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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 192
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 192 is up at ANS Nuclear Cafe Atomic Insights - Russia using oil wealth to finance nuclear energy exportsIn round numbers, RIANovosti reports that Russia’s federal budget...
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Google post on their thoughts related to recent academic comparison of Dwave...
Google's Quantum AI lab had a lengthy post that describes their thinking on the DWave Adiabatic quantum annealing system after recent speed tests against optimized classical systems.UPDATE - Geordie...
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Nicaragua canal project is gathering momentum to start construction in late 2014
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that sometime later this year, President Daniel Ortega and Chinese telecom tycoon Wang Jing will decide whether to give the Nicaragua canal project a green light,...
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Sochi Winter Olympics Medal Projection by Country
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, are scheduled to take place from 6 to 23 February 2014, in Sochi, Russia, with some events held in the...
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Some Near Earth Asteroids are captured as minimoons
Earth has a collection of minimoons, which are small temporary moons that get captured for varying amounts of time. There was a NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group Presentation on...
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US plans 100-200 petaflop system by 2017 and exaflop by 2024 and Japan plans...
The CORAL project, (Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Livermore) – formed so that they could combine forces when purchasing their next major supercomputing installations.In the next 2-3 years,...
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IMF Raises 2014 Global Growth Outlook
The International Monetary Fund Tuesday raised its global economic growth outlook for the year, with expansion fueled by stronger U.S., euro zone and Japanese growth, but said deflation and financial...
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Thailand Declares State of Emergency
Thailand’s government has imposed a 60-day state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding provinces following months of protests by anti-government demonstrators in the capital.The deputy interior...
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If you are not underwater financially then you personally have more wealth...
The Oxfam Poverty and Wealth report has been getting a lot of coverage for a fact that it states that the top 85 billionaires have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the world. They also spin it with...
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Ultimate Robin Hood Bill Gates has done more for the poorest 50% of the world...
Bill Gates created and ran Microsoft which was able to overcharge for its PC operating systems and Microsoft office product for decades because they held a virtual monopoly.This extra money was taken...
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Dwave Systems CTO Geordie Rose writes about the benchmarking
Geordie Rose has written his observations about the benchmarking of the Dwave quantum system versus optimized classical systems.Around May 15th of 2013 Google acquired a system built around a 509-qubit...
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Army studying replacing thousands of grunts with robots by making 3000 person...
During remarks at the Army Aviation Symposium in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 15, Gen. Robert Cone, head of the service’s Training and Doctrine Command quietly dropped a bomb. The Army, he said, is...
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Disease model suggest Facebook could see rapid usage decline over the next...
Facebook has seen in decline in terms of data usage since 2012. Facebook is expected to undergo rapid decline in the upcoming years, shrinking to 20 percent of its maximum size by December 2014...
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Architecture and design tradeoffs of Dwave Systems Superconducting quantum...
Dwave has developed a quantum annealing processor, based on an array of tunably coupled rf-SQUID flux qubits, fabricated in a superconducting integrated circuit process. Implementing this type of...
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Solar thermovoltaics could ultimately reach 80% efficiency while current...
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected...
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China Urbanization and Hukou Reform and the One Child Policy Reforms are keys...
Here is a collection of articles that give a snapshot look at what is going on with China urbanization , hukou reform and one child policy relaxation and the future of those policies.1. CNN reports on...
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Kazakhstan uranium production at 22500 tons in 2013 and preliminary world...
Uranium production in Kazakhstan amounted to 22,500 tons in 2013, which corresponds to the planned targets.Kazakhstan produced 20,900 tons of uranium in 2012.The exports on contracts in Kazakhstan...
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Rethinking China's Growth Model and a look at different factors in China's...
The South China Morning Post has Zhang Jun,professor of economics and director of the China Centre for Economic Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai, look at the role of efficiency in China's growth...
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World news roundup - Iran nuclear deal is a mess and Ukraine is a mess
1. In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani forcefully asserted that Iran would not destroy its nuclear centrifuges “under any circumstances”.Rouhani’s comments come...
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Water Vapor discovered around Ceres which proves Ceres has water ice on its...
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered water vapor around Ceres, the first unambiguous detection of water vapor around an object in the asteroid belt.With a diameter of 950 km, Ceres is the...
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