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Jan 28, 2021

You can’t buy a quantum computer, but if you’re BMW you can start using these radical new machines now

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

BMW takes first steps into the quantum computing revolution.


A radically different type of computation is gradually maturing.

Jan 27, 2021

New “Fast Forward” Algorithm Could Unleash the Power of Quantum Computers

Posted by in categories: computing, information science, quantum physics

Fast-forwarding quantum calculations skips past the time limits imposed by decoherence, which plagues today’s machines.

A new algorithm that fast forwards simulations could bring greater use ability to current and near-term quantum computers, opening the way for applications to run past strict time limits that hamper many quantum calculations.

“Quantum computers have a limited time to perform calculations before their useful quantum nature, which we call coherence, breaks down,” said Andrew Sornborger of the Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and senior author on a paper announcing the research. “With a new algorithm we have developed and tested, we will be able to fast forward quantum simulations to solve problems that were previously out of reach.”

Jan 27, 2021

These Kenyan Men Are Taking Humanity For A Breakthrough!

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

These two Kenyan men are stealing hearts with their amazing inventions that can be a major way to provide much better technological aid to people with disabilities! Watch this video to see these mind-blowing gadgets that work on the commands given by the brain! And we haven’t even told the best part, due to the lack of resources, most of these gadgets are made of wood or old computer parts! Well, imagine what all they can achieve if provided with better technology and resources!

Jan 26, 2021

Valve co-founder says brain-computer interfaces will let you ‘edit’ your feelings

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

I think this could be one way for Valve to keep its players happy! 😃


Gabe Newell envisions future brain-computer interfaces personalizing video game settings, turning up our focus, and modifying sleep patterns.

Jan 26, 2021

Gabe Newell says brain-computer interface tech will allow video games far beyond what human ‘meat peripherals’ can comprehend

Posted by in categories: computing, food, neuroscience

Gamers of the future should be prepared! 😃


NZ’s newest resident billionaire says BCIs could be used to change a person’s mood, help them fall asleep, and to create incredibly immersive games.

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Jan 26, 2021

Using CRISPR Genetic Technology to Catch Cancer in the Act

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, genetics

Using CRISPR technology, researchers are tracking the lineage of individual cancer cells as they proliferate and metastasize in real-time.

When cancer is confined to one spot in the body, doctors can often treat it with surgery or other therapies. Much of the mortality associated with cancer, however, is due to its tendency to metastasize, sending out seeds of itself that may take root throughout the body. The exact moment of metastasis is fleeting, lost in the millions of divisions that take place in a tumor. “These events are typically impossible to monitor in real time,” says Jonathan Weissman, MIT professor of biology and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research member.

Now, researchers led by Weissman, who is also an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, have turned a CRISPR tool into a way to do just that. In a paper published on January 212021, in Science, Weissman’s lab, in collaboration with Nir Yosef, a computer scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, and Trever Bivona, a cancer biologist at the University of California at San Francisco, treats cancer cells the way evolutionary biologists might look at species, mapping out an intricately detailed family tree. By examining the branches, they can track the cell’s lineage to find when a single tumor cell went rogue, spreading its progeny to the rest of the body.

Jan 24, 2021

Sabrent Rocket Q Review

Posted by in category: computing

If you need the maximum single-drive capacity for a PCI Express NVMe M.2 drive, Sabrent’s Rocket Q 8TB is a solid option, but we’d keep an eye on Samsung’s coming SATA-drive QLC moves, too.

Jan 24, 2021

Rethinking Energy 2020–2030: 100% Solar, Wind, and Batteries is Just the Beginning

Posted by in categories: business, computing, economics, internet, nuclear energy, sustainability

Wow…even I was amazed by these stats and timeline… and I am an unapologetic optimist and futurist who wants to live forever lol.


This video is a synopsis of our research report “Rethinking Energy 2020–2030: 100% Solar, Wind, and Batteries is Just the Beginning” that was published on October 27th, 2020 and is available for download free of charge from our RethinkX website https://www.rethinkx.com/energy.

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Jan 22, 2021

Quantum Computer Breakthrough: New Blueprint for Better, Faster Qubits

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have put forward a detailed plan of how faster and better defined quantum bits — qubits — can be created. The central elements are magnetic atoms from the class of so-called rare-earth metals, which would be selectively implanted into the crystal lattice of a material. Each of these atoms represents one qubit. The researchers have demonstrated how these qubits can be activated, entangled, used as memory bits, and read out. They have now published their design concept and supporting calculations in the journal PRX Quantum.

On the way to quantum computers, an initial requirement is to create so-called quantum bits or “qubits”: memory bits that can, unlike classical bits, take on not only the binary values of zero and one, but also any arbitrary combination of these states. “With this, an entirely new kind of computation and data processing becomes possible, which for specific applications means an enormous acceleration of computing power,” explains PSI researcher Manuel Grimm, first author of a new paper on the topic of qubits.

Jan 22, 2021

Tini Veltman (1931–2021): From Assembly Language to a Nobel Prize—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Posted by in category: computing

Stephen Wolfram shares how he met physicist Tini Veltman, their conversations about computers and a bit about Veltman’s Nobel Prize-winning work.