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Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Network World

We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years, says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today. It will likely be beside other quantum hardware offerings, much like in EC2 where AWSs Graviton chips are offered alongside NVIDIA and other instances, he said.

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Microsoft quantum breakthrough promises to usher in the next era of computing in ‘years, not decades’

GeekWire

Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft) Microsoft says it has developed a new quantum processor based on a novel state of matter, giving it a clear path to achieve quantum computings long-term promise of solving some of the worlds most difficult problems. Chetan Nayak. It is a moment we’ve been dreaming about for a long time, Nayak said.

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GREEN500 Supercomputer Powering Robot Scientists and Transformational Machine Learning

CIO Business Intelligence

Using HPC from the University of Cambridge, researchers are creating a new method of machine learning whereby the computer ‘learns how to learn’—which could advance studies in drug development and disease treatment. A team from the UK, Sweden, India, and the Netherlands developed the approach, known as transformational machine learning (TML).

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Chris Nardecchia, SVP and chief digital and information officer, Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation Chris Nardecchia: I started as a chemical engineer doing chemical engineering things, building and operating chemical and nuclear processes, producing polymers and nuclear fuel, etc. Now, software eats hardware for lunch.

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Advizex and HPE GreenLake Take Aim at Hybrid Cloud Complexity

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s a great time for customers to reduce up-front capital outlay and using a solution like HPE GreenLake lets them consume hardware as they need it, gaining more of it as they need to grow.” a $2 billion global specialty chemical manufacturing company, is one of those customers. Grace & Co.,

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Scientists turn to the cloud to streamline supercomputer calculations for chemistry

GeekWire

Their effort to make supercomputer-scale resources more widely available through cloud computing could aid in the search for methods to break down toxic “forever chemicals” that are currently hard to get rid of. The chemical, also known as PFOA, was banned worldwide in 2019 but still persists in the environment.

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Future VR Haptics May Use Chemicals on the Skin to Make You Feel

Gizmodo

As a potential way to simulate a human’s ability to feel physical sensations, researchers have developed haptic VR hardware that applies chemicals to your skin to trigger… Read more. Virtual reality experiences are never going to feel like the real world until we’re able to engage all of our senses, not just vision and hearing.