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Pointing to high costs and a US skills shortage, Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC has reported challenges to the completion by next December of its new semiconductor plant north of Phoenix, according to a story in today’s The…
In fact, at the big enterprise, we tested some of Sutherland's findings in real life retail. But found it to mostly be too 'busy' for practical use. Still worth further examination in a new era of adaptive interaction. What…
Significantly?
Are ads causing shoppers to lose faith in Amazon search results? by Matthew Stern in RetailWire.
Amazon.com has long been the main go-to place for online product search, but a recent Washington Post article finds…
Like to see a useful example of this, though who uses much handwriting anymore? Do we need another introduction of uncertainty?
Programming Tool Turns Handwriting into Computer Code By Cornell Chronicle, November 30, 2022
Writing…
I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. Failure comes in many forms, but I’m especially interested in situations in which people *perceive* something as failing (or about to fail) and the contestations over failure that…
Understanding physics and its practical application is becoming important. Here a good intro I am reading, notably about how quantum effects are being applied in computing and cryptography.
Existential Physics: A Scientist's…
Dec. 5, 2022 — Cogniteam, creator of the Nimbus Robotic operating system designed to unify development, cloud connectivity and deployment capabilities, announced it had added in-browser simulation capabilities that allows remote…
Games can be useful to test learning and alternative process options.
Why Researchers Are Teaching AI to Play Minecraft By Popular Science, December 2, 2022
Nuclear power plant model made in Minecraft An artist's approximation…
Did Turing collaborate on the Colossus?
With all the excitement about ChatGPT, how will machine learning disrupt education, say five to ten years down the road?
My guess: individualized tutors. Imagine a tutor working with you teaching you important concepts, walking…
Billing it up for a Product
ACM NEWS
SBOM: An Up-Close Look at a Software Bill of Materials, November 30, 2022
Multiple Software Bill of Materials are produced at different levels of the software stack.
A software bill of materials…
Fees for crypto transfers
Coinbase removes NFT transfers from iOS app following dispute with Apple
By Duncan Riley in SiliconAngle
Coinbase Inc. is the latest company to have issues with Apple and its App Store policies, claiming…
Addressing common tasks.
Robot Laundry Folding Speed Record Broken
Ars Technica, Benj Edwards, October 19, 2022
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have achieved…
This is an actual CAPTCHA I was shown when trying to log into PayPal.
Supply Chain elements.
The EV Battery Supply Chain Is Coming to America
Close-up of a mechanic's hands disassembling an electric car battery on top of a trailer inside a mechanic shop
November 16, 2022 Bloomberg
It’s official: the…
Unexpected this early, but very interesting.
The European automobile industry is going quantum in TheNextWeb By Tristran Greene
Spooky action at a distance goes vroom ...
It’s a bold new world for automobile makers. After aBut…
Especially interested in how we can link to tasks that need multiples of specialized solvers ...
Swarm Robotics Moves Forward By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, December 2022, Vol. 65 No. 12, Pages 12-14 10.1145…
Printing Sensors
3D Printing Can Manufacture Customized Sensors
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
David Callahan, September 28, 2022
A new three-dimensional (3D) printing method could cost-effectively fabricate insect-sized…
Representing 3D Objects.
March 23, 2022 by Brian Caulfield
Turn on your TV. Fire up your favorite streaming service. Grab a Coke. A demo of the most important visual technology of our time is as close as your…
Short Opinion piece from ACM site. Have not reviewed further, but plan to
The False Promise of America's CHIPS Act
By Project Syndicate, November 28, 2022
The CHIPS Act is flawed in many ways. (Opinion)
The U.S. CHIPS and Science…
New domains, one answer to supply chains there.
AWS sets its sights on space for the future of cloud capabilities By Mike Moore published about 3 hours ago
AWS wants to make the world a better place, from space
Cloud computing…
Its all about events and how we handle them.
Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling By Software Engineering Radio November 28, 2022
Credit: Adam Dymitruk/Software Engineering Radio
Adam Dymitruk is CEO and founder of Adaptech Group…
Automate and make intelligent.
Data Intelligence Platform Seek AI Launches to Automate Repetitive Tasks
In DataNami by Jaime Hampton
With all the hype around generative AI and its text-to-image capabilities throwing the art world…
Quite technical, but worth a link for later study....
Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors ...
BY RYAN H. LEE ERWIN A. B. MULDER ET AL.
One for all: Universal material model based on minimalAbstract…
Previously mentioned, considering use of idea in test.
MIT News, Adam Zewe, November 3, 2022
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the MIT-IBM Watson AI Laboratory, and Boston University found…
Simplified example
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At a GMC plant.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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We know that complexity is the worst enemy of security, because it makes attack easier and defense harder. This becomes catastrophic as the effects of that attack become greater.
In A Hacker’s Mind (coming in February 2023), …
Abu Dhabi, 2 December 2022 — ADIA Lab, focused on basic and applied research in data and computational sciences, commenced operations today, the 51st National Day of the UAE. As part of its launch, the lab announced the composition…
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