assistance for Translation
What we always wanted, a seamless translation mode. That made us completely indifferent to the language in use. Hearing and speaking. Its not quite here yet,...
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Live Video Trolling on Ring
Just got word of this. Ring Cameras hacked for sheer harassment. Perhaps for a belief that personal protection by surveillance systems are by their nature illegitimate...
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Can Computers be Conscious?
Don't absolutely know they cannot compute consciousness unless I know the definition of consciousness being used. With a very bare definition a computer 'knows...
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Amazon and Corporate Digital Procurement
A key topic to manage in the enterprise. And managing the components of products you need to procure.Amazon Business brings procurement into the digital era ...
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Quantum Bull
So is Quantum her already, or are we in the midst of a hype storm? Check out the links below and explore. A number of technical big players are participating...
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On Event Meshes
Interesting look at the concept, a way to add some structure around events of importance, an element addressing the context of events.Why Event Meshes Should Be...
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Kroger, Walgreens in Purchasing Alliance
Combining against Amazon's dip into pharma?Kroger and Walgreens are in a purchasing alliance and seeking more partners by George Anderson in RetailwireThe Kroger...
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Predicting Lightning: Where/When
Skeptical. If we are talking about predicting the likelihood of lighting in an area an hour before it hits, thats done already in weather predictive maps. Using...
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China Ready to Launch Its Digital Renminbi
World wide implications?Technology Review: Chain Letter: MIT Technology ReviewBlockchains, cryptocurrencies, and why they matter12.12.19Chain Letter from MIT#174...
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Crypto Tax Formal Regulation at Hand?
Saw this in MIT Technology Reviews: Chain+Letter newsletter, much recommended as a place to stay up to date on the topic and related regulatory changesThe IRSBy...
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Amazon AWS Rolls out Quantum Computing Service: QAAS
Had not thought it was ready yet, but here it is. But perhaps as the article suggests, to study the application of QC, before its actual implementation. Linking...
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Total Cost Visibility in the US Army
We recently participated in:Graphs in Government: Achieving Total Cost Visibility for the U.S. Armyvia Lauren McCormack, Neo4j Presentation below:Thanks forClick...
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Intel's LIDAR for Inventory Logistics
We spent time experimenting with a means to determining accurate inventory and location accuracy positions in warehouses and on store shelves. Here a relatively...
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Quantum to Model Traffic with Simulations
Another mention of D-Wave quantum in the news. Also the term 'Quantum-Style' is used for the first time I have seen,Microsoft, Ford Try Using Quantum-Style Computing...
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FDA and Food Blockchain
Yet another example of tracking and tracing movements of food goods in a supply chain. Saw early work on this problem by Wal-Mart.FDA to pilot A.I., consider blockchain...
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Transistor Integrated with RAM
Intriguing integration. A further means to create IOT capabilities in place?Reorganizing a Computer Chip: Transistors Can Now Process, Store InformationPurdue University...
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Chaotic Systems
Have done lots of work modeling corporate systems, and on occasion chaotic behavior was observed, but never in my observation was it effectively used to model and...
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On an Economics of Eaches
Not a very new thing, but another way of looking at it, In Supply chain Brain.Watch: The Economics of 'Eaches'Thomas Goldsby: In SupplyChainBrainFarewell to the...
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Barcode Developer Dies
We were one of the earliest experimenters and users of the Barcode in retail, starting in 1994. In the BBC: George Laurer, the US engineer who helped develop...
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