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Mar 5, 2021

Israel allocates $60 million to build first quantum computer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Israel is investing 1.25 billion NIS in a national initiative to build up quantum proficiency, and this project in particular is part of that initiative.

Mar 4, 2021

Insights into plant consciousness from neuroscience, physics and mathematics: A role for quasicrystals?

Posted by in categories: computing, mathematics, neuroscience, quantum physics

There is considerable debate over whether plants are conscious and this, indeed, is an important question. Here I look at developments in neuroscience, physics and mathematics that may impact on this question. Two major concomitants of consciousness in animals are microtubule function and electrical gamma wave synchrony. Both these factors may also play a role in plant consciousness. I show that plants possess aperiodic quasicrystal structures composed of ribosomes that may enable quantum computing, which has been suggested to lie at the core of animal consciousness. Finally I look at whether a microtubule fractal suggests that electric current plays a part in conventional neurocomputing processes in plants.

Mar 4, 2021

This is the fastest random-number generator ever built

Posted by in categories: computing, internet, quantum physics

Laser generates quantum randomness at a rate of 250 trillion bits per second, and could lead to devices small enough to fit on a single chip.

Mar 3, 2021

Starship | SN10 | High-Altitude Flight Test

Posted by in categories: computing, space travel

Billy Bob Joe.

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Mar 3, 2021

New skills of graphene: Tunable lattice vibrations

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

Ranjan KC

| Phononic crystals as a nanomechanical computing platform.


Without electronics and photonics, there would be no computers, smartphones, sensors, or information and communication technologies. In the coming years, the new field of phononics may further expand these options. That field is concerned with understanding and controlling lattice vibrations (phonons) in solids. In order to realize phononic devices, however, lattice vibrations have to be controlled as precisely as commonly realized in the case of electrons or photons.

Mar 2, 2021

Here’s how quantum computing could transform the future

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Experts predict that quantum computers will help “address humanity’s greatest challenges,” whether through drug discovery or climate tech.

Mar 1, 2021

Pumping perovskites into a semiconductor platform

Posted by in category: computing

Fluid injection of perovskite semiconductors creates microwires to build different optoelectronic devices on a single silicon chip.

Feb 28, 2021

The real reason why Bill Gates is now the US’ biggest farmland owner

Posted by in category: computing

Trent Condellone.

He’s going to chip the farmland, wait and see.

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Feb 27, 2021

Next of Kin

Posted by in categories: computing, futurism

Iya Iya.

Is that Trump in your picture profile, Roger? I don’t think I can take this post seriously for various reasons.

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Feb 26, 2021

Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas

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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of data they carry. They demonstrated the emission of discrete twisting laser beams from antennas made up of concentric rings roughly equal to the diameter of a human hair, small enough to be placed on computer chips.