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Its potential uses range from ultra-durable smartphone screens to soft, luminous light fixtures.

In pursuit of this objective, researchers have devised innovative strategies for modifying wood in recent years, imbuing it with new capabilities.

These advancements open the door to potentially substituting conventional, non-renewable, petroleum-based materials in diverse applications, including automobiles, energy storage, construction, and environmental remediation. This shift signifies a departure from the traditional domains of construction and paper industries for wood.

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Superposition and the art of not concluding.

The company just coming out of stealth suggests its technology could be used by mining corporations and defense establishments.

Estimates suggest that 75 percent of enterprise data will be generated on the edge by 2025 and Armada is poised perfectly to address an upcoming need.

As part of the larger multi-billion CHIPS and Science Act, the U.S. Department of Commerce has authorized $35M in funding to upgrade the BAE Systems chip factory.

To help boost domestic production of microchips, the U.S. Government has authorized $35M in funding to BAE Systems in New Hampshire.

Legacy companies are working with suppliers, spanning from manufacturers of battery materials to chip producers, to reduce costs.

Expanding globally, Chinese EV makers gain an advantage, utilizing supply chain control to offer competitive pricing.

The Paris-based startup dropped Mixtral 8x7B.

Mistral AI released Mixtral-8x7B on X, showcasing superior performance in multiple AI benchmarks.

Hyundai and Kia unveil snow chain-integrated tires for instant traction, safety, and hassle-free winter driving.

Revolutionize winter driving with Hyundai and Kia’s snow chain tires! Instant traction, safety at the touch of a button.

Fireworks on New Year’s Eve disturb birds up to 10 km away, triggering mass flights with potential hazards.

A new study finds New Year’s Eve fireworks disturb birds up to 10 km away, urging fireworks-free zones for conservation.

Is it possible to invent a computer that computes anything in a flash? Or could some problems stump even the most powerful of computers? How complex is too complex for computation? The question of how hard a problem is to solve lies at the heart of an important field of computer science called computational complexity. Computational complexity theorists want to know which problems are practically solvable using clever algorithms and which problems are truly difficult, maybe even virtually impossible, for computers to crack. This hardness is central to what’s called the P versus NP problem, one of the most difficult and important questions in all of math and science.

This video covers a wide range of topics including: the history of computer science, how transistor-based electronic computers solve problems using Boolean logical operations and algorithms, what is a Turing Machine, the different classes of problems, circuit complexity, and the emerging field of meta-complexity, where researchers study the self-referential nature of complexity questions.

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