Connected to the Cosmos

The new protocol designed by NASA could provide a better 'transport layer' for 'cosmical' nodes...

This month, NASA took a major step toward creating a Solar System Internet by establishing operational Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) service on the International Space Station. The DTN service will help automate and improve data availability for space station experimenters and will result in more efficient bandwidth utilization and more data return. 

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Solar System Internet Technology Debuts on the International Space Station
ISS installs networking tech that may soon connect the whole Solar System | TechCrunch

New research for easy program quantum systems

The demonstration of digitized adiabatic quantum computing in the solid state opens a path to synthesizing long-range correlations and solving complex computational problems. When combined with fault-tolerance, our approach becomes a general-purpose algorithm that is scalable.

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Digitized adiabatic quantum computing with a superconducting circuit : Nature : Nature Research
Google Reports Progress on a Shortcut to Quantum Supremacy
Google moves closer to a universal quantum computer : Nature News & Comment