Software & IT

Qubits Can Be as Safe as Bits, Researchers Show

Quanta Magazine: Over the centuries, we have learned to put information into increasingly durable and useful form, from stone tablets to paper to digital media. Beginning in the 1980s, researchers began theorizing about how to store the information inside a quantum…

Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code

Quanta Magazine: Suppose you are trying to transmit a message. Convert each character into bits, and each bit into a signal. Then send it, over copper or fiber or air. Try as you might to be as careful as possible, what…

Can a Machine Learn Morality?

New York Times: Researchers at an artificial intelligence lab in Seattle called the Allen Institute for AI unveiled new technology last month that was designed to make moral judgments. They called it Delphi, after the religious oracle consulted by the ancient Greeks. Anyone could visit the Delphi website and ask for…

How Data Is Reshaping Real Estate

New York Times: Jordan Fisher was troubled. Every variety of the Red Bull energy drink comes in a similar metallic can, and his company’s camera system, which tracks products that customers pick up in stores, was having trouble distinguishing them. This obstacle was one of many that his company, Standard AI,…