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Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
From Putting People First

Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science

To live up to its mission of understanding the representational and computational capacities of the human mind, cognitive science needs to broaden the linguistic...

Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
From Schneier on Security

Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data

The two people who shut down four Washington power stations in December were arrested. This is the interesting part: Investigators identified Greenwood and Crahan...

Gary Starkweather (b 9 Jan 1938) invented the laser printer and colour management
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Gary Starkweather (b 9 Jan 1938) invented the laser printer and colour management

Gary Starkweather (9 January 1938 – 26 December 2019) invented and developed the first laser printer. In the late 1960s he was an engineer working in the US for...

Quantum Startup Oxford Ionics Raises £30M
From insideHPC

Quantum Startup Oxford Ionics Raises £30M

January 9, 2023: Quantum startup Oxford Ionics announced it has raised £30 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Braavos...

Swiss Robotics Research and Results
From The Eponymous Pickle

Swiss Robotics Research and Results

It can all go back to the example of the complex WatchOn Robotics in SwitzerlandMarc-André Miserez, Other languages: 7The move into robotics has been a naturalTo...

Dense Visual Representations and More for Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dense Visual Representations and More for Robotics

 Quite an interesting podcast I am about to listen to  ...   ideal applications?.ACM OPINIONDense Visual Representations, NeRFs, and LLMs for RoboticsBy The Gradient...

Japan Boosting Use of Digital Tools for Natural Disasters
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japan Boosting Use of Digital Tools for Natural Disasters

Increasingly becoming an ideal application for these techniques.Japan Boosting Use of Digital Tools for Natural DisastersThe Japan Times, December 31, 2022A growing...

Stoke Space
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stoke Space

Looking Outward ...Stoke Space aims to build rapidly reusable rocket with a completely novel design"We took a leap of faith and jumped off a cliff."Stoke Space....

Dell to Stop Using China Chips
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dell to Stop Using China Chips

Moving Worldwide Production Dell to Stop Using Chips Made in China Before the End of 2024, By PC Magazine, January 6, 2023Taiwanese financial newspaper Commercial...

Intel's FakeCatcher
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel's FakeCatcher

Detecting Fakes,  better results? Intel’s AI Can Detect DeepFakes With 96 Percent AccuracyBy Adrianna Nine on November 16, 2022 at 10:24 am  in ExtremeTechDeepfakes...

Catheter-shaped Steerable Robot robotic devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Catheter-shaped Steerable Robot robotic devices

 Catheter-shaped robotic devices could be guided remotely within the body, or exercise semi-autonomous control. Steerable Soft Robots Could Enhance Medical Applications...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fetish
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fetish

Seems that about 1.5% of people have a squid fetish. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered...

SRC Leads JUMP 2.0 Microelectronics Consortium — Includes DARPA and 7 University Research Centers
From insideHPC

SRC Leads JUMP 2.0 Microelectronics Consortium — Includes DARPA and 7 University Research Centers

Jan. 4, 2023 — DARPA, along with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and industry and academic stakeholders, is kicking off the Joint University Microelectronics...

Hiring a Virtual Person in China?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hiring a Virtual Person in China?

In what further sense hire? Companies can Hire a virtual Person for about 14k a Year?CNBC News, Evelyn Cheng, January 2, 2023Companies in China are "hiring" virtual...

Schneier on Security Audiobook Sale
From Schneier on Security

Schneier on Security Audiobook Sale

I’m not sure why, but Audiobooks.com is offering the audiobook version of Schneier on Security at 50% off until January 17.

Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer

Article at below link has been considerably updated and commented on ,,, Breaking RS A with a Quantum Computer  January 3, 2023,   by Bruce SchneierA group of Chinese...

D-Wave and Davidson Technologies Enter Reseller Agreement
From insideHPC

D-Wave and Davidson Technologies Enter Reseller Agreement

January 05, 2023 — Burnaby, British Columbia, Palo Alto and Huntsville, AL — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a quantum computing systems, software and services...

Poly Raises $4M to Build Generative AI Tools for Designers
From insideHPC

Poly Raises $4M to Build Generative AI Tools for Designers

San Francisco – Poly, a web-first generative AI company for design assets, announced today the close of its $4M Seed, led by Felicis, Bloomberg Beta, and NextView...

Intel's Mobileye
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel's Mobileye

 Advances in Autonomy by IntelIntel's Mobileye sees $17 bln in assisted-driving product revenues by 2030ReutersJan 5 (Reuters) - Intel Corp's (INTC.O) self-driving...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Cargo Cult Redo

Richard Feynman during his 1974 commencement address at the California Institute of Technology coined the term cargo cult. The term was just used over at the blog...
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