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Not following this yet, but intriguing suggestion ...
Unlimited Digital Sensing Unleashed for Imaging, Audio, Driverless Cars
Imperial College London (U.K.), Caroline Brogan, September 17, 2021
A new method devised by researchers…
Sept. 21, 2001 — The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA’s) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced the awarding of a subcontract to Dell Technologies for additional supercomputing…
New sensor capability. Small, cheap, monitoring for the smart home and elsewhere.
Scientists 3D-Print Microscopic Gas Sensors
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), September 15, 2021
Scientists at Ireland’s Trinity College Dublin, the…
LLNL held its first-ever Machine Learning for Industry Forum (ML4I) on Aug. 10-12. Co-hosted by the Lab’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) and Data Science Institute (DSI), the virtual event brought together…
Considerable look from Venturebeat on the Boston Dynamics Robot Spot:
Boston Dynamics has just released the latest update for its famous quadruped robot Spot, giving it better capability to make inspections and collect data without…
The Inter University Computing Centre (IUCC) in Israel and Amazon Web Services have joined forces to train researchers and research software engineers (RSEs) in the use of AWS for high performance computing (HPC) at the PRACE…
A long time amateur chef
Now We're Cooking With Lasers By Columbia Engineering, September 20, 2021
Researchers at Columbia Engineering have digitized food creation and cooking processes, using 3D printing technology to tailor…
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2021 — Rose Technology, founded by data scientist and former global macro investor Alexander Campbell, raises $5.5m to change the way data-driven companies collect, analyze, and generate revenue from data.…
SAN FRANCISCO – Analytical Biosciences today announced it has been named a finalist in the inaugural IDC Future Enterprise Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure North America Awards in the Cloud-Centric Computing category.…
Apparently, a nation-state hacked Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services.
Not sure why Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services is of any interest to a nation-state, but that’s probably just my failure of…
Düsseldorf, 20 September, 2021 – NEC Deutschland GmbH announced a collaboration with Aramco Europe with the aim of joint development and optimization of various applications for resource exploration and seismic imaging. Aramco…
Supercomputer simulations run on the Stampede2 system of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) have helped scientists studying how cells work understand the way in which protein molecules in a sense dance with a partner
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Perth, Australia — The first phase of what the Pawsey Supcomputer Centre said will be the fastest public research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere has been unveiled at its new home at the Pawsey Centre in Western Australia…
China and Quantum Data Networks
City-Wide Quantum Data Network in China Is Largest Ever Built By New Scientist, September 20, 2021
China has been running a city-wide quantum communications network in Hefei, the largest quantum…
LIVERMORE, Calif., Sept. 20, 2021 — A Sandia National Laboratories team of materials scientists and computer scientists, with some international collaborators, have spent more than a year creating 12 new alloys — and modeling…
Who is Camille Noûs, who has contributed to hundreds of papers on Google Scholar?
Has been kicked around for a long time, how ready is it?
Researchers Take Step Toward Next-Generation Brain-Computer Interface System
Brown University, August 12, 2021
A team of scientists from Brown University, Baylor University…
As a high-class consultant, I don’t just talk to companies about the technical aspects of search. I also help them them address organizational challenges.
For example, how should a search team be structured? Should search be combined…
Thwarting cellphone tracking.
Is Your Mobile Provider Tracking Your Location? This Technology Could Stop It.
By USC Viterbi School of Engineering, August 16, 2021
A new system devised by researchers at the University of Southern…
At the recent ISC 2021 virtual event in June, I sat down with Kevin Mayo of AMD and InsideHPC’s Doug Black. We discussed how the latest AMD EPYC™ processors are helping accelerate Altair applications for the most demanding engineering…
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot is what you get when a top philosopher, a top political scientist, and a top computer scientist get together to think deeply about technology and society and write…
As of Sept 17, Matt Amodio has won 23 straight games in a row on Jeopardy and won over $800,000 in regular play. The following website is not quite up to date, but its close: here. Of course, that website will change.
1) They…
Can we find data that will ultimately lead to novel results. Like the idea of fitting it to possible . In a primitive way we looked at means to learn from huge amounts of historical existing data we had. We note the 'at…
Good thoughts, but simple is also good.
Five ways to avoid the pitfalls of binary decisions
Before you decide, check how the question is framed to ensure you have all the information you need and have considered all your options…
Nicely placed background on analytical method and design based on physical models.
The significance of Digital Twins in design and simulation By Ajit Jaokar
Background
I have been tracking Digital Twins closely…
4.5% of us are psychopaths. U.S. per capita CO2 emissions are lower than they were in 1918. 9/10 of People With Alzheimer’s Lose Some of Their Sense of Smell. Graphene-based hard drives could have ten times the storage capacity…
Excellent piece, broadly useful beyond AI applications.
May 12, 2021, Volume 19, issue 2
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A survey for practitioners
Ramya Srinivasan and Ajay Chander in CACM
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A little surreal, but a reminder that anything can be hacked. I had heard of the problem from McDonalds, Had been unaware of some of the details involved. Just the intro below. Quite a story.
They Hacked McDonald’s Ice …
We have used computers in space for a long term, now a continuation of developing code there.
Raspberry Pi Heading into Space for Python Programming Challenge
ZDNet, Liam Tung, September 14, 2021
Upgraded Raspberry Pi computers…
Unexpected thing. With a delivery angle too..
Walmart to Test Self-Driving Cars with Ford, Argo AI
CNBC, Michael Wayland, September 15, 2021
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is extending its self-driving vehicle program…Create a Web Account
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