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Cities Using Digital Twins Examine SimCity for Policymakers:  Metaverse
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Cities Using Digital Twins Examine SimCity for Policymakers: Metaverse

 Note considerable detail in the simulation here.Cities Using Digital Twins Like SimCity for PolicymakersBy Bloomberg CityLab, April 6, 2022A collage of 3-D reality...

A More Resilient Supply Chain From Optimized Operations Planning
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A More Resilient Supply Chain From Optimized Operations Planning

 Optimization still useful here.A more resilient supply chain from optimized operations planningSeptember 1, 2022 | Article  Form McKinseyA more resilient supply...

The 4th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC’22)
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The 4th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC’22)

by Alexia Giouroukou The 4th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC’22) took place in Thessaloniki on June 16th -17th, 2022. GEC’22 summit was opened with...

GM Recalls RoboTaxi  Code for Update after Crash
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GM Recalls RoboTaxi Code for Update after Crash

An example of how automotive complexity will increase in context. GM's Cruise Recalls, Updates Software in RobotaxisBy TechCrunch, September 9, 2022A crash in June...

@HPCpodcast: Hot Chips Conference, UCIe, 3D Packaging, CXL and a Revival of Moore’s Law?
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@HPCpodcast: Hot Chips Conference, UCIe, 3D Packaging, CXL and a Revival of Moore’s Law?

This week’s episode takes a look at emerging technologies driving new chip design and performance, which is to say many of the topics highlighted at the recent@HPCpodcast...

What Data Does Facebook Have?
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What Data Does Facebook Have?

From Schneier, with considerable comment ....    From a Court Deposition: " .... Facebook’s stonewalling has been revealing on its own, providing variations on...

On the Tesla Data Hoard
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Tesla Data Hoard

Consider the Depth and Breadth of Data UseThe Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard Logs and records of its customers’ journeys fill out petabytes—and court case ...

Considering Mass Surveillance
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Considering Mass Surveillance

Cops Wanted to Keep Mass Surveillance App Secret; Privacy Advocates RefusedBy Ars Technica, September 9, 2022  in CACMMuch is known about how the federal government...

DNA-based Storage and Compute Startup CATALOG to Collaborate with Seagate
From insideHPC

DNA-based Storage and Compute Startup CATALOG to Collaborate with Seagate

Sept. 8, 2022, Boston – Catalog Technologies, Inc. ( CATALOG ), a developer of automated DNA-based digital data storage and computation, is collaborating with storage...

Flying Robot Turns Valves
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Flying Robot Turns Valves

 Impressive reworking of some in plant tasks:   Aerial Dragon Robot Reconfigures Itself Into a Flying Manipulator Why not just build a drone that can be, and do...

AI Shipping and Technology issues
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AI Shipping and Technology issues

Emphasizing shipping issues. The Download: AI privacy risks, and cleaning up shipping  in TechnologyReviewPlus: Pakistan's devastating floods are displacing millions...

NASA Spends $50 Million to Develop Next-Gen Processor for Space Exploration
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NASA Spends $50 Million to Develop Next-Gen Processor for Space Exploration

 Faster and more reliable. NASA Spends $50 Million to Develop Next-Gen Processor for Space ExplorationBy Ryan Whitwam on August 18, 2022 at 8:42 amNASA has been...

Deepmind AI Learns to Play Soccer
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Deepmind AI Learns to Play Soccer

Another useful game example, learned,  trained and automated DeepMind AI Learns to Play Soccer Using Decades of Match SimulationsBy New Scientist, September 8,Researchers...

Canada Wirking on Worlds largest Geothermal Lagoon
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Canada Wirking on Worlds largest Geothermal Lagoon

Geothermal effortsCanada Is Working On the World’s Largest Geothermal Solar LagoonBy Adrianna Nine on September 8, 2022 at 9:31 am in  ExtremeTechPetite-Rivière...

TSMC August 2022 Revenue Report
From insideHPC

TSMC August 2022 Revenue Report

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Sep. 8, 2022 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for August 2022: On a consolidated basis, revenue for August...

SC22: November 13-18, Dallas
From insideHPC

SC22: November 13-18, Dallas

SC22, the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, will be held Nov. 13-18 at the Kay Bailey HutchisonSC22...

Pushing the Frontiers of Mathematical Research
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Pushing the Frontiers of Mathematical Research

My earliest work did this kind of researchPushing the Frontiers of Mathematical Research,   By Allyn JacksonCommissioned by CACM Staff, September 8, 2022For decades...

MLCommoncs: Latest MLPerf AI Benchmark Results Show Machine Learning Inference Advances
From insideHPC

MLCommoncs: Latest MLPerf AI Benchmark Results Show Machine Learning Inference Advances

SAN FRANCISCO – September 8, 2022 – Today, the open engineering consortium MLCommons announced results from MLPerf Inference v2.1, which analyzes the performance...

Pacemaker That Dissolves
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Pacemaker That Dissolves

Interesting solution Pacemaker Diss0lvesNo More Invasive Surgery—This Pacemaker Dissolves Instead Temporary pacemakers are often vital but dangerous to remove when...

Former CCC Council Member Ian Foster Named 2022 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award Recipient
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Former CCC Council Member Ian Foster Named 2022 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award Recipient

Ian Foster, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member and Professor at the University of Chicago and Division Director at Argonne National Laboratory...
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