Artificial intelligence (AI)—in particular, machine learning (ML)— recently began to solve problems for which quantum computers are targeted, according to researchers at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), the Flatiron Institute (New York City), and IBM (Yorktown Heights, NY) FULL TEXT

Battery Free Internet of Things

Energy harvesting reaps energy that would otherwise go to waste—from sources ranging from solar rays to vibrations to ambient gradations in heat, ocean waves/tides, wind, and even the metabolisms of living organisms. These sources can be tuned to produce electricity that is safe, sustainable, and deployable in conditions not suited to the use of batteries. FULL TEXT

AI in your Ears

ClearBuds enhance a speaker's voice and reduce background noise through the use of binaural microphone hardware in the earbuds and real-time machine learning software (deep learning neural networks) running on a smartphone app. FULL TEXT

Quantum Datacenter Intranet Advances

"Recently, landmark experiments have carried out specialized tasks beyond the practical reach of supercomputers," said independent quantum expert Hendrik Bluhm at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University and the Forschungszentrum Jülich Research Centee in Germany.
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Confidential Computing Foils Hackers

"Confidential Computing is positioned to become the de facto technology for future computational security," according to Stephen Walli, governing board chair of the Confidential Computing Consortium... FULL TEXT

Dialing the Trust Level Down to Zero

Twenty-first century cybersecurity has been steadily moving away from the "perimeter" mentality—authenticating users with passwords, then giving them free access to a computer system's resources at their security level. Stolen passwords, especially those with high levels of access, have resulted in catastrophic releases of vast swaths of personal information (like credit card numbers), government secrets (witness WikiLeaks' releases of classified information), and related crimes (including ransomware). FULL TEXT

Quantum Simulator Beats Quantum Hardware

Why wait for quantum computers to be perfected "someday," when you can use Toshiba's quasi-quantum optimization algorithm on Microsoft's Azure cloud in 2021? It outperforms today's fledgling quantum computer speeds through the use of that proprietary algorithm on conventional digital computers. FULL TEXT

Democratizing Facial Recognition

Intel demonstrated facial authentication solutions which the company said are as accurate as Apple's Face ID for iPhone, claiming one false positive in a million identifications. Intel's similarly named RealSense ID technology performs face authentication for any device running the Windows, Linux, or Android operating systems. FULL TEXT