Andrea Morello and colleagues report a demonstration of Bell’s inequality violation for a pair of qubits embedded in silicon. Bell’s inequality was introduced by physicist John Stewart Bell during the 1960s. A violation of the inequality by a pair of quantum objects placed far apart from one another is a demonstration of the nonlocal nature …
The US has several military exoskeleton programs. * TALOS commando exoskeleton * Warrior web soft exoskeleton * Lockheed HULC lower body exoskeleton DARPA and Special Ops Commands plan a 2018 debut for the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS — exoskeleton to give make commandos more lethal while being better protected. They are particularly …
You can pre-register for beta testing of a commercial crowd prediction spinoff of the IARPA Good Judgement project. The Good Judgment Project out-performed all other research teams in geopolitical forecasting. The Good Judgment Project was a four-year research study organized as part of a government-sponsored forecasting tournament. Thousands of people around the world predict global …
IBM announced a major commitment to Apache®Spark™, potentially the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data. At the core of this commitment, IBM plans to embed Spark into its industry-leading Analytics and Commerce platforms, and to offer Spark as a service on IBM Cloud. IBM will also …
China has signed a deal to build a 480km railway link between Kenya’s largest seaport of Mombasa and the capital Nairobi — the first stage of a line that will eventually link Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. The railway, built at a cost of US$3.8 billion, is the first to be built in …
Alcoa today unveiled breakthrough manufacturing technology, the Alcoa MicromillTM, that will manufacture the most advanced aluminum sheet on the market. The Micromill will enable the next generation of automotive aluminum products, and equip Alcoa to capture growing demand. Cars are about 10% aluminum now and could go to 20-30% in 2025. Key Facts * Micromill …
The actual benefit of going from 3G to 4G mobile have been disappointing. Michael Peeters, wireless CTO at Alcatel-Lucent, is therefore frustrated with the industry’s approach to 5G technology. Companies are throwing into 5G pretty much everything that was not included in earlier technology evolutions, with examples including massive MIMO, machine-to-machine (M2M) and millimeter-wave technologies. …
The age of steam has generally referred to the use of the Steam engine from 1770 to 1914 However, for power generation, we have not left the age of steam. It will take the next several decades to scale up supercritical CO2 turbines. The other class of technologies for ending the age of steam would …
Tesla Motors revealed the Tesla Model D. The rumors that Nextbigfuture reported six days ago were correct. the Model D is a dual electric motor car with all wheel drive and an autopilot for driver assistance. The All-wheel drive will be an available option on all Model S trim levels and the new top-end P85D …
Scientists at the Harvard’s Wyss Institute have built a set of self-assembling DNA cages one-tenth as wide as a bacterium. The structures are some of the largest and most complex structures ever constructed solely from DNA. The cage could be modified with chemical hooks that could be used to hang other components such as proteins …
The JILA strontium lattice clock is about 50 percent more precise than the record holder of the past few years, NIST’s quantum logic clock. Precision refers to how closely the clock approaches the true resonant frequency at which its reference atoms oscillate between two electronic energy levels. The new strontium clock is so precise it …