Triangle solver (JavaScript) Program <p>This requires JavaScript, which is not supported by your browser or is disabled. </p> Tips: In the triangle diagram, click on a letter to jump to that input. When solved, hover over a letter to read its value. Description This JavaScript program calculates the missing sides and angles of a triangle. Notes: All sides are measured in the same unit. The source code is available for viewing. Download A standalone offline version is available for download: triangle-solver.html (right-click the link to save) This file is free for personal use. More info.
Quantum chip connected to internet is yours to command - tech - 06 September 2013. Quantum computing is in the cloud, and you don't need a degree in advanced physics to run your own programs. For the first time, anyone with a web browser will soon be able to log in and run basic algorithms on a quantum chip hooked up to the internet. A quantum chip processes information in qubits, or quantum bits, which, unlike the digital bits in a regular computer, can be both 0 and 1 at the same time. In theory, this ability should allow quantum computers to offer far speedier computation than current PCs – although devices that can definitely outperform standard machines don't yet exist. Until now only a few labs around the world have had access to even basic quantum computers.
Google recently purchased a D-Wave quantum computer and shares access with NASA and other select researchers, but not with the general public. Questions also remain over just how quantum D-Wave's machine really is, because it operates using a non-mainstream technique called adiabatic quantum computing. 2013-05-01 IBM Research Makes World’s Smallest Movie Using Atoms. SAN JOSE, Calif. - 01 May 2013: Scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled the world’s smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. Named “A Boy and His Atom,” the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS -verified movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action. ”A Boy and His Atom” depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom and goes on a playful journey that includes dancing, playing catch and bouncing on a trampoline.
Set to a playful musical track, the movie represents a unique way to convey science outside the research community. “Capturing, positioning and shaping atoms to create an original motion picture on the atomic-level is a precise science and entirely novel,” said Andreas Heinrich, Principle Investigator, IBM Research. “At IBM, researchers don’t just read about science, we do it. Making the Movie The Need to Shrink Big Data IBM and Nanotechnology Leadership. Lockheed Martin Harnesses Quantum Technology. But a powerful new type of computer that is about to be commercially deployed by a major American military contractor is taking computing into the strange, subatomic realm of quantum mechanics.
In that infinitesimal neighborhood, common sense logic no longer seems to apply. A one can be a one, or it can be a one and a zero and everything in between — all at the same time. It sounds preposterous, particularly to those familiar with the yes/no world of conventional computing. But academic researchers and scientists at companies like Microsoft, I.B.M. and Hewlett-Packard have been working to develop quantum computers. Now, — which bought an early version of such a computer from the Canadian company D-Wave Systems two years ago — is confident enough in the technology to upgrade it to commercial scale, becoming the first company to use quantum computing as part of its business.
“This is a revolution not unlike the early days of computing,” he said. Mr. How to build a 5$ Arduino (clone) | Hardware Startup. If you are like me and build projects with Arduino, you must have felt the frustration with ripping your project apart, because you wanted to build something else with that Arduino. I have had the same issue many times, so I decided to find a way to solve this once and for all. Hence, how to build an Arduino clone for less than 5$. Warning: Now before we continue a warning. This post explains how to build Arduino cones for less than 5$, but it will mean that you either get creative with you current Arduino to program the Arduino bootloader, or you invest a bit in a standalone ISP programmer and a FTDI interface board (total about 20$ one time investment).
The reason we can build a relative cheap Arduino clone is that Arduino consists of the following parts: - USB to serial converter (also known as FTDI) - ATMEGA328p with oscillator and bootloader - 5V power circuit - Bunch of headers So where do I get these cheap ATMEGAs? Like this: Like Loading... Titlessalaries.png (PNG Image, 576 × 411 pixels) Data that lives forever is possible: Japan's Hitachi. As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer—a few hundred million years at least. The company on Monday unveiled a method of storing digital information on slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading, almost forever.
And for anyone who updated their LP collection onto CD, only to find they then needed to get it all on MP3, a technology that never needs to change might sound appealing. "The volume of data being created every day is exploding, but in terms of keeping it for later generations, we haven't necessarily improved since the days we inscribed things on stones," Hitachi researcher Kazuyoshi Torii said. "The possibility of losing information may actually have increased," he said, noting the life of digital media currently available—CDs and hard drives—is limited to a few decades or a century at most.