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Google to Stop Reading Your Email for Targeting
Somewhat surprised at this. Probably the most obvious thing, after search, that Google does that is the base of much of its…
From insideHPC
How Zettar Transferred 1 Petabyte of Data in Just 34 Hours Using AIC Servers
In the world of HPC, moving data is a sin. That may be changing. "Just a few weeks ago, AIC announced the successful completion of a landmark, 1-petabyte transfer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Award at 50
Twitter Stream from ACM's 'Turing Award at 50' meeting this week. Watched small part of it, inspirational and am glad to see it will be made available on going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Origami Folding Algorithm
A favorite and surprisingly useful topic. Heard of this being developed. 'Any structure' is an interesting statement, but will the folding itself be usefully...
From Geeking with Greg
Two decades of Amazon.com recommendations
IEEE Internet Computing just celebrated its 20th anniversary. On its 20th anniversary, the editorial board created its first ever “The Test of Time” award. I'm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snap Getting Better Store Sale Measures
Snap acquires Placed to better measure in-app ads to in-store salesPlaced is able to attribute brand’s digital, TV and out-of-home campaigns to store visits and...
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Getting Direct to Consumer Right
From CustomerThink, detailed piece on how Gillette is doing direct to consumer, followiing un a number of moves to deliver quality razor blades with new pricing...
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Procter Captures Flying Insects
Not a thing normally in their space. No IOT dimension indicated. Procter & Gamble Introduces Zevo™ Flying Insect Trap for 24/7 Flying Insect Protection in Your...
From insideHPC
AFRL Taps IBM to Build Brain-Inspired AI Supercomputer
Today IBM announced they are collaborating with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing system poweredAFRL...
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SiriusXM Now Streams on Amazon Echo
Full subscriptions or streaming individual shows from SiriusXM are now accessible via voice on Echo. Trial subscriptions available.
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Shopping with AR
What the best way to shop using Augmented Reality? Apple and IKEA team up. Planning for the advanced AR capabilities in future I-Phones.Apple Team Up With IKEA...
From Computational Complexity
Joan Clarke (1917-1996)
I'm in San Francisco for the ACM conference celebrating 50 years of the Turing Award. I'll post on STOC and the Turing award celebration next week. Today though...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Computational Scientist at the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon High Performance Computing Research Core Facility (HPCRCF) is seeking a Computational Scientist in our Job of the Week. The HPCRCF is a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watching How the Giants Buy AI
Below reminds me of our own attempts to buy AI during the last explosion. And we did, buying some considerable equity positions. Of course the scale was far less...
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Secret Algorithms and Rule of Law
Challenges posed in Technology Review. Slightly different from what was posed in the 80s. But unsolved.Very broadly, if we don't know what an algorithm does,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid Video
A paddleboarder had a run-in with an injured giant squid. Video. Here's the real story. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From Schneier on Security
The Secret Code of Beatrix Potter
Interesting: As codes go, Potter's wasn't inordinately complicated. As Wiltshire explains, it was a "mono-alphabetic substitution cipher code," in which each letter...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research and NSF Big Data Hubs Collaboration Passes the One-Year Mark
The cloud computing partnership between the Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) and Microsoft Research has just passed the one-year anniversary mark. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imaginary People
We are not far from generating very convincing faces of people. And if you put these on humanoid robots? Give them Generative AI? In the Verge: " .... As we...
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