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CAPTION: At IIT-Bombay, space, science and technology minister Jitendra Singh dedicates to the nation the liquid helium facility, which will decrease the reliance on foreign sources of helium and reduce costs of cryogenic experiments to a tenth of the present value and contribute significantly to the growing research portfolio of superconductivity, quantum computing and sensing,…
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has set up a high-level expert committee to make Aadhaar technology future-ready, with focus on scalability, data security, and resilience against emerging cybersecurity threats, according to an official statement issued on Friday.The committee, chaired by UIDAI Chairperson Neelkanth Mishra, includes UIDAI CEO Bhuvnesh Kumar, Nutanix founder Dheeraj Pandey,…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently shared a post on X announcing a new breakthrough in quantum algorithms. “Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage,” Pichai wrote in the post, adding it is “13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers”. Pichai’s post caught the attention of…
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke of the University of California, Berkeley, Michel H. Devoret of Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and John M. Martinis of the University of California, Santa Barbara, for their groundbreaking “discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in…
Sai Sudharsan and Washington Sundar (Getty Images) Ahmedabad:Washington Sundar and Sai Sudharsan have been mighty impressive as performers, showing no signs of stopping. Sundar made his presence felt in India’s away Test series against England, stepping up as a match-winner. Sudharsan emerged as a clinical performer during India A’s recent four-day matches against Australia A….
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and British physicist David Deutsch have agreed on a striking new test for artificial intelligence (AI) – if an AI model could solve the mystery of quantum gravity — and explain its reasoning — it could be considered human-level smart. According to a Business Insider report, the exchange happened on Wednesday…
