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Aug 13, 2016
Is Quantum the Future of High-Performance Analytics?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
If you think quantum computing sounds like something out of science fiction, you’re not alone. It’s still more theory than practice, but it might be able to answer questions that are unsolvable by current computers. Earlier this year, IBM made a small quantum computer available via the cloud.
Quantum Mechanics and the Weirdness of Particles
To understand quantum computers, you must first know a little bit about quantum mechanics. In the briefest possible description, quantum mechanics is the branch of physics that models how particles behave at the smallest scales.
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Aug 13, 2016
China successfully develops semiconductor quantum chip
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics
China has made a breakthrough in the research of quantum computing. The quantum laboratory of the University of Science and Technology of China recently announced its success in developing a semiconductor quantum chip.
According to a CNTV report on Aug. 11, the quantum chip is equivalent to the “brain” of future quantum computers; it enables quantum operations and information processing. Besides computing, technologies for quantum storage and control are also essential to the future of this technology. The “sandwich-type” solid-state quantum memory can be operational at a low temperature with magnetic auxiliary equipment.
Zhou Zongquan, a researcher at the Key Laboratory of Quantum Information under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), said that the direction of future development is to prolong the life of quantum memory.
Aug 13, 2016
Turning Quantum Theories Into Quantum Technologies
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, nanotechnology, quantum physics
ACQUIRE researchers will confront major challenges in a four-year quest to engineer a quantum communication system on a chip. The chip will need to operate at room temperature with low energy in a fiber optic network with entangled photons.
Currently, such a communication system may be demonstrated in laboratories, but only at cryogenic (very low) temperatures, and with bulky, energy-intensive equipment. However, a fundamental understanding of quantum physics and optical materials, as well as recent progress in nanoscale photonic integration, have brought communication systems scaled to the quantum level within reach.
If successful, the ACQUIRE teams’ results will begin to realize the hardware needed for secure and efficient quantum communication. The findings from the ACQUIRE projects will also advance quantum sensing and computing.
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Aug 13, 2016
Earth-Like Planet Around Proxima Centauri Discovered
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j3x4iQBvd8E
According to an unnamed source, the ESO has discovered a habitable planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, making it the closest Earth-like planet discovered to date.
Aug 13, 2016
The Closest Supernova Since 1604 Is Hissing At Us
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: cosmology
By examining faint radio emissions from a local supernova remnant, astronomers are learning more about how stars behave before they explode
Aug 13, 2016
The Transhumanist party wants to use technology to solve the world’s problems — meet their presidential candidate
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: economics, geopolitics, transhumanism
A short video from Now This on my campaign. It highlights my interview from the RNC in Cleveland and ideas on Universal Basic Income:
Aug 13, 2016
72 Stunning Things in The Future That Will be Common Ten Years From Now That Don’t Exist Today
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: mobile phones, transportation
How many things do we own, that are common today, that didn’t exist 10 years ago? The list is probably longer than you think.
Prior to the iPhone coming out in 2007, we didn’t have smartphones with mobile apps, decent phone cameras for photos/videos, mobile maps, mobile weather, or even mobile shopping.
None of the mobile apps we use today existed 10 years ago: Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, Facetime, LinkedIn, Lyft, Whatsapp, Netflix, Pandora, or Pokemon Go.
Aug 13, 2016
The White House’s new Messenger bot lets citizens send notes to President Obama — By Sarah Perez | TechCrunch
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: government, robotics/AI
“Sending a letter to the White House is getting a digital upgrade … In addition to accepting hand-written missives by postal mail and emails, the public can now send a note to President Obama via Facebook.”
Aug 13, 2016
Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, media & arts
Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that things will change irreversibly.
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