Adventures In Information Technology

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Black Hole Chaos and Quantum “Magic” Could Help Explain the Origin of Spacetime

According to a recent mathematical analysis by three RIKEN physicists, a new quantum discovery known as “magic” may hold the key to explaining how space and time came into being.

Researchers have identified “magic,” a numerical indicator of the difficulty of simulating a quantum state on a standard conventional (non-quantum) computer. Their calculations showed that almost any circumstance would turn out to be the most difficult when attempting to simulate a chaotic system’s “maximally magical” state.

This discovery shows that magic played a significant role in the formation of spacetime, which could lead to new theories on faster-than-light physics and the possibilities of interstellar travel through the creation of new modes of travel such as folding space and the opening of wormholes.

As scientists continue to study this phenomenon, the potential applications of using magic to achieve faster-than-light travel and other unprecedented technological advancements seem endless. These findings may eventually allow us to traverse vast distances across the cosmos without even leaving Earth’s atmosphere.

By harnessing the power of magic and understanding how it works within complex systems, we might soon enter into a golden age of exploration and discovery beyond our wildest dreams.

You can read more here

Ninja Theory and Epic Games showcase Metahumans upgrades and new iPhone tools for facial animations.

Metahuman Animator

At GDC 2023 Ninja Theory demonstrated their capacity to produce fully animated sequences using newly captured video at GDC, showcasing the capability of Epic Games’ Metahumans tool and Unreal Engine 5. The outcomes of these methods are demonstrated in the video below, which is a genuinely remarkable presentation of Epic Games’ most recent innovations.

In a demonstration, Epic Games showed how Melina Juergens, the actress who plays Senua in Hellblade, could take a video of her face using an iPhone, have it uploaded by a technician, processed, and turned into a fully animated sequence in a matter of minutes.

Ordinarily, to obtain comparable results with motion capture, one would need expensive tools, a lot of technical know-how, and a lot of time. Now, this process can be finished quickly and without a lot of expensive hardware owing to Unreal Engine 5 and a new tool called MetaHuman Animator.

You can visit Epic here

You watch the GDC video below with the new tool in action.

With historic spending, British team hopes to get quantum computing operational “by 2030.”

By the end of the decade, Quantum Motion hopes to produce and market breakthrough computers.

In the midst of a worldwide race to conquer the quantum realm, two university academics have obtained the largest-ever investment for a British quantum computing business.

The taxpayer-funded technology investment fund and Porsche SE, the German family-owned multinational that supports the VW Group, have invested £42 million in London-based Quantum Motion.

Professors John Morton and Simon Benjamin, who have spent the last 20 years studying quantum technologies at Oxford and University College London, founded Quantum Motion.

By the end of the decade, the startup wants to be able to produce and market quantum computers to clients like cloud service providers.

Tech giants like Google and IBM, which are also creating their own quantum computers, are approaching the technology entirely differently from Quantum Motion. The British start-up isn’t attempting to use electromagnetic fields or light signals, but rather is advancing existing microprocessor manufacturing technologies.

It believes that doing this will reduce the cost of creating quantum devices that might be used by scientists, researchers, and governments.

When the business announced that it had successfully mounted thousands of quantum devices on a microchip, it was a significant achievement.

The German industrial behemoth Bosch’s venture capital division is driving the investment in Quantum Motion. Via Future Fund Breakthrough, a £375 million fund founded by Rishi Sunak in 2021 to aid high-tech businesses. 

You can find out more about Quantum Motion here

Nvidia officially announces the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Nvidia officially announces the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Nvidia revealed the RTX 4070 Ti as the newest GPU for its RTX 40 series as part of its GeForce Beyond stream at CES 2023.

The RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards, which use Nvidia’s new Ada Lovelace architecture, are intended to replace the RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards with better performance and DLSS 3 capabilities. The RTX 4070 Ti, according to Nvidia, will perform up to three times better than the RTX 3090 Ti, the previous RTX 30 flagship.

After the RTX 4090 and two variations of the RTX 4080, one with 16GB of memory and the other with 12GB of memory, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the fourth card to be unveiled for the RTX 40 series. Nvidia “unlaunched” the 12GB GPU prior to its scheduled release date of November 16. Due to a contentious connector cable that has melted for some customers, the RTX 40 series has also attracted as much notice as the current flagship GPU, the RTX 4090.

The RTX 4070 Ti will cost $799 at retail and is scheduled to go on sale tomorrow January 5th.

You can read more here

Scientists extend qubit lifetimes

A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, MIT, Northwestern University, The University of Chicago and the University of Glasgow. Have shown in an experiment that changing a surrounding crystal’s structure to be less symmetric may prolong a molecular qubit’s lifetime.

The qubit is shielded from noise by the asymmetry, allowing it to maintain data five times longer than if it were housed in a symmetrical structure. In contrast to the 2-microsecond coherence duration of a molecular qubit in a symmetrical crystal host, the study team was able to attain a coherence time of 10 microseconds or 10 millionths of a second.

This is a major breakthrough due to longer coherence times which makes for more useful qubits in various applications such as long-distance telecommunications, medicine global navigation, astronomy and computing 

This study was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science National Quantum Information Science Research Centers and the Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

You can find out more about the project here

IOG Launching Midnight – a new privacy blockchain!

Input Output Global (IOG), the Cardano blockchain developer, has disclosed that it is building a platform based on data protection to enable users to operate more freely and safely by protecting sensitive personal and business data.

Web2 established global communities where individuals could interact and share. But doing so resulted in centralised control, censorship, surveillance, and a loss of data ownership.

In contrast to what Web3 had promised, solutions to date have either revealed too much information or are too private for many use cases.

IOG, the primary creator of Cardano, has stated that it is trying to construct a new platform that will be a principled system to safeguard people’s fundamental freedoms of association, commerce, and expression in order to address this.

Midnight is a new paradigm for online engagement, which gives users the power to decide whatever information they expose and to keep the rest private. Midnight will mark a radical change in how sensitive data is regarded while creating dApps.

An innovative data protection-first programming methodology will be used to build Midnight. By combining private and public processing with zero-knowledge cryptography, the platform will build a trustless environment that protects sensitive personal and business data. It will function on the Cardano blockchain as a sidechain.

You can find out more about the midnight blockchain by signing up for the token list here 

You can attend the annual Cardano summit which kicks off today through to Monday here 

Remember Thinking With Portal?

The most talked-about technological development in recent years in the gaming industry is ray tracing. The main selling point for Nvidia’s 20/30 and 40-series graphics cards is their RTX capabilities, which players are clamouring for in free updates to their favourite games. Ray tracing may provide unequalled quality in realistic lighting, shadows thrown in real-time, and exact reflections when used properly.

What games make the best use of ray tracing then? There are several excellent new game titles that make good use of this technology however if you want to be persuaded by its strength before buying a high-end RTX card or Laptop, one game that will be highly playable on even the entry-level RTX-50 line is Portal with RTX which is coming this month as a free download for existing and new Portal owners.

Although not as complex and immersive as the seminal Portal 2 with the ‘Perpetual Testing Initiative’’ DLC which is regarded by anybody that has clocked Portal 2 as Hell, Limbo or both places combined with its infinite amount of chambers/maps to play. Portal 1 is still an amazing experience and for anybody that has an RTX Windows PC, the new update that has been made possible with Nvidia Remix is an essential download for November/December

You can find out more about Nvidia Remix here

You can download Portal from steam later this month here

You can find out about Portal 2 here

Microsoft to Provide New Funding for OpenAI?

Microsoft’s longtime collaborator, OpenAI Inc., is looking for more cash from the tech giant.

Rumours are circulating that Microsoft is currently in advanced talks with OpenAI about increasing its investment in the organisation. The amount of funding the group is requesting is unknown. It is also not known what, if anything, OpenAI will give Microsoft in return. 

What we do know is that the company is now valued at about $20 billion after the company sold some stock to existing investors in 2021.

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, enabling Azure to run the open-source AI provider’s cloud services. Since then, Microsoft has obtained an exclusive l from OpenAI for the GPT-3 API.

Many may see the move as a counter-threat to Google who are ramping up their AI offerings and new competition coming in fast from Stability.Ai and Midjourney who are all gaining traction after DALL-E 2 took generative art mainstream. 

The field of artificial intelligence is growing quickly, and IDC experts forecast that in 2026, it will be a $900 billion industry, from there the worldwide industry would expand by an average of 18.6 per cent annually. OpenAI is concentrating on artificial general intelligence (AGI), which aims to develop cognitive skills in software such that an AGI-based system could discover a solution to a challenging intellectual issue in a manner akin to humans.

You can find out more about OpenAi here

If you would like to know more about the Microsoft & OpenAi Collaboration you can visit the Azure site here

Fujitsu Quantum Computer Set to Crack Bitcoin in 2023?

Japanese technology multinationals Fujitsu and Riken Research Institute are anticipated to release a potential Bitcoin-defeating quantum computer to businesses in 2023. The computer, which is considerably more potent than Frontier, the fastest supercomputer in the world created by Hewlett-Packard, is anticipated to be initially used for financial forecasting and the development of new pharmaceuticals. The new computer from Fujitsu will make use of so-called superconductor materials, which, when chilled to a temperature close to “absolute zero,” exhibit zero electrical resistance.

A 2022 academic article from Sussex University and the peer-to-peer exchange LocalBitcoins have both issued warnings that quantum computers may be able to defeat the SHA256 algorithm employed by the Bitcoin network.

Unlike Cardano or Ethereum since the merge, in a proof-of-work blockchain system like Bitcoin, miners compete to find a numerical answer to the SHA256 algorithm that surpasses the difficulty, or network goal. The header of a block of Bitcoin transactions and a random number are subjected to so-called hashing operations by miners. Using the SHA256 technique, a certain pattern-following numerical solution can be attained. Often, the miner must complete quadrillions of “hashing” operations per second before he or she can accurately predict the answer. An Application-Specific Integrated Circuit is the preferred type of computer for hashing in the Bitcoin mining process (ASIC). The Bitcoin network’s security, which has been largely impenetrable up until now, is aided by the mathematical complexity of finding the solution. Without it, the network’s security might be compromised.

This innovation by Fujitsu could potentially and easily crack the SHA256 algorithm. That news, alongside the announcement from the Michelle Simmons-led Silicon Quantum Computing, which has designed the world’s first integrated circuit computer created at an atomic scale, means the race for quantum supremacy is heating up. Will a quantum computer crack bitcoin in 2023? Only time will tell. Stay tuned to this blog for updates.

Read more at Riken Research here

Check out Silicon Quantum Computing here

Solana Game – Star Atlas gets a playable demo via the Epic Games Store

Even if it might take years for the Solana-based distant space strategy game to fully materialize, Star Atlas is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious NFT-driven games on the horizon. However, eager players won’t need to wait too long to get a taste: a brief sample has now been made available via the Epic Games Store.

The pre-alpha demo of the Unreal Engine 5 used to power the game, Star Atlas: Showroom was released today as part of a live-streamed event. Owners of Star Atlas NFTs can view the ships and vehicles they’ve purchased while exploring a 3D world demo.

Unfortunately, only Star Atlas NFT owners presently have access to the Star Atlas demo; however, anyone can obtain an access key by owning a ship and joining one of the game’s factions. According to Michael Wagner, CEO, and co-founder of Star Atlas developer ATMTA, some non-owners will receive access passes to the demo, which also includes a single non-NFT ship to explore.

The Showroom demo will be enhanced later this year to incorporate new features like multiplayer support, chat functionality, and the ability for NFT holders to fly their ships inside the demo.

You can find out more about the game at the Star Atlas website here 

If you have an NFT you can find the demo page on the Epic Games store here 

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