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Quantum computers may revolutionize chemistry

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As powerful as today’s traditional supercomputers are, they still struggle greatly with modeling chemical systems. For example, chemists still don’t fully understand exactly how bacteria produce fertilizer at room temperature. Considering the fact that fertilizer production is inefficient and consumes as much as two percent of the world’s energy each year, solving its mysteries could save billions of dollars. Now, researchers from Harvard, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, UC Santa Barbara, Tufts University and University College London are one step closer to being able to solve that and other difficult models…

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We hereby announce Tech Innovation Today’s Spring 2018 Technology Essay Contest Finalists!

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We hereby announce Tech Innovation Today’s Spring 2018 Technology Essay Contest Finalists! Our finalizes were chosen this year from more than 140 essays hailing from 12 countries. Thank you for your participation! Hang Wu Mingxuan Xu Graham Stevens Fei Yang Rongzi Peng Gulin Kumar Qunzhe Lin Susan Park K.S. Son Congxi Song Tianze Lin Jie Zhang Ruoci Ning Ying Ying Chen Mark Xu Ruixuan Liu Zhe Zhang

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Medical Tech 

Designing ultrasound tools with Lego-like proteins

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Ultrasound imaging is used around the world to help visualize developing babies and diagnose diseases. Sound waves bounce off the tissues, revealing their different densities and shapes. The next step in ultrasound technology is to image not just anatomy, but specific cells and molecules deeper in the body, such as those associated with tumors or bacteria in our gut.   A new study from Caltech outlines how protein engineering techniques might help achieve this milestone. The researchers engineered protein-shelled nanostructures called gas vesicles — which reflect sound waves — to…

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Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer

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By Jacob Aron Useful quantum computers are one step closer, thanks to the latest demonstration of a technique designed to stop them making mistakes. Quantum computers store information as quantum bits, or qubits. Unlike binary bits, which store a 0 or a 1, qubits can hold a mixture of both states at the same time, boosting their computing potential for certain types of problems. But qubits are fragile – their quantum nature means they can’t hold data for long before errors creep in. So researchers wanting to build large-scale computers invented quantum…

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Medical Tech 

Robotic rectum helps doctors get a feel for prostate exams

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Prostate exams aren’t exactly an enjoyable experience, but if you ever need one, you’ll want the doctor to know what they’re doing. Unfortunately, the procedure is difficult for med students to learn, thanks to the internal nature of the examination and a lack of willing test subjects. Scientists at Imperial College London wanted to solve that problem by developing a robotic rectum that recreates the feel of the real thing and even provides haptic feedback. The cheek-clench-inducing procedure involves a doctor snapping on a glove and probing a man’s back…

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AI Healthcare Technology

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In an era where AI technology infiltrates every aspect of our lives including everyday tasks, education and entertainment, its impact on healthcare is no exception and nothing short of transformative. AI healthcare technology helps us to take a step forward to a world where diseases are detected even before symptoms appear, where a patient in a remote village can receive expert medical advice and surgeries can be performed with unprecedented precision by robotic hands. This is not a distant future but a mere reality with the rising healthcare technology shaping…

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Transport Tech 

Swap Those Plastic Buttons for $385 Cufflinks Made From a Bugatti Veyron

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Bugatti did not design the Veyron to serve any practical purpose. It designed the car to stack up superlatives like a pre-schooler piles blocks: heedlessly. The Veyron was the fastest, most powerful, fanciest, and most completely unnecessary car on the planet for the entirely of its 10-year run. Bugatti made just 450 of them, sold them all for an average of $2.6 million apiece, and reportedly lost money doing it. You almost certainly won’t ever know the God-like power of driving a Veyron, let alone that of its even more…

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Transport Tech 

Boy, the GOP’s Platform Really Rails on Public Transit

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Donald Trump builds things. It’s what the newly official GOP presidential nominee does, he says, and it will be no different once he’s elected. In May, he promised to “build the greatest infrastructure on the planet earth—the roads and railways and airports of tomorrow.” And while Trump hasn’t put forward any specific proposals to change how Americans move—by automobile, plane, foot, bike, or public transit—the GOP’s newly released 2016 platform is openly hostile to just about everything but gas-loving cars. Complaining that the current Administration “subordinates civil engineering to social…

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New diagnostic instrument sees deeper into the ear

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A new device developed by researchers at MIT and a physician at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center could greatly improve doctors’ ability to accurately diagnose ear infections. That could drastically reduce the estimated 2 million cases per year in the United States where such infections are incorrectly diagnosed and unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed. Such overprescriptions are considered a major cause of antibiotic resistance.   The new device, whose design is still being refined by the team, is expected ultimately to look and function very much like existing otoscopes, the devices most…

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Transport Tech 

Swiss Post testing delivery-by-drone

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Swiss Post and Swiss World Cargo (the air freight division of Swiss International Air Lines) have joined the likes of Amazon, GeoPost and Alibaba by taking concrete steps toward using drones for deliveries. This week, the corporations announced that they have teamed up with California-based Matternet to trial several of its Matternet ONE cargo quadcopters. Testing of the autonomous GPS-guided drones will be carried out throughout this month, although any widespread use of the aircraft isn’t expected to take place for about five years – issues such as battery life and legislation still need to be worked…

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