Popular Science Australia - 01.04.2018
HIDDEN FIGURES CT MERCURY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 39) are five simple shapes, ed A through E, followed e complex drawings, ons 7 th ...
PROJECT MERCURY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 41) #16 PROGRESSIVE MATRICES nonverbal exam to measure so-called eductive ability— the faci ...
#18 CONTINUED ON PAGE 44 IBM 5 8 ] Adrian buys cooter for ,600 and nds $500 on airing it. he sells the oter for ,000, what his p ...
PROJECT MERCURY (CONT’D FROM PAGE 43) ANALOGIES MENSA 6 1946–2018 INSTRUCTIONS relationships between concepts. Its broad-ranging ...
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46 POPULAR SCIENCE BY CORINNE IOZZIO PHOTOGRAPHS BY SPENCER LOWELL INSIDE THE LAB WHERE COMPUTING MAKES A QUANTUM LEAP N EITHER ...
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48 POPULAR SCIENCE FOR DECADES, THE PROMISE OF QUANTUM computing has tickled the neurons of drug-makers, spies, and tech CEOs. S ...
POPSCI.COM.AU 49 Mr. Freeze To create a climate colder than outer space, external pumps drive helium-3 refrigerant into copper t ...
50 POPULAR SCIENCE Not a Chip Behold the qubit, the cold and elegant heart of quantum computing. This 25mm-long wafer is made of ...
POPSCI.COM.AU 51 Meet-Up It takes groups of qubits to puzzle out anything more complex than a coin-flip. Modules like this one c ...
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POPSCI.COM.AU 53 Ground Control Not all work happens in the cooler. A network analyser (foreground) ensures that the microwave c ...
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POPSCI.COM.AU 55 Tear-Down Graduate students and postdocs are constantly building custom configurations to accomplish specific e ...
56 POPULAR SCIENCE Tall Boy Old quants work less. At 15 years old, this 2.7-m-tall fridge is one of the lab’s elders. It doesn’t ...
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by Sara Chodosh / infographic by Pete Sucheski ENCARTA 1,600 MB Microsoft’s brush with CD-ROM encyclopedias lasted from 1993 to ...
by Janelle Shane / illustration by eboy WHEN COMPUTERS TRY TO IMITATE HUMANS, THEY OFTEN GET confused. But simulated brain cells ...
60 POPULAR SCIENCE by Amal Ahmed / illustrations by Hubert Tereszkiewicz PERCHANCE “TO BE” Could Infinite Monkeys Really Write S ...
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