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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Venture Funding Soars
Following new ventures and their funding.Venture funding soared to record $64 billion in Q1Ari Levy @LEVYNEWSKey PointsVenture funding in the U.S. hit $64 billion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Innovation in the Workplace
Below just the intro, an interesting piece our of Microsoft Research. An example they say of using machine learning to derive and measure insights from connected...
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On the State of the Cloud, now with Innovation Added
Useful details on the topic, with many links by a former IBMer who we worked with. A good follow. Below the intro paragraph. A collection of observations, news...
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Harnessing Chaos to Secure Devices
Seems a quite clever idea. A means of securing devices.Illustration of a tech-based digital fingerprint. Scientists Harness Chaos to Protect Devices From Hackers...
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Snythetic Data in Medical Research
Sounds like a bad idea, but you can use the idea of synthetic data to construct innovative models as starting points for serious research. We did this to understand...
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Augmented Reality Remote Assistants
Had not thought of this specifically, ot a bad idea if it can be done well. Needs to be taken beyond voice. But what takes it most effectively beyond the screen...
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P&G and Apple Examining Fingerprinting
Some of my former colleagues at work. But is it narrowing our privacy further?P&G Is Looking for Ways Around Apple's New Privacy RulesProcter & Gamble is testing...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Shaped Bike Rack
There’s a new squid-shaped bike rack in Ballard, WA. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Blobs of Squid Eggs Found Near Norway
Divers find three-foot “blobs” — egg sacs of the squid Illex coindetii — off the coast of Norway. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Jurassic Squid and Prey
A 180-million-year-old Vampire squid ancestor was fossilized along with its prey. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security storieshere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gathering Smartphone Data
Steve Gibson in TWIT Pages 10-15 'A Spy in Our Pocket" Talking about how smartphone handsets communicate with their manufacturer, beyond simple test data...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you sort arrays of integers in Java?
Programming languages come with sorting functions by default. We can often do much better. For example, Downs has showed that radix sort can greatly surpass default...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA CropX for Agriculture
From my agriculture and forestry connections. A report from NASA on their Harvest and CropX efforts for sustainable agriculture. Very good sensing effort with...
From Schneier on Security
Backdoor Added — But Found — in PHP
Unknown hackers attempted to add a backdoor to the PHP source code. It was two malicious commits, with the subject “fix typo” and the names of known PHP developers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Working on COVID Detection with SmartPhones
Quite interesting idea, accuracy and other details unclear. On surfaces too? Could be very useful in the current and upcoming pandemics. GE is working to put ...
From insideHPC
7 Chinese HPC Organizations Added to Entity List for Supporting China’s Military
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has added seven Chinese supercomputing organizations to the Entity List “for conducting7...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Previews May HPC User Forum
Hyperion Research today announced the near-final agenda for the upcoming HPC User Forum meeting, a virtual three-day event to be held May 11-13 for Western Hemisphere...
From insideHPC
Advantech Launches Server and Appliance Range with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors for 5G, AIoT & HPC
IRVINE, CA — Advantech (TWSE: 2395.TW), an industrial IoT company, has announced 12 new platforms based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, ranging fromAdvantech...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using AI for the Supply Chain
As a long time practitioner in the supply chain space, here an example. Notable here the forecast of demand as we transition to new context. No direct how mentioned...
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