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Voting, fast and slow
From Putting People First

Voting, fast and slow

The online voting platform that was used by Italy's Five Star Movement to select the candidates for the 2013 parliamentary elections didn't take account of human...

Lego Computer Science: Logic with Truth Tables
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Lego Computer Science: Logic with Truth Tables

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London We have seen how to represent truth tables in lego. Truth tables are a way of giving precise meaning to logicalContinue...

AI as Co-Pilot
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI as Co-Pilot

More on Microsoft's plans to use emerging AI chat capabilities.  Further updatesACM NEWSAI as Co-Pilot: Your Online Life Is About to Change, Like It or Not  ByIn...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Is a Blockchain Thingy
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Is a Blockchain Thingy

I had no idea—until I read this incredibly jargon-filled article: Squid is a cross-chain liquidity and messaging router that swaps across multiple chains and their...

Undersea Data Pacific Cable Project Halted
From The Eponymous Pickle

Undersea Data Pacific Cable Project Halted

Global cooperation halted. Facebook halts project for undersea data cable to Hong Kong over US-China tensions  In HongKong Free PressThe Hong Kong landing station...

Digital Twin for Intense Weather
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Twin for Intense Weather

Interesting and clever approach, if there is enough detail in the model being used.  How much is required for the purpose? ACM TECHNEWSDigital Twin for IntenseBy...

Weaponizing Starlink?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Weaponizing Starlink?

 At what point is something directly weaponized?  In support of military activity?SpaceX curbed Ukraine's use of Starlink internet for drones -company president...

A 3-D Printing Factory
From The Eponymous Pickle

A 3-D Printing Factory

More scaled, efficient operations? You Know What's Cool? A 3D-Printing Factory,     By Bloomberg, February 9, 2023Freeform Future co-founder and CEO Erik Palitsch...

Darpa Quantum Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Darpa Quantum Computing

A look at how Quantum is seen by DarpaDARPA's Quantum Computing is Powered by ..FOMO  -  (Fear of Missing Out) 'Strategic Surprise'By The Register. February 2,Under...

Digital Foot Could Enhance Neuroprosthetics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Foot Could Enhance Neuroprosthetics

Improved digital devices and directions.  Note also  linking brain to prosthetics. ACM TECHNEWSDigital Foot Could Enhance NeuroprostheticsBy The Engineer,  February...

Japan Geopolitics, Satellites
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japan Geopolitics, Satellites

 Rand looks at their changing defence structure,   Implications in the region.  Japan's Long-Awaited Return to GeopoliticsCOMMENTARY  (Foreign Policy)Japan's Prime...

Piloting Drones Reliably
From The Eponymous Pickle

Piloting Drones Reliably

 Increasing useful control.  Piloting Drone Reliably with Mobile CommunicationsResearch News / February 01, 2023Drones are operating increasingly in areas out of...

Deutsche Börse Partners with Google Cloud
From insideHPC

Deutsche Börse Partners with Google Cloud

Deutsche Börse and Google Cloud have today announced a strategic partnership designed to enhance, economize and concentrate Deutsche Börse’s cloud adoption. Specifically...

TSMC January 2023 Revenue Up 16.2% YoY
From insideHPC

TSMC January 2023 Revenue Up 16.2% YoY

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Feb. 10, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for January 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for January...

Hacking the Tax Code
From Schneier on Security

Hacking the Tax Code

The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year...

SEEQC and BASF to Explore Quantum Computing in Chemical Reactions for Industrial Use
From insideHPC

SEEQC and BASF to Explore Quantum Computing in Chemical Reactions for Industrial Use

ELMSFORD, N.Y., Feb. 9, 2023 — SEEQC, the digital quantum computing company, and chemical company BASF today announced a partnership to explore the applicationSEEQC...

Former Council Member Melanie Mitchell on Detecting AI Generated Text
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Former Council Member Melanie Mitchell on Detecting AI Generated Text

AI generative models have recently taken the world by storm creating digital art, music and prose. Among these innovations is a new language model called ChatGPT...

Value and Emergence of Space Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Value and Emergence of Space Robotics

 Lots to learn here, using robotics in constrained and specific contexts. ACM NEWSSpace Robots Prepare to Grapple and Repair Satellites in OrbitFebruary 9, 2023...

The Premature Obituary of Programming
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Premature Obituary of Programming

Much yet to do here, but I would expect this would ultimately take over many such capabilities.    Especially when integrated with automated testing for threatThe...

HPCNow! Announces HPC Cluster Monitoring Offering
From insideHPC

HPCNow! Announces HPC Cluster Monitoring Offering

Barcelona, February 8th 2023 – HPCNow! has announced a real-time HPC cluster monitoring capability. The monitoring stack includes open-source solutions such asHPCNow...
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