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D-Wave Systems has released a Quantum Annealer with over 5000 qubits. They have over 250 applications that can be run on the system. The chip uses over 1 million superconducting Josephson junctions. Venture Capitalist billionaire, Steve Jurvetson, had been on the board of D-Wave for 17 years. He provides a chart showing the qubit scaling that D-Wave has achieved. D-Wave was doubling qubits every year for the first decade but have been doubling every two years over the past seven years. There is no specific reason for 2013 to be a breakpoint in the slope. A few more product releases The post D-Wave Systems Releases 5000+ Qubit Quantum Annealer first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

The wait is almost over for Mike Flanagan’s much-anticipated follow-up to The Haunting of Hill House . A new setting and characters await in The Haunting of Bly Manor , but in the spirit of all good horror anthologies, it looks like the levels of dread and terror will be just as satisfying. Exhibit A: the episode titles! Read more...

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When I was 13, I had my first kiss, got engaged twice, performed a wedding ceremony, telepathically communicated with crystal amulets, and sang songs to cast spells. It was a mystical era in Wehnimer’s Landing, the main town in a game called GemStone III. Read more...

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Dragon’s Dogma , Capcom’s beloved 2012 action RPG, became a cult classic in spite of itself. It’s a clunky, at times arcane experience that can obfuscate the game in awkwardness. It also has a rabid audience—one that screams with delight every time it gets ported to a new platform —that fell in love with it for a reason… Read more...

Normal US artillery has a range of 20-30 kilometers (12-18 miles) but new ramjet artillery will be able to reach 150 kilometers. The weapons will be able to farther, faster and higher. 150 kilometers means that if you were fighting in Belgium, then you could fire from Brussels to Bastogne. Bastogne was a famous area of fighting in World War 2. Brussels is in the center of Belgium. Ramjet artillery batteries around Brussels would be able to target almost anything in the entire country. A shell fired at mach 2.5 enables air intakes to take in oxygen that will ignite The post Ramjet Artillery and Missiles Will Have Five Times the Range first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has its Kamala Khan. Deadline reports the studio has cast actress Imon Vellani in the title role of the upcoming Disney+ series, Ms. Marvel . Read more...

I’ve been flying regional jets and in general aviation for 12 years. But your flying job will always restrict you to the type of flying and destinations that your employer needs, and unless you’re Bezos or Zuck, you can’t own every genre of airplane and fly everywhere. With Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 , I got a… Read more...

They sacrificed everything to find a better life, but something terrible was waiting for them on the other side. In the first trailer for Netflix’s His House , a Sudanese couple finds themselves face-to-face with a supernatural evil—one they cannot escape without risking everything they’ve worked for. Read more...

Nammo has made simple modifications for tripling the explosive power of grenade launchers. The modular grenades screw together in a few seconds. Two grenade modules will kill everyone in a room and three grenades destroy the building. SOURCES – Nammo Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com The post Scaling Hand Grenade Power With Modular Grenades first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

Conan , arguably one of the most recognizable barbarians to have ever existed in the public consciousness,  is coming back in what’s sure to be a reminder that studios really are allergic to new ideas. Read more...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station sprung to action late Monday night following concerns that a persistent air leak had grown in size. It turned out to be a false alarm, but during the event, the crew managed to trace the source of the leak to a Russian service module. Read more...

In 1998, Ed Greenwood, creator of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, released his first novel in the giant, fantastical world he’d wrought (and his first published fiction, period). It’s hard to say what was more enticing to me back then: the amazing Clyde Caldwell cover art of a furious dracolich on the cover or… Read more...

This week’s Lower Decks episode has a title that could apply to any of the episodes so far: “Crisis Point.” In this case, rather than referring to an out-of-control alien conflict or an unfortunate phasing situation or worse, it’s got something to do with...the U.S.S. Cerritos ’ holodeck, as this exclusive clip reveals. Read more...

Feline intelligence may be more impressive than we’ve appreciated, at least according to a new study. The research claims to present the first evidence that cats can recognize and then mimic human behavior on command—a feat that only a few other animals, including dogs, are known to do. Read more...

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The CW’s Batwoman is getting a new baddie for season two, and it’s played by someone who’s already familiar with the city of Gotham. Read more...

The 100 , a very unimaginatively-named show that has featured so many murders and a journey into a butthole , is coming to an end with its series finale tonight. In a new video detailing what’s to come, the show’s creator Jason Rosenberg insists that The 100 's getting the ending he always wanted for its heroes and… Read more...

In May 2019, Cyberpunk 2077 developers CD Projekt Red promised staff that there would be no mandatory crunch as the game neared completion . A month later, the same promise was made . Now? A report says they’re being told it’s time to crunch. Read more...

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The Matrix 4 gains another past castmember. Veronica will soon have some entrepreneurial competition in Riverdale . Darren Lynn Bousman teases Spiral’s Saw connection. Plus updates from The Flash , Legacies , and more. Spoilers, right this way... Read more...

Marvel may have great stories on the page and the screen but that’s not where it ends. Great stories exist behind the work too. From the creators to the fans, the merchandise and beyond, a company like Marvel is so much more than its most recognizable parts. Read more...

Using a combination of archaeological and geological evidence, scientists have finally pinpointed the date of the infamous Tierra Blanca Joven eruption, which likely devastated Maya communities in what is now El Salvador. Read more...

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The Blair Witch Project might feel like a relic of days gone by, but the Blair Witch herself is still out there...somewhere. Hunt A Killer is releasing a tabletop subscription game for Blair Witch , sending players into the (virtual) woods to solve a horrific mystery. Read more...

Before everything went to hell in 2020, there was a glimmer of good in the world. A trailer was unearthed for an  Arnold Schwarzenegger -Jackie Chan fantasy adventure complete with dragons, pirate ships , luxurious facial hair, and more. At that time, the film’s U.S. release was still unknown. But thanks to a new… Read more...

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Welcome back to Gaming Shelf , io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games . This time around, we’ve got a solo mission for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare , a new roleplaying game for Batman , and a survival game starring The Thing . Check it out! Read more...

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Take-Two and World Wrestling Entertainment are headed to trial after a judge ruled WWE 2K games copied the work of an artist responsible for some of pro wrestler Randy Orton’s tattoos. Read more...

Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic—the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month , most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your decision making. Read more...

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The movie gods have bestowed us with a gift this Halloween: Blumhouse’s continuation of the 1996 cult classic The Craft is coming to on-demand October 28. It’s called The Craft: Legacy and, much like the original, it follows four characters who discover and develop witchy powers that spiral out of control. Read more...

The Boys ’ second season has poked fun at Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon’s blockbuster comic book movies and has been gaming out what it might be like if the most popular superhero team in the world invited a whole ass Nazi with a suspect undercut to join its ranks. That’s all quite on-brand, but the most recent episode… Read more...

Tesmanian reports that the Tesla Berlin factory will have eight giant casting machines for the manufacturing of Model Y. Giga Presses are the largest high-pressure die casting machines in the world, with a clamping force of 6,100-tonne-force (60,000 kN) die casting machines for Giga Berlin. Elon Musk at Battery Day said that Tesla developed new Aluminum alloys so that the Tesla casts would not need heat treatment after pressing. The press is about 14.4 feet tall and 39 feet long. However, there appears to be more equipment added to the top and front so the whole structure looks 20 feet The post Eight Giant Presses for Tesla Berlin and Walmart Canada Triples Tesla Semi Order first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

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In theory, quantum computers should be faster at solving many problems compared to classical computers. But because their components are extremely delicate, existing quantum computers are still rudimentary and error-prone, and academic and industry researchers have yet to demonstrate a profitable use for them. In… Read more...

Why is it children get all the good stuff? Adidas recently debuted its upcoming collection of kids sneakers, shirts, and even a basketball inspired by Disney Pixar’s Toy Story series. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go find a Zoltar Speaks machine that works in reverse. Read more...

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Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune is on its way to Arrakis, so it seems like there’s never been a better time to crack open a copy of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic . His story is amazing no matter how it’s being presented, but for folks wanting a copy that’s as beautiful as the world Herbert created, this… Read more...

Disney+ is finally giving U.S. users an official watch party feature, just in time for the Mandalorian ’s return next month. Read more...

David Koepp gives updates on Indiana Jones 5 . Marvel’s Hawkeye and Ms. Marvel may be closer to new cast members. Cowboy Bebop is getting ready to shoot again plus updates from The Walking Dead , The 100 , and more. Spoilers away! Read more...

At Tesla Battery Day, Elon said that the success of Tesla should be measured by how many years they speed up the electrification of transportation and energy. If Tesla achieves the goals of Tesla Battery Day then they bring forward the electrification of transportation and energy by decades. In 2019, BloombergNEF predicted that energy storage installations around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040. BloombergNEF is one of the most optimistic analysts in terms of electric car and battery energy storage. The 122-fold boom of stationary energy storage over the The post Tesla Will Advance Energy Storage Future by Decades first appeared on NextBigFuture.com .

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The latest episode of the Epic Games vs. Apple saga took place this morning, and it appears we’re still at square one. Read more...

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If Attack the Block had vampires instead of aliens, and took place in New York instead of London, it might look like Vampires vs. the Bronx . Read more...

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The newly deployed CHEOPS space telescope has completed its first observations of an exoplanet, uncovering some fascinating new details about an ultra-hot Jupiter known as WASP-189b. Read more...

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When it comes to board games based on popular movies, TV shows, or franchises , Ravensburger is the company to beat. It’s proven that with its latest triumph, The Princess Bride: Adventure Book Game , which manages to envelop you in a story and world that’s worth telling. Read more...

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Get ready for more Haunting . After Netflix’s very successful horror series   The Haunting of Hill House , executive producer Mike Flanagan knew he had to do it again . But that season was contained. That story told. How could he do a sequel? Read more...