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Aug 23, 2024

Flexible nanogenerator with enhanced power density could one day rival the power of solar panels

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, solar power, sustainability, wearables

Your early morning run could soon help harvest enough electricity to power your wearable devices, thanks to a new nanotechnology developed at the University of Surrey.

Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) has developed highly energy-efficient, flexible nanogenerators, which demonstrate a 140-fold increase in when compared to conventional nanogenerators. ATI researchers believe that this development could pave the way for nano-devices that are as efficient as today’s solar cells.

The findings are published in the journal Nano Energy.

Aug 23, 2024

New Quantum Computing Paradigm Could Make all the Difference

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

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A new approach to quantum computing — working with photons, or \.

Aug 23, 2024

Are we living in a simulation? | Sean Carroll and Lex Fridman

Posted by in category: media & arts

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Aug 23, 2024

Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s predictions on life in an AI utopia

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

But after five days, Sherif upped the game. He had the two groups compete for food. He limited their resources. It was a fist-swinging, curse-hurling, dust cloud of a mess. When a few punches landed, the adult researchers had to step in, adults with notebooks holding back furious Eagles and violent Rattlers.

Sherif concluded that scarcity was one of the main drivers of all human conflict. War, violence, invasion, and theft were all born of wanting a limited resource. The history of all humanity seems to support the hypothesis: We fight over water, cattle, arable land, ore deposits, oil, precious stones, and so on.

Big Think recently spoke with Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom about his new book, Deep Utopia. He’s got good news. Bostrom argues that the future will do away with the need for conflict over scarce resources. To him, the future is plentiful.

Aug 23, 2024

Nick Bostrom On The Big Questions That Are Above His Pay Grade

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

What are humanity’s options? Does AI believe in God? In this exclusive Q&A, Nick Bostrom says that the big questions are above his pay grade. But who is in charge, then?

Aug 23, 2024

Photon “Sifter” Separates Single Photons from Multiphoton States

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A device that sorts photon states could lead to a basic component of an all-optical quantum computer.

Aug 23, 2024

The Next Century in Quantum and AI

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI

Frankly, I think 100 years is too far to look into the future because we will see dramatic new scientific areas emerge 20 years from now. My grandfather immigrated to Israel in 1946 from Holland to be a Technion student in civil engineering.

At that time, civil engineering and mechanical engineering were the most prestigious fields you could study. Back then, the disciplines of science that I work in, like computer science and electrical engineering, did not even exist as separate fields.

In comparison, today progress happens even more quickly. This rapid progress is especially apparent in disciplines like quantum technologies and AI.

Aug 23, 2024

How Close Are We to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Explore the latest developments in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), understand how AGI could transform our reality.

Aug 23, 2024

Quantum information theorists are shedding light on entanglement, one of the spooky mysteries of quantum mechanics

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

But despite creating all these breakthrough technologies, physicists and philosophers who study quantum mechanics still haven’t come up with the answers to some big questions raised by the field’s founders. Given recent developments in quantum information science, researchers like me are using quantum information theory to explore new ways of thinking about these unanswered foundational questions. And one direction we’re looking into relates Albert Einstein’s relativity principle to the qubit.

Quantum computers

Quantum information science focuses on building quantum computers based on the quantum “bit” of information, or qubit. The qubit is historically grounded in the discoveries of physicists Max Planck and Einstein. They instigated the development of quantum mechanics in 1900 and 1905, respectively, when they discovered that light exists in discrete, or “quantum,” bundles of energy.

Aug 23, 2024

Workshop on Quantum Information and Physics — Opening Remarks

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Opening RemarksAugust 19, 2024

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