The memelords and bullshit-sniffers fighting hype in quantum computing
The quantum computing community has done an excellent job of pitching the potential of its work.
The quantum computing community has done an excellent job of pitching the potential of its work.
Wearable ‘neurotechnology’ devices have in recent years hit the mainstream market; pitched to consumers as a way to improve memory and attention, boost brain fitness and control games and objects with the power of the mind.
Internet-connected cars have the potential to prevent accidents, reduce congestion, and make them far more fuel efficient. But there are downsides too.
In a paper published in journal, Physical Review Letters today, University of Sydney scientists have demonstrated the use of codes designed to detect and discard errors in the logic gates of quantum machines.
“More than a quarter century of patent leadership,” as the company calls it, has not been achieved by sticking to the same strategy for all those years.
Ford Motor Company is seeking a quantum algorithms researcher as it ramps up its internal quantum computing research effort.
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is hosting a five-day ‘GPU hackathon’ to help computer scientists port applications to general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs).
Education Minister Dan Tehan did not use his powers of veto and approved all grants recommended by the Australian Research Council (ARC) in the latest round of funding.
STEM sector peak body Science & Technology Australia says the late announcement of Australian Research Council (ARC) funding poses a “significant risk to the national interest”.
“We can now propose a pathway to build robust entangled states for logic gates using protected pairs of photons,” says Dr Andrea Blanco-Redondo from Sydney Nano Institute.
Trials of CRISPR/Cas9 are getting underway around the world. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR associated protein 9, to give it its full name, holds huge promise for tackling cancer, hereditary blindness, AIDS, cystic fibrosis, Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, hepatitis B, Huntington’s disease and even high cholesterol.
As their condition progresses, a person with dementia finds understanding what they hear increasingly difficult.
What is the smallest computational task a quantum computer might be able to complete, that the most powerful supercomputers available today would find prohibitively hard?
A fleet of unmanned autonomous sailing drones will be launched from Hobart, to monitor the notoriously treacherous, Southern Ocean.
An Australian start-up launched this week is working to address the issue with a suite of controls that can stabilise fragile quantum systems, and “effectively turn back the clock” on decoherence.