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Oct 25, 2016
Beyond Moore’s Law: 13 Investors, CEOs, And Researchers Sound Off On Quantum Computing
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, finance, quantum physics, robotics/AI
A nice read on the who’s who in QC: congrats Vern Brownell and Michelle S. in making the top 13 list.
Leaders in quantum computing discuss the challenges and potential for this technology across finance, AI, and many other fields.
Oct 25, 2016
Scientists slam carbon out of diamonds to create the first quantum computing bridge
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics
What happens when you knock the carbon out of diamonds? You end up maintaining 100 percent quantum integrity; therefore, you can now transmit multitude of Qubits together over a long distance instead of 1 Qubit in one transmission and among multiple QC Devices.
New breakthrough paves the way for the first practical quantum computers
Quantum computers are a reality but unlike the first traditional computers, which were large enough to fill a room, most of today’s quantum computers are very small with one, five, or even 16 qubits at their core and getting to the point where we have a truly practical quantum computer is going to require component by component advances until, one day, we get to the point where all of the blocks “just work”.
Oct 25, 2016
‘Atomic sandwich’ computing material uses 100 times less energy
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: computing, materials
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists have developed a new “magnetoelectric multiferroic*” material that could lead to a new generation of computing devices with more computing power while consuming a fraction of the energy that today’s electronics require.
Oct 25, 2016
Opinion: Workers will simply try to survive, rather than prosper, as tech takes over the economy
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: economics, employment
An assumption was that new jobs in new industries would take up displaced workers — but that hasn’t happened, says Satyajit Das.
Oct 25, 2016
Vantablack, the Darkest Material Ever Made, Absorbs 99.965% Of Light
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: materials
Oct 25, 2016
Will AI replace judges and lawyers?
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: computing, information science, law, robotics/AI
An artificial intelligence method developed by University College London computer scientists and associates has predicted the judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with 79% accuracy, according to a paper published today (Monday, Oct. 24) in PeerJ Computer Science.
The method is the first to predict the outcomes of a major international court by automatically analyzing case text using a machine-learning algorithm.*.
Oct 25, 2016
Nanofiber Coating Prevents Infections of Prosthetic Joints
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs
A titanium implant (blue) without a nanofiber coating in the femur of a mouse. Bacteria are shown in red and responding immune cells in yellow. Courtesy of Lloyd Miller/Johns Hopkins Medicine
In a proof-of-concept study with mice, scientists at The Johns Hopkins University show that a novel coating they made with antibiotic-releasing nanofibers has the potential to better prevent at least some serious bacterial infections related to total joint replacement surgery. A report on the study, published online the week of Oct. 24 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was conducted on the rodents’ knee joints, but, the researchers say, the technology would have “broad applicability” in the use of orthopedic prostheses, such as hip and knee total joint replacements, as well pacemakers, stents and other implantable medical devices. In contrast to other coatings in development, the researchers report the new material can release multiple antibiotics in a strategically timed way for an optimal effect.
“We can potentially coat any metallic implant that we put into patients, from prosthetic joints, rods, screws and plates to pacemakers, implantable defibrillators and dental hardware,” says co-senior study author Lloyd S. Miller, MD, PhD, an associate professor of dermatology and orthopedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Oct 25, 2016
Self-Driving Truck’s First Mission: A Beer Run
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
SAN FRANCISCO — The futurists of Silicon Valley may not have seen this one coming: The first commercial delivery made by a self-driving truck was 2,000 cases of Budweiser beer.
On Tuesday, Otto, the Uber-owned self-driving vehicle operation, announced the completion of its first commercial delivery, having delivered its beer load from Fort Collins, Colo., to Colorado Springs, a roughly 120-mile trip on Interstate 25.
In recent years, Uber has predicted a future in which you can ride in a self-driving car that will take you where you want to go, no driver necessary. But the idea that commercial trucking could be done by robot is a relatively new idea — and a potentially controversial one, given the possibility that robots could one day replace human drivers.
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