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Microsoft makes quantum breakthrough, plans commercial offering

CIO Business Intelligence

On Tuesday, Zander said the partners had applied their improved qubit virtualization system to create and entangle 12 highly reliable logical qubits on Quantinuum’s 56-physical-qubits H2 machine. In April, Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrated logical qubits with an error rate 800 times better than physical qubits.

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AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours

The Verge

An instructor at the Fort Leonard Wood Chemical School, who is designated as an agent handler, carries the VX nerve agent to contaminate a jeep in one of the eight chambers used for training chemical defense on April 18, 2003 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images. Tell me more about what you found.

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Wearable devices will let you feel cold, heat, and pain in VR by applying chemicals to your skin

TechSpot

Created by researchers from the Human Computer Integration Lab at the University of Chicago, chemical haptics use self-contained wearable devices to simulate sensations while in virtual reality. The wearables combine silicone patches and micropumps to deliver five different chemicals to the surface of a person's skin.

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NVIDIA launches ‘easy button’ for creating gen AI workflows

CIO Business Intelligence

Customer service, PDF extraction, drug discovery NVIDIA’s initial NIM Agent Blueprints offering covers three use cases: a digital human workflow for customer service, a multimodal PDF data extraction workflow for enterprise RAG, and a generative virtual screening workflow for computer-aided drug discovery. “We NIM microservices.

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2022 US CIO 100 winners: Celebrating IT innovation and leadership

CIO Business Intelligence

After our last two virtual events, this year’s in-person gathering will be a can’t miss event for industry leaders,” said Anne McCrory, Group Vice President, Customer Experience and Operations, IDG Events. Marshfield Clinic Health System Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Mattel Inc.

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Sustainable Petrochemical Company Expands Risk-Based Inspection Philosophy

CIO Business Intelligence

As a global chemical company and producer of PET, Indorama Ventures Limited (IVL) has made sustainability a priority for over a decade, from energy and greenhouse gas reductions to increased renewable energy and recycling. This disparity could lead to minor or even catastrophic chemical releases. “In

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

Gizmodo

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. 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.