Quantum computing will change our world. But currently, it’s just about impossible . Qubits, the bits that power quantum computing, require crazy-cold temps to create, and they only survive about 3 minutes at room temp. Now, a research team has made room-temp qubits last for 39 minutes. That’s monumental. Read more…
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Rambo Tribble writes “Reuters is reporting that the FBI has issued a warning to several U.S. Government agencies that the Anonymous collective has hacked their systems. Included in the list of compromised agencies are the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and potentially many more agencies. The avenue of attack: Adobe Cold Fusion.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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An anonymous reader writes “There’s many improvements due in the Linux 3.13 kernel that just entered development. On the matter of new hardware support, there’s open-source driver support for Intel Broadwell and AMD Radeon R9 290 ‘Hawaii’ graphics. NFTables will eventually replace IPTables; the multi-queue block layer is supposed to make disk access much faster on Linux; HDMI audio has improved; Stereo/3D HDMI support is found for Intel hardware; file-system improvements are on the way, along with support for limiting the power consumption of individual PC components.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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dcblogs writes “One year ago this month, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $120 million plan to develop a technology capable of radically extending battery life. ‘We want to change the game, basically, ‘ said George Crabtree, a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a physics professor who is leading the effort. The goal is to develop a battery that can deliver five times the performance, measured in energy density, that’s also five times cheaper, and do it in five years. They are looking at three research areas. Researchers are considering replacing the lithium with magnesium that has two charges, or aluminum, which has three charges. Another approach investigates replacing the intercalation step with a true chemical reaction. A third approach is the use of liquids to replace crystalline anodes and cathodes, which opens up more space for working ions.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium
Those of you who’ve seen The Wolverine , remember that crazy self-adjusting gurney thing that Master Yashida was lying on? That might not be as far off a piece of technology as you’d think. A team of researchers at MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group have created this mind-blowing Dynamic Shape Display with a similar vertical-pixel-grid set-up: Called inFORM , the system provides a fascinating way for one party to physically manipulate objects at the other’s location. It has to be seen in action to be believed: (more…)
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MIT’s Dynamic Shape Display is Like a Sandbox in California that You Can Manipulate from New York
Japan was once colloquially known as the Land of the Rising Sun, and it can’t be only environmentalists hoping that a country with such a moniker would take solar power to heart. Following the Fukushima disaster of 2011, safe and renewable sources of energy have been under study, and at least one corporate giant has done something about it–rather swiftly, by Japanese standards. This month Japanese electronics manufacturer Kyocera pulled the wraps off of the Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant, a project constructed at a backbreaking pace from September 2012 to October 2013. Some 290, 000 solar panels are arrayed on 1.27 million square meters on the coast of Kagoshima Prefecture, making it the largest solar power plant in Japan. The juice started flowing on November 1st, and the KNMSPP is expected to generate 70 megawatts of power, enough to power 22, 000 homes in the region. As promising as that sounds, the stark math is actually a bit dismal compared to Fukushima: The latter facility generated 4.7 gigawatts, or enough to power nearly 1.5 million homes. (more…)
The Architect’s Journal reports that Zaha Hadid will be the architect of Iraq’s future parliament building, confirming rumors that have swirled for months. The supremely expensive building is the London-based architect’s third planned project in the country where she was born. Read more…
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$1 Billion Iraqi Parliament Will Rise Over Saddam’s Half-Built Mosque
Google Play Music has always sort of been available on iOS through your favorite HTML 5-enabled browser app, but today, the service is available as a native application . Read more…
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The Google Play Music iOS App Is Finally Here
We are, I believe, in an interstitial zone when it comes to payments. Credit cards are still king – just ask Square – and NFC is just a dream in most countries. That’s why Coin is so interesting. It’s a credit card-sized device that holds other credit cards, allowing you to swap from card to card and even store gift cards inside its ultra thin innards. The company planned a pre-order campaign that would top out at $50,000. They blew past that goal in forty minutes today, a testament to the desire for folks to leave their plastic at home. The card itself is as thin as a regular credit card. I saw the near-final prototype and except for a raised button and a small (slightly unreadable) LCD. To use the card you select a payment type with the button and just swipe. The Coin card “mimics” your read credit or gift card. The technology is tightly packed inside the card’s plastic case. The card uses low-power Bluetooth to connect to your iOS device that is coupled with a standard credit card reader. You swipe your cards into the system and you’re done. The device holds up to eight cards. Engineer Kanishk Parashar is leading the Y-Combinator-backed company alongside investor and board member Manu Kumar . Parashar cut his teeth in payments with a startup called SmartMarket but this product seems to be his winner. The company isn’t new – a company called Flint is already in this space and I suspect a bigger player will probably beat Coin to the mass market. However, it’s a cool idea in a cool package and, clearly, the idea has caught fire. You can take a look at the product here and it ships this Summer.
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This is the real McCoy. Covered California In a move rarely seen by state authorities, California has shut down 10 domain names that the Golden State claims were fraudulent imitations of Covered California, the state’s own version of the Affordable Care Act. On Thursday, the state’s attorney general announced that it had forced 10 domain names to either redirect to the bona fide Covered California website, or to remove their sites entirely. California also sent cease and desist letters to the operators of those sites. As California’s attorney general, Kamala Harris, wrote in a statement : Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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California shuts down 10 “fraudulent” health care websites