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How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago
Despite the wheel’s immeasurable impact, no one is certain as to who invented it, or when and where it was first conceived. The hypothetical scenario described above is based on a 2015 theory that ...
How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology
Imagine you're a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the ...
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UT Theoretical Computer Scientists Earn Gödel Prize
The Gödel Prize, jointly awarded by ACM SIGACT and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, celebrates outstanding research in theoretical computer science. Named after logician Kurt ...
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Oxford achieves record 0.000015% error rate in quantum computing experiment
Room-temperature microwave control slashes Oxford’s qubit gate error to 0.000015%, marking a tenfold improvement.