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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
Robot Comedy for Data?
Ultimately we will have to be able do a better job of getting data based on reactions to proposals. Is standup comedy using robots a model of how to get this kind...
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A Look at Aibo Robot Dog Programming
Have mentioned this a number of times, we saw it demonstrated in Japan when it first came out, now more, specifically about how it can be programmed. Note again...
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Ground Penetrating Radar for Driving?
This is unexpected. But it has been known that weather is a problem with classic methods, now will ground penetrating radar solve this problem?MIT’s Ground-Penetrating...
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AMD EPYC Cloud Adoption Grows with Google Cloud
Today Google Cloud announced the beta availability of N2D VMs on Google Compute Engine powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The N2D family of VMs is a greatAMD...
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New Servers from Dell Technologies analyze data wherever it resides
Today Dell Technologies announced new solutions to help customers analyze data at the edge, outside of a traditional data center. With a host of new offerings—including...
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UK to establish Northern Intensive Computing Environment (NICE)
The N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research, N8 CIR, has been awarded £3.1m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Resources Council to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Working Through the Stages of Debugging
I found this Tweet by Katerina Borodina @ctrlshifti that claimed that the 5 stages of grief apply perfectly to debugging code Denial "The compiler is wrong" Anger...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking McDonald's for Free Food
This hack was possible because the McDonald's app didn't authenticate the server, and just did whatever the server told it to do: McDonald's receipts in Germany...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
#Internet4All around the Globe in 2019: A Recap of UA Ambassador Work
By Dušan Stojičević, Vice Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) 2019 was a busy and productive year for the UASG as we worked to spread awareness...
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E-Mail Productivity
Nicely done short look at how to be more productive with too much e-mail. Tips, tricks and more ... brief too. In the enterprise, my most read posts were about...
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AMD Powers CARA Supercomputer from NEC in Dresden
The DLR German Aerospace Center dedicated its new CARA supercomputer in Dresden on February 5, 2020. With 1.746 Petaflops of performance on the Linpack benchmark...
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Google Announces Experimental Means to Detect Altered Images
A useful kind of AI, checking out the details. Still experimental. How often we be sure of the results? Looks for specific means of alteration, So will haveHow...
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More Smart Speaker Share to China in 201
While smart speakers are not 'AI assistants' in any complete sense, they open the way to such deices in the home and at work. So stats like this should be...
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Military Long Distant Face Recognition
I would imagine will be more precise and at longer distances yet, I have some very impressive sat images, and precise coordinates could simply be shared. All...
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Creating Energy from the Air
Quite a revalelation, use for LED's, IOT applications? Electric bacteria create currents out of thin—and thick—airBy Elizabeth Pennisi, in Science Mag Generating...
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Supercomputing Asia 2020 Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19 Virus
The Supercomputing Asia 2020 conference has been cancelled in light of COVID-19 developments. "We regret to inform you that we will be cancelling the coming SupercomputingAsia...
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UK to invest £1.2 billion for Supercomputing Weather and Climate Science
Today the UK announced plans to invest £1.2 billion for the world’s most powerful weather and climate supercomputer. The government investment will replace MetUK...
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Isambard 2 at UK Met Office to be largest Arm supercomputer in Europe
The UK Met Office been awarded £4.1m by EPSRC to create Isambard 2, the largest Arm-based supercomputer in Europe. The powerful new £6.5m facility, to be hosted...
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Predictions for HPC in 2020
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Laurence Horrocks-Barlow from OCF predicts that containerization, cloud, and GPU-based workloadsPredictions...
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