Abstract: A skin preparation device including a body member, a fluid retention member operatively connected to a distal end of the body member, and a tip extending radially from an outer surface of the fluid retention member.

Abstract: A method of controlling the ignition of exothermic weld material includes providing an exothermic welding system. The exothermic welding system includes: a controller including or connected to a battery; and a cable comprising a first end connected to a controller and a second, opposite end connected to an igniter, with a wire filament, attached to a mold holding the weld material. The method includes: receiving a wireless input signal from a portable electronic device; and in response to receiving the input signal, directing current from the battery to the second end of the cable to ignite the weld material.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to reduce emissions in guided network environments. An apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to collect data from respective network nodes corresponding to a request to access information, predict an emission of accessing the information via the respective network nodes using the data, and select a network path including at least one of the network nodes based on the predicted emission.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for dynamic selection of super queue size for CPUs with higher number of cores. An apparatus includes a plurality of compute modules, each module including a plurality of processor cores with integrated first level (L1) caches and a shared second level (L2) cache, a plurality of Last Level Caches (LLCs) or LLC blocks and a plurality of memory interface blocks interconnect via a mesh interconnect. A compute module is configured to arbitrate access to the shared L2 cache and enqueue L2 cache misses in a super queue (XQ). The compute module further is configured to dynamically adjust the size of the XQ during runtime operations. The compute module tracks parameters comprising an L2 miss rate or count and LLC hit latency and adjusts the XQ size as a function of these parameters. A lookup table using the L2 miss rate/count and LLC hit latency may be implemented to dynamically select the XQ size.

Abstract: A syringe includes a barrel having a proximal end, a distal end having a distal tip defining a channel, and a sidewall extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The syringe also includes a tip cap removably connected to the distal tip of the barrel restricting fluid flow from the channel. The tip cap includes a connector configured to receive the distal tip of the barrel forming a friction engagement with the distal tip, a cap shield connected to and extending about the connector, and a release tab extending proximally from the cap shield that secures the tip cap to the barrel. A prefilled flushing syringe including a predetermined volume of a fluid disposed within the barred of the syringe, as well as methods for expulsion of fluid from the syringe and of assembling the syringe and tip cap are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for a non-intruding auto quoting feature on-the-fly for chat applications based on previous conversations and effectively forking/quoting such conversations to ease the burden of the user going through all the chat history. The techniques may involve monitoring an ongoing first text communication session between a first user and at least one second user; detecting one or more salient words or phrases in the first text communication session based on the monitoring; based on the one or more salient words or phrases, identifying a second text communication session that is topically related to the first text communication session; and displaying in a user interface presented to the first user a prompt to quote relevant content from the second text communication session into the first text communication session or to fork the first user to be a participant in the second text communication session.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for conditional quality of service in a processor. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a plurality of processor resources to be allocated to a plurality of executed processes in accordance with a set of quality of service (QoS) rules; and conditional quality of service (QoS) circuitry/logic to monitor usage of the plurality of processor resources by the plurality of processes and to responsively modify an allocation of a first processor resource for a first process in response to detecting a first threshold value being reached in a second resource allocated to the first process.

Abstract: A syringe with an integrated vein finder is disclosed, which illuminates a potential venipuncture site of a patient and identifies a vein that is suitable for venipuncture with the syringe, for blood collection or intravenous drug administration. The syringe portion of the system includes a syringe barrel and a pointed-tip needle projecting from the distal end of the barrel for venipuncture. An illumination module is coupled to the syringe barrel; it has an illumination source that projects an electromagnetic beam into an illumination zone distal the syringe's pointed tip, for illuminating and identifying a subcutaneous vein. The integrated vein finder and syringe system is operable by a sole clinician, such as a phlebotomist, who can easily manipulate the syringe and illuminate the venipuncture site with one hand, without assistance of another clinician.

Abstract: A method is described. The method includes invoking one of more functions from a set of API functions that expose the current respective cooling states of different, respective cooling devices for different components of a hardware platform. The method includes orchestrating concurrent execution of multiple applications on the hardware platform in view of the current respective cooling states. The method includes, in order to prepare the hardware platform for the concurrent execution of the multiple applications, prior to the concurrent execution of the multiple applications, sending one or more commands to the hardware platform to change a cooling state of at least one of the cooling devices.

Abstract: Customers of a software platform, such as a unified communications as a service platform, are enabled to control their own encryption keys used to encrypt and decrypt data from various communication services in the software platform. A key broker server is employed to map encryption and decryption requests from servers in the platform to key management servers of customers based on user identifiers. Examples of data encrypted may include conference recordings, webinar recordings, phone call recordings, voicemails, emails, and calendar tokens.

Abstract: A method is claimed. The method includes receiving information associated with a software application's workflow. The method includes receiving information that describes a platform's current power consumption state and current thermal state. The method includes selecting platform components to support execution of the workflow. The method includes prior to execution of the workflow upon the selected platform components, estimating a thermal impact to the platform's current thermal state as a consequence of the workflow's execution upon the selected platform components. The method includes determining a change to be made to a thermal cooling system of the platform in response to the estimating and causing the change to be made to the thermal cooling system prior to execution of at least a portion of the workflow on the platform.

Abstract: Customers of a software platform, such as a unified communications as a service platform, are enabled to control their own encryption keys used to encrypt and decrypt data from various communication services in the software platform. A key broker server is employed to map encryption and decryption requests from servers in the platform to key management servers of customers based on user identifiers. Examples of data encrypted may include conference recordings, webinar recordings, phone call recordings, voicemails, emails, and calendar tokens.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device, such as a system on chip, includes a plurality of hardware circuitry components and a power delivery network to delivery power to the plurality of hardware circuitry elements. The power delivery network has a plurality of integrated switches and a corresponding data plane to couple the plurality of switches to a controller on the IC device. The controller sends signals on the control plane of the power delivery network to granularly select which of the plurality of hardware circuitry elements to power-gate and may do so at the direction of a software system.

Abstract: Data that is to be processed by a particular service executed by a first edge computing device in an application, is analyzed to determine characteristics of the data. An opportunity to replicate the particular service on a plurality of edge computing devices is determined based on characteristics of the data. A second edge computing device is determined to be available to execute a replicated instance of the particular service. Replication of the particular service is initiated on a plurality of edge computing devices including the second edge computing device. An output of an instance of the particular service executed on the first edge computing device and an output of the replicated instance of the particular service executed on the second edge computing device are combined to form a single output for the particular service.

Abstract: A server platform in a cloud computing system is determined to be in an unused state and a request from a remote computing system outside the data center system is received to control hardware of at least one of the server platforms of the cloud computing systems. A bare-metal-as-is (BMAI) session is initiated for the remote computing system to use the server platform based on the unused state, wherein exclusive control of at least a portion of hardware of the server platform is temporarily handed over to the remote computing system in the BMAI session. Control of the portion of the hardware of the server platform is reclaimed based on an end of the BMAI session.

Abstract: A VTOL aircraft includes a plurality of lift propellers configured to rotated by lift motors to provide vertical thrust during takeoff, landing and hovering operations. The lift propellers are configured to generate a cooling airflow to cool the lift motors during use. During a cruise operation when the VTOL aircraft is in forward motion, the lift propellers may be stowed in a stationary position. Therefore, the cooling airflow may be reduced or eliminated when it is not needed.

Abstract: Methods and server systems for computing fraud risk scores for various merchants associated with an acquirer described herein. The method performed by a server system includes accessing merchant-related transaction data including merchant-related transaction indicators associated with a merchant from a transaction database. Method includes generating a merchant-related transaction features based on the merchant-related indicators. Method includes generating via risk prediction models, for a payment transaction with the merchant, merchant health and compliance risk scores, merchant terminal risk scores, merchant chargeback risk scores, and merchant activity risk scores based on the merchant-related transaction features. Method includes facilitating transmission of a notification message to an acquirer server associated with the merchant.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein are generally directed to the use of sidecars to perform dynamic API contract generation and conversion. In an example, a first sidecar of a source microservice intercepts a first call to a first API exposed by a destination microservice. The first call makes use of a first API technology specified by a first contract and is originated by the source microservice. An API technology is selected from multiple API technologies. The selected API technology is determined to be different than the first API technology. Based on the first contract, a second contract is dynamically generated that specifies an intermediate API that makes use of the selected API technology. A second sidecar of the destination microservice is caused to generate the intermediate API and connect the intermediate API to the first API.

Abstract: Technologies for dynamically managing resources in disaggregated accelerators include an accelerator. The accelerator includes acceleration circuitry with multiple logic portions, each capable of executing a different workload. Additionally, the accelerator includes communication circuitry to receive a workload to be executed by a logic portion of the accelerator and a dynamic resource allocation logic unit to identify a resource utilization threshold associated with one or more shared resources of the accelerator to be used by a logic portion in the execution of the workload, limit, as a function of the resource utilization threshold, the utilization of the one or more shared resources by the logic portion as the logic portion executes the workload, and subsequently adjust the resource utilization threshold as the workload is executed. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: Fluid connector systems including first and second connector portions couplable together to form a fluid pathway therethrough, and can resist fluid flow through the connector when the connector portions are separated from each other. A connector portion can include a connector housing, a luer portion, and a deformable valve member. The deformable valve member is disposed within the connector housing and includes a spherical portion extending partially through a valve opening of the connector housing. The spherical portion defines a slit, and the deformable valve member is configured to selectively prevent fluid flow from the housing volume through the valve opening and to deform to expand the slit and permit fluid flow from the housing volume through the valve opening.