Superconducting Synapse many times faster than human synapses could enable faster artificial brains

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that “learns” like a biological system and could connect processors and store memories in future computers operating like the human brain. Above – Illustrations showing the basic operation of NIST’s artificial synapse, which could connect processors and store memories in …

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Artificial synapse for neuromorphic chips

Nature Materials – SiGe epitaxial memory for neuromorphic computing with reproducible high performance based on engineered dislocations Although several types of architecture combining memory cells and transistors have been used to demonstrate artificial synaptic arrays, they usually present limited scalability and high power consumption. Transistor-free analog switching devices may overcome these limitations, yet the typical …

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Taiwan Semiconductor will have volume production of 7 nanometer chips using Extreme Ultraviolet lithography starting June 2018

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor) disclosed plans for an enhanced 7nm FinFET node using extreme ultraviolet lithography, a 12nm upgrade of its 16nm process and a 22nm planar technology — its answer to fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI). The foundry also described enhancements to its two chip-stacking techniques, advances in RF CMOS and work in transistors and materials, …

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Nanocrystalline diamonds grown on a diamond base enables anvil with 264 gigapascal of pressure and target is 1 terapascal which is the pressure at the center of Saturn

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers will use pressures greater than those found at the center of the Earth to potentially create as yet unknown new materials. In the natural world, such immense forces deep underground can turn carbon into diamonds, or volcanic ash into slate. The ability to produce these pressures depends on tiny …

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DARPA to Start Testing an Robot Submarine-Hunting Drone that will be 50 times cheaper than a Destroyer

Early in 2016, DARPA will begin testing a 132-foot unmanned submarine-hunting ocean drone in San Diego. The Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUCV) will be a persistent sub hunter similar to an underwater Predator drone. The 132-foot-long, 140-ton ACTUV is being built by Leidos at the Vigor Shipyard [formerly Oregon Iron Works] in Clackamas, …

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Wealth Distribution for Dummies – 3 poor people needed to balance one poor person in debt

Global wealth distribution has been in the news. The Oxfam report is based on the credit suisse wealth report which is based upon the James Davies, Rodrigo Lluberas , and Anthony F. Shorrocks global wealth distribution analysis. The bottom 10% have a collective negative $1.05 trillion net worth (-0.4% of $263 trillion). Each of the …

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Water likely on any airless asteroid, moon or planet with oxygen on its surface

Hydrogen ions in the solar wind likely combine with oxygen on any asteroid or moon on or near the surface to make water. Nature Geoscience – Direct measurement of hydroxyl in the lunar regolith and the origin of lunar surface water Remote sensing discoveries of hydroxyl and water on the lunar surface have reshaped our …

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IBM Watson 2.0 for your smartphone and tablet for mobile assistance and analystics

Business Week – International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) researchers spent four years developing Watson, the computer smart enough to beat the champions of the quiz show “Jeopardy!” Now they’re trying to figure out how to get those capabilities into the phone in your pocket. Finding additional uses for Watson is part of IBM’s plan to …

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Graphene control cutting using an atomic force microscope based nanorobot

Scientia Sinica Physica – Graphene control cutting using an atomic force microscope based nanorobot The electrical properties of graphene strongly rely on its size,geometry and edge structure.Therefore,the ability of fabricating graphene into desired configuration is one of the enabled techniques to manufacture graphene-based nanodevices and push it into practical applications.However,there is no effective way to …

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