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Revamping Python for an AI World
From Communications of the ACM

Revamping Python for an AI World

Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.

Keeping Secrets in a Quantum World
From ACM TechNews

Keeping Secrets in a Quantum World

Cryptographers are working on data-encryption schemes strong enough to withstand attacks from future quantum computers.

Atom Computing First to Announce a 1,000+ Qubit Quantum Computer
From ACM News

Atom Computing First to Announce a 1,000+ Qubit Quantum Computer

A startup company has upped its qubit count by an order of magnitude in two years.

Researchers Receive CODES+ISSS Best Paper Award
From ACM TechNews

Researchers Receive CODES+ISSS Best Paper Award

The researchers received the best paper award for their proposed chiplet-enabled computer architecture.

Quantum Repeaters Use Defects in Diamond to Interconnect Quantum Systems
From ACM News

Quantum Repeaters Use Defects in Diamond to Interconnect Quantum Systems

Scientists are now leveraging defects in diamonds to construct quantum repeaters.

Inherit the Wind
From ACM News

Inherit the Wind

Wind forecasting is entering the age of artificial intelligence.

Why NASA Is Sending National Secrets to the Moon
From ACM TechNews

Why NASA Is Sending National Secrets to the Moon

NASA will work with startup Lonestar plus the Isle of Man to send a data payload to the Moon next February to assess lunar-based backup storage as part of the Artemis...

Study Explains Role of Certain Types of Oxide in Structure, Development of Specialty Glass
From ACM TechNews

Study Explains Role of Certain Types of Oxide in Structure, Development of Specialty Glass

Researchers used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and computational modeling to demonstrate silica network polymerization.

What Do Neurons, Fireflies, and Dancing the Nutbush Have in Common?
From ACM TechNews

What Do Neurons, Fireflies, and Dancing the Nutbush Have in Common?

Computer scientists and mathematicians have designed a framework for evaluating synchronized phenomena.

Toughest Known Structure Discovered by Autonomous Robot Lab
From ACM TechNews

Toughest Known Structure Discovered by Autonomous Robot Lab

The Bayesian experimental autonomous researcher robotics laboratory at Canada's University of Toronto has discovered the most energy-absorbent mechanical structure...

Teen's Pill-Tracking Device Attracts Interest from CVS Pharmacy
From ACM TechNews

Teen's Pill-Tracking Device Attracts Interest from CVS Pharmacy

U.S. pharmacy chain CVS is among those interested in a pill-tracking device created by Virginia-based high school student Archishma Marrapu.

Historic Algorithms Help Unlock Shortest-Path Problem Breakthrough
From Communications of the ACM

Historic Algorithms Help Unlock Shortest-Path Problem Breakthrough

By revisiting key algorithms from computing, a team unlocked hidden efficiency in a long-standing computer science problem.

Complexity Theory's 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
From ACM News

Complexity Theory's 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge

How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results...

Superconducting Device Could Dramatically Cut Energy Use in Computing, Other Applications
From ACM TechNews

Superconducting Device Could Dramatically Cut Energy Use in Computing, Other Applications

A simple superconducting device developed by MIT researchers could help achieve significant reductions in energy usage by high-power computing systems and potentially...

Faster Spin Waves May Enable Magnonic Computing Systems
From ACM News

Faster Spin Waves May Enable Magnonic Computing Systems

A team of scientists says it has solved the challenge of exciting spin waves with normalized amplitudes by exploiting a deeply non-linear phenomenon for forward...

Deep Learning for New Protein Design
From ACM TechNews

Deep Learning for New Protein Design

Scientists at the University of Washington and Belgium's Ghent University enhanced current energy-based physical models in de novo computational protein design...

From Time Crystals to Wormholes: When Is a Quantum Simulation Real?
From ACM News

From Time Crystals to Wormholes: When Is a Quantum Simulation Real?

Physicists are using quantum computers to conjure exotic phenomena and claiming their creations are truly real.

Glasgow University Spinout Raises $43 Million to 'Digitize Chemistry'
From ACM TechNews

Glasgow University Spinout Raises $43 Million to 'Digitize Chemistry'

Chemify, which was spun out of the U.K.'s Glasgow University in 2022, has received $43 million in funding to further its efforts to "digitize chemistry."

LK-99 Confirmed Not To Be A Room-Temperature Superconductor
From ACM News

LK-99 Confirmed Not To Be A Room-Temperature Superconductor

There is no point in resisting the data.

Superconductor Claims Could Lead to Progress, Even If They're Wrong
From ACM News

Superconductor Claims Could Lead to Progress, Even If They're Wrong

Experts are right to be wary of claims that a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor has been found, but the flurry of new research to confirm the finding...
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