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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Tiny Robotics
Still hard, but advancing. Minuscule Sensing Suite Is a Big Step Toward Robotic Gnats Tiny flying robots need even tinier flying sensors By Evan Ackerman in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Water Worlds?
The breadth of planet types is beginning to be seen ... Scientists may have found the first water worlds?Density suggests these "super-Earths" are more like giant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RIP Passwords Again?
Security advances. RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stableWith a huge list of caveats, initial Google passkey support is here.RON AMADEOPasskeys...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens Use Example in Healthcare
An example that as recently described to me in more detail. HoloLens Headsets Connect Patients, Metropolitan DoctorsBy ABC News (Australia), October 31, 2022HoloLens...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Concert
Squid is performing a concert in London in February. If you don’t know what their music is like, try this or this or this. As usual, you can also use this squid...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overture Maps to Emerge to Compete with Google
Nice to see Competitive Geographical mapping, been using Google for some time. Google has done a great job, but want to see yet more creative things. Open...
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Blockchain Fails to Gain Traction in the Enterprise
More on Enterprise Blockchain, MaerskBlockchain Fails to Gain Traction in the EnterpriseThe Wall Street JournalIsabelle Bousquette, December 15, 2022BlockchainFull...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US-China Chip War Continues
A Space I am watching, regards the players and supply chain. Point me to other relevant information.US-China chip war: How the technology dispute is playing out...
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Every Company Uses Software, but are they a Software Company?
Even more so now that we have things like ChatGPT, but we still need to understand increasingly deeper context when using the algorithms involved. Caution is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Playing with Chat GPT: A Future of Delivering Knowledge?
The end of journalism, or the ability to tell the difference? Continuing toimprove. But will some of us will still be needed to point out the key details? ...
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Launching a Lunar Flashlight
Looking for ice and other components of a longer stay on other worlds. NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Launches to Shine a Light on Lunar IceBy Ryan Whitwam on December...
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Researchers Develop Virtual Molecular Library of Thousands of 'Command Sentences' for Cells
Cellular 'Command Sentences'. Researchers Develop Virtual Molecular Library of Thousands of 'Command Sentences' for Cells News-Medical Life Sciences, Emily Henderson...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Patches iPhone Zero-Day
The most recent iPhone update—to version 16.1.2—patches a zero-day vulnerability that “may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released beforeNews...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Mutation Carol 2
Ghosts of creations past and citations not present Domenico Amalfitano, Ana Paiva, Alexis Inquel, Luis Pinto, Anna Rita Fasolino, and René Just are the authors...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC’s 2022 Highlights
The CCC would like to give a special thanks to everyone from the community for their support and participation over the past year. We accomplished a lot of important...
From insideHPC
ClearML and Ultralytics Partner on Open Source Technologies for MLOps
Tel Aviv, IL, December 15, 2022 – ClearML, an open source, end-to-end MLOps platform, and Ultralytics, a vision AI company, announced today that they have partnered...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Checking for the absence of a string, naive AVX-512 edition
Suppose you would like to check that a string is not present in a large document. In C, you might do the following using the standard function strstr: bool is_present...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Goal is not Intelligence?
Some thoughts ...AI's true goal may no longer be intelligence in ZDNet, ExcerptsSome scholars of AI warn that the present technologies may never add up to "true"...
From insideHPC
Finnish IT Center CSC (Site of LUMI) and TACC in HPC Collaboration
The CSC – the Finnish IT Center for Science – and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, have signed a memorandum of understanding...
From Computational Complexity