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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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Energy Malware Sabotage
Note link to PLCs, common in all industry. U.S. Warns Newly Discovered Malware Could Sabotage Energy PlantsThe Washington Post, Joseph Menn, April 13, 2022U.S....
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Quantum Datacenter Intranet Advances
More global advances:Quantum Datacenter Intranet AdvancesBy R. Colin Johnson, Commissioned by CACM Staff, April 14, 2022U.S., European Union, and Japanese researchers...
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Have Phones Become too Smart?
No, Don't think so, just need to be better tailored to needs. extract from ACM NEWSHave iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart?, By The New YorkerIn late 2020,Apple...
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Novel Password Phishing
Security issue.A password phishing site that can trick even savvy users in ArsTechncaJust when you thought you'd seen every phishing trick out there, BitB...
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Location Privacy Challenged by Data From Friends, Strangers
Data From Friends, Strangers Shows Where You AreFuturity.org, Lindsey Valich, April 11, 2022An international team of scientists determined that data from friends...
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DOE Announces $26M for Data Management and Scientific Data Visualization Research
April 15, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $26 million for research to advance scientific data management and visualization. Foundational...
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Quantinuum Announces Quantum Volume 4096 Achievement
Quantum computing development company Quantinuum announced that the System Model H1-2 doubled its performance “to become the first commercial quantum computer to...
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DOE: $40M Funding Opportunity for Mathematical Multifaceted Capability Centers
April 15, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $40 million for fundamental mathematics research on problems of interest to the DOE that require...
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Atrocity Detection in the Ukraine
How accurately? Always suspicious of social media accounts. Researchers Create System to Quickly Identify Ukraine Atrocities Using Social MediaUniversity of Manchester...
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Troubleshoot Your Slow PC
Happened on this, seems useful. Sometimes obvious, Passed it on. How to Troubleshoot Your Slow PC in ExtremeTechBy Joel Hruska on September 27, 2021 at 12:20...
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A New Way of Assistant Activation
Works well if you are by the device. Voice too? Makes sense.Google Assistant ‘Look and Talk’ Activation Heads Toward ReleaseERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on April 14, 2022...
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Robot Can Explore the Lungs
More tiny robotics at play to place the sensors where they need to be.A Robot Small Enough to Explore the LungsBy University of Leeds (U.K.), March 29, 2022A magnetic...
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Microsoft at Odds with EU
Much more to follow. Microsoft Faces Antitrust Complaint in Europe About Its Cloud Services in WSJ excerptFrance’s OVHcloud has filed a complaint that Microsoft...
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Open Compute Project Announces Hardware-Software Co-design Strategy.
April 14, 2022 – Today, the OCP Foundation, the nonprofit organization focused on hyperscale, announced a new hardware-software co-design strategy that is exemplified...
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@HPCpodcast: What’s New in HPC-class Storage and a New Feature: Top of the News
Join us for this episode – episode 20, be it noted – of the @HPCpodcast. It includes a new segment, Top of The News, offering a look at the top HPC developments...
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World Quantum Day: Bank of Canada in Quantum Simulation of Cryptocurrency POC with Multiverse
Toronto – April 14, 2022 – The Bank of Canada, a G7 central bank, and Multiverse Computing, a developer of quantum computing solutions for the financial industry...
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What Makes a Company Future Ready?
Mostly paying close attention to changes, testing adaptations in changing contexts. What makes a company “future ready”? in the HBR by Howard Yu, Jialu Shan...
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Digital Twins for Virtual Cities
An approach I had not seen, but we had used a simplistic SimCity like model for thinking about interaction in groups. Cities Using Digital Twins Like SimCity for...
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World Quantum Day: Intel and QuTech Collaborate on Silicon Qubits
April 14, 2022 — Researchers at Intel and QuTech, an advanced quantum computing research center consisting of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) andWorld...
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