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How could the quantum technology race change our future? – BBC Newsnight
There have been recent suggestions that the UK government is underinvesting in new microchip technology compared to the EU or US. But what if they’ve had a better idea, and are instead backing something that could finish off microprocessors as surely as steam ships left sailing clippers in their wake?
The sector in question is quantum technology, where research suggests a revolution in computer speeds is now attainable.
But is the UK’s early investment in the technology of ÂŁ2.5bn over the next decade – more than the US – enough to ensure it reaps the rewards?
Newsnightâs Science and Technology Correspondent Kate Lamble reports.
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A new personalised vaccine given in combination with a drug has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial, representing a potentially watershed moment in cancer treatment. Scientists used mRNA technology, which was used for some Covid-19 vaccines.
But that technology – and vaccines more generally – have become increasingly controversial in the United States since the Covid-19 pandemic. The Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, is a vaccine sceptic.
In August 2025 cancelled $500m (ÂŁ376m) in funding for mRNA vaccine research. The move impacted 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, according to Kennedyâs department.
We speak to Tom Whipple, host of the BBCâs Inside Science programme, about the science of this new vaccine. And we ask how funding cuts for vaccine research could impact health outcomes not just for Americans, but for the world.
0:00 How does the new mRNA skin cancer vaccine work?
2:56 How effective is the new cancer vaccine?
5:06 How do mRNA vaccines work?
6:51 How was mRNA technology developed?
10:26 How did Covid change mRNA vaccines?
12:01 Why is RFK Jr cutting mRNA funding?
15:19 Are mRNA vaccines safe?
18:48 Why is the FDA approving an mRNA flu vaccine?
21:00 What does the future of mRNA research look like?
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Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt’s 100m world record at Beijing games | BBC News
A Chinese humanoid robot has run 100 metres in 9.39 seconds in a preliminary heat at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing the men’s world record time held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt.
Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, won its heat at the opening of the games’ second edition. The robot overtook â smartphone maker Honor’s Lightning near the finish after falling behind early in the race. Lightning finished in 9.47 seconds, also faster than the 9.58-second record Bolt set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
The results marked a remarkable improvement from last year’s inaugural games, when Tiangong Ultra won the 100 metres in 21.50 seconds. Tiangong also won the world’s first humanoid robot half-marathon, held in Beijing last year.
The 100 metres is among 51 events at the games, which include football, dancing and contests to complete industrial tasks.
China is promoting humanoid robots as a strategic emerging industry, with policymakers and companies betting that advances in AI and hardware will accelerate their use in manufacturing, logistics and consumer applications.
Investor enthusiasm for the sector was underscored recently when shares in Unitree, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker, jumped more than five fold in its Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market value of about $50 billion.
This year’s â games have drawn 2,056 robots from 666 teams across 16 countries and six continents, up from 280 teams at the inaugural event.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Laura Bicker in Beijing.
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Every year, new reports warn that our roads are getting worse and potholes are becoming more common. Experts say the cost of …
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Artificial intelligence was the technology lots of people wanted to talk about at the Dentistry Show in Birmingham, UK.
From 3D printing to digital scanners and AI receptionists, there are many ways in which technology is helping dentists’ workflow.
We tried some of the tech on display.
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There was a time when sleeping was simple – but now, it’s a bit more complicated.
Sleep has rules – there’s the right bedtime, the right temperature, and the right amount of deep sleep.
It’s not just something we do, it’s something we measure.
But is all this number punching actually helping us rest?
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@richardphillips8316
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Well if it anything like Google. It's pretty much broken. đđ¤Łđđ
@kikinrfhmi2187
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
nice modern life. i like this
@Nite2012Mare
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
When it meets A.I. and combines with advanced robotics you get a terminator…and extinction.
@oliverd.shields2708
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
It's a race for industrial policy, I tell you.
@gerardcorbett2358
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
This the government, what about private sector
@ianmangham4570
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Boogering Boys Club
@_unknown_channel_
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
The quantum technology race will make many people aware of British theoretical-physicist Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac . His written book was my textbook .
@satishgupta2658
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
UK need next Charles Babbage and Alan Turing to win race in quantum computing
@ranggaw.susanto1399
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Free palestine
@farhanadeelshaikh6779
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Great
@conarward1390
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Top g
@auro1986
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
how?with more inflation bbc needs to make more quantity of news so made quantum computers
@markstockton571
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
This is stupid, quantum computers were first advertised as being faster then classical computers, then they said it would only be faster at simple but intense tasks like calculating pi and solving encryption, now it is more ethereal tasks like "optimise logistical networks", AI is done on classical computers.
@alexj9111
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Conventional computers are already beating grandmasters at chess, just imagine what a quantum computer could achieve. They would be able to figure out what happened before the big bang.đ
@chowtrump2336
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
So no fast porn?
@TomNook.
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
There are A LOT of Chinese people working in this sector, for British universities. However, the past few years there has been increased persecution of Chinese in the west, creating a hostile environment for them to live in. This increases the chances of migration of vital skills from the UK to China or elsewhere.
@XTSu-sl1bb
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
HS2 money should have been invested in tech
@byron8657
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Energy is constant itâs neither created nor destroyed it just takes another form! Dr Albert Einstein
@user-uv5vr2yh9l
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
BUDDHA WORDS
"Monks, these four types of kamma have been directly realized, verified, & made known by me. Which four? There is kamma that is dark with dark result. There is kamma that is bright with bright result. There is kamma that is dark & bright with dark & bright result. There is kamma that is neither dark nor bright with neither dark nor bright result, leading to the ending of kamma.
"And what is kamma that is dark with dark result? There is the case where a certain person fabricates an injurious bodily fabrication, fabricates an injurious verbal fabrication, fabricates an injurious mental fabrication. Having fabricated an injurious bodily fabrication, having fabricated an injurious verbal fabrication, having fabricated an injurious mental fabrication, he rearises in an injurious world. On rearising in an injurious world, he is there touched by injurious contacts. Touched by injurious contacts, he experiences feelings that are exclusively painful, like those of the beings in hell. This is called kamma that is dark with dark result.
"And what is kamma that is bright with bright result? There is the case where a certain person fabricates a non-injurious bodily fabrication … a non-injurious verbal fabrication … a non-injurious mental fabrication … He rearises in a non-injurious world … There he is touched by non-injurious contacts … He experiences feelings that are exclusively pleasant, like those of the Beautiful Black Devas. This is called kamma that is bright with bright result.
"And what is kamma that is dark & bright with dark & bright result? There is the case where a certain person fabricates a bodily fabrication that is injurious & non-injurious … a verbal fabrication that is injurious & non-injurious … a mental fabrication that is injurious & non-injurious … He rearises in an injurious & non-injurious world … There he is touched by injurious & non-injurious contacts … He experiences injurious & non-injurious feelings, pleasure mingled with pain, like those of human beings, some devas, and some beings in the lower realms. This is called kamma that is dark & bright with dark & bright result.
"And what is kamma that is neither dark nor bright with neither dark nor bright result, leading to the ending of kamma? Right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. This is called kamma that is neither dark nor bright with neither dark nor bright result, leading to the ending of kamma.
"These, monks, are the four types of kamma directly realized, verified, & made known by me."
"Ariyamagga Sutta: The Noble Path" (AN 4.235), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 3 July 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.235.than.html .
@sethandruby
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Brussels Broadcasting Company (BBC) ?
1995 population 57.9 million people
2022 population 67.9 million people
Liberal & labour open door political system has created ?
A housing crisis, 6000 properties rented for illegal immigrants?
BBC promote that white English responsible for all atrocities in world
NHS meltdown ( new policy colour comes first?)
NHS managers not doctorâs & nurses, art works not buildings?
BBC spin every boat full of doctors & nurses ? LOL
10 million more using gpâs & dentistâs
Labour and unions trying to bring government down with general strike?
Crime crisis (rape, thief, grooming gangs not investigated )
Police only protect MPâs and have arrested 3300 for free speech?
Grooming gangs ( supposedly itâs a hate crime to criticise ? )
Power shortage ( when cold this winter thank a green ?)
Net zero is a joke, price 1 to 3 trillion pounds depending upon how fast the rollout?, 300,000 new engineerâs required ?
Nhs waiting lists, 10 million reasonâs no beds ?
40 thousand pounds per illegal immigrant average spend ?( estimated cost 3 billion a year ? , thatâs a large hospital a year ?)
High house prices, 10 million reasonâs there are no houses ?
Terror attacks on streets but no police?
Conservitive party sign us back into EU 2.0 but no referendum ?
Five million on benefits but somehow we need immigrants?
Free speech outlawed, even thinking is now a arrest able offence?
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@curiositycloset2359
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
https://youtu.be/P6cO4QsQ7xc
@thehumancanary131
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
I think the British will create it – then, as the Japanese did with cars, television, phones, etc., the Japanese will use the basic technology to create a product 10 times better and half as expensive…….
@natbirchall1580
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
As a small player your not going to achieve anything significant maybe a breakthrough or two, but that's it.
@natbirchall1580
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Oh my god are we still in the X year period of explaining qubits
@z1ya_pubg
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
1:53 best minute
@mrwhiskers6253
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Well if it starts a black hole đ itâll be that quantum tunnelling in actions đ
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December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
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@cookiechaser126
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Anyone else just like……whhuuuuuuuttt?!!!!
@user-jb9tj5kx3o
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Breaking news: Arab organization requests virginity certificate for Moroccan King Mimi Chadis to attend the upcoming summit
@Mizzkan
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
AI Says There is no such thing as a trans woman. Itâs an absurdity. AI now dangerous says experts đđ.
@mattyounce2486
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
The evolution of quantum technology is showing here by the component in the head piece the young lady was fitted with. Iâve seen quantum computers with rather massive hulls and practically limited capabilities in the past, the United Kingdom investing billions of pounds and yet offers from the USA are competitive. This shows quantum technology is a lucrative and promising field emerging to either make life easier or worse depending on how it takes shape in the coming years. If the world of today became as capable as advanced civilizationâs in science fiction, depicted in the many examples circulating throughout the annals and journals of global attempts to show a cherished future, any advancement in pioneering technology will pave the way to a better tomorrow.
@iguiste23
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
People always start with good intentions until they don't and money starts talking. This will just be turned into a weapon used to ruin lives and kill people once it gets into the wrong hands which it will. A.I can be a blessing but you only have to take one look at the state of the human race currently (pointless species that deserves extinction) to see the dangers of this level of power. Having the power to change the world doesn't mean it'll change for the better.
@michael2275
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
UK sinking ship
@danielwhyatt3278
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
This is really great news. But as they said, we need to be very careful and make sure that there are people buying it from the UK. We need to also make sure 100% that we actually keep it within the UK, make sure that itâs given as much funding as possible, and that sheâs scale of the products, no matter how much it costs and donât be scared to spend money on it. We cannot allow this technology to slip through our hands like we have with everything else. This is a chance to actually dominate in something again. We need to make sure the Americans and China donât get their hands on it and try and make scaled up versions that are better because we havenât done so ourselves without incentives and we end up just buying from them. Essentially buying our own technology back. We need to make sure we think about long-term profits and benefits for our country rather than short-term drops of big money from the US.
@julianshepherd2038
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
This government funds its mates
@lorddavidlawrence
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
I find little solace in this news.
@Pathan109ShortVideos
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
We gonna talk about the Jedi temple on courasaunt
@billkingston4402
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
And it will be totally misused by advertising
@philstabler6650
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Mad doc hat in back to the future.đ
@layuexiaobao
December 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm
There are far too many rules and paperworks to do for scientists in the UK than in US and China, they are extremely slow down the pace when competing with those two nations in advanced technologies, for funding , the economy is another story đ