Crashed Black Hawk chopper was tasked to save US officials during 'doomsday'

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“At least 67 people were killed when an American Airlines jet collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday and crashed into the...”

Reporting from New Delhi confirms that the Army helicopter had no good reason for being where it was.   Thoughts and prayers won't hide the fact that the US military has become a bigger threat to the civilian population than terrorists.

CATL says Chinese 'EIVs' surging as affordable, smart EV options

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“A new term is being used to describe Chinese electric vehicles. ”

Nothing like a little self promotion.  (CATL stands for Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited, a Chinses company that is the world's largest manufacturer of lithium-ion EV batteries.)

DeepSeek hints that China has mastered the art of ‘kaizen’ — the west should be worried

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“The Japanese concept of continuous industrial improvement helps to explain Beijing's technological success”

Financial wizards who get rich by exploiting innovation love myths that justify their existence.  The space pen is a distraction, the myth is Kaizen.  Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy for continuous process improvement.  The Kaizen philosophy was effective because traditional Japanese culture was...

Iraqi refugee charged with burning Koran shot dead in Sweden, five arrested

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“I don't want to harm this country that received me and preserved my dignity”

Sweden?  The story sounds like a left-wing operatic incident staged on an east coast university campus.  It's got everything the American left-wing loves; refugees, ethnic hate, moral outrage, violence, and martyrdom.

How DeepSeek changed the future of AI—and what that means for national security

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“Spending is not innovating.”

JFC and the 12 grody roadies!  American Big Tech is trying to blame Xi Jinping for farting in public.  But DeepSeek did not invent a new AI.  The Mixture of Experts (MoE) type of model is not new or novel.  Distributed processing using specialized SLMs is not new or novel.  Unsupervised peer to...

Democrats pounce as Trump retreats on federal spending freeze

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“Now, Democrats will try to turn the public backlash into durable opposition to other (and more popular) parts of his agenda.”

Democrats are desperate to find issues that divide the country.  Schumer and Jeffries are prepared to go to war over the Federal funding freeze.  That Trump already rescinded.  And has already fallen off the news cycle.   Doesn't matter.  Democrats just love screaming at the sky to get...

Donald Trump offers US federal workers buyouts to resign

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“Government employees' union says offer pressures career workers to quit and will cause chaos in federal programs”

Oh, look, Elon Musk is turning into Al Gore.  Can we expect Musk to start talking about PAYGO, GOCO, lock boxes, and inconvenient truths? Trump has turned the clock back to the Clinton administration.  Bill Clinton reinvented government, shrunk the Federal workforce by 250,000 employees (using...

Optics & Photonics News - Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining through Light

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“The new study demonstrates a photonic blockchain using a photonic integrated circuit, the small metallic rectangle shown in the image.”

A bit of nerdy geeky discussion on optical computing coupled with Bitcoin mining.  (Note the article is almost 2 years old and I've not tried to find an update on the research.) Optical computing provides rather obvious advantages over currently used electrically driven transistor technology....

PsiQuantum Is Closing In On Fault-Tolerance And A Million Qubits

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“PsiQuantum will be the main tenant of a newly announced quantum campus in Illinois, where it will pursue its goal to create a fault-tolerant...”

While Elon Musk is drinking crypto-koolaid on the rocks, developers are trying to bring optical quantum computing to commercial fruition.  This effort is located in the US so the money aspect of the project naturally receives more attention.  And since this is a US effort, the reported results...

RIKEN, NTT, and Fixstars Amplify Inc. Introduce General-Purpose Optical Quantum Computer

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“A collaboration has developed a general-purpose optical quantum computer, which is accessible through the cloud.”

Quantum computing at room temperature with terahertz speeds.  Something not possible with electrically driven transistors.  This is a development by a Japanese team that is working towards commercial application.   Cheaper, more efficient, and faster.  By orders of magnitude.  And stock...