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Quantum Breakthrough, AI Brains, and Biohybrid Limbs w/ Ralph Bond


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Show Notes 28 February 2025
Story 1: This Chip Could Be the Massive Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting for in Quantum Computing
Source: Popular Mechanics Story by Darren Orf
Link: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63872181/majorana-1-topological-qubit/
See Microsoft’s official announcement here: https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/
See Mircosoft’s video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSHmygPQukQ&t=18s
See also: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/02/19/microsoft-unveils-majorana-1-the-worlds-first-quantum-processor-powered-by-topological-qubits/
See also: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-s-majorana-1-what-a-new-state-of-matter-means-for-quantum-computing/ar-AA1znhjk
Story 2: Scientists Reveal "Artificial Leaf" That Turns Carbon into Sustainable Fuels
Source: Futurism.com Story by Noor Al-Sibai
Link: https://futurism.com/artificial-leaf-carbon-sustainable-fuel
See research paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-025-01292-y
*Story 3: AI-designed chips are so weird that humans cannot really understand them — but they perform better than anything we've created
Source: LiveScience.com Story by Tim Danton
Link: https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/humans-cannot-really-understand-them-weird-ai-designed-chip-is-unlike-any-other-made-by-humans-and-performs-much-better
See research paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54178-1#Fig1
Story 4: Biohybrid hand gestures with human muscles - Complex finger movements made possible with rolls of tendon like human muscle tissue
Source: University of Tokyo Press Release
Link: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00386.html
See video here: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/terminator-like-hand-that-uses-lab-grown-muscle-tissue-developed/vi-AA1zddSI





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