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Friday, 17 May 2013

Graphene brings the 2D computer to the horizon

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There is a limit to what graphene can do all on its own. And creating a band gap — something necessary for the creation of semiconductors — is one of them. Now, a team at MIT has just discovered that a material called hexagonal boron nitride might be ...

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NASA lab gets BC company's quantum computer - IT World Canada

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NASA lab gets B.C. company's quantum computer. By: Howard Solomon On: 17 May 2013 ... The D-Wave Two uses a superconducting processor leveraging quantum mechanics to massively accelerate computation. The company says the ...

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Is It Quantum Computing or Not?

This week I had a fascinating discussion on BBC Radio 4 with Dr Geordie Rose, the CTO of DWave, triggered by the news that NASA and Google are investing in DWave's “quantum computer”. The idea is to set up a facility that is used by both NASA and ...

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Google and NASA Team Up to Provide Scientists a Chance to Run Experiments ...

Google announced Thursday its plans to team up with NASA in the creation of a new laboratory that will house a quantum computer from D-Wave Systems. Called the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, it will be hosted in NASA's Ames Research Center while ...

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The Cloud and Quantum Mechanics

It's a so-called quantum computer build on the principles of quantum mechanics and Google and NASA thought enough of the thing to buy one at a cost of maybe $10 million-$15 million and set up a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames ...

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Burnaby company's quantum computer attracts NASA, Google - Vancouver Sun

An ultrafast 'quantum' computer is making waves in the high-tech market after the Burnaby company that makes it announced a collaboration involving NASA and Google. D-Wave Systems announced Thursday that its newest computer will be installed at a ...

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Space tourism won't harm the environment: Virgin Airlines' Branson

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On the same day Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is scheduled to return to Earth, British billionaire Richard Branson said space tourism flights by his ...

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Black carbon casts doubt on space tourism | SmartPlanet

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Will black carbon cause the death of space tourism before it has taken off?

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Graphene foam as transparent conductive electrode for blue LEDs

Commercial 3D graphene foam was used, produced on 3D copper foam using chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The material was spin-coated with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and the copper etched away in ammonium sulfate ((NH4)2S2O8) solution ...

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Europe focuses on graphene composites

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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Ever since it was first separated from graphite in 2004, the possibilities of graphene have proven irresistible to plastics firms looking for composite materials with a greater strength-to-weight ratio (and the advantage of being ...

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NASA Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Nine Times Larger Than ...

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Asteroid 1998 QE2 will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles at time of closest approach on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. Pacific (4:59 p.m. Eastern).

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Universities across the country booking space flights - Bay News 9

If demand from tourists and universities is great enough, then XCOR plans to build reusable launch vehicles on the Space Coast. It's just a part of the growing commercial market for space and Brevard County leaders are hoping to be a big part of any of ...

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NASA's new computer solves problems with magic — er, quantum physics

The computer uses quantum physics (so, for all intents and purposes, magic) to answer complex problems with multiple potential solutions. The main draw for both groups is speed. This computer only takes half a second to solve problems conventional ...

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Google Buys $15M Quantum Computer: Faster, Smarter Artificial Intelligence Is ...

The search giant just purchased a $15 million quantum computer created by D-Wave System that will help them process the information it collects across of all its platforms. In addition to making the big purchase, Google announced that it would be ...

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Why Are Google and NASA Buying a Quantum Computer?

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Compared to the newest quantum computer from D-Wave Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia, even the world's most powerful supercomputers are ploddingly slow, The New York Times reports. The ability of quantum ... Quantum computers achieve this ...

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Seven Things Google Might Do With a Quantum Computer

Google and NASA are the proud new owners of a quantum computer, which they will use to launch an artificial-intelligence lab at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. Google announced the initiative, called the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab ...

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NASA, Google buy quantum computer from BC firm

But while each conventional bit stores information as either 1 or 0, qubits make use of quantum mechanics — laws of physics that apply only to very small particles such as atoms — to encode information as both 1 and 0 at the same time. That property ...

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Google quantum computer lab to study artificial intelligence ...

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Google is opening a new research lab to see if a quantum computer can solve ... Tapping into the often odd world of quantum mechanics a lone qubit can be a ...

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Europe focuses on graphene composites

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A sheet of graphene, one metre square, and weighing just 0.77mg could, theoretically, support the weight of a kitten weighing 1kg while being invisible to the naked eye. The kitten would appear to be floating on air. The material was first produced at ...

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Researchers Make Progress in Engineering Band Gap Property into Graphene

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But one long-sought goal has proved elusive: how to engineer into graphene a property called a band gap, which would be necessary to use the material to make transistors and other electronic devices. From left: Prof. Ray Ashoori, postdocs Andrea Young ...

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Graphene Boron addition to Lithium Ion batteries

graphene boron lithium ion battery THUNDER BAY – Mining – Graphene research keeps finding more uses for the compound. Graphene is created from graphite. Researchers are now finding that the addition of graphene to lithium ion batteries along with ...

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Researchers Discover First Direct Proof Of Hofstadter Butterfly Fractal

In the current work, researchers from Columbia University, City University of New York, the University of Central Florida (UCF), Tohoku University, University of Manchester, MIT, and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan used an effect ...

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Seven Things Google Might Do With a Quantum Computer

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Google and NASA are the proud new owners of a quantum computer, which they will use to launch an artificial-intelligence lab at NASA's Ames Research ...

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The Economist explains: What is a quantum computer? | The ...

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QUANTUM mechanics and computers traditionally don't mix. ... in the news, for its device—a special kind of quantum computer designed to solve one particular ...

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Dwave 512 qubit quantum computer faster than any supercomputer for ...

Tweet In tests last September, an independent researcher found that for some types of problems the Dwave quantum computer was 3,600 times faster than a traditional intel quadcore workstation (2.4 Ghz quadcore chips with 16 GB of memory and about 420 ...

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Google, NASA Open New Lab to Kick Tires on Quantum Computer

That's because it uses quantum physics to break computer processing out of the binary computing paradigm that has dominated for the past half-century. Instead of binary bits, these computers measure qubits, which can simultaneously represent many more ...

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Google and NASA buy a quantum computer, to research more intelligent AI

The new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QAIL), housed at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley and staffed by Google and NASA scientists, has become the second lab in the world to own a quantum computer. As the name suggests, the ...

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Google quantum computer lab to study artificial intelligence

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Tapping into the often odd world of quantum mechanics, a lone qubit can be a one, a zero, or both at the same time. As such, quantum computers can perform calculations and store information on a level much greater than can conventional computers.

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Stacking 2-D materials produces surprising results

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The new technique involves placing a sheet of graphene — a carbon-based material whose structure is just one atom thick — on top of hexagonal boron nitride, another one-atom-thick material with similar properties. The resulting material shares ...

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Graphene-boron mix shows promise for lithium-ion batteries - Phys

The possibilities offered by graphene get clearer by the day as labs around the world grow and test the one-atom-thick form of carbon. Because it is as thin as possible, battery manufacturers hope to take advantage of graphene's massive surface area to ...

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