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Quantum Computing Workshop Opens at UCLA: Superconducting Qubit Design Meets Fault Tolerance

Superconducting qubit design takes center stage at the 2026 Quantum Device Design Workshop, which opened Monday at UCLA.
Semiconductor Engineering

Modeling Multi-GPU Traffic For Distributed AI Workloads (UW Madison, AMD)

Researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison and AMD Research and Advanced Development published a technical paper titled ...

'Youngest Korean Harvard professor' Ham Donhee says understanding the brain is key to future computing

By Park Hye-won, The Herald Business Researchers have developed a semiconductor chip capable of measuring electrical signals ...
Wall Street Journal

U.S. to Award Quantum-Computing Firms $2 Billion and Take Equity Stakes

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is awarding $2 billion in grants to nine quantum-computing companies in deals that include U.S. government equity stakes, the Commerce Department said. The move ...
Scientific American

Could the next AI data center be attached to your house?

A unit about the size of an air conditioner, mounted in the side yard, could soon be humming away on artificial intelligence tasks, drawing power from your home’s energy supply and earning you ...
CNN

US awards IBM and other firms $2 billion to give America the edge in quantum computing

The US Department of Commerce is awarding $2 billion to American quantum-computing companies — half of which will go to IBM — to bolster the buildout of super computers that could solve some of the ...
Scientific American

Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Caltech professor makes case for classical computing in chemistry at Brown lecture

Richard Feynman famously said that “if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.” But Garnet Chan, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Book of Toni Morrison’s University Lectures, Now Collected for the First Time, Shares Some of the Legendary Novelist’s Most Important Lessons

Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...
CNN

Peter Thiel’s secret lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...
PBS

Peter Thiel brings his lectures on the Antichrist to the Vatican's doorstep

ROME (AP) — One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican's backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The ...
Forbes

The Rise Of Distributed Data Centers In The AI Era

AI is inspiring organizations to rethink a fundamental IT concept: the data center. For decades, the data center was a centralized place. It was a handful of large, secure facilities where ...