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IBM releases fifth annual Next Five in Five list of near-term significant innovations; personalized routing for commuting/transportation makes the cut

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IBM unveiled the fifth annual “Next Five in Five”—a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. Also on the list of five is the arrival of advanced batteries, including air batteries (e.g., Personalized routing. Earlier post.).

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Foraging on Public Lands Is Becoming More Limited

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Although most national parks ban commercial foraging, about three-fourths allow people to explore and collect their favorite crops for personal use. Individual parks set limits each year, some like Death Valley in California and Nevada restrict the collection of foods like nuts and berries to a quart a day, and only for personal consumption.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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Displayed on the student’s VR headset is a list of modules. Traveling and having a personal connection to Prisms VR customers,” she says, “has been really valuable in designing and updating the modules.” There are six algebra modules, for example, including ones about linear functions, quadratics, and exponentials.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It And when that’s the case, why would you do it any other way? “I billion fine for Meta.

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Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown

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Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers. They made sure every computer-science major coming out of university is trained up and knows how to program CUDA ,” says Matt Kimball, principal data-center analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Georgia Chalvatzaki. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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But you can see, that is the government really coming in and, actually, what has often been a very personal decision of programmers, like, “What language do I use?” So we have to retain the capacity on some level— and this actually is a personal thing with me, is that I believe in the concept of personal computing.

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