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Weekend Brief: Hello, Mister Chips
Quartz· 5 days agoThe silicon chip that powers the world’s electronic technology was invented in the United States back in 1959 by engineers Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce....
Jim Simons, the legendary hedge-fund manager who cracked the market, dead at 86
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 5 days agoHis work in pattern recognition and topology would later help form the bedrock of string theory in ...
Apple’s ‘Dark Matter’ Should Change the Way We All Think About The Multiverse
Inverse· 6 days agoLet’s make this clear up front: The new Apple TV + show Dark Matter, based on the Blake Crouch...
Chinese and Finnish team finds way to tune out noise in quantum transfers
South China Morning Post· 7 days agoThe key to the approach is a quantum entanglement, a bizarre phenomenon in the world of quantum ...
'Quantum-inspired' laser computing is more effective than both supercomputing and quantum computing,...
LiveScience· 2 days agoEngineers have developed an optical computer, about the size of a desktop PC, that can purportedly...
How to see tonight's northern lights – the strongest in 20 years
New Scientist· 5 days agoThe aurora borealis, or northern lights, are expected to be more active than they have in decades...
We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space for the first time
New Scientist· 2 days agoIn 2014, astronomers saw the explosion of the Refsdal supernova. This bizarre sequence of events was...
Jim Simons, the legendary hedge-fund manager who cracked the market, dead at 86
Business Insider· 5 days agoJim Simons, the legendary hedge-fund manager who founded the prolific Renaissance Technologies, has...
Tauonium: The smallest and heaviest atom with pure electromagnetic interaction
Phys.org· 5 days agoThe hydrogen atom was once considered the simplest atom in nature, composed of a structureless...
Apple's sci-fi 'Dark Matter': Family man pulled into parallel worlds
dpa international via Yahoo News· 7 days agoBlake Crouch has enjoyably adapted his own 2016 novel "Dark Matter" into a nine-episode series for...