The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

Shares of International Business Machines Co. enjoyed their best day since January as optimism built around the company’s quantum-computing efforts. IBM IBM announced a plan back in June to build what ...

Abstract: Considering the edge-cloud environment and uploading large amounts of data from IoT devices through the edge node towards the cloud, this paper investigates an aggregation method of data ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a dictionary, and perhaps a magnifying glass. You would probably not think of using a particle accelerator. But that is what is ...

Abstract: Algebraic Chase decoding (ACD) is an effective soft-decision decoding approach for elliptic codes. By identifying η least reliable symbols, 2η test-vectors are formulated, each of which will ...

A character from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice remarks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not ...

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When we look at the world at the tiniest scales, things get very weird. Take a wild ride through the quantum world, from the discoveries that reveal its strange rules to the amazing technologies it ...

One thing that can be said about the now-50-year-old “NOVA”: It has never been very funny. But the science program’s introduction to “Decoding the Universe: Quantum” is certainly amusing. And not a ...