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USC scientists find a way to enhance quantum computer performance

“USC scientists have demonstrated a theoretical method to enhance the performance of quantum computers, an important step to scale a technology with potential to solve some of society’s biggest challenges. The method addresses a weakness that bedevils performance of …

Western Digital Delivers New Innovations to Drive Open Standard Interfaces and RISC-V Processor Development

“Company Announces Plans to Open Source New RISC-V SweRV Core™ to Accelerate Development of Purpose-Built Architectures from Core to Edge Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced at the RISC-V Summit three new open-source innovations designed to support …

Will light be the basis for quantum computing?

“A team from INRS performs computing operations using highly complex quantum states—marking an important milestone in the development of quantum computing. Using a compact optical platform that exploits the quantum characteristics of light, Professor Roberto Morandotti and his team …

A Big Step toward the Practical Application of 3D Holography with High-Performance Computers

“Japanese computer scientists have succeeded in developing a special purpose computer that can project high-quality three-dimensional (3D) holography as a video. The research team led by Tomoyoshi Ito, who is a professor at the Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba …

A bionic mushroom that generates electricity

“In the quest to replace fossil fuels, scientists are always on the lookout for alternative, environmentally friendly sources of energy. But who could have imagined a bionic mushroom that produces electricity? It sounds like something straight out of Alice in …

A new way to provide cooling without power

“Device developed at MIT could provide refrigeration for off-grid locations. MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. The passive system, which could be …

A starch and graphene hydrogel geared towards electrodes for brain implants is developed

“Hydrogels with electrical and antibacterial properties suitable for neural interfaces have been created in a piece of work at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country The Materials + Technology research group at the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Engineering …

Accelerating 3-D printing

“Researchers have designed a novel printhead that works with unprecedented speed and pioneered ways to melt and extrude renewable materials. Recent work from an MIT lab may help 3-D printing fulfill its long-standing promise to transform manufacturing by enabling the …

Amazon Web Services Announces 13 New Machine Learning Services and Capabilities, Including a Custom Chip for Machine Learning Inference, and a 1/18 Scale Autonomous Race Car for Developers

“New Amazon SageMaker capabilities make it easier for customers to build, train, and deploy models; SageMaker Ground Truth produces high-quality labeled training data, SageMaker RL delivers cloud’s first managed service for reinforcement learning algorithms and simulators, and a new …

Beijing plans an AI Atlantis for the South China Sea - without a human in sight

“Urged by President Xi Jinping to dare to do something that has never been done before, scientists say challenges could give China huge technology lead China is planning to build a deep sea base for unmanned submarine science and defence …