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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Bigfin Squid Found in Australian Waters
A bigfin squid has been found — and filmed — in Australian waters for the first time. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From Computational Complexity
Alex Trebek/What is today's post about?
Alex Trebek, long time host of the TV show Jeopardy! (the exclamation point is part of the name, though I will omit it for the rest of the post), passed away in...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 14th 2020)
COVID 19 forced enterprises to move to remote work. There has been decades of research showing that allowing workers to work remotely improves job satisfactionContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wellness Blockchain App from GE
Seems an unusual thing coming from GE, but nice idea ... here well described in SiliconAngle. Will follow.GE launches blockchain-based ‘Wellness Trace’ app toGeneral...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Huawei's Wearable Smart Glasses
A look at another set of Smartglasses. Good in depth piece. As it says this is a difficult product to make well, especially as a general solution to effective...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5: early impressions
This week, my family got a copy of each new major game console: the Microsoft Xbox Series X and the Sony PlayStation 5. I haven’t yet had time to try them out well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Backs from VR Expeditions
Perhaps a bit surprising that Google would move from VR experiences. Does this mean that they are no long exploring advanced VR? Lately have used a numberGoogle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Covid Executive War Game
How accurate, complete? Unclear, but it is useful to see a number of the components involved in a game of corporate management. Interesting too is the Unilever...
From insideHPC
OpenMP ARB Releases OpenMP 5.1
Austin, TX – November 13, 2020 – The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Version 5.1 of the OpenMP API. With this release of the standard, OpenMP...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Warns about Dangers of MFA on Phones
This was mentioned in a recent conversation about mlti factor authentication (MFA). Especially using your phone as a means of MFA. Good warning. Includes links...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Excitement for New Tech in Pandemic?
Posted earlier in the year. Is this excitement lasting?Study Shows Consumer Excitement For Drones, Self-Driving Vehicles Has Grown Amid Pandemic By TWICEU.S...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W North America News
Despite at times feeling like we are at a standstill in 2020, we are excited to see that four new ACM-W Student Chapters have formed. This recognition that needs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering the Graph Database
A useful challenge, in general graphic databases are more indicative of what they show. But they also introduce levels of complexity that has to be understood...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Liquid-Cooled ‘Ruby’ HPC Cluster Deployed at LLNL for COVID-19
San Jose, November 12, 2020 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology...
From insideHPC
Arm-based ‘Ookami’ Supercomputer Installed at Stony Brook
The Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) at Stony Brook University has installed an HPC system employing the same processor technology as the world...
From insideHPC
Where to Go and What to Do at Virtual SC20: These HPC Experts Have Suggestions
As you plan for next week’s Virtual SC20, we thought it would be helpful to ask four HPC industry experts for guidance regarding the sessions, trends, news andWhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Generative Design
Nice piece, an excerpt of article and at the bottom a pointer to a NASA example of its use. AI, Architecture, and Generative DesignAlgorithmic Brainstorming for...
From Schneier on Security
Inrupt’s Solid Announcement
Earlier this year, I announced that I had joined Inrupt, the company commercializing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid specification: The idea behind Solid is both simple...
From The Noisy Channel
Expanding on Explore-Exploit
A few years ago, I proposed a non-adversarial ad-supported model: an explore-exploit model, applicable to search engines and feeds, that aligns the interests of...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP