Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday announced Ocelot, its first-generation quantum computing chip, as it enters the race against fellow tech giants in harnessing the experimental technology. Developed by the AWS Center for Quantum Computing at the California Institute of Technology, the new chip can reduce the costs of implementing quantum error correction by up…
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Alan Robertshaw claims Europa Oil & Gas is lodging an application to undertake “fracking” operations on the outskirts of Scarborough, North Yorkshire (Letters, 23 February). This is misleading. Europa intends to perform a proppant squeeze operation to appraise the potential of the Cloughton gas field to determine if gas can be extracted at commercial rates.…
Tufan Erginbilgiç didn’t quite catch the bottom for Rolls-Royce’s share price when he joined as chief executive at the start of 2023, but he came close. The reference price for his £7.5m-worth of “golden hello” shares – the cost of extracting him from the world of private equity – was 91p. The engine-maker’s share price…
Social media platforms may soon be able to tell if children under 16 are attempting to use their iPhone apps, as Apple brings in new technology that could play a role in enforcing Australia’s social media ban. Later this year, Apple plans to introduce a declared age range API (application programming interface) on iOS for…
One of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it is revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. Oligarchs are fully exposed and they are defiant. It’s like hitting the “reveal codes” key on older computers that let you see everything. On Wednesday, Jeff…
Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a Senate Budget Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau‘s new leadership on Thursday dismissed at least four enforcement lawsuits…
Offshore windfarms are to be painted black in an effort to reduce the number of birds that die after flying into them. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has launched a four-year trial to paint the wind turbines after officials raised concerns that the government’s plan to increase turbine numbers in the North…
The Trump administration has terminated its funding of the joint United Nations program on HIV/Aids, known as UNAids, delivering another devastating blow to the global fight against the disease. The notice that US funding of UNAids is being cut off is the latest move by the administration to end American involvement in life-saving health and…
