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AI Changing Human Choice and Chance?
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AI Changing Human Choice and Chance?

Perhaps it will, but its still in very small ways.  We are not even close to major changes.   .... AI is killing choice and chance—changing what it means to be ...

Syncing time on Smartphones for Measurements
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Syncing time on Smartphones for Measurements

Can be useful for synchronization of measurement.Twist-n-Sync: Skoltech Scientists Use Smartphone Gyroscopes to Sync Time Across DevicesSkolkovo Institute of Science...

AWS Enhances Amazon Managed Blockchain with Ethereum support
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AWS Enhances Amazon Managed Blockchain with Ethereum support

 This is interesting because it incudes ethereum support for Smart Contracts, being examined here.AWS Enhances Amazon Managed Blockchain with Ethereum support Maria...

AI Finds Battery Materials
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AI Finds Battery Materials

More detail about the method at the link.Using AI to Find Essential Battery MaterialsAs battery demand soars, researchers are turning to artificial intelligence...

AI Video Analysis in Athletics
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AI Video Analysis in Athletics

An example of how AI pattern recognition can achieve fine grain pattern detection and matching.   Here in athletic training planning and evaluation.   Note links...

Soft Robot Swims in the Mariana Trench
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Soft Robot Swims in the Mariana Trench

An example of extreme exploration, using a soft biomimicking design.  Considerable possibilities here.Soft robot swims in the Mariana Trench  in Techexplore byA...

China Charges Ahead with National Digital Currency
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China Charges Ahead with National Digital Currency

Implications of these changes for US and Others? China Charges Ahead with National Digital Currency  By The New York Times,  March 4, 2021China has charged ahead...

Quantum Wavelength Switch
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Quantum Wavelength Switch

Interesting direction outlines.   Note the number of users in the quantum network being key.Quantum Internet Closer to Reality, Thanks to This SwitchBy Purdue University...

Amazon Launches tools to Manage Workflows
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Amazon Launches tools to Manage Workflows

We were mainly looking at how to manage work flows in general,  but the same goal really.    Replace some of the resource components with robots, people, analytics...

Google Cardboard VR is Gone
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Google Cardboard VR is Gone

I used to recommend these in classes.   Still have some around, somewhere ....  Too bad.  Downward trend in VR signaled?   Google stops selling its Cardboard VR...

Publix Pandemic Sales Increase
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Publix Pandemic Sales Increase

 Interesting numbers, starting with increased sales.   A kind of behavioral measure of interest.  Much more at the link.Publix Super Markets: For the full fiscal...

Retrain Your Model, Update the Data
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Retrain Your Model, Update the Data

Such an obvious thing, but often forgotten. I make a point to include such updating instructions in everything I delivered.   No data, except from physics, is static...

A Security Problem with Common PLCs
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A Security Problem with Common PLCs

We worked actively with PLCs, 'Programmable Logic Controllers' in the enterprise.    Small, dedicated computers used to control industrial process.  They reliably...

Detecting Earthquakes and Waves
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Detecting Earthquakes and Waves

A favorite topic, detecting pattern.  Its a big part of our intelligence.   Here using new kinds of sensor data. Google Uses Underwater Fiber-Optic Cable to Detect...

WIkibon Research
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WIkibon Research

Brought back to my attention and of interest. Wikibon 2021 Research FocusThe Wikibon 2021 research focus is based on a community-based approach to deliver in-depth...

Spending in a Solarwinds and COVID Context
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Spending in a Solarwinds and COVID Context

Interesting to see the specific implications of security and supply chain contexts. Breaking Analysis: How the SolarWinds Hack & COVID are Changing CISO Spending...

TripleBlind raises $8.2 million Encrypted Data Science Platform
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TripleBlind raises $8.2 million Encrypted Data Science Platform

 Most interesting Application here, note interaction of compliance.TripleBlind raises $8.2 million for its Encrypted Data Science platformKyle Wiggers  @Kyle_L_Wiggers...

Towards Decentralized Finance
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Towards Decentralized Finance

Notable look at where this might be going.  Getting some reading that it is being much more broadly applied than expected.   But there remains some strongly based...

Space Hotel being Planned for 2025
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Space Hotel being Planned for 2025

Cost details lacking but plans starting. World's first space HOTEL to begin construction in low Earth orbit in 2025 complete with restaurants, cinemas and rooms...

IBM Cloud Satellites:  Watson and the Edge
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IBM Cloud Satellites: Watson and the Edge

Towards more secure data via satellites.  Secure Data as a Service.IBM Cloud Satellite Enables Clients to Deliver Cloud Securely in Any Environment Including at...
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