Arxiv – Quantum Optimization of Fully-Connected Spin Glasses The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with random couplings is programmed on the D-Wave Two annealer featuring 509 qubits interacting on a Chimera-type graph. The performance of the optimizer compares and correlates to simulated annealing. When considering the effect of the static noise, which degrades the performance of the annealer, …
Kite Bricks is developing a revolutionary product that will change the way we build houses, buildings, bridges and sidewalks. From now on structures will be real thermal, much more stronger and very cheap & fast to build. Smart Brick is a revolutionary brick and the basis of a new construction system covered by issued and …
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said Sunday that public investment should be ramped up in some countries as the global economic recovery remains fragile and laborious. “In the current context of a weak growth outlook and low borrowing costs, a judicious stimulation of public investment can give growth the necessary impetus, above all …
There was a major milestone for Graphene NanoChem, with the first purchase order for PlatDrill [a graphene-enhanced oilfield chemicals]. The order, from Scomi Oiltools for use by an unnamed national oil company end-customer is part of the framework agreement, as announced on 26 November, and represents 7,800 barrels or around £1.0m at the top line. …
One of the america’s military-industrial complex’s most important inventions comes out of the barrel of a howitzer. It’s called the “Excalibur,” and it’s a 155-millimeter howitzer round that creator Raytheon says can target an object 30 miles away and consistently hit within two meters of that target. Excalibur is usually even more accurate than that. …
A low-cost technology may make it possible to read long sequences of DNA far more quickly than current techniques. The research advances a technology, called nanopore DNA sequencing. If perfected it could someday be used to create handheld devices capable of quickly identifying DNA sequences from tissue samples and the environment, the University of Washington …
An unconditional basic income (also called basic income, basic income guarantee, universal basic income, universal demogrant, or citizen’s income) is a proposed system of social security in which all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money, either from a government or some other public institution, in addition to any …
There was demographic information available about rioting in the UK in 2011. ABout 1300 people were arrested for rioting in the summer of 2011 in North London. Statistics confirmed that the accused were overwhelmingly young, male and often unemployed. According to the data collected 66% of those who have appeared in court are aged under …
In May 2014, 5.187 million young persons (under 25) were unemployed in the EU28, of whom 3.356 million were in the euro area. Compared with May 2013, youth unemployment decreased by 464 000 in the EU28 and by 205 000 in the euro area. In May 2014, the youth unemployment rate was 22.2% in the …
Pacific Rim 2 has been confirmed and Guillermo is directing. They are making a relaunching sequel Predator movie. They are also relaunching Mad Max. There is a movie that will look at what if Apollo 11 went wrong. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian …
Crossbar announced it had demonstrated pre-production 1 megabyte arrays using its patented 1TnR (1 transistor driving n resistive memory cells) non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM or ReRAM) for read/write operations. The company feels this is a major milestone toward commercializing terabyte-scale memory arrays on a postage-stamp-sized chip. * 1 Terabyte of storage on a single chip …