Lifeboat Foundation

Efforts to create new life-forms—and new universes—will raise profound questions.

• By Abraham Loeb on April 22, 2019

The next generation of wireless connectivity should be arriving around 2030, and bright minds in northern Finland are looking for ideas.

Simulations of stochastic processes play an important role in the quantitative sciences, enabling the characterisation of complex systems. Recent work has established a quantum advantage in stochastic simulation, leading to quantum devices that execute a simulation using less memory than possible by classical means. To realise this advantage it is essential that the memory register remains coherent, and coherently interacts with the processor, allowing the simulator to operate over many time steps. Here we report a multi-time-step experimental simulation of a stochastic process using less memory than the classical limit. A key feature of the photonic quantum information processor is that it creates a quantum superposition of all possible future trajectories that the system can evolve into. This superposition allows us to introduce, and demonstrate, the idea of comparing statistical futures of two classical processes via quantum interference. We demonstrate interference of two 16-dimensional quantum states, representing statistical futures of our process, with a visibility of 0.96 ± 0.02.

This guy made a real life ‘Iron Man’ arc reactor 😲 👏.

In what is being hailed as a lucky accident, a salvage team looking for containers that had fallen off a transport ship in Dutch waters discovered a 16th-century shipwreck on the North Sea floor.

Copper plates and wooden beams were found on the vessel, which dates back to 1540, making it the oldest find of a seafaring ship in Dutch waters ever, according to the Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency.

Experts argue the jaws of an ancient European ape reveal a key human ancestor.

This week, I discuss something rarely talked about, how human beings have an advantage over AI and automation and the great opportunities that this technology revolution will bring.

The good news is, this is a time of great opportunity, but it’s also a time of massive change and disruption for many people and a lot of companies.

This knife uses ultrasonic waves to cut through virtually anything with ease.

This electric vehicle could become your future mode of transportation 😍 via @kittyhawkaero