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  Government To Fund Quantum Research Labs In 100 Engineering Colleges Across India

  Two major quantum fabrication facilities worth Rs 720 crore will be established at IIT Bombay and IISc Bengaluru to indigenise quantum chip and sensor production under the National Quantum Mission.

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  Are We Living In A Simulation? Here's What Scientists Have Said

  In their study, they identified what they called "Godelian truths", truths that cannot be defined by any algorithm or fixed rules.

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  Google Says Its Willow Chip Hit Major Quantum Computing Milestone, Solves Algorithm 13,000X Faster

  Google says its new Willow quantum chip has achieved a major breakthrough, solving a previously unsolvable algorithm 13,000 times faster than classical supercomputers. The 105-qubit chip powers Google’s quantum supercomputer and achieved record-low error rates. The feat, detailed in Nature, offers verifiable proof of quantum computing’s potenti...

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  IIT Roorkee Launches Advanced Certificate Course In Quantum Computing, Algorithms

  IIT Roorkee: Participants will code, simulate, and benchmark advanced quantum algorithms while applying Quantum Machine Learning (QML) to practical, real-world scenarios.

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  Google DeepMind Unveils AlphaEvolve, a Coding Agent Designed to Reduce AI Hallucinations

  Google DeepMind announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) coding agent on Wednesday that can enhance the capabilities of AI models. Dubbed AlphaEvolve, it is designed to discover and optimise algorithms across complex computing and mathematical tasks. The powerful AI system is built on the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Gemini models, and it...

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  New Algorithm Analyses Tongue To Predict Diabetes, Stroke With 98% Accuracy

  Researchers have developed a novel computer algorithm that can predict various diseases like diabetes or stroke, just by analysing the colour of the human tongue with 98 per cent accuracy.

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  Twitter Reveals Parts of Source Code Behind the Microsite's Algorithm

  Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, allowing users and programmers a peek into its workings and the ability to suggest modifications to the algorithm. The company said in a blog post it uploaded the code in two repositories on code-sharing platform Github.

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  Bitcoin Mining Surges to New Record, Profit Margins Decline as Ethereum Merge Frees Up Capacity

  Bitcoin mining has hit a new record in the aftermath of the Ethereum Merge, the technical upgrade that replaced as many as one million powerful computers with Ether holders to validate transaction data encrypted by the network and reduce its carbon footprint by 99 percent. Meanwhile, mining difficulty, a measure of Bitcoin miners’ computing power...

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  IIT Madras Joins IBM Quantum Network To Advance Quantum Computing In India

  IIT Madras’ Centre for Quantum Information, Communication and Computing (CQuICC) will focus on advancing core algorithms in research areas like Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Optimization, and applications research in finance.

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  Computers Can Detect Volcanic Eruptions, Chemical Blasts Using Artificial Explosion Signals, Study Claims

  Computers could be trained using artificial explosion signals, to help them better detect distant nuclear detonations, chemical blasts and volcano eruptions. Infrasound is at a frequency too low to be heard by humans and travels farther than high-frequency audible waves. As explosions haven't occurred at every location on the planet and the atmosph...

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  Missing Photonic Link to Enable All-Silicon 'Quantum Internet' Identified by Researchers

  Paving the way for the construction of massive and much more scalable quantum computers, researchers at Simon Fraser University, Canada, have marked a major breakthrough in the development of quantum technology, paving the way for scalable quantum computers and a ‘quantum internet’ to connect them.

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  AI-Based Algorithm Can Predict Violent, Property Crimes a Week in Advance With 90 Percent Accuracy

  Thanks to advancements in machine learning, scientists have now been able to develop a computer model that can predict crime that is about to occur up to a week before it happens. Using public data, data scientists and social scientists at the University of Chicago have developed an algorithm that predicts future violent and property crimes with 90...

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  IISc Researchers Use GPUs to Discover Human Brain Activity in Recent Study

  IISc researchers have developed new Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-based machine learning algorithm to help to better understand and predict connectivity between different regions of the brain. The algorithm rapidly analyse the enormous amounts of data generated from diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) scans of the human brain.

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  Artificial Intelligence Can Track Health of Corals Reefs by Understanding Complex Soundscape

  In a new research by scientists at University of Exeter, artificial intelligence (AI) can track the health of coral reefs by learning the “song of the reef”. The team used several recordings of healthy and deteriorated reefs to train a computer algorithm, allowing the machine to learn the difference.

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  Nvidia H100 Chip Unveiled, Touted as ‘Engine’ of AI Infrastructure

  Nvidia announced several new chips and technologies that it said will boost the computing speed of increasingly complicated artificial intelligence algorithms, stepping up competition against rival chipmakers vying for lucrative data centre business.