Unbound - Deep Tech & Space Insights | No 213
Quantum Machines and NVIDIA Use Machine Learning to Get Closer to an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer
by TechCrunch | 5 min read
Quantum Machines and NVIDIA are pushing the boundaries of quantum computing by integrating machine learning to enhance error correction. This collaboration marks a significant step toward building more reliable quantum computers, leveraging NVIDIA's GPUs to simulate and correct quantum errors in real-time. The technology aims to address the challenge of decoherence, a critical roadblock in the path to operational quantum systems. With this breakthrough, quantum computing may soon achieve the consistency needed for practical applications in fields like cryptography and data science.
Parents Trust AI Medical Advice More Than Doctors, Researchers Find
by Fox News | 4 min read
A recent study reveals that parents are increasingly relying on AI-based medical advice, sometimes even preferring it over traditional doctor consultations. The findings highlight AI's growing influence in healthcare, particularly for quick, accessible responses to non-urgent health concerns. However, experts are raising questions about the potential risks and reliability of AI advice without human oversight. As AI continues to shape healthcare, balancing its convenience with accurate, compassionate patient care remains a vital conversation.
From Audible to Augmented: Segmenting the Spatial Spectrum
by AR Insider | 6 min read
This article delves into the evolving spectrum of spatial technology, where experiences range from auditory augmented reality (AR) to full visual immersion. By segmenting AR into auditory, haptic, and visual modalities, the industry aims to create layered, customizable experiences that can meet user needs across various scenarios. The potential applications are vast, from enhancing workspaces with AR audio cues to delivering immersive educational content. This segmented approach may redefine how we engage with digital content in physical spaces.
🌙 NASA - Best Photo from Last Week
Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball
The spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is IC 3225. It looks remarkably as if it was launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming from its disk behind it. The scenes that galaxies appear in from Earth’s point of view are fascinating; many seem to hang calmly in the emptiness of space as if hung from a string, while others star in much more dynamic situations!
Appearances can be deceiving with objects so far from Earth — IC 3225 itself is about 100 million light-years away — but the galaxy’s location suggests some causes for this active scene, because IC 3225 is one of over 1,300 members of the Virgo galaxy cluster. The density of galaxies in the Virgo cluster creates a rich field of hot gas between them, called ‘intracluster medium’, while the cluster’s extreme mass has its galaxies careening around its center in some very fast orbits. Ramming through the thick intracluster medium, especially close to the cluster’s center, places enormous ‘ram pressure’ on the moving galaxies that strips gas out of them as they go.
As a galaxy moves through space, the gas and dust that make up the intracluster medium create resistance to the galaxy’s movement, exerting pressure on the galaxy. This pressure, called ram pressure, can strip a galaxy of its star-forming gas and dust, reducing or even stopping the creation of new stars. Conversely, ram pressure can also cause other parts of the galaxy to compress, which can boost star formation. IC 3225 is not so close to the cluster core right now, but astronomers have deduced that it has undergone ram pressure stripping in the past. The galaxy looks compressed on one side, with noticeably more star formation on that leading edge (bottom-left), while the opposite end is stretched out of shape (upper-right). Being in such a crowded field, a close call with another galaxy may also have tugged on IC 3225 and created this shape. The sight of this distorted galaxy is a reminder of the incredible forces at work on astronomical scales, which can move and reshape entire galaxies!
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