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Nov 19, 2021

“Deepfaking the Mind” Could Improve Brain-Computer Interfaces for People with Disabilities

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

The Neuro-Network.

“𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙛𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙” 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣-𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙣𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙬… See more.

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Nov 18, 2021

Here is the world’s first smartphone with over 20GB RAM

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

Today, ZTE Mobile announced that it will release the ZTE Axon 30 Ultra aerospace version on November 25. The smartphone will be endorsed by Liu Haocun, the heroine of Zhang Yimou’s movie “One Second”. The main highlight of this smartphone is that it is the world’s first smartphone with 18GB RAM. However, this memory capacity can get to over 20GB RAM. Furthermore, this device will also come with 1TB of internal storage. This is currently the flagship smartphone with the largest memory and storage capacity in the industry.

Nov 18, 2021

How technology has inspired neuroscientists to reimagine the brain

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

Telegraphs and computers helped scientists reimagine the mind, writes Matthew Cobb in The Idea of the Brain.

Nov 18, 2021

Intel’s chip recovery plan could restore US manufacturing prowess

Posted by in categories: computing, government

The chipmaker’s come-from-behind strategy is risky and will take years, even with government subsidies.

Nov 18, 2021

Atom Computing: A Quantum Computing Startup That Believes It Can Ultimately Win The Qubit Race

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, engineering, particle physics, quantum physics

While traditional computers use magnetic bits to represent a one or a zero for computation, quantum computers use quantum bits or qubits to represent a one or a zero or simultaneously any number in between.

Today’s quantum computers use several different technologies for qubits. But regardless of the technology, a common requirement for all quantum computing qubits is that it must be scalable, high quality, and capable of fast quantum interaction with each other.

IBM uses superconducting qubits on its huge fleet of about twenty quantum computers. Although Amazon doesn’t yet have a quantum computer, it plans to build one using superconducting hardware. Honeywell and IonQ both use trapped-ion qubits made from a rare earth metal called ytterbium. In contrast, Psi Quantum and Xanadu use photons of light.

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Nov 18, 2021

This new startup has built a record-breaking 256-qubit quantum computer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

At long last, physicists from Harvard and MIT have found the killer application for quantum computing: a Mario Bros. GIF made from qubits. The qubits (quantum bits) can also be arranged in a Space Invaders design, or Tetris, or any other shape—your geometrical wish is the qubits’ command.

The GIFs are from QuEra Computing, a Boston startup emerging from stealth, to show off the programmability of their 256-qubit quantum simulator —a special-purpose quantum computer built for solving certain types of problems.

Nov 18, 2021

TSMC Gets Billions in Pre-Payments for Fab Capacity

Posted by in category: computing

Long-term supply agreements are nothing new in the semiconductor industry. Both fabless chip designers and contract makers of chips prefer stable supply and demand, respectively. But in a world with severely constrained supply, chip developers are willing to pay for their integrated circuits well in advance, which is a boon for foundries.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest foundry, disclosed in a filing that it received temporary receipts of around $3.825 billion (NT$106,33 billion) from customers as of September 30, 2021. Temporary receipts from TSMC’s customers are payments received to retain its capacity. To put the number into context, TSMC earned some $14.926 billion (NT$414.67 billion) in Q3 2021, so $3.825 billion is a sizeable sum for the company.

Nov 18, 2021

How Google is Reading Your Thoughts — Scientists Mapping the Human Brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

Google is secretly working with the world’s leading neuroscientists on mapping the entire Human Brain. Neuroscientists at have released the most detailed 3D map of the mammalian brain ever made. Google has helped them by funding their goal to create the most detailed map yet of the connections within the human brain. It reveals a staggering amount of detail, including patterns of connections between neurons, as well as what may be a new kind of neuron.

The applications in the field of Brain Computer Interfaces or understanding medical conditions are staggering. But it’s doubtful that this will just help companies such as Neuralink develop advanced future brain computer interfaces and will likely lead to Google doing evil things by understanding people’s way of thinking and delivering ads to them.

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Nov 18, 2021

A new quantum computer startup from Harvard, MIT raises $17M

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

OAKLAND, Calif. Nov 17 (Reuters) — A new quantum computer startup born from researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called QuEra Computing said on Wednesday it raised $17 million from investors, including Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc (4755.T).

It’s the latest quantum computer hardware maker to come out of the lab at a time when funding for the nascent technology is booming. read more

While there are various technologies for creating so-called quantum bits or qubits where the computations happen, QuEra’s qubits use neutral atoms in a vacuum chamber and use lasers to cool and control them.

Nov 17, 2021

Cellular Computing: “Logic Gate” Paves Way for Nanoscale Computers To Treat Cancer and Other Diseases

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, health, nanotechnology

The creation of nanoscale computers for use in precision health care has long been a dream of many scientists and health care providers. Now, for the first time, researchers at Penn State have produced a nanocomputing agent that can control the function of a particular protein that is involved in cell movement and cancer metastasis. The research paves the way for the construction of complex nanoscale computers for the prevention and treatment of cancer and other diseases.

Nikolay Dokholyan, G. Thomas Passananti Professor, Penn State College of Medicine, and his colleagues — including Yashavantha Vishweshwaraiah, postdoctoral scholar in pharmacology, Penn State — created a transistor-like ‘logic gate,’ which is a type of computational operation in which multiple inputs control an output.

“Our logic gate is just the beginning of what you could call cellular computing,” he said, “but it is a major milestone because it demonstrates the ability to embed conditional operations in a protein and control its function, said Dokholyan. ” It will allow us to gain a deeper understanding of human biology and disease and introduces possibilities for the development of precision therapeutics.”