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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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MIT Researchers: Promise for Nonsilicon Computer Transistors
For decades, one material has so dominated the production of computer chips and transistors that the tech capital of the world — Silicon Valley — bears its name...
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Object Matrix Joins the Active Archive Alliance
Boulder, Colo. – December 9, 2020 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Object Matrix has joined the organization, which promotes modern strategies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signal Encryption Protocol
More attempts to decrease surveillance?Hacker Lexicon: What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?As the Signal protocol becomes the industry standard, it's worth understanding...
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SambaNova Systems Announces SambaNova DataScale — Built for AI
Palo Alto, CA, Dec. 9, 2020 — SambaNova Systems, builder of systems platform for artificial intelligence and data-intensive applications from the data center to...
From Computational Complexity
Shuffling Around
In the fall of 1983 as a junior at Cornell I took CS 481, Introduction to the Theory of Computing, from Juris Hartmanis. Needless to say this was the course that...
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Xsight Labs Announces Sampling of 25.6T Data Center Switch with 100G SerDes
Tel Aviv and San Jose — December 9, 2020 — Xsight Labs announced today the sampling of X1, the industry’s first 25.6T and 12.8T Data Center Switch with 100G SerDes...
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HPE Launches HPC-as-a-Service via Greenlake Cloud Platform
HPE this morning announced an HPC-as-a-service offering that sits at the confluence of two well-established market trends: broadening adoption of HPC in the enterprise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning Quality in Manufacturing?
Interesting thoughts here. Much more at the link. Deep Learning Has Reinvented Quality Control in Manufacturing—but It Hasn’t Gone Far EnoughAI systems that...
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Fear Not the Data Tsunami—Object Storage is Here
In this sponsored post, Michael St-Jean from Red Hat advises that there's no need to fear the data tsunami we’ve long been approaching. Today’s new tools and architectures...
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After Virtual SC20: Liqid Talks Composable Infrastructure at HPC Scale and Recent DoD HPC Deployments
Letting the workload take the lead in drawing on the hardware, networking and software resources it needs, and doing this dynamically – that’s what composable infrastructure...
From Schneier on Security
FireEye Hacked
FireEye was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”: During our investigation to date, we have found that the attacker targeted...
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WekaIO Provides Update on its Global Partner Program
Campbell, CA – December 8, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), the high-performance and scalable NVMe-optimized file storage company, today celebrated the success of its Weka...
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NFINIT Launches AO (Active Object) & Object LS (LightSpeed) Storage Solutions with ‘Free-gress’ Payment Model
SAN DIEGO — December 8, 2020 — NFINIT, a provider of hybrid cloud solutions, connectivity and colocation, announces its new suite of object storage solutions: NFINIT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bigger Robots: Air Giants
Have taken a look at small robots for a long time, especially as they are used in groups, but this look at larger forms is also of interest.Video Friday: These...
From Schneier on Security
Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS
This new protocol, called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS (ODoH), hides the websites you visit from your ISP. Here’s how it works: ODoH wraps a layer of encryption around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nathan Beanaich's AI Newsletter
Just started refollowing:Your guide to AI December 6 2020, · Issue #48 · View online from Nathan BenaichMonthly analysis of AI technology, geopolitics, research...
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Merging with our Tools
Will We, Can We ... Merge with our AI?Well we did kind of merge with our calculators. And we sure seem to be merging with our Smartphones. And now ... ?This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boston Dynamics Helping Chernobyl Decommission
Boston Dynamics is doing quite well with its mostly telepresence Spot Robotics. Here another example, with apparent connection to specialized sensors. BostonLegged...
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Folding Proteins
This is a very famous problem with broad solution implications in biochemistry, has it been solved now via deep tech? Not clear to me by this. In NewScientist...
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