World Nuclear News – Plans to enable residents to rebuild their lives in certain evacuation zones around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant have been announced by Japan’s Reconstruction Agency. In addition to decontamination work and the restoration of infrastructure, the ten-year plan calls for the creation of jobs in the area. The ‘Grand Plan’ released …
Arxiv – Decoherence induced deformation of the ground state in adiabatic quantum computation (11 pages) Adiabatic quantum computation (AQC), either in its universal form, or in the form of adiabatic quantum optimization, or quantum simulations, presents a viable alternative to gate-model quantum computation (GMQC). Although a part of the original motivation for introduction of the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) Lions on the move: The progress and potential of African economies projects that at least four groups of industries in Africa could together generate as much as $2.6 trillion in annual revenue by 2020, or $1 trillion …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Silk optical material Researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering and Boston University have fabricated and characterized the first large area metamaterial structures patterned on implantable, bio-compatible silk substrates. This is a promising path towards the development of a new class of metamaterial-inspired implantable biosensors …
By 2014 the Army may issue more than combat gear to deploying soldiers. University of Connecticut researchers are developing an implantable chip that would be injected under soldiers’ skin to help monitor vital health information while they are out in the field. These kinds of devices would help enable real time tracking of biomarkers for …
Apple’s Mac OS’s share of the overall operating system market hit 8% at the end of 2007 This share is very likely to increase because of faster growth in Mac sales and because of the shift to laptops where Apple is even stronger with 17.6%. Industry analysts predict that notebooks sales will exceed desktop sales …
There are serveral new services, which will let customers analyze their DNA. This will tell them how likely it is that they will contract inherited diseases by creating a personalised, genetic profile. I think personalized medicine is the way to go. This is one piece of a larger puzzle. More analysis of this and other …