Moore’s Law is the most iconic statement of exponential technology advancement, doubling transistor count and hence functional performance every 24 months. Many pundits [1-3] have observed that while ...

Over the last 50 years, exponential scaling of silicon microelectronics “turned a hundred dollar chip with a few dozen transistors into a 10 dollar chip with a few billion transistors,” fulfilling ...

This is the first in a four-part series looking at the big ideas in Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near. Be sure to read the other articles: Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating—Because It ...

When he was a Miami-Dade County commissioner, Earl Starnes helped convince Gov. Claude Kirk to buy 400 acres on Cape Florida in the 1960s and create Bill Baggs State Park. In the 1970s, amid a wave of ...

A new deterministic law of growth is resolved from the general nonlinear defining relation y' + ay$^2$ + by + gy'$^2$ + hyy' = 0. The solution in canonical form exhibits four parameters and describes ...

Alessandro Rossi receives funding from the UKRI Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund through the Measurement Fellowship Scheme at the National Physical Laboratory. He also holds a Chancellor's ...

It's been 10 years since a pseudonymous coder called Satoshi Nakamoto unveiled Bitcoin, a decentralized digital network that primarily functions to maintain the integrity of a native cryptocurrency ...

My MacBook Pro is three years old, and for the first time in my life, a three-year-old primary computer doesn’t feel like a crisis which must be resolved immediately. True, this is partly because I’m ...

Area laws for entanglement in quantum many-body systems give useful information about their low-temperature behaviour and are tightly connected to the possibility of good numerical simulations. An ...

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