Focus Taiwan – Foxconn Technology Group, the main manufacturer for Apple Inc., is determined to grasp opportunities in the China market by setting up a one-stop business service for customers. Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Group in Taiwan, broke ground Thursday on its China headquarters in Shanghai, as part of the group’s bid to …
Aubrey de Grey will propose the motion ‘This house wants to defeat aging entirely’ and Professor Colin Blakemore will be opposing. The debate will be chaired and moderated by Professor Sir Richard Peto. This debate will address whether it is feasible and appropriate to consider aging as a target of decisive medical intervention, raising the …
The Asteroid 2011 AG5 is a 460 feet (140 meter) wide space rock. It may pose a hazard in 2040. Researchers are calling for deflection plan discussions. The forty-ninth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space was held from 6-17 February 2012 at the United …
Harvard – Molecular motors, built from proteins, are a kind of transport service that keep cells functioning. They traffic essential chemical packages between the heart of the cell, the nucleus, and the cell periphery. In elongated cells such as neurons, this can be a big commute in cellular miles, equivalent to a person walking from …
Scientists who have developed a new way to create a type of radiation known as Terahertz (THz) or T-rays – the technology behind full-body security scanners – say their new, stronger and more efficient continuous wave T-rays could be used to make better medical scanning gadgets and may one day lead to innovations similar to …
1. Namibia’s competition commission said on Wednesday it had cleared a Chinese nuclear company to take over an Australian mining firm with rights to the world’s fourth-largest uranium deposit. The go-ahead would allow Taurus Mineral, a subsidiary of state-owned China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Company (CGNPC), to buy a controlling share in Australia-based Extract Resources, …
SolarNovus – Researchers around the globe are making headway developing batteries for large-scale, and grid-capable solar energy storage. EOS Energy Storage of Easton, Pennsylvania, is developing a high-energy rechargeable zinc-air battery for use in the grid. It’s expected to store three times the energy of lithium-ion batteries for half the cost. Initial manufacturing is expected …
CNBC – Jim Rogers expects global economic problems to get much worse. Rogers is short because he is not optimistic about what’s going to happen in the world over the next two or three years. “I’m short emerging markets, short American technology, short European stocks – I don’t see much reason to own equities,” he …
Research papers published by Dwave Systems in regards to their adiabatic quantum computers There are ten papers that provide a technological deep dive into each of the aspects of the Dwave Systems Dwave Processor architecture Dwave Processor operation Dwave Qubits Dwave Couplers If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator …
The D-Wave One Quantum Computer: Technology and Applications (30 pages) Dwave System’s CTO Geordie Rose gave a presentation at SC11. Previously Dwave had sold a 128 qubit system and services for $10 million It appears from the chart Dwave will have a 256 qubit by mid-2012 and a 512 qubit by the end of 2012. …
Chung-lie Wang passed away October 30, 2011. He was 86. He was born in Qichun Hubei on Qizhou Town Long Street. It was a street which produced nearly a hundred PhDs, and thus known as “Dr. Street.” He had a B. S. (Taiwan), M. A. (So. Carolina), M.S., Ph. D. (Rutgers). He lived in Regina, …