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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 insideHPC
Cisco to Acquire Exablaze
Cisco is announcing its intent to acquire Exablaze, a privately held, Australia-based designer and manufacturer of advanced network devices. Exablaze’s design and...
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre Community Release Update
In this video from LAD'19 in Paris, Peter Jones from Whamcloud presents: Lustre Community Release Update. "Lustre is a vibrant Open Source project with many organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nuro Robotics Wants to Deliver Autonomously
More on the company Nuro, working with Dominos, Wal-Mart, Kroger and others to test the idea of autonomous delivery of product. Are we ready?We're NuroWe believe...
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Wal-Mart Thinking Robot Delivery
Saw this earlier by other retailers like Kroger. Are we ready for autonomous delivery? How will this coexist with traffic in the suburbs and city? The liabilities...
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New Places, Ideas for Assistive Robotics
First I had heard of this work at Johns Hopkins, notably for links to healthcare process. What does it mean to be assistive with people, in processes that require...
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An Internet from Space
Satellites and Network design that would cover the earth with an Internet.A Network Design for the 'Internet from Space'ETH ZurichFlorian MeyerDecember 10, 2019...
From Schneier on Security
Iranian Attacks on Industrial Control Systems
New details: At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's...
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Amazon to Open first Non Whole Foods Retail
What will such a location look like, the technology, the merchandising mix? Affluent clearly.Amazon said to be opening its first supermarket in Februaryin Yahoo...
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Donald Knuth Spreads the Code
Knuth was an inspiration in my earliest days of coding. Always pull out his books and skim them when he name comes up.Donald Knuth Reflects on 50 years of ‘The...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A look back to my 2010 predictions for 2020
Back in 2010, I wrote a post Who is going to need a database engine in 2020? Let me revisit some of my 2010 statements. Apple will sell desktops with 1 TB of RAM...
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Alexa Knowledge Skills Advance to Existing Templates
Note the capabilities for security in the enterprise, as well as editing and reuse of existing knowledge. Ultimately if this is done well, it can greatly advance...
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Blending AR Realities for 3D Interaction
How do you create realistic augmented reality experiences on non specialized devices, like an advanced smartphone? Say you wanted to overlay data on top of an...
From insideHPC
OpenSFS Announces Lustre 2.13.0 Release
On December 5, OpenSFS announced Lustre 2.13.0 Release has been declared GA and is available for download. The Lustre file system is a open source, parallel file...
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Pay Up or We Leak Your Data
Not very unexpected. But a means to make smaller groups take notice, to create more incentive to respond with blackmail payments more quickly. And can createRansomware...
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Intel Acquires AI Chipmaker Habana Labs
Today Intel announced it has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center for approximately $2...
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Podcast: UnifyFS Software Project steps up to Exascale
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Kathryn Mohror LLNL and Sarp Oral of ORNL provide an update ECP’s ExaIO project and UnifyFS. "UnifyFS can provide ECP applications...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing a Neutron Star Merger
Scientists are getting better at modeling the complex tangle of physics properties at play in one of the most powerful events in the known universe: the mergerSupercomputing...
From insideHPC
Dr. Eng Lim Goh presents: Transforming Tomorrow with AI & HPC
In this keynote from HPE Discover More in Paris, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE offers up some inspiring real-world use cases that demonstrate the transformative power...
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Banning the Prediction of Emotion?
We examined and experimented with aspects of the idea for 20 years. A number for these efforts are touched on in this blog, see the tags below. But now its seen...
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