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Superconducting Qubit Array could be a non-Dwave quantum computer approach...
A new five-qubit array from UCSB’s Martinis Group is on the threshold of making a quantum computer technologically feasible to build “Even the best state-of-the-art [quantum computer] hardware is...
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IBMs heated tip etching system will revolutionize chip prototyping
IBMs microscopic 3D printer is being licensed to Zurich startup SwissLitho AG, which calls it the NanoFrazor -- a play on words between the English word razor and the German word for "milling machine,"...
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Microscale 3-D Printing that mixes inks with living cells to semiconductors...
What if 3-D printers could use a wide assortment of different materials, from living cells to semiconductors, mixing and matching the “inks” with precision?Jennifer Lewis, a materials scientist at...
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Thousands of ant like robots have been magnetically controlled and...
Wong-Foy has written software to choreograph the movement of over 1,000 tiny robots in a complex circulating pattern. That shows it should be possible to have them work in large teams, he says. SRI’s...
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DARPA's Chip-Sized Digital Optical Synthesizer to Aim for Routine...
DARPA’s new Direct On-chip Digital Optical Synthesizer program seeks to do with light waves what researchers in the 1940s achieved with radio microwaves. Currently, optical frequency synthesis is only...
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DARPA developing UAVs to provide 1 gigabit per second backbone to the front...
UAV Mobile Hotspots program makes progress toward goal of providing 1 Gb/s communications backbone to deployed units.Missions in remote, forward operating locations often suffer from a lack of...
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DARPA Progress to enable assembly of more flexible, scalable and...
The process of designing, developing, building and deploying satellites is long and expensive. Satellites today cannot follow the terrestrial paradigm of “assemble, repair, upgrade, reuse,” and must be...
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Lithium Sulfur batteries last for more charge cycles using a nickel-based...
Today's electric vehicles are typically powered by lithium-ion batteries. But the chemistry of lithium-ion batteries limits how much energy they can store. As a result, electric vehicle drivers are...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 206
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 206 is up at Hiroshima SyndromeAtomic insights reviews the MIT floating nuclear reactor designRead more »
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Carnival of Space 351
The Carnival of Space 351 is up at Universe TodayBrownspaceman.com - What are white holes? It's just a theory for now and possibly all it will ever be however, why is that? Here we take a look at the...
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Debate on Inequality and Pickety Capitalism
. The Piketty and Saez data for the U.S. indicate that between 1979 and 2012, the bottom 90 percent’s income dropped by over $3,000. However, the official Census Bureau estimates indicate that the...
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The World Is Not Running Out of Resources
Matt Ridley gives fives reasons the world is not running out of resources1. More Productive LandEconomists point out that we keep improving the productivity of each acre of land by applying fertilizer,...
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JET plans deuterium-tritium fusion tests
JET are planning a new DT [deuterium-tritium] campaign aimed at trying to get maximum performance and a new fusion yield record for MCF [Magnetic confinement fusion].As a bit of context, DT runs are a...
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China is trying to ramp up energy from natural gas and nuclear energy
China is increasing natural gas and nuclear energy usage to reduce the use (or at least slow the use of coal)One shorter-term clean-energy target—increasing natural gas to 10% of the power mix by 2020,...
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Tyler Cowen points out Piketty Problems
Tyler Cowen makes the following points about Piketty's Capitalism book.Overall, the main argument is based on two (false) claims. First, that capital returns will be high and non-diminishing, relative...
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Ghost Ship Nuclear Fusion Spaceship Concept Design
Project Icarus had a competition to create interstellar concept designs. The outline parameters were based on the project ToRs (Terms of Reference) for a mainly fusion spacecraft, on a 100 year mission...
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IMF and World Bank corrects Purchasing power parity GDP by about 25% for...
The 2011 World Bank International Comparison Program are the most authoritative estimates of what money can buy in different countries. In 2005, the ICP thought China’s economy was 43 per cent of the...
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New Chart of Estimated purchasing power parity GDP for the USA and China
The Economist has a new chart of US vs China Purchasing power parity GDP based upon the new 2011 comparison of pricingRead more »
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History of Purchasing Power Parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a disarmingly simple theory that holds that the nominal exchange rate between two currencies should be equal to the ratio of aggregate price levels between the two...
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For the first time since Abraham Lincoln was President the United States will...
After about 150 years, China is again the largest economy in the world. The US has been the largest economy in the world since about the time of President Abraham Lincoln or maybe Rutherford Hayes...
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