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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
NSA Urges Shift to Memory Safe Programming Languages
Useful thoughts also mentioned in detail in current 'Security Now'In MalwareBytes: NSA urges shift to Memory Safe Programming LanguagesSee here: statement from...
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Microsoft Teams Gets Improved Sign Language
New accessibilityMicrosoft Teams is getting a sign language view in theVergeThe new accessibility feature creates a larger, high-quality view for interpreters...
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ACM Accepting Nominations for New Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling
New York, NY, November 17, 2022 – To highlight and encourage more research focused on modelling the devastating impact of climate change, ACM, the Association for...
From Schneier on Security
Successful Hack of Time-Triggered Ethernet
Time-triggered Ethernet (TTE) is used in spacecraft, basically to use the same hardware to process traffic with different timing and criticality. Researchers have...
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Single Drop Blood Test on Smartphone
Blood Testing streamlinedBlood Test Only Needs a Drop and a Smartphone for Results The tech shows promise, although user-friendly “single drop of blood” platforms...
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An AI with Artificial Sleep
Novel thought, We worked with UCSD.AI Uses Artificial Sleep to Learn New Task without Forgetting the LastBy New Scientist, November 16, 2022The researchers simulated...
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Reports on Computing, Big and Small
Training and MoreNew Records for the Biggest and Smallest AI Computers Nvidia H100 and Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon debut on ML Perf training benchmarks By SAMUEL...
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Amazon CEO says layoffs will extend into next year
More indications of supply chain and demand issuesAmazon CEO says layoffs will extend into next year by Haleluya Hadero in TechExplore The mass layoffs that began...
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Ten Years of Think with Google
Have religiously read Think with Google, in general nicely done. Here a good review of all the insights. 10 years of insights from Think with GoogleOct 24, 2022...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Resilience and Overcoming Adversity: The CTO Journey
When? July 20th, 2022 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) Watch On Demand The office of CTO oversees everything from technology vision and strategy, to architecture...
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Scientists Using Frontier Supercomputer Win 2022 Gordon Bell Prize, Another Frontier Team Named Prize Finalist
[SPONSORED CONTENT] How many researchers can say they’ve not only run their scientific job on the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer, the world’s no. 1 ranked...
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At SC22: ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded for Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Frontier, Fugaku, Summit and Perlmutter Supercomputers
New York, NY, November 17, 2022 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named a 16-member team drawn from French, Japanese, and US institutions as recipient...
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Cuddly Human Interface
Interesting look at new user interfaces, from the ACM, which has long looked at Human Consumer Interfaces (HCI) Featured ACM Member: Yuta SugiuraYuta Sugiura is...
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Blue Sky Track Winners at ICMI 2022
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the ICMI 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction...
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Wal-Mart's New, Wealthier Customers
Has been happening for a while:Can Walmart hold onto the new, wealthier customers it is picking up?by George Anderson in RetailwireWalmart’s savings message is...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Rounding modes: std::from_chars versus strtod/strtof
A recent C++ standard (C++17) introduced new functions to parse floating-point numbers std::from_chars, from strings (e.g., ASCII text) to binary numbers. How should...
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Technology for Textiles
Lately have had several questions regarding related tech. Here an overviewTechnology Transforms Textiles By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, November...
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Towards Fusion-Nuclear Military Aircraft
As mentioned, not a new thing.LOCKHEED MARTIN HAS A PATENT FOR FUSION-POWERED FIGHTERS AND BOMBERSAlex Hollings | October 25, 2022Back in 2018, Lockheed MartinThis...
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Quantum Computing Modalities
Useful intro ...Quantum Computing Modalities – A Qubit Primer Revisited in QuanTumtechIn December 2021, in an early iteration of this Blog, I described the various...
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