American researchers have put all the data from an image into a single photon, one of the particles that make up light and other electromagnetic phenomena. The team was also able to retrieve the data, the letters UR for the University of Rochester where lead researcher John Howell is an associate professor of physics. Researchers at the University of Rochester stored this image in a single photon and then retrieved it.Researchers at the University of Rochester stored this image in a single photon and then retrieved it. ‘It sort of sounds impossible, but instead of storing just ones and zeros, we’re storing an entire image,’ he said in a release Monday. ‘While the initial test image consists of only a few hundred pixels, a tremendous amount of information can be stored with the new technique,’ the researchers said in describing the experiment as an ‘optics breakthrough.’ Alan Willner, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, endorsed the experiment in the release. ‘The parallel amount of information John has sent all at once in an image is enormous in comparison to what anyone else has done before,’ he […]
NEW YORK — The city is losing its competitive edge and could give up its place as the financial capital of the world in as little as 10 years, a study has found. The study was commissioned by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Charles Schumer, who have been concerned about what they say is a growing threat to New York’s position as an international leader. ‘Unless we take corrective steps, and soon, we’re going to see America’s leadership in global financial transactions dwindle, putting a chill on the nation’s economy and the city’s,’ Bloomberg said at a City Hall news conference. ‘That will spell fewer jobs and slower overall growth.’ Bloomberg, a Republican and former CEO, and Schumer, a Democrat, outlined the report’s findings and recommendations, which include some changes specific to an anti-fraud law, known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enacted in 2002 amid a spate of corporate scandals. According to the study, by the consulting group McKinsey & Company, New York and other U.S. cities are falling behind in financial services while cities including London, Dubai, Hong Kong and Tokyo are surging ahead. It concludes that the U.S. is losing its advantage because of […]
Charity begins…in the posterior superior temporal salcus, according to scientists who have traced the origins of altruism in the brain. A study found that this part of the brain is more active in people who often engage in helpful behaviour. The region, which lies in the top and back portion of the brain, is linked to sorting out social relationships. US scientists scanned the brains of 45 volunteers using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging which can watch the brain working. At the same time, participants either played a computer game, or watched the computer play the game on its own. In either case, winning the game earned money for a chosen charity. Volunteers were also questioned about how often they put others before themselves – in other words, how altruistic they were. The brain scans revealed that the most charitable showed the most activity in the posterior superior temporal salcus when the computer game was being played. Study leader Dr Scott Huettel, a neuroscientist from Duke University Medical Centre in Durham, North Carolina, said: ‘Although understanding the function of this brain region may not necessarily identify what drives people like Mother […]
Thousands flee Iraq every day, but the US has placed strict limits on the number of Iraqi refugees allowed to settle in America. With thousands of Iraqis desperately fleeing this country every day, advocates for refugees, and even some American officials, say there is an urgent need to allow more Iraqi refugees into the United States. Until recently the Bush administration had planned to resettle just 500 Iraqis this year, a mere fraction of the tens of thousands of Iraqis who are now believed to be fleeing their country each month. State Department officials say they are open to admitting larger numbers, but are limited by a cumbersome and poorly financed United Nations referral system. ‘We’re not even meeting our basic obligation to the Iraqis who’ve been imperiled because they worked for the US government,’ said Kirk W. Johnson, who worked for the United States Agency for International Development in Falluja in 2005. ‘We could not have functioned without their hard work, and it’s shameful that we’ve nothing to offer them in their bleakest hour.’ Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat who is taking over the immigration, border security and refugee subcommittee, plans hearings this […]
BEIJING — China is to diversify the use of its swelling foreign exchange reserves, a policy change that is likely to mean a rise in investment in overseas securities and more purchasing of foreign technology and raw materials. Wen Jiabao, the premier, said after a top-level meeting on finance reform at the weekend that Beijing should improve the management of its foreign reserves and explore ways to diversify their use. The policy switch opens the way for China, which has been largely passive in managing its money, to establish an agency – akin to Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation and other state investment agencies – to handle a portion of its reserves, already the world’s biggest. China’s foreign reserves surpassed Japan’s last year to become the world’s largest and reached $1,066bn by the beginning of 2007. They could double within four years if the country’s trade surplus continues to expand and Beijing’s currency policy stays the same. The government announced on Sunday that it had injected $4bn from the reserves into China Reinsurance (Group) last year to recapitalise it before a possible market listing. Mr Wen said there were still many problems in the financial sector, […]
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