The Austrian scientist, a pioneer of quantum teleportation, reflects on God, the nature of things and the future of computing.
But before quantum physics revolutionizes computing, Intel and rivals will have to learn how to make vastly more powerful machines.
Dan this made me think of you.
‘Benchmark’ experiment suggests quantum computers could have useful real-world applications within two years.
Researchers have created a small device that “sees” and creates memories in a similar way to humans, in a promising step towards one day having applications that can make rapid, complex decisions such as in self-driving cars.
The neuromorphic invention is a single chip enabled by a sensing element, doped indium oxide, that’s thousands of times thinner than a human hair and requires no external parts to operate.
RMIT University engineers in Australia led the work, with contributions from researchers at Deakin University and the University of Melbourne.
In my new Newsweek Op-Ed, I tackle a primary issue many people have with trying to stop aging and death via science. Hopefully this philosophical argument will allow more resources & support into the life extension field:
Philosophers often say if humans didn’t die, we’d be bored out of our minds. This idea, called temporal scarcity, argues the finitude of death is what makes life worth living. Transhumanists, whose most urgent goal is to use science to overcome biological death, emphatically disagree.
For decades, the question of temporal scarcity has been debated and analyzed in essays and books. But an original idea transhumanists are putting forth is reinvigorating the debate. It doesn’t discount temporal scarcity in biological humans; it discounts it in what humans will likely become in the future—cyborgs and digitized consciousnesses.
Continue reading “Eliminating Death Doesn’t Mean Life Will Get Boring” »
Early Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) release holds nearly two million objects, including distant galaxies, quasars and stars in our own Milky Way.
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the most robust multi-object survey spectrograph, capable of mapping more than 40 million galaxies, quasars, and stars, recorded an 80-terabyte data set this Tuesday.
Continue reading “First batch of DESI data available for scientists to mine” »
AMD breaks records by launching a 128-core server CPU, a chip with 1GB of L3 cache, and a GPU with 192GB of VRAM.
Kairan Quazi announced the news in an impressive LinkedIn post, during which he explained how he’d begun his software engineering career at an early age.
While he kept post pretty professional, Quazi couldn’t help but gush about working for the ‘coolest company on the planet’.
Kairan Quazi is only in his teens, but has already graduated with a computer science degree before accepting a job with SpaceX.
Continue reading “Child prodigy accepts job offer from SpaceX after graduating at just 14” »
If you tuned into Apple’s WWDC conference on June 5, you may have spotted the term ‘spatial computing’ in the company’s keynote.
Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about spatial computing.
Spatial computing is a term used to refer to machines that use human interaction to retain and manipulate real-life objects and spaces.
