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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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Atos-CEAs’ ‘Topaze’ at CCRT
Paris, France – June 23 2021 — ‘Topaze’ is part of Atos‘ range of HPC supercomputers, acquired following a call for tenders, and is the result of joint R&D by Atos...
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At Virtual ISC 2021: Joint Venture Revs up Altair Solvers with AMD EPYC 7003 Chips
In this interview at virtual ISC 2021, Altair and AMD discuss their joint venture in which the performance of Altair applications, such as the RADIOSS finite element...
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Wharton says Robots are Coming, but Just for Your Management
Robots are Coming, is Your Firm ready?Wharton’s Lynn Wu talks about her research on how automation is reshaping the workplace in unexpected ways.Audio Player at...
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Intel Changes Leadership, Structure of Data Platforms Group
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced the addition of two new technology managers to its executive leadership team, as well as several changes to Intel business...
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Smartphone Camera Can Illuminate Bacteria Causing Acne, Dental Plaque
Diagnosis Application.Smartphone Camera Can Illuminate Bacteria Causing Acne, Dental PlaqueBy University of Washington News, June 17, 2021Researchers at the University...
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Diane Bryant, Former Intel and Google Cloud Exec, Named to Platform9 Board of Directors
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June, 22, 2021 — Platform9 today announced the appointment of Diane Bryant to its Board of Directors. Bryant, a technology executiveDiane...
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Fujitsu Demonstrates Industrial Simulations on Fugaku
Tokyo, June 23, 2021 — Fujitsu Limited successfully leveraged on the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, to demonstrate the feasibility of high performance,Fujitsu...
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Impact of the Waves of COVID on Internet Traffic
Quite an interesting piece on how changes in external context can change the ebb and flow of the internet. And an attempt to make sense of the numbers. Useful...
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China Claims to Exceed GPT-3 Language
Continued push on more powerful language models.China outstrips GPT-3 with even more ambitious AI language modelBy Anthony Spadafora in TechRadar, First Published...
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Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Wired is reporting on a company called Mollitiam Industries: Marketing materials left exposed online by a third-party claim Mollitiam’s interception products, dubbed...
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DOE Funding $29M to Develop Advanced Chemical Sciences Software
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $28.9 million in funding for nine research projects to advance the development of sophisticated software for...
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Measuring Trust in AI
Accurate measures in context would be very useful.NIST Wants to Measure Trust in AI By Wired, June 22, 2021The National Institutes of Standards and Technology...
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Xilinx Announces FPGA EDA Tools with ML
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced Vivado ML Editions, which the company said is the industry’s first FPGA EDA tool suite based on machine-learning (ML)...
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Improving the Virtual Classroom
Presentation and paper on efforts at improving the virtual classroom.How To Improve the Virtual ClassroomBy University of California, San Diego, June 21, 2021Researchers...
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Stop the Ransomware Pandemic
Excerpt from The Economist via ACM: Stop the Ransomware Pandemic, Start with the Basics By The Economist, June 22, 2021TWENTY YEARS ago, it might have been the...
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Test Your Email Provider’s Support for Digital Inclusivity
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Do you know if your email provider is digitally inclusive? Can you send email to and receive email from any valid...
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CPG Adds ML Capabilities to Data Center Battery Monitoring Service
ASHBURN, VA. – June 22, 2020 – CPG, an end-to-end data center technology partner, today unveiled upgrades to its cloud-based Insight for Batteries predictive analytics...
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NVIDIA Launches AI LaunchPad: AI Enterprise Infrastructure
NVIDIA today unveiled NVIDIA AI LaunchPad, a program delivered through hybrid-cloud providers designed to give enterprises access to NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure...
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DOE: 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Call for Nominations
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a call for nominations for the 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which is presented by the Secretary of EnergyDOE...
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