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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
Amazon Cashless 'Pay by Palm' Technology Requires Only a Hand Wave
Another area we examined for retail tech,Amazon Cashless 'Pay by Palm' Technology Requires Only a Hand WaveBy CBS News.July 21, 2023Paying with palm recognition...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Dear Colleague Letter: Workshops to Identify Educational Requirements of the Future Ocean Technical Workforce
The following is a joint Dear Colleague Letter from four Assistant Directors at the National Science Foundation – Dr. James L. Moore, III (Directorate for STEM...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Q-CTRL Adds Morpheus Ventures to Series B Funding with $54M Raised
LOS ANGELES, July 25, 2023 – Q-CTRL, a developer of quantum technologies through quantum control infrastructure software, today announced the addition of Morpheus...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Getting off the beach, fast
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Paul goes on holiday and sees how a car park can work like a computer. Computers get faster and faster every year...
From insideHPC
HPC Colo atNorth Announces Shortlist Selection for the National Sustainability Awards
Reykjavík, Iceland – July 25th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has been shortlisted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Makes Probability-Based Computing a Bit Brighter
MIT Makes Probability-Based Computing a Bit Brighter The p-bit harnesses photonic randomness to explore a new computing frontier By EDD GENT MARGO ANDERSON...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More than 1,300 Experts call AI a Force for good
More than 1,300 experts call AI a force for goodPublished, 4 days ago By Chris Vallance, Technology reporterAn open letter signed by more than 1,300 experts says...
From Yoshua Bengio
My testimony in front of the U.S. Senate – The urgency to act against AI threats to democracy, society and national security
The capabilities of AI systems have steadily increased with deep learning advances for which I received a Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton (University ofMy...
From Schneier on Security
New York Using AI to Detect Subway Fare Evasion
The details are scant—the article is based on a “heavily redacted” contract—but the New York subway authority is using an “AI system” to detect people who don’t...
From insideHPC
TD Cowen: Generative AI Driving Data Center Industry Boom
The generative AI phenomenon has spurred growth in many sectors of the tech industry (just ask NVIDIA), including and spectacularly the data center sector. According...
From insideHPC
PASQAL Announces €50,000 Hackathon for Quantum Sustainability Solutions
Paris, July 24, 2023 – Quantum computing company PASQAL today announced a hackathon dedicated to generating ideas for quantum-based solutions that can accelerate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biosensor Offers Real-Time Dialysis Feedback
Biosensor Offers Real-Time Dialysis FeedbackBy IEEE Spectrum, July 20, 2023Hemodialysis is a vital procedure for people with kidney failure, but it requires multiple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and the its future of AI
IBM misses on revenue but sees AI leading a new round of growthBY PAUL GILLINIBM Corp., which is typically the first major information technology company to report...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU rules on AI must do more to protect human rights, NGOs warn
EU rules on AI must do more to protect human rights, NGOs warnThe group fears lobbyists might succeed in their efforts to water down the proposed AI ActA groupBetween...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introducing OpenAI London
Good site provides intro.https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai-londonIntroducing OpenAI LondonWe are excited to announce OpenAI’s first international expansion...
From insideHPC
HPC4EI: DOE Announces Solicitation for Industry to Connect with National Laboratories on Energy Technologies
Washington, DC — The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a new solicitation to connect industry partners with the high-performance computing (HPC) resources...
From The Noisy Channel
What is Searcher Happiness?
As a search specialist, my main goal is to improve searcher happiness. Sure, companies pay me to improve business metrics like conversion rate and revenue, butprobability...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
[From the archives] “A mob for the Earth” – online communities supporting the real world, and businesses
A mob for the Earth by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One Saturday afternoon last spring in San Francisco, a queue of people stretched down the pavement...
From Schneier on Security
Google Reportedly Disconnecting Employees from the Internet
Supposedly Google is starting a pilot program of disabling Internet connectivity from employee computers: The company will disable internet access on the select...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog