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Collaborative Metaverse, Useful thoughts?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Collaborative Metaverse, Useful thoughts?

In O'Reilly RadarThe Collaborative MetaverseThe enterprise metaverse is about better collaboration, not virtual meetings.By Mike LoukidesOctober 12, 2022Learn faster...

Argonne Researchers: Tiny Magnetic Whirlpools Could Be Game Changer for HPC Memory Technology
From insideHPC

Argonne Researchers: Tiny Magnetic Whirlpools Could Be Game Changer for HPC Memory Technology

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are investigating the possibility that tiny magnetic whirlpools called “skyrmions...

What is the size of a byte[] array in Java?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

What is the size of a byte[] array in Java?

Java allows you to create an array just big enough to contain 4 bytes, like so: byte[] array = new byte[4]; How much memory does this array take? If you have answered...

QCI Launches Free Software to Run 10,000-Variable Quantum Computing Problems
From insideHPC

QCI Launches Free Software to Run 10,000-Variable Quantum Computing Problems

LEESBURG, Va., November 22, 2022 – Quantum solutions company Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) (NASDAQ: QUBT) today announced the release of free software that willQCI...

Q-CTRL and Classiq Partner on Quantum Algorithm Development
From insideHPC

Q-CTRL and Classiq Partner on Quantum Algorithm Development

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, November 21, 2022 – Q-CTRL, a quantum control infrastructure software company, and quantum algorithm development software company Classiq have...

A Hackers Mind:  First Review
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Hackers Mind: First Review

Plan to read this, the topic is very important for anyone in the field.  I continue to follow. First Review of A Hacker’s MindKirkus reviews   A Hacker’s Mind:A...

Edible Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Edible Drones

Narrow and novel  application here.ACM NEWSStranded Without Food? Edible Drone Has Snackable Wings  By CNET, November 17, 2022The wings of this drone are nutritious...

Social science research for a French home improvement retailer
From Putting People First

Social science research for a French home improvement retailer

Leroy Merlin is a French-headquartered home improvement and gardening retailer. Its Leroy Merlin Source (LMS) platform aims to create and share original knowledge...

Earth Wind & Power to Offtake up to 400MW of Offshore Power in Northern Europe for Data Centers
From insideHPC

Earth Wind & Power to Offtake up to 400MW of Offshore Power in Northern Europe for Data Centers

Nov. 22, 2022 — Earth Wind & Power (EWP), a leading innovator in creating a sustainable bridge between excess energy and the exponentially growing demand for green...

Apple’s Device Analytics Can Identify iCloud Users
From Schneier on Security

Apple’s Device Analytics Can Identify iCloud Users

Researchers claim that supposedly anonymous device analytics information can identify users: On Twitter, security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry have...

And More Skin,  Now for Health Monitoring
From The Eponymous Pickle

And More Skin, Now for Health Monitoring

Argonne at work. Skin-Like Electronics Could Monitor Health ContinuouslyArgonne National LaboratoryJoseph E. Harmon, November 16, 2022Scientists at the U.S. Department...

A Classic Difficult Problem for Robotic AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Classic Difficult Problem for Robotic AI

 If only, we saw an early demo of this. Robots that Can Feel Cloth Layers May One Day Help with LaundryBy Stacey Federoff, Carnegie Mellon,New research from Carnegie...

Will AI Discover new Laws of Physics?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Will AI Discover new Laws of Physics?

 A possibility.Will AI Discover new Laws of Physics?  in NewScientistAlgorithms can pore over astrophysical data to identify underlying equations. Now, physicists...

Simulation Based Dynamic Virtual Prototyping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulation Based Dynamic Virtual Prototyping

 Simulation aided by selective AI Simulation-based and highly dynamic: virtual prototypingPress release / November 09, 2022The things that amaze us in everydayThe...

Re Ambient Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Re Ambient Computing

Anytime, anywhere,  data and computation delivered.Why the Future of the Computer Is Everywhere, All the TimeBy The Wall Street JournalOctober 31, 2022In the ambient...

What is Not Search?
From The Noisy Channel

What is Not Search?

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Search is unquestionably my hammer, so it’s easy for me to frame everything as a search problem. After...

To understand uses of personal data in the present, people draw on the past and imagine the future
From Putting People First

To understand uses of personal data in the present, people draw on the past and imagine the future

The collection and analysis of data about us now occurs across many aspects of everyday life, but how do people come to understand these complex processes? Drawing...

Interviews in the social sciences – A Nature Reviews Method Primer
From Putting People First

Interviews in the social sciences – A Nature Reviews Method Primer

In this Nature Reviews Method Primer, Eleanor Knott, Aliya Hamid Rao, Kate Summers & Chana Teeger off the London School of Economics focus on the stages and challenges...

Ethnographic research in data centers
From Putting People First

Ethnographic research in data centers

Data centers are destroying the natural world, writes anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in Wired. But is the cloud an inherently unsustainable paradigm?...

Nielsen Norman Group on the usability of AR
From Putting People First

Nielsen Norman Group on the usability of AR

AR features in mobile apps are plagued by usability issues such as poor discoverability and findability of items with AR, low-visibility instructions, or vague...
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