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IN AUGUST, CHIPMAKER Intel revealed new details about its plan to build a âoemega-fabâ on US soil, a $100 billion factory where 10,000 workers will make a new generation of powerful processors studded with billions of transistors. The same month, 22-year-old Sam Zeloof announced his own semiconductor milestone. It was achieved alone in his familyâ(TM)s New Jersey garage, about 30 miles from where the first transistor was made at Bell Labs in 1947.Link to Original Source
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Hollywood has taught us that artificial intelligence is primarily the pathway to deadly robot uprisingsâ"and it may well be⦠We'll have to see how things play out. But while we wait, AI experts are finding other interesting ways to use the technologyâ"whether it's developing new flavors or selling beer fasterâ"and at Google, they recently revealed an application that only sounds dangerous to our waistlines⦠artificial intelligence-created desserts.
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A man brewed a tea from "magic mushrooms" and injected the concoction into his veins; several days later, he ended up at the emergency department with the fungus growing in his blood.
The man spent 22 days in the hospital, with eight of those days in the intensive care unit (ICU), where he received treatment for multisystem organ failure. Now released, he is still being treated with a long-term regimen of antibiotic and antifungal drugs, according to a description of the case published Jan. 11 in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
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Forget all those amusing memes of Anya Taylor-Joy's Beth Harmon from The Queen's Gambit facing off against Spock in Star Trek's infamous 3D chess. We want to see Beth take on challengers in a quantum chess tournament. The world's first such tournament was held December 9 as part of the virtual Q2B 2020 conference on quantum computing, with Amazon's Aleksander Kubica emerging victorious, New Scientist reports.
What exactly is quantum chess? It's a complicated version of regular chess that incorporates the quantum concepts of superposition, entanglement, and interference. âoeItâ(TM)s like youâ(TM)re playing in a multiverse but the different boards [in different universes] are connected to each other,â said Caltech physicist Spiros Michalakis during a livestream of the tournament. âoeIt makes 3D chess from Star Trek look silly.â
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Harvard Medical School scientists have successfully restored vision in mice by turning back the clock on aged eye cells in the retina to recapture youthful gene function.
The teamâ(TM)s work, described today (December 2, 2020) in Nature, represents the first demonstration that it may be possible to safely reprogram complex tissues, such as the nerve cells of the eye, to an earlier age.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Apple Incâ(TM)s bid to avoid paying about $440 million in damages for using patent licensing firm VirnetX Incâ(TM)s internet security technology without permission in features such as FaceTime video calling.
