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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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Pure Storage Brings Its Block Storage to Microsoft Azure
Mountain View, Calif. – March 16, 2021 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), which offers storage as-a-service for multicloud environments, announced the general availability...
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Walgreens Automates Vaccine Scheduling with AI Bot
Interesting example here of integrating basic interactions and more complex data based decisions. Walgreens automates COVID-19 vaccine scheduling By Dan Berthiaume...
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Micron Updates Memory and Storage Strategy – Commits to CXL, Ends Development of 3D XPoint
BOISE, Idaho, March 16, 2021 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced updates to the company’s portfolio strategy to focus on memory and storageMicron...
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Clacc – Open Source OpenACC Compiler and Source Code Translation Project
By Rob Farber, contributing writer for the Exascale Computing Project Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project...
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Sandia’s Open-access Quantum Computer Is Operational, Available to Scientists
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Department of Energy open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public. Scientists from Indiana University recently became...
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Accountable Algorithms, Use and Misuse
Useful nontechnical piece, some good thoughtful graphics. Yes a clear and increasing issue that needs to be regulated. But it is not true that such systems and...
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Los Alamos Teams with Fungible for Processing Offloading to Network and Storage for Complex Simulations
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) and Fungible Inc., a data-centric computing company, today announced a collaboration...
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Contact Tracking Failing
I have read in other places it is not only a failure in the US. Is it merely a measure of trust? Having enough people buy into the capability, without clearContact...
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Wal-Mart Makes a TV Stick
Interesting choice. To control and tailor some of the ads and resulting data? Certainly a possibility. Walmart is making an Android TV stick under its Onn ...
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10 Research Projects Granted Access to Pawsey Centre for Extreme Scale Readiness Program
Perth, Australia – March 16, 2021 – Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, the Tier1 supercomputing research facility located in Perth, Western Australia, is establishing...
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Lenovo Launches Edge-to-Cloud Solutions with AMD EPYC 7003 CPUs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – March 16, 2021 – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) Data Center Group (DCG) announced ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile hyperconverged...
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Immersion Cooling Data Center Provider Asperitas Names Andy Young CTO
Amsterdam – March 16, 2021 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas has promoted Andy Young to CTO. He previously was director of research and development and after...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Stefanie Tompkins Appointed 23rd DARPA Director
The Biden administration today appointed Stefanie Tompkins to run the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its 23rd Director. DARPA is a $3.5 billion...
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Nominations Open for ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowships for Diversity in Data and Computational Science
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (ACM SIGHPC) has created the Computational and Data Science Fellowships...
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Live Streaming by Retailers
Getting attention on the Web via immediate and continuous retail content. Removing our attention from the Pandemic. How long can we take it? Livestreaming...
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TYAN Offers AMD EPYC 7003 Processor Powered Systems
Newark, Calif. – March 15, 2021 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today introduced AMD EPYC...
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Scanning License Plates
The capability is well know, but the ability to save and 'mine' large libraries of the data makes some concerned. License-Plate Scans Aid Crime-Solving But Spur...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating Technology Leaders – Women in Robotics
Wednesday, March 31st at 3:00 PM ET/12:00 PM PT, a panel discussion featuring Laura Stelzner(Principal Robotics Software Engineer, RIOS Corporation), Sarah Gibson...
From Schneier on Security
Illegal Content and the Blockchain
Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command...
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