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Sep 23, 2021

A universal system for decoding any type of data sent across a network

Posted by in categories: computing, engineering, information science, internet

New chip eliminates the need for specific decoding hardware, could boost efficiency of gaming systems, 5G networks, the internet of things, and more.


A new silicon chip can decode any error-correcting code through the use of a novel algorithm known as Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND). The work was led by Muriel Médard, an engineering professor in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics.

Sep 23, 2021

Consciousness & Information

Posted by in categories: computing, education, mobile phones, neuroscience, quantum physics

To use the metaphor of our Information Age, consciousness to humans is as Cloud to computers. Just like your smartphone, your brain is a ‘bio’-logical computing device of your mind, an interface for physical reality. Our minds are connected into the greater mind-network, as computers in the Cloud. Viewed in this way, consciousness is ‘non-local’ Cloud, our brain-mind systems are receivers, processors and transmitters of information within that Cloud. What were the most significant factors in evolution of the human mind? What’s the connection between quantum physics and consciousness? What role does quantum information play in our self-reflective consciousness? What is non-local consciousness? Do our minds create reality? These are some of the most salient questions addressed in this Part II of the documentary.

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Sep 22, 2021

Winged Microchip Is Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure — The Size of a Grain of Sand

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing

The size of a grain of sand, dispersed microfliers could monitor air pollution, airborne disease, and environmental contamination.

Northwestern University engineers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight.

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Sep 22, 2021

Dr. Dina Radenkovic, MD — Longevity Physician, Med-Tech Entrepreneur, Thought Leader, Financier

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, information science, life extension

Is an academic doctor and medical technology entrepreneur, working in the field of the computational biology of aging.

Dr. Radenkovic is also a Partner at the SALT Bio-Fund, and a co-founder of Hooke, an elite longevity research clinic in London.

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Sep 21, 2021

A new way to solve the ‘hardest of the hard’ computer problems

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Sep 21, 2021

Quantum supremacy has been achieved by a more complex quantum computer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A quantum computer made by researchers in China has solved a calculation in 4.2 hours that would take a classical computer thousands of years. This demonstration of what the researchers call “quantum computational advantage” was made using 6 more qubits – quantum bits – than the computer used by the Google team that first demonstrated the feat in 2019.

Sep 21, 2021

Implantable artificial kidney based on microchips sees major progress

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing

Circa 2016


Researchers report major progress in creating a first-of-its-kind implantable artificial kidney that uses microchip filters and live cells and takes power from the patient’s heart.

Sep 20, 2021

7 Human Organs on One Chip

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

Scientists in the U.S. and U.K. have recently grown seven miniature human organs and housed them together on a chip to create a human-on-a-chip, a whole body biomimetic device. These clusters of assembled cells mimic how organs in the body function, both separately and in tandem.

The chip could take the place of animal and tissue testing for drugs in pharmaceutical development, say its creators. It will have to win regulatory approval in each country looking to use it for tests, and it could allow for insights into how organs interact, says Linda Griffith, professor of biological and mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Griffith heads The PhysioMimetics program at MIT, which has collaborated with CN Bio Innovations, a British company that creates live organ-on-a-chip devices. The $26.3-million development program is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Sep 19, 2021

Layered Graphene with a Twist Displays Unique Quantum Confinement Effects in 2-D

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

Understanding how electrons move in 2-D layered material systems could lead to advances in quantum computing and communication.

Scientists studying two different configurations of bilayer graphene —the two-dimensional (2-D), atom.

An atom is the smallest component of an element. It is made up of protons and neutrons within the nucleus, and electrons circling the nucleus.

Sep 19, 2021

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, genetics

Circa 2012.


A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.

The work, carried out by George Church and Sri Kosuri, basically treats DNA as just another digital storage device. Instead of binary data being encoded as magnetic regions on a hard drive platter, strands of DNA that store 96 bits are synthesized, with each of the bases (TGAC) representing a binary value (T and G = 1 A and C = 0).

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