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IBM Quantum roadmap to 2025 ushering in the age of the Quantum-centric supercomputer
April 5, 2023
The quest for quantum computing supremacy is a geopolitical priority for Europe, China, Canada, Australia and the United States. The quantum computing market was valued at $472m earlier in 2021…
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DARPA GREMLIN developed Flying Aircraft Carrier with launch and retrieval system of swarming UAVs to defeat A2/AD environments
March 22, 2023
US military is facing increasingly Anti-access /Area denial environment, a set of overlapping military capabilities and operations designed to slow the deployment of U.S. forces to a region, reduce the…
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Smart, Multifunctional and Programmable materials require noval fabrication and 3D printing technologies
March 14, 2023
Smart materials or Active materials or Functional materials are designed materials that have diverse, dynamic features that enable them to adapt to the environment. They have one or more properties…
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Wi-Fi technologies migrating from Wi-Fi 5 to Wi-Fi 6
February 27, 2023
Bluetooth, developed in the late 1990s, is a technology designed to enable short-range wireless communication between electronic devices, such as between a laptop and a smartphone or between a computer…
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Facial recognition widely employed in commercial, Security and Military applications
February 22, 2023
Facial recognition is a way of using software to determine the similarity between two face images in order to evaluate a claim. The technology is used for a variety of…
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After 5G, now 6G research race to satisfy Military’s growing requirements to gather, analyze, and share information rapidly
February 20, 2023
With every generation of communications technology, the focus of the network changes. The 2G and 3G eras centered on human-to-human communication through voice and text. 4G heralded a fundamental shift…
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Biomedical Informatics and Computational biology technologies require Supercomputers for projects like Covid-19 and Military
February 15, 2023
Computational biology is a branch of biology that aims to better understand and model biological structures and processes by utilizing computers and computer science. It entails the application of computer…
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US Navy “Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO),” strategy integrating diverse autonomous unmanned vehicles UUV, USVs, UAVs
February 12, 2023
The US Navy published a navigation plan to boost the war vessels to 500 by 2045 in the region citing “both a current and long-term challenge.” Reiterating that China is…
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Synthetic diamond with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center a unique material for quantum sensors including magnetic sensing
January 30, 2023
Quantum technology (QT) applies quantum mechanical properties such as quantum entanglement, quantum superposition, and No-cloning theorem to quantum systems such as atoms, ions, electrons, photons, or molecules. Quantum Sensing…
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Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS) manufacturing and material technologies
January 22, 2023
MEMS is a word used for miniaturized devices that are based on Silicon technology or traditional precision engineering, chemical or mechanical. MEMS stands for MicroElectroMechanical Systems denoting man-made mechanical elements,…
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Facial recognition is advancing to Emotion recognition
January 20, 2023
Facial recognition is a category of biometric software that maps an individual’s facial features mathematically and stores the data as a faceprint. The software uses deep learning algorithms to compare…
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Silicon qubits promise to become core of Quantum Revolution after Microelectronics
January 16, 2023
Quantum technology (QT) applies quantum mechanical properties such as quantum entanglement, quantum superposition, and No-cloning theorem to quantum systems such as atoms, ions, electrons, photons, or molecules. Quantum bit…
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