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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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Amazon Failing to Protect Your Data?
Implications for future nuse?Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data, By Wired, November 19, 2021 in ACM NewsOn September 26, 2018, a row of tech...
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Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots
Smell again is something we examined in retail interaction, here much more dramatic.Explosive sensing with insect-based biorobots in ScienceDirectHighlightsAAbstract...
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Moon Oxygen
But how usable? Quite a claim.The Moon’s Surface Has Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8 Billion People for 100,000 Years in SingularityHubBy John Grant -Nov 14, 2021157...
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Securing Your Digital Life
Some good thoughts.Securing your digital life, the finale: Debunking worthless “security” practices in ArsTechnicaWe tear down some infosec conventional wisdom...
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Ethereum to Remove Miners?
Had looked at other non-mining approaches, but these had other issues.Bye-Bye, Miners! How Ethereum’s Big Change Will WorkBy The Washington Post, August 19, 2021...
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Starbucks and Amazon Go Joint Concept Stores
Seems a novel approach:Starbucks and Amazon open first joint concept store with more to comeby George Anderson in Retailwire with expert commentsStarbucks and...
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Novartis and Pharma AI
Fairly broad look at how drugs can use AI:Novartis empowers scientists with AI to speed the discovery and development of breakthrough medicinesBy Bill BriggsHere...
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Imagine if Your Therapist Could Access Your Smartphone
Very interesting thought, will the contents of our phones provide maps to our psyche in the future? Useful, but beware of possible uses, privacy?Imagine ifThe...
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Thoughts on SC21: Exascale, TOP500, Diversity in HPC, Quantum, the Metaverse
We pulled together a quartet of HPC thought leaders from the technology analyst and national lab communities to gather their reflections on SC21, ranging from big...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
ICANN72 Recap: Highlights on the Progress of UA and IDNs
By Sarmad Hussain, Sr. Director IDN & UA Programs ICANN’s global multistakeholder community recently came together virtually for ICANN72 Annual General MeetingICANN72...
From insideHPC
LLNL Team Wins SC21 Reproducibility Advancement Award for Approximation Framework
A suite developed by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team to simplify evaluation of approximation techniques for scientific applications has won...
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Developers are Better with Automation
Will have to deal with this as automation progresses. How about the influence on say the security of the code being written?Developers Are Better With Automation...
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Cornelis Fabric Tapped by DOE / NNSA for Advanced Sim
Cornelis Networks announced it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) as an HPC network provider...
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Towards Mind Mapping
Have used mind mapping for a number of serious applications, both for documenting and building, but it seems to be less mentioned of late. Here Google talksHow...
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AI Risk and Coming Regulation
More needs to be done here here, though though predicting it wil be hsrd. Consider risk analyses under varying scenarios.Assess AI Risk to Prepare for Coming ...
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Apply for the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) recently announced the start of the application period to attend the 9th annual HLF, which will take place September 18–23,...
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DoE: HPC4EI Solicitation to Connect Industry with Exascale HPC Resources
Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million to connect industry partners with U.S. national laboratory high-performance...
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NVIDIA Long-Haul InfiniBand at Purdue University – Extending Accelerated Research Across Campus
[Sponsored Post] For data-driven researchers, the time-related expense of moving data from machines between data centers slows computation and causes costly delays...
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MLOps Company Comet Raises $50M
New York – November 18, 2021 – Comet, provider of the development platform for enterprise machine learning (ML) teams, today announced it has raised $50 million...
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