Scott Aaronson, Quantum Computing Assistant professor, who published some highly public criticisms on Dwave Systems (adiabatic quantum computer company) in places like Scientific American has a blog post tirade against Dwave Systems and against people asking him about Dwave Systems It is amusing that Scott Aaronson is whining about his being asked to react to …
Wired reports – Toshiba introduced its internet-connected Cell TV at CES Powered by LED (KIRA2) backlighting, the 55- or 65-inch Cell TV features multiple eight-core 3.2-GHz processors. What does that mean? It’s 10 times faster than standard desktop computers and will have 143 times the processing power of today’s televisions, claims Toshiba. (peak 200 gigaflops) …
Cell Metabolism journal: Sarcolemmal ATP-Sensitive K+ Channels Control Energy Expenditure Determining Body Weight Metabolic processes that regulate muscle energy use are major determinants of bodily energy balance. Here, we find that sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channels, which couple membrane excitability with cellular metabolic pathways, set muscle energy expenditure under physiological stimuli. Disruption of KATP channel …
Dwave Systems has a new page which contains links to scientific papers and presentations describing the adiabatic quantum comptuer systems they are building. Dwave currently is testing a 128 qubit quantum computer processor. Overview and history of Dwave Dwave Processor architecture 38 page pdf Status* Have run optimization problems on C1 (8 qubit, 1500 JJs) …
June 6, 1944, H-Hour was 6:30 am. It was D-day The assault was conducted in two phases: an air assault landing of American and British airborne divisions shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armoured divisions on the coast of France commencing at 06:30 British Double Summer Time. The operation was …
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today told participants at the Tennessee Valley Corridor National Summit that “the United States should build 100 new nuclear power plants during the next 20 years” to put America on the path to clean energy independence. He said, “One year ago, I came to Oak Ridge to propose a new ‘Manhattan …
A Goldman Sachs study on “The Expanding Middle: The Exploding Middle Class and Falling Global Inequality” While America laments the loss of its middle class as there is divergence between a mass affluent and wealthy class and those at middle class, there is the rise of the global middle class. The global middle class is …
The Carnival of Space 57 is up at Out of the Cradle This site contributed an article about some problems with lorentz propulsion tests but success with the SpaceX Falcon 9 International Space Development day 1 International Space Development day 2 International Space Development day 3 Babe in the Universe also had International space development …
T Boone Pickens has made various predictions about oil on MCNBC “Eighty-five million barrels of oil a day is all the world can produce, and the demand is 87 million,” he said. “It’s just that simple. It doesn’t have anything to do with the value of the dollar.” target=blank>Pickens founded BP Capital and has a …
A simple-to-make “superlens” can focus 10 times more sharply than a conventional lens. It could shrink the size of features on computer chips, or help power gadgets without wires. No matter how powerful a conventional lens, it cannot focus light down to more than about half its wavelength, the “diffraction limit”. So far they have …
In an Esquire magazine interview Andre Dillin, Salk Institute, indicated that they have a compound which is very effective at treating Alzheimers effects and extending life. So far that work has been on C elegan worms But more than the apparent result, what excites and interests Dillin is the way the drug achieves its result. …
