Red Hat Honors Instructors Who Champion Open Source Education
Red Hat is proud to recognize educators who embrace the open source way and are committed to teaching the next generation about the potential of a career in open source. These educat...
Red Hat Helps Radiance Technologies Bring Massively-Scalable and Fully-Open Cloud Infrastructure to the U.S. Department of Defense
SYDNEY – OpenStack Summit Sydney 2017 - November 7, 2017 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, is today announcing that Radiance Techno...
Livepatch: Linux kernel updates without rebooting
Live kernel patching is the process of applying security patches to a running Linux kernel without the need for a system reboot. Secondly, your system needs a client tool to retrieve...
How to Enable Syntax Highlighting in Vi/Vim Editor
Read Also: 10 Reasons Why You Should Use Vi/Vim Text Editor in Linux In this article, we will show how to turn on syntax highlighting temporarily or permanently in Vi/Vim text edito...
Germany, Israel, and the UK turn to open source, new driverless car tech, and more news
In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look three governments turning to open source, open sourcing driverless car safety practices, a school district developing ...
E. coli rewired to control growth as experts let them make proteins for medicine
A bacterial cell equipped with the feedback loop. Credit: Imperial College London Experts have equipped biotech workhorse bacteria with feedback control mechanism to balance growth ...
Chage Command in Linux
Linux provides the chage, also known as change age, a command-line utility to check, set, and update the password expiration date. Chage Command The chage command displays and updat...
Simple is beautiful in quantum computing
Quantum computers use electron spin orientation at a defect site in diamond to store information. The electron spin can be up (+1), down (-1), or anything in between. To solve a prob...
Researchers develop data bus for quantum computer
Although systems can be protected from noise in principle, researchers have been able to build only small prototypes of quantum computers experimentally. These logical quantum bits o...
Research team saves information on a single molecule
Similar to normal hard drives, these special molecules can save information via their magnetic state. One bit on a hard drive now only requires a space of around 10 by 10 nanometres....
Quantum-teleportation experiments turn 20
NEWS AND VIEWS 06 December 2017 Quantum-teleportation experiments turn 20 In 1997, it was demonstrated that quantum states can be teleported from one location to a distant one. To g...
Quantum simulators wield control over more than 50 qubits, setting new record
What makes this problem hard is that each magnet interacts with all the other magnets, says UMD research scientist Zhexuan Gong, lead theorist and co-author on the study. Lasers mani...
Photosynthesis in plants key to speedy evolution
Credit: Oxford Science Blog In a study of 11 different plant species, published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, researchers at the University of Oxford have shown that the speed...
Open-access quantum computer goes live in Japan – Physics World
In the loop: the Quantum Neural Network An optical system for solving combinatorial optimization problems has been made available for use online, say its creators in Japan. A famili...
New take on early evolution of photosynthesis
The molecular engines in all photosynthetic organisms that convert light energy to chemical energy are called photochemical reaction centers. The team believes that the ancestral rea...
Measurements From CERN Suggest the Possibility of a New Physics
A New Quantum Physics? Image credit: starsandspirals Quantum physicists found in a recent study that mesons don’t decay into kaon and muon particles often enough, according to the S...
LHC achieves record luminosity
It has provided its two major experiments, ATLAS and CMS, with 50 inverse femtobarns of data, i.e. 5 billion million million collisions. The inverse femtobarn (fb-1) is the unit used...
Image: Prototype atom interferometer
Credit: RAL Space/IQO Hannover A prototype atom interferometer chip in a vacuum chamber, harnessing the quantum behaviour of atoms to perform ultra-precise measurements of gravity. ...
IBM Just Announced a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer
We are really proud of this; it’s a big frickin’ deal,” IBM’s director for AI and quantum computing Dario Gil, who made Friday’s announcement, told the MIT Technology Review. A Step ...
How debuggers really work
This means that, once we issue the PTRACE_TRACEME request and call the execve system call to actually start the program in the tracee, the tracee will immediately stop, since execve ...
Harvard Scientists Made a Material That Creates Completely New States of Light
The tool uses polarisation to generate structures such as swirling vortices, spirals, and corkscrews that not only help explore light’s properties, but also have potential practical ...
For the First Time, Scientists Have Measured the Earth’s Ability to Absorb Neutrinos
With this, they were able to compare their data with a simulation of neutrinos passing through the Earth. Neutrino Astronomy While this study was enough to confirm Standard Model si...
Can anonymity and accountability coexist?
For instance, when establishing anonymous programs to drive greater diversity and more meritocratic evaluation of ideas, organizations may need to sacrifice the ability to hold speak...
Butterfly pattern emerges from quantum simulation
The international team used photons in Google’s quantum chip to simulate the surprising and beautiful pattern of the ‘Hofstadter butterfly’, a fractal structure characterizing the be...
Big step forward for quantum computing: Quantum simulator could be used to probe material properties, new phases of matter and solve optimization problems
Harvard researchers have developed a specialized quantum computer, known as a quantum simulator, which could be used to shed new light on a host of complex quantum processes, from th...