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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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Elbencho – A New Storage Benchmark for AI
Germany, Feb 03, 2021 — Elbencho, a new open-source storage benchmark tool, is now available to help organizations that demand high performance and need to evaluate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Cuts its Blockchain Team
Quite a considerable twist, seems quite a move since their work with HyperLedger we followedIBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses...
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Granulate Raises $30 Million Series B
Tel Aviv, February 3, 2021 – Granulate, a company providing an autonomous real-time computing workload optimization, today announced a $30 million Series B funding...
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Rescale Raises $50 Million in Series C Funding
San Francisco, February 02, 2021 — Rescale, the leading hybrid HPC cloud platform enabling intelligent computing for digital R&D, today announced it has closedRescale...
From Computational Complexity
A Blood Donation Puzzle
In the US you can donate whole blood every eight weeks. Suppose Elvira does exactly that. Will she hit every date of the year? For example, if Elvira gave blood...
From Schneier on Security
More SolarWinds News
Microsoft analyzed details of the SolarWinds attack: Microsoft and FireEye only detected the Sunburst or Solorigate malware in December, but Crowdstrike reported...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamics Spot Gets Long Distance Control
400 sold and apparently a better way to control it from a distance. Continuing to follow the possibilities involved. No further autonomy claimed of what I understand...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure: 2021 Update
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure: 2021 Update, which briefly surveys the 2017...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Review of the Semantic Web Field:
Been along follower of semantic Webs, that is webs that aim to capture and readily make usable human, corporate and systems knowledge. It forms the background...
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Next Pathway Research: 65% of Companies Say Cloud Migration a Top Priority
Toronto — January 26, 2021 — Next Pathway Inc., the automated cloud migration company, today announced the results of a third-party study assessing the state of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science
Followed Donald Knuth for years, read much of his writing, always an inciteful commenter on the details of computer science. Reading this now.Let's Not Dumb Down...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anti-Patterns in Regulation
Thoughtful piece in ACM where the notion of 'anti-pattern' is discussed, where regulation (or norms or practice) run contrary in purpose to their original intent...
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Duke Professor Amanda Randles to Keynote RMACC Symposium
Boulder, CO – Dr. Amanda Randles, Duke University assistant professor of biomedical and computer sciences and a leading expert in high performance computing (HPC...
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Google Cloud Previews HPC VM Image for HPC Workloads
Google Cloud today announced the public preview of HPC VM Image, a CentOS 7-based Virtual Machine Image optimized for HPC workloads with a focus on tightly-coupled...
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Microchip Technology Inc.: Introducing First PCI Express 5.0 Switches
Chandler, Ariz., February 2, 2021 – Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announced what it said are the first PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 switch solutionsMicrochip...
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Canonical Ubuntu Core 20: Securing Linux for IoT
Feb. 2, 202 — Canonical’s Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, is now generally available....
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WekaIO Launches Hybrid Cloud ‘Limitless Data Platform’
WekaIO (Weka) today announced the Limitless Data Platform — described by the company as a simple, fast and scalable platform for running modern enterprise workloads...
From Putting People First
Why insurers need to care more about customers and how to do it in the digital age
COVID-19 has accelerated the digital transformation of insurance companies. If insurers apply the e3 lens when assessing their touchpoints, they can create tailored...
From Putting People First
Swiss Re Institute on how COVID-19 is transforming consumer behaviour
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing how we work, travel, communicate, shop and more, but which new habits are likely to stick permanently? The authors explore five...
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