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More complex and less secure than I thought.
By David Geer
Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 23, 2022
Biometric markers such as fingerprints, the irises of one's eyes, and individual's entire faces are…
IBARAKI, Japan, June 24, 2022 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced that its subsidiary, the TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center, has completed construction of its clean room in the Tsukuba Center of the National Institute of…
Like the proposed connection to optimization ... visualizing the value always useful.
Intensity Control of Projectors in Parallel—Doorway to an Augmented Reality Future
Tokyo Tech News, March 16, 2022
Scientists at Japan's Tokyo…
Looking at this further, in particular the aspect of supply chain risk use.
Quantum Computing for Risk Aggregation in BusinessWire
Early results lay the foundation for developing new solutions to manage risk exposure. Takeaways…
I note this got lots of press. Why? as devices take over some normal, recognizable features, are they starting to pose as us? Good or bad?
Alexa Has a New Voice — Your Dead Relative's
By The Washington Post
Propped atop a…
When? July 20th, 2022 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) Register Now Blockchain technology is a mysterious topic for many. Is it a network? A database? A cryptography algorithm? Is it the same as cryptocurrency? In this…
June 23, 2022 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a virtual hands-on training session on DeepHyper (https://github.com/deephyper/deephyper), on Friday, July 15 from 9 am to 4 pm Central Time. Registration is…
Generalized but reasonable piece on the challenges involved. More links in the original.
The Power and Pitfalls of AI for U.S. Intelligence By Wired
June 23, 2022
While artificial intelligence that can mimic humanlike sentience…
I have had access to Amazon’s latest ARM processors (graviton 3) for a few weeks. To my knowledge, these are the first widely available processors supporting Scalable Vector Extension (SVE). SVE is part of the Single Instruction…
Thought they had already advanced here, autonomy apparently a strong element, which brings labor needs into play.
Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot
It can pick things up, put them down, and move…
Considerable, complex piece. ....
Toward Verified Artificial Intelligence By Sanjit A. Seshia, Dorsa Sadigh, S. Shankar Sastry
Communications of the ACM, July 2022, Vol. 65 No. 7, Pages 46-55 10.1145/3503914
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Sensors are important.
Why Robots Need to See By Robotics Business Review, June 10, 2022
Most autonomous-vehicle manufacturers use high-end 3D LiDARs and additional sensors to help their vehicles glean enough data to fully…
In this sponsored post, Tim Miller, Vice President, Product Marketing, One Stop Systems, discusses autonomous trucking and to achieve AI Level 4 (no driver) in the vehicles, powerful AI inference hardware supporting many different…
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Social Engineering Kill–Chain: Predicting, Minimizing & Disrupting Attack Verticals in Ahead
Christina Lekati on Jun 02, 2022
It was a Friday afternoon when Bill was on his way back home"They…
Concept new to me, as is RHEED
Automating Semiconductor Research with Machine Learning
Tokyo University of Science (Japan), June 16, 2022
Researchers at Japan's Tokyo University of Science and National Institute for Materials Science…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June, 22, 2022 — AMD today announced that Mathew Hein is joining the company as chief strategy officer and senior vice president of corporate development, effective June 27, 2022. Hein will be responsible…
OTTAWA — June 22, 2022 — High performance networking company Rockport Networks today announced the appointment of data center industry executive Phil Harris as CEO of the switchless network innovator. With more than two decades…
New idea: Safe Stack, to analyze and classify security. Useful at least to flag possible problems.
Stacking the Deck for Computer Security
Penn State News
WennersHerron Ashley J., June 17, 2022
An international team of researchers…
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22, 2022 — AI computing company Cerebras Systems today announced that a single Cerebras CS-2 system is able to train models with up to 20 billion parameters on – something not possible on any other single…
When a tech news story gets talked about on sports radio, you know it’s gone very viral. That’s what happened last week with the story about a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, who declared that the company’s AI chatbot, LaMDA,…
Quite interesting idea, As a former employee of a detergent company we looked at how smart clothing could be cleaned.
Fabric that Can 'Hear' Your Heartbeat Developed by MIT Scientists
By Study Finds, June 21, 2022
Fabric that can…
Followed and visited Japan during the first AI wave, was impressed, but they did seen to take a downturn. No clear enough way to integrate their Uni efforts? Now emerging? Next? A Solution?
Japan tries—again—to revitalize …
More autonomous elements of the supply chain.
Self-Driving Truck Will Deliver Goods to 34 Sam's Club Locations
The Dallas Morning News
Alexandra Skores, June 7, 2022
Starting in July, Gatik, a California-based autonomous trucking…
Paris, June 21, 2022 – Pasqal, a neutral atoms quantum computing company, today announced the company has been named a 2022 Cool Vendor in Quantum Computing by Gartner. This report is designed to highlight interesting, new and…
Nuremberg, Germany – June 21, 2022 – RISC-V International, the open-design standards organization, announced its first four specification and extension approvals of 2022 – Efficient Trace for RISC-V (E-Trace), RISC-V Supervisor…
June 21, 2022 — Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced 10 U.S. scientists and engineers as recipients of the prestigious Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for their exceptional contributions in research and development…
June 21, 2022 — Lubricant brand Castrol and Submer, an immersion cooling systems solutions maker, have signed an agreement aiming to accelerate the adoption of immersion cooling as a path to more efficient and sustainable data…
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– PCI-SIG today announced that the PCI Express (PCIe) 7.0 specification will double the data rate to 128 GT/s and is targeted for release to members in 2025. PCI-SIG technical workgroups will be developing …
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have turned a century-old material, barium titanate, into what the lab today said is “a next-gen, thin-film material that shows potential for achieving the memory storage properties…
As I understand it, this seems like a very big deal. Miners out of work. Will this decrease its security?
In Bloomberg: Olga Kharif; David Pan, June 16, 2022
Ethereum mining could end soon due to…Create a Web Account
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