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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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Fiber-Optic Cables Could Be Used to Spy on People a Kilometer Away
Optical fiber speech sensor. Fiber-Optic Cables Could Be Used to Spy on People a Kilometer AwayNew ScientistKarmela Padavic-Callaghan, July 27, 2022A device built...
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Predicting Illness
Disease Diagnosis by ChipAm I Getting Sick?, By R. Colin JohnsonCommissioned by CACM Staff, July 14, 2022A microfluidic chip for diagnosing diseases, which uses...
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Drones and Contraband
Remember being asked this question a while back ... Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons Wired, Jeff LinkLaw enforcement officers face...
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Amazon Goes for iRobot
Quite the expected thing...Amazon to Acquire iRobot For $1.7 Billion The deal will give the e-retail behemoth even more access to our homes EVAN ACKERMANThis morning...
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Flexible Hand Grip
Safe? Flexible Robot Hand with Precise Grip Lifts 1,000 Times Its Own WeightBy New Scientist, August 4, 2022Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology have...
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Complexity of Personalized Bartending
The task of bartending has often been proposed as a classic automatable human interaction, here a new development of interest. Social aspects claim to be included...
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Closing Malls?
Been watching the closing of local malls, repurposing of space, seems contrary to the following: New stores are opening in malls, inflation or no by Matthew Stern...
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Redesigning Streets with AI
Worked with civil engineers early in my career who worked with this kind of designing, fascinating approachThink Your Street Needs a Redesign? Ask an AIBloomberg...
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Fan Robotics in Space
Fan Robotics in SpaceNASA's Space Robots Hit Another MilestoneZDNet, Liam Tung, July 26, 2022The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Astrobee...
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Transforming Science through Cyberinfrastructure
Considerable piece. Process-technical. Instructive diagrams at link. Transforming Science through CyberinfrastructureBy Manish Parashar, Amy Friedlander, Erwin...
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Monte Carlo Simulation
Good intro piece to a method we used for many purposes in the enterprise. Even creating usable models for key processes that were used for decades. Consider...
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Is the Password Done? Safely?
Is this finally the case? See: Apple Just Killed the Password—for Real This TimeBy Wired, June 8, 2022Your passwords are terrible. Year after year, the most...
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Six Ways Blockchain Is Bolstering Supply Chains
Useful piece to consider.Six Ways Blockchain Is Bolstering Supply ChainsJune 13, 2022, Rob Viglione, SCB Contributor in SupplyChain Brain In today's digital world...
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Encryption Contender Cracked by Simpler Methods
Good to see this was detected early. Without Quantum Methods. Why was it so susceptible? Implications for future methods?Post-Quantum Encryption Contender Taken...
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Surprising Way Crowd Size Affects Our Tendency to Cheat
Not unexpected, depending on further contexts, more implications hereThe Surprising Way Crowd Size Affects Our Tendency to CheatOrganizations would be wise toBy...
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Smell as Useful Sense
We spent much time examining the power of smell in retail. Worth a close look. Virtual Reality Stinks Because It Does Not SmellBy Wired, August 2, 2022Illustration...
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Chips Act Explained
Seems a weak and expensive move. The CHIPS Act and Industrial Policy, ExplainedBy The Week, August 2, 2022The United States is going to start making more of its...
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Schneier Writes on Ring Doorbell and Police
Needs more caution on use, but am all for automating home protection. Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent in Bruce SchneierAmazon has...
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Fixing Ad Bias
Example of AI being used to address bias.An AI Fix to Advertising Bias? Industry Giants Commit to IBM's TechWPP, Delta Air Lines, the 4A's tap computing giant's...
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