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New Scientist An chip smaller than a grain of salt perched on the tip of a fiber-optic cable can passively harness light to perform AI computations, slashing the amount of energy and computing power required. Created by a team led by researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in China, the chip […]

New Scientist A quantum “refrigerator” developed by Simone Gasparinetti at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology and colleagues ensures that a quantum computer’s calculations start off error-free, without requiring intervention or additional hardware. The researchers designed two qubits and one qutrit from tiny superconducting circuits. Interactions between the three components were engineered so that when the […]

New Scientist An error in a proof underlying a widely used branch of modern mathematics was accidentally discovered by mathematicians while translating old proofs to a computer language in a process called formalization. Recently, Kevin Buzzard at Imperial College London and colleagues started to formalize the proof of Fermat’s last theorem. The proof employs many […]

New Scientist Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed temporary tattoos that can be printed onto a patient’s head as an alternative to using electrodes on the scalp for electroencephalography. The ink is durable, highly conductive, and does not cause skin irritation. The tattoo is personalized using a computer program and printed […]

New Scientist The entanglement of a pair of qubits and teleportation of one to a second chip was demonstrated by researchers at IBM. The researchers connected two Eagle quantum processing units, each with 127 qubits, to perform a calculation requiring a total of 142 qubits, more than could fit at one time on either chip […]

New Scientist Microsoft and Atom Computing say they have set a new record for the most entangled logical qubits, a step towards the creation of quantum computers that can detect and correct errors. Using a quantum computer constructed from ultracold ytterbium atoms to create 24 logical qubits and link them through quantum entanglement, the companies […]

The largest number of logical qubits has been linked through quantum entanglement, which is a key step towards quantum computers that can detect and correct errors.

New Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have created digital twins of 600,000 trees in 23 cities across North America. They used AI to turn two-dimensional images from Google Street View into 3D digital twins. The model, trained on labeled images of trees from more than 300 genera and other 3D tree models, can predict […]

New Scientist S&P Global expects an increase in datacenter development to drive up U.S. demand for natural gas from 85 million cubic meters per day to 170 million by 2030. In comparison, New York and California used about 100 million and 160 million cubic meters per day, respectively, last year. U.S. datacenters will see power […]

Archaeologists have used AI to discover hundreds of large-scale drawings depicting figures like llamas, decapitated human heads, and killer whales armed with knives.