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Companies such as Japan’s Fujitsu, NEC and Hitachi have stepped up investment in research and development of quantum computers. Fujitsu plans to build a general-purpose quantum computer with 64 qubits by next year, and strive to achieve 1,000 qubits after 2026. NEC focuses on specialized quantum computers called quantum annealing, which can solve “combinatorial optimization” […]

Three UC Irvine researchers have published a preprint on arXiv describing a novel attack that spreads a deadly pathogen. In order to prevent the leakage of deadly pathogens, biological laboratories or infectious disease control hospitals will require the use of equipment called Negative Pressure Room (Negative Pressure Room or NPR for short), which maintains a

A recluse dubbed by the media as the world’s filthiest man has died at the age of 94 . Amou Haji refuses to use soap and water, fearing it will make him sick. The Iranian man, who lives in Fars province, has not cleaned in more than half a century. He first purged under outside

Google has launched a tool that allows users to remove personally identifiable information from search results. Google explained in the help document that the so-called personally identifiable information includes confidential government-issued identification (ID) numbers such as Chinese resident ID cards, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, pictures of handwritten signatures, pictures of ID documents, heights

Over the past two decades, Apple’s stock price has grown 600-fold, with a market cap of $2.4 trillion. It benefits in large part from the supply chain from China. But Apple is currently moving from China to South and Southeast Asia . 150 of Apple’s largest suppliers have production facilities in China. Tim Cook, who

The European Union approved the Universal Charger Interface Act on Monday, requiring certain devices, including smartphones, to standardize the charging interface and use USB-C uniformly. Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Greg Joswiak, told a Wall Street Journal Tech Live attendee on Tuesday that Apple will comply with the rule , although the company

WHO has published the first list of fungi that threaten health. Some fungal diseases have increased significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic due to the spread of health-threatening fungi around the world due to climate change, the report said. However, the current global investment in fungal infectious diseases is too low, less than 1.5% of the

Microsoft reported its latest quarterly earnings report (Q1 2023), and in the three months to September, the company’s revenue rose 11% from a year earlier to $50.1 billion, while net profit fell 14% to $17.6 billion . It was Microsoft’s biggest quarterly net profit drop in more than two years and its weakest revenue growth

Zhuge Hormin wrote , ” Traditional PCR reactions require temperature-changing steps, so they rely on expensive PCR machines. Although the existing isothermal amplification technology uses simple equipment, it cannot replace PCR. Published in “Nature Communications” on the 23rd of this month Isothermal amplification PCR was taken to a new level in a study by Isothermal

According to a study published in the journal Astrobiology, ancient bacteria may be harboring beneath the surface of Mars. Mars is dry and cold, with an average temperature of minus 63 degrees Celsius in the mid-latitudes. In an even harsher environment, Mars is also constantly bombarded by intense galactic cosmic radiation and solar protons. To

Yun Zhonghe wrote , “GitHub is an online software source code hosting service platform. The former world-renowned open source projects have established warehouses on the Github platform, such as Linux , LLVM , Golang , Python , Rust , etc. Domestic TiDB and other well-known projects also Daily development is carried out on Github. And

Elon Musk will need to complete the acquisition of Twitter on Friday, EST, or the lawsuit will continue, according to Kathaleen McCormick, the judge in charge of the litigation. If the acquisition doesn’t go through, or Musk needs more time, he will need to get the judge’s permission again. The judge said she would schedule

According to a small study published in the journal Animal Cognition, cats can distinguish whether their owners are speaking to them or to other humans . Humans are known to have different intonations depending on who they’re speaking to, and this is true of pets like cats, but less is known about how cats respond.