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Car Charging Robot
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Car Charging Robot

I have been looking at the supply chain aspects of EV ChargingThis Car Charger Bot Will Also Hold Your Spot Meet Ziggy, the EV charging robotLawrence Ulrich,   IEEE...

What AI Still Can't Do
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What AI Still Can't Do

Thoughtful PieceWhat AI Still Doesn't Know How to Do, By The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2022A few weeks ago a Google engineer got a lot of attention for a dramatic...

Blockchain Storing Genomes
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Blockchain Storing Genomes

Makes sense,  encoding. Blockchain Can Secure, Store GenomesYaleNews, Bill Hathaway, June 29, 2022The SAMchain technology developed by Yale University scientists...

Simulating  the Voices of the Dead
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulating the Voices of the Dead

Consider the complexity ... Raising the Voices of the Dead      By Tim Hornyak,   Commissioned by CACM Staff   July 19, 2022Artificial intelligence experts andChanneling...

Do AI Systems Really Have Their Own Secret Language?
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Do AI Systems Really Have Their Own Secret Language?

Vocabulary vs Language, implications for IP to be considered. Do AI systems really have their own secret language?   by Aaron J. Snoswell,  in Techexplore ...

Will AI Remove Submarine Stealth?
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Will AI Remove Submarine Stealth?

Has to be considered, along with many other kinds of stealth and related implications for that.Better detection will make the oceans transparent—and perhaps doom...

DNA Typewriter
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DNA Typewriter

Quite interesting. DNA Typewriter Taps Out a Record Inside CellsHoward Hughes Medical Institute News, July 8, 2022Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute...

Tech Workers Long Got What they Wanted?
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Tech Workers Long Got What they Wanted?

How true?Tech Workers Long Got What They Wanted. That's OverThe Wall Street Journal, By Katherine Bindley, July 15, 2022Technology workers who once could name their...

Modeling Marketing Mix Using Smoothing Splines
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Modeling Marketing Mix Using Smoothing Splines

 Recall a similar set of problems occurring in the enterprise, this could be useful. Computing and statistical -Technical.Modeling Marketing Mix Using Smoothing...

IBM Research Open-Sources Deep Search Tools
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IBM Research Open-Sources Deep Search Tools

 More info at the link,  More secure? Note mention of better scientific discovery.  Could have been  useful, when we sought to add internal knowledge to external...

Drones Scaring Birds
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Drones Scaring Birds

Makes sense, fairly obvious .... Effective?Drones Could Scare Birds Off Agricultural FieldsWashington State University, Scott Weybright, June 1, 2022An autonomous...

Digital Privacy Looking Grimmer
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Digital Privacy Looking Grimmer

From ACM:  So to what degree do we accept it?  And how?  While protecting everyone else?In a Post-Roe World, the Future of Digital Privacy Looks Even Grimmer   ...

First Formal Computer Art
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First Formal Computer Art

 Was reminded of this, from long ago ...  Art is?    Remember plotting some art myself. ACM OPINION InterviewCode Breaker: Meet the Man Who Virtually Invented Computer...

Robots Reshaping Warehouses
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Robots Reshaping Warehouses

Towards improved supply chains.Robots Aren't Done Reshaping WarehousesBy The New York Times, July 13, 2022When Digit spends an afternoon unloading boxes from aThe...

A Helping Hand for Robotic Manipulator Design
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A Helping Hand for Robotic Manipulator Design

 A Helping Hand for Robotic Manipulator DesignMassachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have created an integrated design pipeline that enables a user with...

Honda Says No to Fixing Security Bug
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Honda Says No to Fixing Security Bug

 Apparently Honda has disavowed fault regarding this easily addressed security problem, and say they won't fix it.   Schneier reports with further comment: Security...

Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs
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Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs

Fun examples of thinking about thinking computer science. Mordechai Rorvig, Staff WriterThe Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs  in QuantaMag...

IOS Lockdown Mode for Security
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IOS Lockdown Mode for Security

Interesting approach by Apple to make IOS more secure, at a cost.  Useful for some users that are particularly susceptible to external threats.     Here an intro...

Sticky Mini Robots at Work?
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Sticky Mini Robots at Work?

 Intriguing approachRobot made of sticky tape and metal powder could crawl on your organsTiny robots made of metallic powder stuck to plastic tape and controlled...

D-Wave 500 Qubit Quantum Machine on the Cloud
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D-Wave 500 Qubit Quantum Machine on the Cloud

Recall out interaction with D-Wave now dome time ago. often mentioned here. Qubit count is now  impressive.    They continue to advance with their specialty machines...
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