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Personal computer group seeks those who need the technology
SEQUIM — Members of the Sequim PC Users Group have an abundance of refurbished desktop computers and are looking for people who need them. “It’s a good position to be in — we just need people to give them to,” said Tom LaMure, club president emeritus. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, club members have helped social services groups support individuals and families by providing computers to work and/or attend school from home. Now, some of those agencies have received funding to purchase new computers, laptops and/or tablets. However, donated computers continue to come into the club. As of this week, the
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DARPA Seeks to Improve Computer Vision in ‘Third Wave’ of AI Research
The military’s primary advanced research shop wants to be a leader in the “third wave” of artificial intelligence and is looking at new methods of visually tracking objects using significantly less power while producing results that are 10-times more accurate. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has been instrumental in many of the most important breakthroughs in modern technology—from the first computer networks to early AI research. “DARPA-funded R&D enabled some of the first successes in AI, such as expert systems and search, and more recently has advanced machine learning algorithms and hardware,” according to a notice for
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Europe seeks semiconductor boost, first quantum computer – Technology
Published On 09 March,2021 09:10 am The EU plan recommended investing in quantum technologies. BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union wants to produce a fifth of the global output of cutting-edge semiconductors at the end of this decade and make its first quantum computer in five years, as part of efforts to cut its dependence on non-European technologies. The EU plan called 2030 Digital Compass comes as the COVID-19 pandemic exposes the 27-country bloc’s reliance on key technologies owned by Chinese and U.S. companies. The plan cited the importance of semiconductors, used in connected cars, smartphones, internet-linked devices, high performance
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Marketing Co. Seeks 5th Circ. Review Of Loss To Texas Firm
Law360 (February 5, 2021, 5:40 PM EST) — The Fifth Circuit has reinstated an appeal filed by an online marketing company that was hit with a $80,000 jury verdict for allegedly holding Houston-based law firm The Gonzalez Law Group PLLC’s website “hostage” in return for cash amid a contract dispute. The appellate court granted Internet Lava LLC’s motion to reinstate the appeal Thursday after the marketing firm complained that the appeal was prematurely dismissed for want of prosecution. In a Wednesday filing, Internet Lava said the Fifth Circuit wrongly dismissed the case 13 days early, on Jan. 8, for not
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Iowa Public Safety seeks fund to replace ‘old dog’ computer hardware
DES MOINES — Back in 2003, the United States launched war on Iraq, the Columbia space shuttle blew up, a road map to peace in the Mideast was released and postponed, and there were nearly 8,500 cases of SARS — the acute respiratory syndrome — that led to 810 deaths around the world. It also was the year the Iowa Department of Public Safety went large on technology with new computer servers to store criminal records and other data. “Eighteen years. It’s like dog years,” DPS Commissioner Stephan Bayens told a legislative appropriations panel recently. “I don’t know if it’s
