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Solar Storms and Undersea Cables
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solar Storms and Undersea Cables

 Brought this up recently, a long time area of interest.  Note the particular mention that undersea cables would be at particular risk.Bad Solar Storm Could Cause...

Argonne Picks AMD EPYC CPUs for Polaris
From insideHPC

Argonne Picks AMD EPYC CPUs for Polaris

Santa Clara — Aug. 30, 2021 — AMD today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has chosen AMD EPYC processors to power...

Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution
From The Eponymous Pickle

Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution

A decade yet, but also will happen as we need combinatorial solutions. Prepare for the Quantum Computing Revolution.Expert: Now is the time to prepare for the quantum...

Bending Light for a Cheaper Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bending Light for a Cheaper Internet

Who Can Bend Light for a Cheaper Internet?By MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory  in CACMMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers...

What have Language Models Learned?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What have Language Models Learned?

 InterestingWhat Have Language Models Learned?Large language models are making it possible for computers to write stories, program a website and turn captions into...

China to get out of Crypto Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

China to get out of Crypto Mining

A rumor, or not?   Or in what sense? China is getting out of crypto mining. Is North America ready to embrace it?Aug 12, 2021 at 21:07  in CoindeskBeijing has been...

Drone Deliveries Build
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drone Deliveries Build

Following this closely for for delivery, inspection, maintenance.Wing Approaches 100,000 Drone Deliveries 2 Years After Launch   By TechCrunchTwo years after its...

Wharton Book and Podcast:  On Serious Gamification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wharton Book and Podcast: On Serious Gamification

Book and podcast on the subject:Gamification Is Changing How We Work — and Succeed‘For the Win’ authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter discuss the revised and updated...

Spies for Hire
From The Eponymous Pickle

Spies for Hire

More Evidence of Global HackingSpies for Hire: China's New Breed of Hackers, By The New York Times, August 27, 2021A web of front companies controlled by China's...

NVIDIA Launches AI Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

NVIDIA Launches AI Enterprise

 Some interesting details of INVIDIA AI Enterprise offer.  Here are some of the outline, with links to the details.The Lead[1] Nvidia launches AI Enterprise in[2]...

Wagyu Beef 3-D Printed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wagyu Beef 3-D Printed

Impressive, beef printed from stem cells.Scientists Reveal World's First 3D-Printed Wagyu BeefInteresting Engineering, Derya Ozdemir, August 25, 2021Scientists...

CRA-Industry Virtual Roundtable on Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CRA-Industry Virtual Roundtable on Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research

The CRA-Industry Committee invites you to attend the Virtual Roundtable on Best Practices on using the Cloud for Computing Research on September 15, 2021, from...

Deepfakes are Making Business Pitches
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deepfakes are Making Business Pitches

Been recently involved with a business pitch, so fascinating.  How far could this get you in creating the outline of a pitch.  Deepfakes Are Now Making Business...

More on Schnuck's Store Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Schnuck's Store Robotics

Retailwire looks at this, with further expert retail comment.Are robots taking over Schnucks’ stores?Aug 27, 2021  by George AndersonSchnuck Markets is going to...

Excellent Write-up of the SolarWinds Security Breach
From Schneier on Security

Excellent Write-up of the SolarWinds Security Breach

Robert Chesney wrote up the Solar Winds story as a case study, and it’s a really good summary.

XTREME-D Launches HPC G4 Instance on Bare Metal High-Speed Computing Environment
From insideHPC

XTREME-D Launches HPC G4 Instance on Bare Metal High-Speed Computing Environment

Tokyo, August 26, 2021 – Platform as a service provider XTREME-D today announced the launch of a new instance on its bare metal high-speed computing environment...

Waymo Autonomous Taxis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Waymo Autonomous Taxis

Not a personal self driving car, but an hailed auto taxi service.  Being pushed by Waymo/Alphabet (Google)  Implications for liability in use?  Would this be  an...

5 PhD Students Nems New Frontiers Graduate Fellows
From insideHPC

5 PhD Students Nems New Frontiers Graduate Fellows

The New Frontiers Initiative, in collaboration with the Blue Waters Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is pleased to announce the selection...

Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Digital Transformation?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Digital Transformation?

Just started to get these alerts and overviews from HPE that look interesting, and claim to speed digital transformation.  For SMB (Small and Medium sized Businesses)...

Autonomous Electric Ships
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autonomous Electric Ships

 Had heard of previous examples of this, will we ultimately have fleets of these establishing autonomous supply chains on oceans? Autonomous Electric Cargo Ship...
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