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Financial Firms Seek Edge in Algorithms Inspired by Quantum Computing
Some firms are running algorithms used for quantum computers on advanced machines for risk analysis and portfolio optimization.
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Ministry of Defence Acquires U.K. Government's First Quantum Computer
Orca Computing uses its own patented quantum memory to store and retrieve single photons on demand.
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Photonic Quantum Computer Claims Speedup 'Advantage'
Quantum-powered cloud is 7,800,000,000,000,000x as fast, for some problems, as a supercomputer.
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Robotic Shoulders May Be Key to Lab-Made Tendon Grafts
U.K. and German scientists developed a proof of concept for using robotic skeletons to grow tendons that are strong enough for human transplants.
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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives
During the war in Ukraine's first 16 days, volunteers used three-dimensional printers to produce 3,019 parts for 930 products for the country's armed forces.
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The Future of the Datacenter
Existing and new technologies can help cut datacenters' carbon footprint.
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How Safe Are Systems Like Tesla's Autopilot? No One Knows
Automakers and technology companies say they are making driving safer, but verifying these claims is difficult.
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Radio Waves for the Detection of Hardware Tampering
Scientists in Germany have developed a technique that uses radio waves to monitor hardware for tampering.
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Reno Trusting the Blockchain with Building Records
Reno, NV, has launched a blockchain-based program for storing records in order to improve "clarity and transparency" in record-keeping.
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California Regulators Approve First Driverless Taxi Fleet
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved to General Motors' Cruise’s bid to offer a driverless ride-hailing service in San Francisco.
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Advanced Quantum Computer Available to the Public
The researchers behind a quantum computer that encodes data in pulses of light have connected it to the Internet and made it available for public use.
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Drones Could Scare Birds Off Agricultural Fields
An autonomous system can patrol agricultural fields around the clock to drive away birds that feed on the crops.
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Researchers Find Critical Vulnerability in Smartphone Chips
The researchers said they found "several out-of-bound read issues when the NAS handler functions read data from outside the Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message."
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Walmart Expands Drone-Delivery Service to Reach 4 Million Households
Walmart is expanding its partnership with DroneUp to make drone deliveries available in six more states this year.
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Japan Tries—Again—to Revitalize its Research
The latest effort would spend billions on a few universities, but skeptics give it long odds.
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Quantum Computer Could Catch Its Own Errors
A team of Austrian and German scientists has constructed a 16-quantum bit computer that runs error-free calculations.
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Singapore's Robot Workforce Plugs Labor Gaps
Businesses in Singapore increasingly are resorting to robots to help address labor shortages and perform a range of jobs.
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ORNL's Frontier First to Break the Exaflop Ceiling
The 59th edition of the TOP500 revealed the Frontier system to be the first true exascale machine with an HPL score of 1.102 Exaflop/s.
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Smart Dissolving Pacemaker Communicates with Body-Area Sensor, Control Network
Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University scientists have unveiled a smart version of a transient pacemaker, which dissolvesView...
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