China Is Planning a Massive Sea Lab almost two miles underwater

April 7, 2017September 5, 2016 by Brian Wang

China is speeding up efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South China Sea, one that may also serve a military purpose in the disputed waters. Such an oceanic “space station” would be located as much as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) below the surface, according …

Dwave Superconducting Quantum Computer passes more rigorous tests that confirm Quantumness of the System

April 7, 2017March 5, 2014 by Brian Wang

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is home to the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC), a super-cooled, magnetically shielded facility specially built to house the first commercially available quantum computing processors – devices so advanced that there are only two in use outside the Canadian lab where they were built: The first one went …