Michał Słupski

To build ultra-low-power, high-performance microprocessors, researchers used adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron (AQFP), an energy-efficient superconductor.
It’s an attempt to build extremely energy-efficient electronics for the next generation of data centers and communication networks.
Their processors have roughly the same performance as current state-of-the-art, and they’d cost much less to run.
Even though they’d need to be kept in extremely low temperatures to work, they’d still be more energy efficient.

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The story we tell ourselves (autobiographical memory) can be a way to improve ourselves - or to destroy ourselves.
Study finds that people with depression are less likely to remember positive events from their life, and it doesn’t even help them to be reminded of them.
Depressed people view negative events as equally important to positive effects, whereas healthy people simply focus on the positive to create their self-image.
Which means that depressed people can’t benefit from positive Autobiographical Memory.
This keeps them from viewing themselves in any positive light, and perpetuates their negative self-image.

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Removing salt from water has been a challenge for scientists for decades, and this new study might provide a way to make it easier.
Researchers found that membranes used to clean water in desalination technology are inconsistent - making them uniformly dense at the nanoscale can help.
This can improve membrane efficiency by 30-40%, making desalination cheaper.
Desalination is becoming more important every year, as more people struggle to get access to clean water.

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6-year long study of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) finds that they improve the lives of children living in poverty in Indonesia.
The positive effects included better nutrition and greater access to healthcare for children in families that received CCTs.
The study provides guidelines for policymakers that want to implement similar programs, and it’s one of the first big studies of how CCTs improve lives.
CCTs are about providing poor, working families with money based on simple conditions (like children regularly attending school).

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We can’t predict the weather, among many other complex issues, because computers still can’t solve nonlinear equations.
But this might change soon, as two different research teams created algorithms that can be used for nonlinear modelling on quantum computers.
Their techniques still need refining, and won’t be real-world ready for years, but these studies are another stepping stone towards truly useful quantum algorithms.

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