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Is the Director General of the Pacific Community (SPC — https://www.spc.int/about-us/director-general) which is the largest intergovernmental organization in the Pacific and serves as a science and technology for development organization owned by the 26 Member countries and territories in the Pacific region.

SPC’s 650 member staff deliver services and scientific advice to the Pacific across the domains of Oceans, Islands and People, and has deep expertise in food security, water resources, fisheries, disasters, energy, maritime, health, statistics, education, human rights, social development and natural resources.

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While multiphoton entangled states are the essential building blocks of quantum photonic technologies, large-scale production of such states has proven to be difficult. This study utilizes the unique structure of hole spins in quantum dot molecules to propose an approach that overcomes many of the existing obstacles in the deterministic generation of such states. With high fidelity and production rates that are unmatched among currently available protocols, this proposal seems quite promising as a basis for tomorrow’s optical quantum communication hardware.

Space is haunted, sort of.

Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday.

The breach “will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,” Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn. He called it “one of the most significant leaks I’ve seen.”

Twitter has not commented on the report, which Gal first posted about on social media on Dec. 24, nor responded to inquiries about the breach since that date. It was not clear what action, if any, Twitter has taken to investigate or remediate the issue.

The AI legal service provider DoNotPay aims to get one defendant off the hook for a traffic fine using only their chatbot.

The method has not been tested on RSA-2048 but experts say it is theoretically possible.

It will play a key role in constructing the world’s largest offshore wind farm.

Belgian contractor Jan De Nul’s massive Voltaire wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) is on its way to help build the world’s biggest wind farm, the 3.6GW Dogger Bank in the UK North Sea, according to a press release by the company published last week.

Building a wind farm.

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“Five strangers were pulled together” in an engineering challenge to find a solution to a real-world problem.

Engineering researchers of an innovative academy program have designed a Submersible Remotely Operated Vehicle (SROV) in a span of six weeks after accepting the U.K. Navy’s challenge.

“I was skeptical at first that we could pull off such an ambitious project within the timeframe,” said Dylan Brennan, project team lead, a nuclear graduate working for Jacobs.

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The world’s first four-seater electric vehicle can travel up to 250 miles by air on a single charge.

The first fully-functional prototype of the ASKA A5 electric drive and fly Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicle was introduced at CES 2023, according to a press release by the firm published on Wednesday.

Traveling 250 miles on a single charge

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