By making small adjustments to the frequency that the qubits are operating at, it’s possible to avoid these problems. This can be done when the Heron chip is being calibrated before it’s opened for general use. Separately, the company has done a rewrite of the software that controls the system during operations. “After learning from… Read More »
The design is meant to run at high temperatures and extract heat from the reactor using helium, which is used to boil water and generate electricity. Each reactor can produce 80 megawatts of electricity, and the reactors are designed to work efficiently as a set of four, creating a 320 MW power plant. As of… Read More »
Techniques drawn from physics The win is already turning heads on social media because it seems unusual that research in a computer science field like machine learning might win a Nobel Prize for physics. “And the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics does not go to physics…” tweeted German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder this morning. From the… Read More »
Enlarge / A movable robotic face covered with living human skin cells. reader comments 81 In a new study, researchers from the University of Tokyo, Harvard University, and the International Research Center for Neurointelligence have unveiled a technique for creating lifelike robotic skin using living human cells. As a proof of concept, the team engineered… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 32 Threats from malicious cyberactivity are likely to increase as nation-states, financially motivated criminals, and novices increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into their routines, the UK’s top intelligence agency said. The assessment, from the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, predicted ransomware will be the biggest threat to get a boost from AI over… Read More »
Enlarge / The Ekobot autonomous weeding robot roving around an onion field in Sweden. reader comments 74 with Anybody who has pulled weeds in a garden knows that it’s a tedious task. Scale it up to farm-sized jobs, and it becomes a nightmare. The most efficient industrial alternative, herbicides, have potentially devastating side effects for… Read More »
Enlarge / A file photo of Tropical Storm Fiona as seen in a satellite image from 2022. reader comments 35 with On Tuesday, the peer-reviewed journal Science published a study that shows how an AI meteorology model from Google DeepMind called GraphCast has significantly outperformed conventional weather forecasting methods in predicting global weather conditions up… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 28 with California’s main firefighting agency, Cal Fire, is training AI models to detect visual signs of wildfires using a network of 1,039 high-definition cameras, reports The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. When it sees signs of smoke, it quickly warns firefighters of emerging threats. During the pilot… Read More »
Enlarge / Researchers use CyBio FeliX workstations to extract and purify DNA samples for testing reader comments 45 with At an old biscuit factory in South London, giant mixers and industrial ovens have been replaced by robotic arms, incubators, and DNA sequencing machines. James Field and his company LabGenius aren’t making sweet treats; they’re cooking… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a pixel art hospital with empty windows. Benj Edwards / Midjourney reader comments 83 with Share this story On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in drafting message responses from health care workers to patients… Read More »