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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
Kroger in Top 10 E-Commerce Companies
Been impressed by looks at what Kroger is doing.Kroger breaks into top 10 U.S. e-commerce companies for first time By Marianne Wilson - jn CSAThe Kroger Co.’s...
From insideHPC
WekaIO and Rancher Labs in Alliance to Simplify Kubernetes Deployments
CAMPBELL, Calif. – December 16, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), specializing in high-performance and scalable NVMe-optimized file storage, today announced that Weka FileWekaIO...
From insideHPC
CEA Outlines Indigenous Path to European Exascale
CEA, the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission, today presented what it said is a path to European exascale utilizing technologies that combine...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Virtual reality… millions but not tens of millions… yet
In February 2016, I placed a bet against Greg Linden in these terms: within the next three years, starting in March of this year, we would sell at least 10 million...
From Schneier on Security
Cellebrite Can Break Signal
Cellebrite announced that it can break Signal. (Note that the company has heavily edited its blog post, but the original — with lots of technical details — wasarticle...
From Geeking with Greg
When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet.
About four years ago, Professor Daniel Lemire and I made a $100 bet on how quickly virtual reality would reach a broad, mainstream market. Specifically, my side...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Skin Generates its Own Power
A useful play. Solar-based Electronic Skin Generates Its Own Power IEEE Spectrum Payal Dhar December 13, 2020 Researchers from the U.K.'s University of Glasgow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Going TikTok?
Admit I barely knew of it before. But lately been getting a lot of forwarded TikTok references. And some about Wal-Mart.‘A true influencer program’: Inside Walmart...
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Names Brian Pawlowski Chief Development Officer
San Jose — Dec. 15, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced the expansion of its Executive Leadership Team with the appointment of Brian Pawlowski as...
From Schneier on Security
How the SolarWinds Hackers Bypassed Duo’s Multi-Factor Authentication
This is interesting: Toward the end of the second incident that Volexity worked involving Dark Halo, the actor was observed accessing the e-mail account of a user...
From insideHPC
iXsystems Introduces TrueNAS Hybrid Cloud SaaS for MSPs
San Jose – December 15, 2020 — The TrueNAS Open Storage portfolio was expanded today with the addition of TrueCommand Cloud – a cloud-based service for 24×365 TrueNAS...
From insideHPC
Kao Data Announces Two Senior Director Appointments
London, December 15, 2020 – Kao Data, developer and operator of advanced, carrier neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has today announced twoKao...
From insideHPC
XenData Joins Active Archive Alliance
Boulder, Colo. – December 15, 2020 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that XenData has joined the organization, promoting modern strategies to solveXenData...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comments on Fords Manufacturing Use of AI
In the past had many connections with Ford in analytics use, now they are talking AI. Here where they are talking applications in manufacturing.Ford’s Use of...
From insideHPC
Open Eye Consortium Announces 50Gbps LR1 and LR4 Specs for 5G
Dec. 15, 2020 — The Open Eye Consortium (Open Eye MSA) announced two new specifications targeted for 50Gbps per lane applications: LR1 and LR4 for 10 kilometers...
From insideHPC
EdgeConneX Increases Interconnection Options at Atlanta Data Center Campus with Bandwidth IG
Herndon, VA, – December 15, 2020 – EdgeConneX, developer of edge data centers, has announced Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is now available at...
From insideHPC
Pure Storage Announces Pure as-a-Service in AWS
Mountain View, Calif. – December 15, 2020 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) today announced the availability of Pure as-a-Service in AWS Marketplace and a new Cloud Block...
From Putting People First
Human-Centered Design Playbook by Australia’s Victoria State Government
This guide brings together key ideas showing how we can integrate human-centred design into our work in government and build the capability of public servants.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting floating-point numbers to integers while preserving order
Many programming languages have a number type corresponding to the IEEE binary64. In many languages such as Java or C++, it is called a double. A double value uses...
From insideHPC