Manufacturing qubits that can move
To get quantum computing to work, we will ultimately need lots of high-quality qubits, which we can tie together into groups of error-corrected logical qubits. Companies are taking distinct approaches…
Clever kid builds phone charger powered by pet hamster
Renewable energy is the cornerstone of any sustainable society, but why limit your options to wind or solar installations? In the United States alone, over one million homes host a…
Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals
Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent…
Robot probes 16th century Italian shipwreck 1.5 miles below the Mediterranean
An intrepid sub-sea robot recently dove nearly 1.5 miles below the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern France. The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) went down to examine the wreckage…
NASA, Industry Advance High Performance Spaceflight Computing
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) High Performance Spaceflight Computing System on Chip NASA/Ryan Lannom For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that…
Glowing algae could power the lamps of the future
Bioluminescence is everywhere in nature, but it puts on its biggest light shows underwater. In the deepest regions of the oceans, as much as 90 percent of all living creatures…
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have “almost no false positives”
The disbelief was palpable when Mozilla’s CTO last month declared that AI-assisted vulnerability detection meant “zero-days are numbered” and “defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively.” After all, it…
For 6 days, NASA’s Mars rover battled a rock
Curiosity got itself stuck between a rock and hard place last month, but NASA says there’s no reason to fret about the intrepid Mars rover. On April 25, mission engineers…
NASA-Supported Small Spacecraft Launches to Study Solar Particles
3 Min Read NASA-Supported Small Spacecraft Launches to Study Solar Particles The Solar Neutrino Astro-Particle PhYsics (SNAPPY) CubeSat launched at 3 a.m. EDT (12 a.m. PDT) on Sunday, May 3,…
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects:…