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Saturday Morning Science 014

The deep nature of life as we know it just got weirder. One of my favourite books on biology is Jacques Monod’s magisterial Chance and Necessity. It is a step by step description of how life evolves at the microbiological level without any predefined plan, purely as a by-product of random forces.

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Computing Featured Science 

Saturday Morning Science 013

The world’s first commercial quantum computer meets its “early adopter”…What was imagined as rare and unique now looks to be numerous and common and enough with the killer drones: what about a robot for the best in us? Schrodinger’s Catbox Arrives!!! It’s powered by a 128 cubit processor, it has a 100 square footprint, it looks like the monolith from 2001: a Space Odyssey trying out for the role of of Jake La Motta in Raging Bull and it’s yours for 10 million dollars.  Originally this space would have held…

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Other Ones and Zeros: quantum computing made probable

It would appear that one and zero are not enough. At the very least, their usual arrangement inside our  classically designed computers is in for some serious revision. This November, the number of releases from researchers working on quantum computing  spiked  sharply. In all probability, it has more to do with scheduling and funding than the actions of some invisible force or supposed “hundredth monkey” effect. The  theoretical work stretches back through decades into the dark recesses of cryptography  and the woolier  constructs of particle physics. It appears that the …

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