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Jul 8, 2021

Why ransomware attacks are on the rise — and what can be done to stop them

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, government

These attacks — along with news of several high-profile data breaches linked to the Russian government-backed hack of American software company SolarWinds, including at tech titans like Microsoft — have prompted questions about how these attacks have occured, and how to better guard against them.

State and local leaders testified June 17 before the Senate about how cyber threats they face have grown. And along with the increased penalties for cybercriminials included in a bipartisan Senate infrastructure package, a second bipartisan Senate bill would require public and private entities to report cybersecurity breaches to the government within 24 hours, as well as add liability protections to help encourage businesses to come forward.

Here’s what you should know as debate over cybersecurity and how to fight ransomware continues.

Jul 8, 2021

Google’s Supermodel: DeepMind Perceiver is a step on the road to an AI machine that could process anything and everything

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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The Perceiver is kind-of a way-station on the way to what Google AI lead Jeff Dean has described as one model that could handle any task, and “learn” faster, with less data.

Jul 8, 2021

‘Angel Particle’ found which could lead to 100 MILLION times faster computers

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

Quantum computers could make modern day Macs look like the very first Commodore computer.

Initial tests on Google and NASA’s quantum computing system D-Wave showed that it was a staggering one hundred million times faster than a traditional desktop.

Hartmut Nevan, director of engineering at Google, claimed: “What a D-Wave does in a second would take a conventional computer 10000 years to do.”

Jul 8, 2021

Led Physicists Create 256-qubit Programmable Quantum Simulator

Posted by in category: quantum physics

A Harvard-led team has created a 256-qubit programmable quantum simulator that represents the cutting edge in the world-wide quantum race.

Jul 8, 2021

Swarm of earthquakes strike near California-Nevada border

Posted by in category: futurism

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Jul 8, 2021

‘Worst day ever’ in pigeon racing history as 5,000 birds vanish

Posted by in category: futurism

Bird handlers were devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK.


They flew the coop — and vanished into thin air.

Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK.

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Jul 8, 2021

BMW’s just revealed everything about its futuristic electric scooter

Posted by in category: futurism

A rocket ship-like design separates BMW’s CE 04 from the rest of the electric scooter pack.

Jul 8, 2021

Understanding how electrons turn to glass

Posted by in category: materials

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Researchers at Tohoku University have gained new insight into the electronic processes that guide the transformation of liquids into a solid crystalline or glassy state.

The ability of some liquids to transition into has been exploited since ancient times. But many fundamental aspects of this transition phase are far from understood. Better understanding could spur the development of new products such as DVDs or Blu-Ray discs that store data by altering their state of matter from one to another, and of new glass materials.

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Jul 8, 2021

Years Ago Elon Musk Entered The ‘Lion’s Den,’ His Responses Wowed

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

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When asked if Tesla is a threat to the oil and gas industry, he said he didn’t really think so. Then he paused, thought a bit, and added “Yet.”

Jul 8, 2021

Team develops quantum simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created

Posted by in categories: finance, particle physics, quantum physics, supercomputing

A team of physicists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities has developed a special type of quantum computer known as a programmable quantum simulator capable of operating with 256 quantum bits, or “qubits.”

The system marks a major step toward building large-scale quantum machines that could be used to shed light on a host of complex quantum processes and eventually help bring about real-world breakthroughs in , , finance, and many other fields, overcoming research hurdles that are beyond the capabilities of even the fastest supercomputers today. Qubits are the fundamental building blocks on which quantum computers run and the source of their massive processing power.

“This moves the field into a new domain where no one has ever been to thus far,” said Mikhail Lukin, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, co-director of the Harvard Quantum Initiative, and one of the senior authors of the study published today in the journal Nature. “We are entering a completely new part of the quantum world.”