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True Holograms in Person to Person Communications
From The Eponymous Pickle

True Holograms in Person to Person Communications

Is it relevant?  Of course you could have asked this of multi person visual conference calling a few decades ago and got a negative. Our needs are driven by possibilities...

Amazon Closing Some Physical Store Formats
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Closing Some Physical Store Formats

Was unaware of its other formats,  part of the problem.  But online works so well for them. Not affecting Whole FoodsAmazon is closing all its Books, 4-Star and...

Atos Wins Contract with HMRC for Testing Services
From insideHPC

Atos Wins Contract with HMRC for Testing Services

London, 8 March 2022 – Atos UK and Ireland today announces that it has extended its relationship with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), signing a new contract forAtos...

NeoPhotonics Announces 53 Gbaud PAM4 Driver ICs for 100G and 400G Hyperscale Data Center Networks  
From insideHPC

NeoPhotonics Announces 53 Gbaud PAM4 Driver ICs for 100G and 400G Hyperscale Data Center Networks  

SAN JOSE — March 8, 2022 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based lasers,...

APCS A–Java or Python?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

APCS A–Java or Python?

There is a lot of discussion about moving the Advanced Placement CS A exam to Python from Java. The Collegeboard is reluctant to do so. They see APCSA as the equivalent...

Detecting Data Anomalies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Detecting Data Anomalies

Looks to be a useful thing, depending on your goals and definitions of anomaly.  Like the definition of usage cases.    Using AI to Find Anomalies Hiding in Massive...

Futurist Gerd Leonhard
From The Eponymous Pickle

Futurist Gerd Leonhard

Attending today:Event  by Futurist Gerd Leonhard... "If you work like a robot, a robot will take your job":   GerdTalks#4  Work2030Anything that can be digitized...

Intel Introduces Details for Agilex M-Series FPGAs
From insideHPC

Intel Introduces Details for Agilex M-Series FPGAs

March 7, 2022 — Intel today introduced product details for the Intel Agilex M-Series FPGAs, built on Intel 7 process technology. The company offering has the industry...

Ranovus Claims 1st Monolithic 100G Optical I/O Cores
From insideHPC

Ranovus Claims 1st Monolithic 100G Optical I/O Cores

San Diego – March 7, 2022 — Ranovus Inc. (“RANOVUS”) today announced the availability of its protocol-agnostic Odin 100G optical I/O cores based on GF Fotonix,Ranovus...

HPC Storage Specialist Excelero Now Part of NVIDIA
From insideHPC

HPC Storage Specialist Excelero Now Part of NVIDIA

Excelero, a Tel Aviv-based provider of high-performance software-defined storage, is now a part of NVIDIA. “The company’s team of engineers — including its seasoned...

Ansys in Silicon Photonics Partnership with GlobalFoundries
From insideHPC

Ansys in Silicon Photonics Partnership with GlobalFoundries

PITTSBURGH March 7, 2022 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) announced it is collaborating with GlobalFoundries to deliver silicon photonics solutions., using photons — instead...

Fugaku, Tokyo Medical & Dental University Investigate Drug Resistance in Cancer Treatment
From insideHPC

Fugaku, Tokyo Medical & Dental University Investigate Drug Resistance in Cancer Treatment

Fujitsu and the Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) today announced it is using the world’s top-ranked supercomputer and AI to investigate mechanisms ofFugaku...

Home Robot Vacs Controlled by Alexa
From The Eponymous Pickle

Home Robot Vacs Controlled by Alexa

 More embedding controls for the home.How to control your robot vacuum with Alexa   in TheVerge‘Alexa, tell my robot vac to get off its dock and start cleaning’...

One year on, has the French repair index kept its promises?
From Putting People First

One year on, has the French repair index kept its promises?

Analysis of the outcomes of the French repairability index, how it affects repairers and how consumers feel about it.

How Does AI Improve Human Decision-Making
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Does AI Improve Human Decision-Making

Improve, but always in contexts that make it hard to measure. How Does AI Improve Human Decision-Making?  by Irving Wladawsky-Berger“Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

Robot Photography
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Photography

How good?Robot Photographer Has Eye for Aesthetics  By Cornell Chronicle, March 4, 2022Cornell University researchers have developed a robotic photography system...

Selling NFT Art in Strange Places
From The Eponymous Pickle

Selling NFT Art in Strange Places

I would be careful about this. An NFT Art ATM?  By Reuters, March 4, 2022The first in-person non-fungible token (NFT) vending machine has been installed in NewThe...

What Should APCS A Really Be About?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What Should APCS A Really Be About?

Perhaps my favorite panel of SIGCSE 2022 was debating the question of should the APCS A course switch its language from Java to Python? During the discussion it...

Do we need to change our behaviour to reach net zero by 2050?
From Putting People First

Do we need to change our behaviour to reach net zero by 2050?

Behavioural changes which affect the way people use energy are an important part of the toolkit for reaching net zero emissions by 2050.

[Report] Applying Behavioural Science to Advance Environmental Sustainability
From Putting People First

[Report] Applying Behavioural Science to Advance Environmental Sustainability

Applying behavioural science to environmental challenges can help policymakers better target and redirect unsustainable behaviours. This report draws on published...
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