Experimental concept. a, Schematic for an example subsystem X of four qubits within a 16-qubit lattice. The subsystem has a volume of 4 (maroon sites) and an area of 8 (orange lines). b, 2D HCBH lattice emulated by the superconducting quantum circuit. Each site can be occupied by, at most, a single particle. c, Energy […]
UAW President Shawn Fain said workers at Daimler Truck are prepared to strike if their demands are not met. Around 7,200 workers with Daimler Truck in three southern US states were poised Friday for a potential strike as labor contract talks headed down to the wire. Representatives for the United Auto Workers and Daimler Truck […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana that will help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business, company and state officials said Friday. The data center planned for Fort Wayne was announced in January. But Google disclosed the project’s cost Friday and said […]
Ball milling chamber contents: spodumene, reactant, and steel balls. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames National Laboratory When people think of chemistry, the image that typically comes to mind is a variety of colored liquids in beakers, flasks, and test tubes in a lab. But in actual practice, chemistry can involve materials in all states: […]
The new paper, “Pathfinder: High-Resolution Control-Flow Attacks Exploiting the Conditional Branch Predictor,” details two novel attacks that could compromise the billions of Intel processors in use. Credit: Hosein Yavarzadeh Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions […]
The top image shows the schematic of liquid film boiling, where both vibrant bubbles inside the liquid film and the evaporation atop dissipate the heat. Credit: Science China Press In the past decade, fires from electronic devices and batteries, from small smartphones to electrical vehicles and airplanes, have repeatedly made headlines. Enhanced computational power has […]
Test results and Li inventory tracking of nine cells in the formation cycle. a, Results of the nine cells presented in voltage versus specific capacity curves in the formation cycle. b, The results presented in a Veq versus x relationship. Credit: Nature Energy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01476-z Reliably monitoring the amount of lithium (Li) present in […]
A new US law requires TikTok to sever all ties with its Chinese parent ByteDance or face a ban in the United States. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell TikTok after a new US law put it on a deadline to divest from the hugely popular video platform or […]
The overnight success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT thrust generative AI as Silicon Valley’s latest tech revolution, lifting Microsoft, OpenAI’s main backer, to become the world’s most valuable company. Microsoft, the tech titan most closely associated with AI, has announced nearly $10 billion in investments in artificial intelligence abroad in recent months, the price it is willing […]