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Friday, February 21, 2025

In This Edition:
Microsoft’s topological quantum chip, Europe’s population crisis without immigration, ice stupas, Doughnut Economics cities & regions guide, & the history of the world map in 60 seconds!

Things are pretty bad in America and on the world stage at the moment, but music can always support you, like this banging choon.

Microsoft’s Topological Quantum Chip

Image: Microsoft

Microsoft have developed a topological quantum chip based on Majorana zero modes, which uses braided anyons to implement quantum gates, rather than capturing and observing individual quantum atom states to represent qubits. This technique provides some built in fault tolerance because it is less sensitive to outside noise and interference, and is potentially much more practically scalable.

Europe’s Population Crisis Without Immigration

Image: The Guardian

The Guardian published an interesting interactive map that shows the projected European population growth, or lack thereof, without migration by the year 2100, based on Eurostat projections.

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Ice Stupas

Image: Getty Images

Researchers from Aberdeen University & Universities in India have developed a method to help the people of the Ladakh region obtain melt water during the warmer spring and summer months. By piping glacier water from higher altitudes during winter to lower land levels and spraying the water in one place, an Ice Stupa can be created. The water can then be used when it melts for agricultural now that glacial meltwater on a larger scale cannot be relied upon as the glacier retreat due to climate change.

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Doughnut Economics Cities & Regions Guide

Image: Doughnut Economics Action Lab

The Doughnut Economics Action Lab released a new guide for cities and regions that want to implement Doughnut Economics, which includes 12 interesting case studies from places like Glasgow, Grenoble, Brussels, Barcelona, & Cornwall that have implemented Doughnut Economics.

The History of The World Map In 60 Seconds

Image: YouTube, Brilliant Maps

Check out this interesting and very fast video of the history of the world map in 60 seconds.

About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in Liverpool. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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