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IonQ Path to Thousands of Qubits and Quantum Supremacy | NextBigFuture.com

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Quantum Supremacy is defined as the point when quantum computers become faster than regular computers. Quantum computers can become thousands of times more powerful when the number of qubits are doubled. In December, 2018, IonQ announced at the Q2...

Mar 14, 2019

Converting biomass by applying mechanical force

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Nanoscientists discover new mechanism to cleave cellulose effectively and in an environmentally friendly way.

Mar 14, 2019

Multipole magnetic tweezers measure organelle mechanical properties – Physics World

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Nanobots could help diagnose and treat cancer The post Multipole magnetic tweezers measure organelle mechanical properties appeared first on Physics World.

Mar 14, 2019

New approach to fabricate nanostructures from multiple materials

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New NSF grant to support efforts to create large-scale nanostructures from very small nanocrystals.

Mar 14, 2019

Machine learning is implemented on an IBM quantum processor – Physics World

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Proof-of-concept demonstration done using two superconducting qubits The post Machine learning is implemented on an IBM quantum processor appeared first on Physics World.

Mar 14, 2019

Practical Use of D-Wave Quantum Annealing | NextBigFuture.com

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Murray Thom is VP of software and cloud services at D-Wave Systems. D-Wave currently sells a 2000 qubit quantum annealing machine and provides access to the system via a cloud service. D-Wave will provide an upgraded 5600 qubit system with denser ...

Mar 14, 2019

Quantum computing should supercharge this machine-learning technique

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Certain machine-learning tasks could be revolutionized by more powerful quantum computers.

Mar 14, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Defects help nanomaterial soak up more pollutant in less time: Rice U. researchers find new way to remove PFOS from industrial wastewater

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Cleaning pollutants from water with a defective filter sounds like a non-starter, but a recent study by chemical engineers at Rice University found that the right-sized defects helped a molecular siev...

Mar 14, 2019

Engineering living 'scaffolds' for building materials

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When the inside of a mollusk shell shimmers in sunlight, the iridescence isn't produced by colored pigments but by tiny physical structures self-assembled from living cells and inorganic components. Now, a team of researchers at the Departmen...

Mar 14, 2019

Researchers put machine learning on path to quantum advantage

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There are high hopes that quantum computing's tremendous processing power will someday unleash exponential advances in artificial intelligence. AI systems thrive when the machine learning algorithms used to train them are given massive amount...

Mar 14, 2019

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