Monthly Archives: July 2017

Pleased to announce the launch of the first website for Schyberg Associates at schyberg-associates.co.uk.

Director Seb has been a contact for several years, and we were keen to help his new venture get off to a flying staff. Schyberg Associates offer boutique recruitment services in the digital and tech spheres, with all sizes industry leading clients.

Their brief for the site was a one pager that fits with their ethos, showcases their personal approach, and also meets their initial budget as the company has only just launched! The site is responsive, and can also be quickly edited to cater for content amends/additions.

We wish Schyberg Associates well for the future. For budget friendly sites for your new venture, get in touch with us at [email protected].

Teleportation across space, at the quantum level, has already become a reality. Last month, Chinese researchers demonstrated teleportation between Earth by sending a photon to space using photon teleportation.

The experiment was conducted between Micius (the Chinese quantum satellite) and a ground station. The researchers were able to transfer the unknown quantum state from one photon here on Earth to another one in space.

Extreme measures are required to teleport all the properties of a particle (it’s quantum state) and reality is much less glamorous than what Star Trek have to lead us to believe!

The success of this experiment is crucial as quantum teleportation is a key requirement to create a quantum internet that allows quantum computers to communicate between themselves. At a fraction of the size, quantum computers are computers that use the laws of quantum mechanics to perform calculations faster than the best supercomputer.

Quantum communication uses the principle of entanglement, where two particles can influence each other instantaneously no matter the distance. If you entangled particles, their quantum state is then shared. Although entanglement is very useful, it is extremely fragile and can the quantum state can easily break — and the particles go back to being individuals. This is the reason it’s been so difficult to send these quantum states for more than 100 km (62 m) over air or fibre optics.

In order to create a truly global network for quantum communication, this research shows that quantum satellites will be needed.

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Even if you don’t have Snapchat you may have heard news and also concern regarding its newly launched feature called “Snap Map”.

Here’s some information and what you need to know to stay safe —

Snap Map allows users to share their location with each other. Anyone who has chosen their location will appear on the map as an “Actionmoji” — a cartoon avatar that changes to reflect what the user is doing.

By tapping the avatar, users can see the latest additions to that user’s Snapchat Story, chat with them over the map or go to meet them in person.

To get started on Snap Map, pinch to zoom on the Snapchat camera. The first time you open Snap Map you’ll be taken through your privacy settings, so you can decide who you’d like to share your location with. The choices are to share with a select group of friends, all your Snapchat friends or no friends at all — which Snapchat is calls “Ghost Mode”. The only people who can see your Actionmoji on the Snap Map are the people you’ve chosen to share your location with.

When you open up the SnapMap, you may also see some Snaps from people you don’t know. These are snaps that people have made public and added to “Our Story”.

Snaps submitted to “Our Story” are threaded together automatically based on a common theme, so people can see public snaps from a specific location such as a festival. The same goes for newsworthy stories and incidents.

The appearance of your Actionmoji on the Snap Map changes, depending on what Snapchat thinks you’re doing. The app figures this out by looking at things like your location, the time of day, your speed of travel and whether or not your headphones are plugged into your phone. For example, if it thinks you are driving in your car, it will show you in a car driving down a motorway.

Snapchat sees Snap Maps as a way for friends to keep in touch and get together and they also say there’s the greater aspect of seeing what’s going on globally.

This amount of personal information available to the public is raising alarm and concerning parents as a large portion of the apps demographic are teenagers.

If you don’t like the idea of sharing your location with your friends, here’s how to check your settings and/or enable Ghost Mode:
1. Open the Snapchat app and go to the Camera function
2. Pinch to zoom to launch the Snap Map
3. Tap on the settings gear in the top right hand corner
4. Tick the box that says “Enable Ghost Mode”.

Snapchat urges that sharing your location is optional and turned off by default, and users can control who can see their location at any time.

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