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Oct 5, 2016

Modernize Your Data Center’s DNA

Posted by in category: security

As security threats are more sophisticated today than in the past, modern data centers are becoming increasingly vulnerable. Micro-segmentation is your answer to protect your data center against these sophisticated threats. Read this trend brief to see how it builds security into the DNA of the data center for a cost-effective, future-proof way to protect what matters.

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Oct 5, 2016

DARPA chief Arati Prabhakar on self-driving ships, space travel, IoT, genetics, and more

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, genetics, internet, robotics/AI, space travel

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The Internet of Things so widely predicted as the Next Big Thing in computing is full of promise but presents a correspondingly large vulnerability to cyber attacks, said Arati Prabhakar, director of DARPA, at the 2016 GeekWire Summit in Seattle today.

IoT offers “a huge value, but then with every advance comes more attack surface,” said Prabhakar during an interview with Alan Boyle, GeekWire’s aerospace and science editor. “Provably secure embedded systems is part of the answer.”

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Oct 5, 2016

Russia develops incredible new ‘humanoid’ robot tank dubbed ‘The Specialist’ which can rescue injured soldiers from battlefield

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

The futuristic weapon could soon be unleashed on enemies of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

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Oct 5, 2016

Chinese man gets three years in US prison for theft of corn secrets

Posted by in categories: business, law enforcement

A Chinese man has been sentenced to three years in a U.S. prison for conspiring to steal high-tech U.S. corn seeds with the intention of transporting them to China, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Mo Hailong, 46, pleaded guilty in January in federal court in Iowa to conspiring to steal patented corn seeds from DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto Co. Mo was employed as director of the international business of the Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group Co Ltd.

(Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

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Oct 5, 2016

China set to roll out hanging panda-shaped ‘sky trains’ next year

Posted by in category: transportation

China will soon get its first suspension railway, joining Japan and Germany as the third country on earth to develop the technology.

China’s 1st #skytrain, a #lithium -battery powered train suspended from railway line, finished test run in Chengdu pic.twitter.com/lk0xzLRPFg

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) September 30, 2016

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Oct 5, 2016

How Quantum Computing Could Change Cybersecurity Forever [Video]

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, government, quantum physics

As I have continued for over a year to repeat that for any company or government entity to not include QC in their 5+ yrs future state roadmap is truly enabling their company or government to be easy pickings for hackers.


Quantum scientist Michele Mosca will discuss security in the coming quantum age during a live Webcast tonight at 7 P.M.

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Oct 5, 2016

At the bleeding edge of AI: Quantum grocery picking and transfer learning

Posted by in categories: business, computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI

Digitising Business —

At the bleeding edge of AI: Quantum grocery picking and transfer learning.

Computer vision, neural nets, and deep learning are hot topics at UK R&D centres.

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Oct 5, 2016

Fault-Tolerant Quantum Technologies ’16

Posted by in category: quantum physics

After some weeks’ hiatus, Quanta for Breakfast is back! Today I want to give my thoughts on the Fault-Tolerant Quantum Technologies Workshop that I attended this summer in Benasque, Spain. It was my first time visiting the beautiful town and both the location and the workshop definitely lived up to my expectations.

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Oct 5, 2016

Nobel Physics Prize winners: All you need to know about mugs, donuts and quantum computing

Posted by in categories: computing, mathematics, quantum physics

Stockholm: The Nobel Physics prize was the second of the awards to be given away, on Tuesday, to a Birtish trio — scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz for revealing the secrets of exotic matter.

Thouless, 82, is professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. Haldane, 65, is a professor at Princeton University, and Kosterlitz, born in 1942, teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The laureates will share the eight million Swedish kronor (around $931,000 or 834,000 euros) prize sum. Thouless won one-half of the prize, while Haldane and Hosterlitz share the other half.

“This year’s laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can assume strange states. They have used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films. Thanks to their pioneering work, the hunt is now on for new and exotic phases of matter,” said the Nobel jury.

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Oct 5, 2016

Quantum computing: Trapping single atoms in a uniform fashion

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Single neutral atoms trapped individually in optical microtraps are incredibly useful tools for studying quantum physics, as the atoms then exist in complete isolation from the environment. Arrays of optical microtraps containing single atoms could enable quantum logic devices, quantum information processing, and quantum simulation.

While single atom trapping has already been achieved, there are still many challenges to overcome. One such challenge is making sure each trap holds no more than one atom at a time, and also keeping it there so it won’t escape. This requires uniform optical microtraps, which have yet been fully realized.

Now, Ken’ichi Nakagawa and co‐workers at the University of Electro‐Communications, Tokyo, Japan, together with scientists across Japan and China, have successfully demonstrated an optimization method for ensuring the creation of uniform holographic microtrap arrays to capture single rubidium (87Rb) atoms.

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