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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
Security Risk Analytics from IBM
Rarely carefully done in the enterprise, glad to see IBM doing this. Historically we worked with IBM on large scale problems, and don't remember them bringing...
From insideHPC
NCMAS 2021 Call for Australia Supercomputer Access Open Until Oct. 26
The call for time on Australia’s largest supercomputers opens today and will remain open until 26 October 2020. The National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme...
From insideHPC
Granulate Says gCenter Panel Platform Boosts Server Power, Cuts Costs
Tel Aviv, Israel – Sept. 23, 2020 – Today, Granulate announced for the first time the general availability of what the company said is a real-time continuous optimization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mimicking the Sense of Touch
We examined how consumers interacted with product in retail.Glove-Like Device Mimics Sense of Touch University of New South Wales Sydney Newsroom, Caroline Tang...
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Research Teaches AI How People Move with Internet Videos
New ideas continuing to emerge. Here in how video can be enhanced, utilized. Research Teaches AI How People Move with Internet VideosThe Michigan Engineer News...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Puzzle Reviews by a Puzzle Writer
Not puzzling reviews Princeton University Press page Jason Rosenhouse is professor in the Department of Mathematics at James Madison University. His research focuses...
From insideHPC
Quantum: UChicago Researchers Show Qubits Retaining Information for Hours or Longer — ‘An Eternity’
Touting major potential implications for quantum computing, researchers at the University of Chicago have released a study in which they demonstrated control of...
From Schneier on Security
Documented Death from a Ransomware Attack
A Dusseldorf woman died when a ransomware attack against a hospital forced her to be taken to a different hospital in another city. I think this is the first documented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Licenses OpenAI’s GPT-3 Language Model
Exclusively. Now this is very good and somewhat unexpected. Thinking of ways it might be used within the context of work needs in Teams. Say for example constructing...
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More on Endpoint Security
More on this topic by Cisco, see the other parts of this pointed to. Note its particular relevance for remote work.Why Endpoint Security Matters in Protecting Remote...
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Future of Work by Microsoft Teams
Nice to see Microsoft Teams expanding their capabilities. Have now used Teams now many times, like it. Now lets see more assistance built in.Microsoft aims to...
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Europeans Would Consider Augmentation
Depends on what you mean by augmentation, we already pay for lots of it already. Health vs intelligence, vs requested assistance? Inevitable if properlyMajority...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A General-Audience Talk: How Computing May Change Our World
While the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) works to catalyze the computing community for the public good, we have rarely prepare...
From insideHPC
Graphcore Launches Global Partner Program
BRISTOL, England, Sept. 22, 2020 — Graphcore has announced the launch of its Elite Partner Program, a global network of channel partners helping to fulfil customer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Bots Negotiate, Will Human's Deceive?
Interesting piece that approaches the meaning of 'cooperation'. When bots do the negotiating, humans more likely to engage in deceptive techniques by University...
From Schneier on Security
On Executive Order 12333
Mark Jaycox has written a long article on the US Executive Order 12333: “No Oversight, No Limits, No Worries: A Primer on Presidential Spying and Executive Order...
From Schneier on Security
Iranian Government Hacking Android
The New York Times wrote about a still-unreleased report from Chckpoint and the Miaan Group: The reports, which were reviewed by The New York Times in advance of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Does Fact Checking of Images
Hmm ... 'more likely to know? I like the idea. And who will get the benefit of likelihood? Any changes in the pictures having been made? Ones that make them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Colds Have Nearly Vanished?
Fascinating piece. Colds Nearly Vanished Under Lockdown. Now They’re Coming Back in Wired.The return of non-Covid respiratory illnesses is putting a new strain...
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