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Quantum technology struggles with scaling up, as the special properties of quantum materials typically vanish in larger ...

Advances like these lead me to believe that useful quantum computing is inevitable and increasingly imminent. And that’s good news, because the hope is that they will be able to perform calculations ...

An international team led by physicists at Penn State and Columbia University has developed a novel approach to maintain ...

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Electronic components made of inorganic semiconductor materials such as silicon are brittle, so they will break when flexed. Special structures to achieve flexibility ... polymer substrates and ...

Electromagnetic metamaterials with negative physical parameters such as negative dielectric constant and negative magnetic ...

A Chinese AI company that rivals ChatGPT, is gaining attention in Silicon Valley with its rapid rise, nearly outperforming leading American AI companies like OpenAI and Meta. DeepSeek is a ...

A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San Francisco The ...