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Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us to 'Ignore' Web3
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us to 'Ignore' Web3

Too vague?  Also a hit on Blockchain as "too slow, too expensive, and too public.".Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us to 'Ignore' Web3CNBC News, Ryan Browne,...

Smart Face Masks?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Face Masks?

 Nice idea if usefully effective and accurate.Smart Mask Tracks Respiratory Sounds for Disease IdentificationCity University of Hong KongNovember 2, 2022A smart...

Regulating Bossware
From The Eponymous Pickle

Regulating Bossware

 Had not seen this term for some time, but it is real. Can be more powerful now. Gvt regulation? ACM NEWSU.S. Government to Crack Down on "Bossware" That SpiesBy...

Robot Dog and AI Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Dog and AI Research

Robotics of this types create excitement about the possibilities. Robot Dog Contributes to AI ResearchBy Government Technology, November 3, 2022The University of...

The Conviction of Uber’s Chief Security Officer
From Schneier on Security

The Conviction of Uber’s Chief Security Officer

I have been meaning to write about Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former Chief Security Officer. He was convicted of crimes related to covering up a cyberattack against Uber...

Watching whales well – the travelling salesman problem ^JB
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Watching whales well – the travelling salesman problem ^JB

Island-hopping your way around the Travelling Salesman Problem (and back again).

Reproducibility
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reproducibility

For further discussion of the issue see here.Researchers Have a Fix for Reproducibility Crisis in ScienceUSC Viterbi School of Engineering,    By Julian Cohen,University...

Robots Killing Cockroaches
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Killing Cockroaches

Robotic InsecticideRobotic Laser Can Target, Kill CockroachesBy New Scientist, October 27, 2022The device is equipped with a laser, two cameras, and a small computer...

McKinsey Explainers
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey Explainers

 McKinsey & Company A tablet and phone displaying the Mckinsey explainers You have questions. We have the answers.What is the future of work? How does inflation...

Freight Rail as a Key Supply Chain Component
From The Eponymous Pickle

Freight Rail as a Key Supply Chain Component

Brought to my attention.   Am currently working a related project.  By the Association of American Railroads (AAR)   An industry group,  not representing Rail Unions...

Supply Chain Securement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain Securement

Short Excerpt of exec summary.  Key issuesSecuring the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices for Developers iiExecutive Summary   From CISA.GOVCyberattacks...

Lack of Oubreak Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lack of Oubreak Data

 Key here is how do we predatively know what data to gather.ACM NEWS'Very Harmful' Lack of Data Blunts U.S. Response to OutbreaksBy The New York TimesSeptemberAfter...

Right to Repair?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Right to Repair?

Expected perhaps, but quite complex in planning. An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic DevicesBy Pamela SamuelsonCommunications of the ACM, November 2022...

Billions Spent in a Metaverse Land Grab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Billions Spent in a Metaverse Land Grab

Too soon and easily as strange as Second Life, where we examined participating in retail.   Still very speculative, but the 'prices' for participation are cheap...

IBM Watson AI Patent Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Watson AI Patent Assistant

Mentioned earlier, examining. IBM Watson Demos AI Patent AssistantERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on October 31, 2022 at 4:00 pm in Voicebot.aiIBM and the U.S. Patent and Trademark...

OpenAI Releases DALL-E 2 API for Developers
From The Eponymous Pickle

OpenAI Releases DALL-E 2 API for Developers

More from OpenAIOpenAI Releases DALL-E 2 API for DevelopersERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on November 3, 2022 at 2:00 pm   in Voicebot.aiOpenAI has released an API of its text...

Linkedin Leverages Data for Success Prediction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linkedin Leverages Data for Success Prediction

The Linkedin data begs for such studies to be done, should they be? LinkedIn ran undisclosed social experiments on 20 million users for years to study job success...

Metaverse and Brands
From The Eponymous Pickle

Metaverse and Brands

Something we examined in 'Second Life'  Shaping your brand identity in the metaverse  in VentureBeatHow does a brand have identity in a “metaverse” that doesn’t...

Researchers Use Lasers to Trick Autonomous Cars
From The Eponymous Pickle

Researchers Use Lasers to Trick Autonomous Cars

Home/News/Researchers Use Lasers to Trick Autonomous Cars/Full TextACM TECHNEWSResearchers Use Lasers to Trick Autonomous CarsBy Interesting EngineeringNovember...

Friday Squid Blogging: Newfoundland Giant Squid Sculpture
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Newfoundland Giant Squid Sculpture

In 1878, a 55-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shores of Glover’s Harbour, Newfoundland. It’s the largest giant squid ever recorded—although scientists now...
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