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Stewart Brand Rethinking Silicon Valley
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Stewart Brand Rethinking Silicon Valley

Met Stewart Brand Way back when, through company connections at the Institute for the Future.  Spent quite a while those days at Stanford and the Silicon Valley...

Quantum Computing Feat Is Modern Twist on 150-Year-Old Thought Experiment
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Quantum Computing Feat Is Modern Twist on 150-Year-Old Thought Experiment

 Most interesting, quite technical, thought here .... still ponderingQuantum Computing Feat Is Modern Twist on 150-Year-Old Thought ExperimentUNSW Sydney Newsroom...

Buzzfeed, Again?
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Buzzfeed, Again?

 Remember talking to these folks, long ago.   As a means of gathering data about retail trends.  Never congealed.   A revisit of current activity.The unbearable...

Five Ways to Conquer Supply Chain Disruption With S&OP Technologies
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Five Ways to Conquer Supply Chain Disruption With S&OP Technologies

Have recently looked at analyzing disruption scenarios.  Five Ways to Conquer Supply Chain Disruption With S&OP TechnologiesNovember 18, 2022 Sponsored by Logility...

Reaction to Persistent Theft at Wal-Mart
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Reaction to Persistent Theft at Wal-Mart

 Have now seen several examples of this,  reaching epidemic levelsWill persistent theft compel Walmart to raise prices or close stores?32 EXPERT COMMENTS  by George...

Connecting the Joint Force as One
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Connecting the Joint Force as One

Northrup Grumman:   Connecting the Joint Force as OneFuture mission success will lay in highly-effective Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)‘Joining Forces...

Robot Design May Revolutionize How We Build Things in Space
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Robot Design May Revolutionize How We Build Things in Space

Obviously, but what developments should we wait for?  Specify?  Need?Robot Design May Revolutionize How We Build Things in SpaceSciTechDaily, December 1, 2022Researchers...

How China's Police Used Phones, Faces to Track Protesters
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How China's Police Used Phones, Faces to Track Protesters

 China PolicingHow China's Police Used Phones, Faces to Track ProtestersThe New York TimesPaul Mozur; Claire Fu; Amy Chang Chien, December 2, 2022China's police...

RobotTaxis Thrive
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RobotTaxis Thrive

 Where Else?  Good place for live tests, proof of use in complex use, Uber complexity ...  On to LA they say ... Uber and Motional's robotaxis arrive in Las Vegas...

AI Helps Generate Building Blocks for New Drugs
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AI Helps Generate Building Blocks for New Drugs

Generating New DrugsAI Helps Biotech Labs Generate the Building Blocks for New DrugsBy Adrianna Nine on December 6, 2022 at 7:56 am CommentsMyotis daubentonii.Proteins...

Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of Batteries
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Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of Batteries

Yes, please.Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of BatteriesBy R. Colin Johnson, Commissioned by CACM Staff, November 8, 2022EnOcean’s wall-mounted pushbuttons...

Free-Space Optics System Could Boost Space Comms
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Free-Space Optics System Could Boost Space Comms

Free Space OpticsFree-Space Optics System Could Boost Space CommsIEEE Spectrum. John Boyd.December 1, 2022Researchers at Australia's International Center for Radio...

Three Key Takeaways from Meta's Galactica AI
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Three Key Takeaways from Meta's Galactica AI

Galactica AI,  general idea is good, navigating complex forms of data is useful.  One of our early AI successes did exactly this for key internal knowledge.  Make...

The State of Grocery Retail Around the World
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The State of Grocery Retail Around the World

The state of grocery retail around the worldOctober 6, 2022 | Podcast     By Bill Aull, Dymfke Kuijpers, and Daniel Läubli  in McKinseyThe state of grocery retail...

Mechanical Neural Networks
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Mechanical Neural Networks

 Technical intro abstractMechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviorsRYAN H. LEE HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0003-2509-1677, ERWIN A. B. MULDER...

Top Supercomputers
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Top Supercomputers

High performance computing.  (HPC) Frontier Keeps Top Supercomputer SpotBy HPCwire, November 16, 2022The Frontier supercomputer.Top500 coauthor Jack Dongarra acknowledged...

Sutherland on the Future of Augmented Reality Displays
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Sutherland on the Future of Augmented Reality Displays

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...

Are Ads Causing Shoppers to Lose Faith in Amazon search results?
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Are Ads Causing Shoppers to Lose Faith in Amazon search results?

 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...

From Handrwriting to Computer Code
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From Handrwriting to Computer Code

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...

Existential Physics Reading
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Existential Physics Reading

 Understanding physics and its practical application is becoming important.   Here a good intro I am reading,  notably about how quantum effects are being applied...
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