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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 …
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15th Annual Energy High Performance Computing Conference to Be In-person March 1-3
Hosted annually at Rice University in Houston by the Ken Kennedy Institute, the Energy HPC Conference examines challenges and opportunities in HPC, computational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Blockchain Hype
Good somewhat technical examination of work underway, including work by IBM, Hyperledger and hype of this space in general. Blockchain For What, Exactly? By Doug...
From The Eponymous Pickle
7-Eleven Stores in Japan Get Touch-Free Floating Holographic Self-Checkouts
ACM TECHNEWS7-Eleven Stores in Japan Get Touch-Free Floating Holographic Self-Checkouts By GizmodoSix 7-Eleven stores in Tokyo, Japan, will soon feature floating...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How many digits in a product?
We often represent integers with digits. E.g., the integer 1234 has 4 digits. By extension, we use ‘binary’ digits, called bits, within computers. Thus the integer...
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AMD Infinity Hub: Channeling the Power of AMD Accelerators for Faster Time-to-Science
[Sponsored Content] GPUs have revolutionized HPC and AI, carrying advanced performance forward where Moore’s Law dropped off. The result: exploding global demand...
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Arm Veteran Matthew Mattina Joins Tenstorrent as VP of Machine Learning
Toronto — Feb. 8, 2022 — The same day Nvidia dropped its attempt to acquire Arm, Arm’s senior director of its Machine Learning Research Lab, Matthew Mattina, announced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Lab Tools
Had not thought of this, clever idea as it is applied.Bringing Open Source to the Global Lab BenchBY JULIETA ARANCIO, SHANNON DOSEMAGEN in Issues.orgIn 2015,OpenFlexure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Commerce Media
The rise of commerce mediaCommerce media is transforming advertising by using data to close the transaction loop.The rise of commerce media: The opportunity for...
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Weird Computer-Generated Phrases Tip-Off Scientific Publishing Fraud
How well this would work fairly and contextually is unclear.Weird Computer-Generated Phrases Tip-Off Scientific Publishing FraudBy Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
From Computational Complexity
A Book Break
I got the writing bug back while working on my recent CACM article and I'd like to try my hand at another book. Not sure the exact topic but something related to...
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Lenovo’s ‘Carbon-Negative’ Strategy for Customers Drives a Sustainable Energy Future
[Sponsored Content] The climate crisis – and, specifically, how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by power-hungry data centers – was a top-of-mind issue...
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Surface Finishing by Laser
A laser process for surface finishingLotus effects by laser, Research News / February 01, 2022 By Fraunhofer InstituteNano- and microstructures can now be incorporated...
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Invent the Work of the Future
Good overview by Irving Wladawsky, including aspects of COVID influence, more at the links below. The Work of the Future Is Ours to Invent Irving Wladawsky by...
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Nvidia and SoftBank: Attempted Arm Deal Is Off; Arm to Prepare IPO
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and TOKYO – Feb. 7, 2022 – NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (“SBG” or “SoftBank”) today announced the termination of the previously announced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twinning in the Metaverse
Digital Twinning in the MetaverseDigital twins could be crucial to metaverse adoption?BY DANIEL LIPSCOMBE in GMW3April 13th 1970: The Apollo 13 spacecraft isFrom...
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Quantum Company D-Wave Going Public
BURNABY, British Columbia & PALO ALTO, Calif. & MIAMI — D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software and services company announced today definitive...
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Journal: NCAR Supercomputer ‘Up Against Complex Physics of Programming Thousands of Weather Variables’
The “Cheyenne” supercomputer, an Intel-powered SGI system installed in 2017 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, is at the heart of...
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Kao Data Expands UK Data Center with 16MW Facility in Slough
London, 7th February 2022 – Kao Data, the specialist developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has today announced...
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Intel Joins RISC-V International
ZURICH – February 7, 2022 – RISC-V International, the global open hardware standards organization, today announced that Intel Corporation has joined RISC-V International...
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