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Hacking Construction Cranes
Construction cranes are vulnerable to hacking: In our research and vulnerability discoveries, we found that weaknesses in the…
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Huawei Unveils “Industry’s Highest-Performance ARM-based CPU”
Today, Huawei announced "the industry's highest-performance ARM-based CPU." Called Kunpeng 920, the new CPU is designed to boost the development of computing in...
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Michael Feldman Joins The Next Platform as Senior Editor
Veteran HPC journalist Michael Feldman has departed TOP500.org to join The Next Platform as Senior Editor. Led by co-founders Nicole Hemsoth and Timothy Prickett...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger, Microsoft Create Futuristic Stores
Making Shelves, store and consumer fulfillment smarter.Kroger, Microsoft Create Futuristic Grocery Store. Amazon, Take NoteThe supermarket chain and technologyBy...
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Video: Deploying Marvell’s ThunderX2 at Scale in HPC Market
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Larry Wikelius from Marvell presents: Deploying Marvell's ThunderX2 at Scale in HPC Market. "The ThunderX2 product familyVideo...
From Schneier on Security
New Attack Against Electrum Bitcoin Wallets
This is clever: How the attack works: Attacker added tens of malicious servers to the Electrum wallet network. Users of legitimate Electrum wallets initiate a Bitcoin...
From Computational Complexity
When is a kilogram not a kilogram?
A long long time ago the standards for meter's, kilograms, etc was an actual physical object. Those days are long gone of course. For example, the meter is defined...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predictions For 2019
The problem of predicting ‘when’ not just ‘what’ Cropped from Toronto Star source Isaac Asimov was a prolific writer of science fiction and nonfiction. Thirty-five...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amoeba Solves the TSP
A classic, iconic problem, often mentioned in analytics texts. Often use as a classic optimization problem that gets very hard, very fast for digital computers...
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Downloading the Wikipedia
Since I am always connected, and have been technical since you had to solder things together, I was unaware you could do this. The further question is why would...
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Call for Papers: International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming models for Manycore or Accelerators
The 4th International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming models for Manycore or Accelerators (P^3MA) has issued their Call for Papers. This workshop will...
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Video: Reimagining the Datacenter Memory and Storage Hierarchy
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Andrey Kudryavtsev from Intel presents: Reimagining the Data Centre Memory and Storage Hierarchy. "Intel Optane DC persistent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neutrogena scans Faces, Builds Masks
Clever idea, using smartphone as a sensor, other applications?Neutrogena app 3D scans your face to create perfect-fit sheet masksBecause there's no one-size-fits...
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Use of Weather App Data
On the alleged gathering of data and how it is used. Leads to further consideration about how the data is used now and in the future. Future intent of data use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting Smart Glasses to an Assistant
Now we have smart glasses (soon) connecting to an Assistant. To be shown at this weeks CES. As the review suggests, most likely interesting for narrow applications...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 5th, 2019)
There are nearly 70,000 centenarians in Japan. China’s population fell by 2.5 million in 2018. Obesity is associated with increased senescent cell burden and neuropsychiatric...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Etherium Announces Open Plan to Cut Energy Use
How fundamental will this change be? Mining to move beyond proof by work?Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99% IEEE Spectrum By Peter...
From insideHPC
Video: Flying through the Universe with Supercomputing Power
In this video from SC18, Mike Bernhardt from the Exascale Computing Project talked with Salman Habib of Argonne National Laboratory about cosmological computerVideo...
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Job of the Week: Performance Engineer at Oak Ridge National Lab
Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee is seeking a Performance Engineer in our Job of the Week. "We are seeking to build a team of Performance Engineers who willJob...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Experience Metrics
Useful survey, you see them all, and often not well applied, just used for historical or cost/availability reasons. You get what you measure.Does it matter which...
From The Eponymous Pickle