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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 …
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Seeking Student Volunteers for ISC 2017 in Frankfurt
The ISC 2017 conference is seeking Student Volunteers. The conference takes place June 19-21, 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany. The post Seeking Student Volunteers for...
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Green Revolution Cooling Gets New CEO and Partners with Heat Transfer Solutions
Today, Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) announced a strategic partnership with Heat Transfer Solutions (HTS), the largest independent HVAC manufacturers’ representative...
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Video: Sand Casting Simulation for Manufacturing
In this video courtesy of DENIZCILLER, the sand casting process is simulated with ESI ProCAST and QuikCAST. "Simulations like this help foundry engineers understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automatic Document Search
Back to this approach, examined for years, obviously useful in legal, but in most any other kinds of research as well. Now being integrated into word processors...
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GPU Accelerated Servers for Deep Learning Applications
Applications such as machine learning and deep learning require incredible compute power, and these are becoming more crucial to daily life every day. These applications...
From Schneier on Security
Google Releases Crypto Test Suite
Google has released Project Wycheproof a test suite designed to test cryptographic libraries against a series of known attacks. From a blog post: In cryptography...
From Phys.org Technology News
Australia and France sign deal to build 12 submarines
Australia and France signed an agreement Tuesday to build the world's largest diesel-electric submarines in the Australian industrial town of Adelaide.
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MH370 officials: Crash site could be north of search area
A team of international investigators hunting for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said Tuesday it has concluded the plane is unlikely to be found in a stretch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blackberry Self Drives
An expected connection, but very interesting.BlackBerry opens self-driving and connected-vehicle R&D centerBlackBerry is adapting its QNX OS for advanced driver...
From Schneier on Security
Smartphone Spying as Art
A film student put spyware on a smartphone and then allowed it to be stolen. He made a movie of the results....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF DCL: The Outcome of the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Positioning Review
The following is a Dear Colleague Letter from the National Science Foundation‘s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), regarding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Keep and AI
Makes sense to integrate the idea of note taking and reminding with bot-like AI. An idea we tested. Have been a user of Evernote for some time and they recently...
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Thinking Associate-less Retail Stores
Human-less stores are now possible — and it might be the end of retailAre retailers really willing to consider disassociating from associates? ... In CWorld, an...
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Podcast: LLNL’s Lori Diachin Reviews the SC16 Technical Program
"I think the most important thing I'd like people to know about SC16 is that it is a great venue for bringing the entire community together, having these conversations...
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Google Home Advisor Expands with 30 Services
I am continuing to do a test of voice based advisory systems, comparing the Google Home to the Amazon Echo. Google Home just announced an expansion of services...
From Putting People First
Australia’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre on experiencing the digital in everyday life
The Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), part of RMIT University, focuses on understanding a contemporary world where digital and mobile technologies are...
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Knowledge Explosion in Medicine
Good detailed piece. Many industries and companies are dealing with explosions of information and data that need to be understood and integrated into current process...
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More Intents Expands How you can Talk to Alexa
More planned Updates on Alexa Intelligence Implications of this work are unclear, this still seems to adhere to current architecture of the knowledge being used...
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Digital Measuring
Brought to my attentonMeasuring made easy, the Digital Way" ... The tape measure has remained virtually unchanged for over 100 years, until now. The eTape16 Digital...
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