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Nov 18, 2022

Amazon Braket launches Aquila, the first neutral-atom quantum processor from QuEra Computing

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

Quantum researchers require access to different types of quantum hardware from digital, also known as gate-based, quantum processing units (QPUs) to analog devices that are capable of addressing specific problems that are hard to solve using classical computers. Today, Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, continues to deliver on its commitment to provide that choice by launching Aquila, pictured in Figure 1 below, a new neutral-atom QPU from QuEra Computing with up to 256 qubits. As a special purpose device designed for solving optimization problems and simulating quantum phenomena in nature, it enables researchers to explore a new analog paradigm of quantum computing.

Nov 18, 2022

Latest Webb image shows what our Sun looked like as a baby protostar

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, space

Webb’s NIRCam instrument recently captured this detailed image of the cloudy region around a very young protostar called L1527. Only about 100,000 years old, L1527 isn’t a star yet: it hasn’t fully pulled itself into a proper, stable sphere, and it hasn’t piled on enough mass to kickstart nuclear fusion and start pumping out its own energy. It’s more like “a small, hot, and puffy clump of gas, somewhere between 20 percent and 40 percent the mass of our Sun,” according to the European Space Agency.

But as the latest Webb photos reveal, the young protostar is making an ambitious start.

Nov 18, 2022

A navigation system has been created that is more accurate than GPS

Posted by in category: futurism

The new alternative positioning system could achieve an accuracy of 10 centimeters.

Researchers have created an alternative positioning system that is more accurate and robust than GPS. The team discovered that the alternative positioning system is more accurate within urban settings. The prototype that demonstrated this new mobile network infrastructure was able to achieve an accuracy of 10 centimeters.

The results from the study were published in the journal Nature. University of Technology/tudelft.nl.

Nov 18, 2022

This terayacht concept is double the size of the Colosseum

Posted by in categories: governance, transportation

It has been built to be a self-sustaining floating city.

Designer Pierpaolo Lazzarini has proposed a concept for a bold and innovative terayacht which is a giant floating continent double the size of the Roman Colosseum, as first reported by DesignBoom last Friday. It’s called the Pangeos watercraft and it consists of a floating city that includes various hotels, shopping centers, parks, as well as ship and aircraft ports.

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Nov 18, 2022

New type of rechargeable lithium battery now made possible thanks to scientists solving this mystery

Posted by in category: futurism

The development of a new type of rechargeable lithium battery, which labs have pursued throughout the world for years, that is more lightweight, compact, and safe than current ones, may now be possible thanks to a discovery made by MIT researchers.

Nov 18, 2022

Vaccine for lethal brain cancer extends the lifespan of patients

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

People affected by the lethal glioblastoma cancer only live for 12–18 months after diagnosis.

A global trial that began in 2007 has confirmed that a vaccine for the treatment of the most lethal brain cancer can give patients years of extended life.

Glioblastoma is not only the most common form of brain cancer but is also one of the deadliest. People affected by the disease only live just 12–18 months after the diagnosis, or even less.

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Nov 18, 2022

The worst is yet to come: FTX pandemic could ‘wipe out’ several crypto companies

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, cryptocurrencies

‘Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls,’ says the new CEO of FTX.

Cryptocurrency venture Multicoin Capital has written a letter to its investors about further fall in the business before it could recover.

In the upcoming weeks, the company anticipates that the FTX pandemic will “wipe out” several trading firms, according to a report by CNBC.

Nov 18, 2022

Twitter 2.0: Elon Musk shut down the company’s offices after hundreds of employees quit

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Very few have signed up for Musk’s Twitter 2.0.


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Among the ones who were retained, hundreds of employees quit this Thursday following a Musk email asking them to sign up to work long hours at high intensity and put in exceptional performances. Elon Musk, who had set a 5 pm deadline through a Google form, did not anticipate that hundreds would not take up such a role.

Nov 18, 2022

Tesla is the most profitable company on the planet, says Baron Capital

Posted by in categories: finance, futurism

That is the claim of Ron Baron, who invested 6.7 billion in Tesla.

Baron Capital one of the largest and well respected of all the financial firms, held a live event for investors this year. This was the first live event for the firm since 2019, and it was held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The main guest was Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla. The focus was Tesla will become the most profitable company in the world.

There were 5,000 investors present at the event, and they all had a chance to hear where the Tesla CEO thinks the company is going in the future.

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Nov 18, 2022

The Future of Medicine: 3D Printers Can Already Create Human Body Parts

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, food

In recent years, updates in 3D printing technologies have allowed medical researchers to print things that were not possible to make using the previous version of this technology, including food, medicine, and even body parts.

In 2018, doctors from the Ontario Veterinary College 3D printed a custom titanium plate for a dog that had lost part of its skull after cancer surgery.