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Sep 20, 2016
How Sex Tech Is Reimagining the ‘Magic Touch’
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, sex
Sep 20, 2016
Reinventing Prosperity | The Club of Rome
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: economics, education
“The biggest challenges facing the rich world today are persistent unemployment, widening income inequality, and accelerating climate change. … In Reinventing Prosperity, Graeme Maxton and Jorgen Randers take a radically different approach and offer thirteen politically feasible proposals to improve our world.”
Sep 20, 2016
Head transplant surgeon plans ‘Frankenstein’ test to reanimate corpses
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: biotech/medical
Sep 20, 2016
D-Wave systems next quantum chip will 1000X faster and will revolutionize machine learning
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI
Dwave’s next quantum chip, due in 2017, will be able to handle 2,000 qubits which is double the usable number in the existing D-Wave 2X system chip. It will be capable of solving certain problems 1,000x faster than its predecessor.
The new processor will also support additional features that allow for more efficient calculations.
“From an internal tests, that looks like that’s a really good thing to do. We’ve got some problems we’ve already sped up by a factor of 1,000 by exploiting that capability,” said Williams at the CW TEC conference in Cambridge.
Sep 20, 2016
Quantum teleportation was just achieved over more than 7 km of city fibre
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: cybercrime/malcode, particle physics, quantum physics
Quantum teleportation just moved out of the lab and into the real world, with two independent teams of scientists successfully sending quantum information across several kilometres of optical fibre networks in Calgary, Canada, and Hefei, China.
The experiments show that not only is quantum teleportation very much real, it’s also feasible technology that could one day help us build unhackable quantum communication systems that stretch across cities and maybe even continents.
Quantum teleportation relies on a strange phenomenon called quantum entanglement. Basically, quantum entanglement means that two particles are inextricably linked, so that measuring the state of one immediately affects the state of the other, no matter how far apart the two are — which led Einstein to call entanglement “spooky action at a distance”.
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Sep 20, 2016
A world without work is coming – it could be utopia or it could be hell
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Sep 20, 2016
The AI of Tomorrow: Ameila’s Like Siri, But With A Doctorate in Psychology
Posted by Elmar Arunov in category: robotics/AI
The London Borough of Enfield has employed AI Amelia to handle some customer service aspects. The program will guide customers through the site while learning and even picking up on emotions.
The London borough of Enfield has enlisted artificial intelligence Amelia to take on customer service tasks for its residents starting late this year.
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Sep 19, 2016
ISARA Corporation Readies Security Measures for the Quantum Age
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, encryption, internet, quantum physics, security
Wireless security and internet standards experts release a complete quantum resistant toolkit for commercial use.
TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2016 /CNW/ — 4TH ETSI/IQC Workshop on Quantum-Safe Cryptography – ISARA Corporation today announced the availability of its ISARA Quantum Resistant (IQR) Toolkit. The toolkit helps software and hardware solution providers build robust commercial products that protect vulnerable infrastructure against the threat quantum computing already poses to widely-used security standards.
Similar to the Y2K crisis, the technology industry is facing a ‘Y2Q’ (years to quantum) challenge that has a limited timeline and requires significant work to ensure systems and information are properly protected. The massive processing power of quantum computers is such that, without integrating quantum resistant security solutions, all security that depends on existing standards is vulnerable.
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