The latest generation of objects in our world acquire new capabilities without having to be redesigned and manufactured from scratch. Instead, the features we didn’t know they could have are brought alive by improving the software layer that they all possess. This can be a way that our smartphone’s camera can shoot a 3D photo, […]
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At the AGI mailing list there are several interesting threads, and recently a request by Eliezer Yudkowsky caught my eye, asking for the source of a quote, which I forwarded to Geordie Rose of D-Wave, who indeed replied quickly and in depth. The request was to support that “a 1974 era computer running 2007 algorithms
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We have started working with Centennial, who makes a software package letting companies manage their policies regarding USB-attached devices, called DeviceWall. Consequently I am now paying more attention to these issues, and just saw the news (via Cnet, through Slashdot, through Diggdot) of a new program that lets an iPod user ‘slurp’ the data off
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