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Optical I/O Company Ayar Labs Raises $130M in Series C Funding
From insideHPC

Optical I/O Company Ayar Labs Raises $130M in Series C Funding

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – April 26, 2022 – Ayar Labs, a chip-to-chip optical connectivity company, today announced that the company has secured $130 million in additional...

Building a More Inclusive Internet for All: A Radix Initiative
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Building a More Inclusive Internet for All: A Radix Initiative

By Aman Masjide, UA Ambassador; Consulting Advisor, Trust and Safety, Radix The ironic fact of the matter remains that there’s rigidity hardcoded into the ever-evolving...

Univever Boosts Availability
From The Eponymous Pickle

Univever Boosts Availability

 Our biggest competitor ....Unilever’s Newest Way to Boost On-Shelf Availability,   Lisa Johnston,  Senior EditorThe tool recommends whether to continue manufacturing...

Qumulo Launches ‘Cloud Now’ Program with 1 Free Petabyte of Storage
From insideHPC

Qumulo Launches ‘Cloud Now’ Program with 1 Free Petabyte of Storage

SEATTLE – Apr. 25, 2022 – Qumulo, a high performance data storage and management company, today unveiled “Cloud Now,” a new program that offers cloud builders the...

AI Ushers in next-gen Prior Authorization in Healthcare
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Ushers in next-gen Prior Authorization in Healthcare

Had yet to see this specific kind of applicationAI ushers in next-gen prior authorization in healthcare in McKinseyHealthcare payers recognize prior authorization...

Musk Takes Twitter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Musk Takes Twitter

Worth a look to think of implications, who guarantees freedom of speech? A complete timeline of the Elon Musk-Twitter saga   from TechCrunchIt’s been a wild month...

Regulation of US Unmanned Aircraft Systems  (UAS)
From The Eponymous Pickle

Regulation of US Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

Been following commercial drone use here for some time.  We see that the US has today rolled out a 'whole-of-government plan' for unmanned aircraft systems  (UAS)...

Japanese Custom ASICS Company MegaChips to Enter US Market
From insideHPC

Japanese Custom ASICS Company MegaChips to Enter US Market

San Jose – April 26, 2022 – MegaChips, a custom ASIC company in Japan, today announced the launch of its AI Partner Program, which allows companies to integrate...

Newly Powered LiDAR System
From The Eponymous Pickle

Newly Powered LiDAR System

Note mention of piezoelectric method for powering Lidar.    Could be a big step.LiDAR System Promises 3D Vision for Cameras, Cars, BotsIEEE Spectrum, Mark Harris...

Robotics in Nursing Homes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotics in Nursing Homes

Saw related work being outlined in Japan.Can Robots Save Nursing Homes?The New York Times, John Leland, April 24, 2022As more nursing home and assisted living facility...

Content Structure
From The Noisy Channel

Content Structure

One of the challenges facing search applications is that users aren’t necessarily searching for documents. To put it another way, the unit of content that a user...

JARVICE™ XE, The Platform Powering Hybrid Supercomputing
From insideHPC

JARVICE™ XE, The Platform Powering Hybrid Supercomputing

Since its debut in 2019 as the world’s first container-native, hybrid cloud supercomputing application delivery platform, JARVICE™ XE has seen rapid innovationJARVICE...

A First IBM Mainframe for AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

A First IBM Mainframe for AI

 Have not tested this, nor checked completely what a 'mainframe AI'device means fully, but here is the claim:The first IBM mainframe for AI arrivesThe next-generation...

Bitcoin as Reserve Currency
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bitcoin as Reserve Currency

Implications of this?Cryptoverse: 10 billion reasons bitcoin could become a reserve currency   By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Medha SinghApril 12 (Reuters) - A crypto...

From Computational Complexity

The Roeder Problem was Solved Before I Posed it (how we missed it)

(This is a joint post with David and Tomas Harris.)In my an earlier post (see here) I discussed the MATH behind a problem that I worked on, with David and Tomas...

Salvaging Scarce Chips
From The Eponymous Pickle

Salvaging Scarce Chips

 Had to read this several times before I understood it.    But apparently they are compatible for use. Chip-Starved Firms Are Scavenging Silicon From Washing Machines...

Siemens: How to Deliver Products to Market Faster by Integrating Electrical, Mechanical, PLM, and MBSE.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Siemens: How to Deliver Products to Market Faster by Integrating Electrical, Mechanical, PLM, and MBSE.

Former colleague now VP at Siemens sends along a Webinar alertVia Suzanne Kopcha,   Vice President Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries SoftwareRegister for our...

Age of the Unreasonable Consumer?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Age of the Unreasonable Consumer?

Been thinking more and more unreasonable of late.   Whats driving it? How to Win in the Age of Unreasonable ConsumerMukesh Gupta  in CustomerThinkI recently stumbled...

Security Tool Based on Surveillance Footage
From The Eponymous Pickle

Security Tool Based on Surveillance Footage

 Have been thinking for sometime, how do you balance security and privacy in a world of quickly advancing and automated surveillance?  Security tool guarantees ...

Future Changing Childhood Survey
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future Changing Childhood Survey

 Thought this was interesting, as we grow older.  How do the young think about technology? Other contexts of our lives?   How should e adapt a future web.  Or just...
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