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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
Expect and Fear the Trading Bot
Be very careful ... I, Trading BotAlgorithms are being unleashed on the crypto markets.By Nathan Thompson in CoinDeskOpinion Movies about stock traders and investors...
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New Quantum Computing Advance
New Advances? , Considerably technical .. Advance Brings Quantum Computing One Step Closer to ImplementationUniversity of Tokyo (Japan), October 24, 2022Two ion...
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Light-Analyzing 'Lab on a Chip' Opens Door to Portable Spectrometers
Light Sensors. Light-Analyzing 'Lab on a Chip' Opens Door to Portable SpectrometersOregon State University News, Steve Lundeberg, October 20, 2022An international...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Boston’s CharlieCard
Interesting discussion of vulnerabilities and exploits against Boston’s CharlieCard.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Nominations Open
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with enabling the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Can Code
Is AI the next step for useful and more secure coding? DeepMind's AlphaCode Can Outcompete Human CodersGizmodo, Mack DeGeurin, December 8, 2022DeepMind's AlphaCode...
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Big Players Ready for Meta Headset Offerings
Big Players and more Meta Reality Hype and PrepApple Is Now Calling Its AR/VR Headset Operating System ‘xrOS’By Josh Norem on December 5, 2022 in ExtremeTechApple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How AI-powered Market Research Helps Predict Success of Future Products and Advertising
Interesting Claims made.How AI-powered market research helps predict success of future products and advertisingSean Michael Kerner @TechJournalist, DecemberMarket...
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Balancing Robotic Cube
Uses in Space, Transportation? Amazing Robotic Sculpture Balances Itself on One Corner Is it a sculpture? Is it a robot? The Balancing Cube is both By Erico Guizzo...
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Colgate Advertising as a Space Hygiene Company
Spent a considerable amount of time working at Procter & Gamble, often a competitor to Colgate, so its interesting to see this product connection with arch competitor...
From Schneier on Security
Obligatory ChatGPT Post
Seems like absolutely everyone everywhere is playing with Chat GPT. So I did, too…. Write an essay in the style of Bruce Schneier on how ChatGPT will affect cybersecurity...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Europe: 10 Years and Counting
On December 10, 2022, ACM-W Europe held its 10th-anniversary celebration, “ACM-W Europe: 10 Years and Counting”. The virtual event, hosted by Araz Yusubov and Ada...
From CERIAS Blog
Spaf is interviewed about his new book
In the 100th episode of CISO Stories: Discussion with Gene Spafford on some of the common cybersecurity myths and how to better cope with the changing environment...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
A Call to All ACM-W Chapters! Now is the Time to Find Your Buddy
Are you an ACM-W Chapter in collaboration with another ACM/ACM-W/SIG chapter? We love to hear from you! And if you don’t have a collaborator, partner, a buddy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earth's Poles Flipping?
The linked article below claims that NASA has detected an increase in the wandering of the earth's magnetic poles. Ultimately this can produce what is called a...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Above and Beyond Scholarship – Julita Inca Chiroque
Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2012 Country of residence at the time of receiving the ACM...
From insideHPC
Shakespeare Content Helps CATALOG Claim DNA-based Computing Milestone
DNA-based data storage and computation company Catalog Technologies reported today what it said is “a historic breakthrough in DNA computation by demonstratingShakespeare...
From Geeking with Greg
Focus on the Long-term
One of my favorite papers of all time is "Focus on the Long-Term: It's better for Users and Business" from Google Research. This paper found that Google makes more...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What is the memory usage of a small array in C++?
In an earlier blog post, I reported that the memory usage of a small byte array in Java (e.g., an array containing 4 bytes) was about 24 bytes. In other words:Continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle