Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network API service makes multiple APIs available for guidance and control. The network API service may collect low-level network data related to network elements in access networks and core networks and analyze the low-level network data to create application-level metrics in response to API requests. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to quantum key distribution (“QKD”) networking as a service. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a microservices controller can establish a plurality of quantum connections with a plurality of virtual quantum connection managers (“vQCMs”) deployed in association with a set of quantum user nodes (“QUNs”) in a QKD network. The microservices controller can receive a request to initialize the QKD network. The microservices controller can coordinate with the plurality of vQCMs to handle initialization of the QKD network. The microservices controller can receive a QKD service request from a QKD network operator. The microservices controller can invoke a plurality of microservices to handle the QKD service request.

Abstract: Techniques for allocating power budget to a central processing unit (CPU) of a computing device are described. According to an example of the present subject matter, an unloaded component is detected. The unloaded component remains undetected upon completion of a boot process of the computing device. Thereafter, a power budget allocated to the unloaded component is determined. The power budget may be based on the thermal design power (TDP) of the computing device. Based on the power budget, a power configuration of the CPU is changed from a default power level to a high-performance power level, wherein the default power level corresponds to the TDP of the computing device and the high-performance power level is a power level above the default power level and upto a maximum power level of the CPU.

Abstract: An assembly including a first waveguide produced in a first photonic chip and that extends in a first direction in order to guide an optical signal at a wavelength ?, an array of a plurality of second waveguides, which is produced in a second photonic chip adjoined to the first photonic chip, and a power summer including inputs that are optically connected to one end of each of the second waveguides. Each of the second waveguides includes upstream and downstream segments that are offset with respect to each other in the second direction. The configurations of the first waveguide and of the second waveguides are such that, for any position of the first waveguide above the array, the distance between one of the segments of the first waveguide and one of the segments of one of the second waveguides is smaller than ?/2.

Abstract: An information handling system may receive, from a first sensor of the information handling system, first sensor data. The information handling system may receive, from a second sensor of the information handling system, second sensor data. Based, at least in part, on the first sensor data and the second sensor data, the information handling system may generate a plurality of security profiles for the information handling system. Based, at least in part, on the first sensor data and the second sensor data, the information handling system may apply a security profile of the plurality of security profiles to the information handling system.

Abstract: A purger device for hollow fiber oxygenators, including a gas inlet, a gas outlet, and a fluid communication feature between the gas inlet and the gas outlet. The purger device further including an accumulation chamber having a variable volume plenum ported to the fluid communication feature, and a flow control unit configured to vary fluid communication patterns in the fluid communication feature and having a first operating condition and a second operating condition, wherein in the first operating condition the flow control unit enables a fluid communication between the gas inlet and gas outlet, and wherein in the second operating condition the flow control unit enables a fluid communication between the gas inlet and the variable volume plenum of the accumulation chamber.

Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to quantum tampering threat management. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a quantum security manager (“Q-SM”) can monitor a plurality of quantum channels for tampering. The Q-SM can detect tampering on a quantum channel of the plurality of quantum channels. The Q-SM can provide tampering monitoring statistics to a software-defined network (“SDN”) that, in turn, notifies a quantum security operations center (“Q-SOC”) about the tampering on the quantum channel. The Q-SM can receive threat mitigation instructions from the Q-SOC. The threat mitigation instructions can instruct the Q-SM how to counter the tampering on the quantum channel. The Q-SM can perform one or more actions in accordance with the threat mitigation instructions to counter the tampering on the quantum channel.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system actuates a control processor connected to a network, and configures the control processor to receive signals from equipment of a service provider, so that the control processor is enabled to control remote devices. The processing system selects a device, configures the selected device for control by the control processor, and selects a streaming service to be associated with the selected device. The streaming service delivers audiovisual content in a first stream and provides, via an application programming interface of the streaming service, a control command to the control processor in a second stream. The control processor translates the control command to a device command and transmits the device command to control the selected device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for producing a semiconductor-on-insulator type substrate includes epitaxial deposition of a first semiconductor layer on a smoothing layer supported by a monocrystalline support substrate to form a donor substrate; production of an assembly by contacting the donor substrate with a receiver substrate; transfer, onto the receiver substrate, of the first semiconductor layer, the smoothing layer and a portion of the support substrate; and selective etching of the portion of the support substrate relative to the smoothing layer. The epitaxial deposition of the first semiconductor layer can be preceded by a surface preparation annealing of the support substrate at a temperature greater than 650° C. After the selective etching of the portion of the support substrate, selective etching of the smoothing layer relative to the first semiconductor layer and epitaxial deposition of a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer may be carried out in an epitaxy frame.

Abstract: A printing device and method is described comprising: controlling movement of a printing medium along a printing medium path to position the printing medium relative to at least one printhead to allow printing on the printing medium by the at least one printhead; and applying a plurality of respective elastic forces in a direction substantially perpendicular to the printing medium path, wherein the respective elastic forces are applied by a plurality of elastic elements of a modular assembly arranged laterally across a width of the printing medium path, wherein the printing medium acts against the elastic forces of the respective elastic elements of the modular assembly.

Abstract: A multicolor thermal printer comprising a controller, a thermal printhead, multicolor thermal paper, a monochrome lightness sensor, and a calibration subsystem is described. The calibration subsystem prints a calibration target that is scanned by the monochrome lightness sensor to determine if color crosstalk is present. If color crosstalk is present, the calibration subsystem decreases the contone range of affected colors and saves the new calibration settings.

Abstract: An example toner refill cartridge includes a body including a toner accommodating portion to accommodate toner and a toner discharge port provided at an end portion of the body in a longitudinal direction to be in communication with the toner accommodating portion, a first member rotatably supported by the body and having a spiral portion extending in the longitudinal direction, a second member located inside the first member and having a guide groove extending in the longitudinal direction, and a plunger having a guide protrusion which passes through the guide groove to engage the spiral portion, to push the toner inside a toner accommodating portion toward a toner discharge port while being moved in the longitudinal direction as the first member is rotated.

Abstract: A quantum device includes a transistor pattern carried by a substrate, the transistor pattern having, in a stack, a gate dielectric and a superconducting gate on the gate dielectric. The superconducting gate has a base, a tip, sidewalls and at least one superconducting region made of a material that has, as a main component, at least one superconducting element. The superconducting gate also includes a basal portion having a dimension, taken in a first direction of a basal plane that is smaller than a dimension of the tip of the superconducting gate. The transistor pattern further includes at least one dielectric portion made of a dielectric material in contact with the top face of the gate dielectric and the basal portion of the superconducting gate.

Abstract: In one example, an electronic device may include an interface to communicate with a port of an in-test device, a chipset, and an emulation controller. The emulation controller may receive a descriptor associated with a device being emulated, retrieve a script corresponding to the descriptor, and execute the script to enable the chipset to emulate a function of the device. The emulation controller may operate the emulated device according to the script to generate a response message to a query from the in-test device and transmit the response message to the in-test device.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a leadframe having a semiconductor chip arranged thereon and an electrically-insulating encapsulation molded onto the leadframe and the semiconductor chip. The leadframe is a pre-molded leadframe including a coupling surface having an alternation of electrically-conductive parts and insulating parts between electrically-conductive parts. The coupling surface includes a pattern of grooves and the electrically-insulating encapsulation includes anchoring protrusions extending into the grooves of the pattern of grooves in the coupling surface.

Abstract: An information handling system may include a bus initiator, a plurality of bus endpoints, and a single-wire bus communicatively coupled between the bus initiator and the plurality of bus endpoints, wherein the bus comprises a multiplexer. The bus initiator may be configured to perform in-band addressing to select a communications channel through the multiplexer via an addressing protocol that uses pulse bursts for initiation of the addressing, identification of the communications channel, and termination of the addressing. Pulses of the pulse bursts may be sufficiently short in duration to pass through filters of the bus endpoints such that the pulse bursts are not processed by the bus endpoints.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of three-dimensional printing. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a binder agent and an adhesion promoter agent. The binder agent can include water and latex particles in an amount from about 5 wt % to about 30 wt % based on the total weight of the binder agent. The adhesion promoter can include water and an adhesion promoter that includes catechol or a non-polymeric catechol derivative.

Abstract: A slicing security management system (“system”) can receive, from an application executing on a device, a request to initiate a communications session with an application server. The system can receive information about the communications session. The system can trigger separate notification flows to provide each element participating in the communications session with sub slices and security credentials to be used during the communications session. The system can provide a radio access network and the application with a frequency range and the security credentials to be used for each of the sub slices. The system can instruct a transport network to configure virtual private network routers at each transport network edge. The system can instruct the core network to instantiate a virtual machine for each of the sub slices. The system can synchronize the elements participating in the communications session and can instruct the application to initiate the communications session.

Abstract: Systems and methods for bare-metal or pre-boot user-machine authentication, binding, and entitlement provisioning are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: receiving, at a first portal managed by a manufacturer of an Information Handling System (IHS): (i) user credentials associated with a user of the IHS, and (ii) device identification associated with the IHS before the IHS is shipped to the user; selecting a customer of the manufacturer associated with the device identification; forwarding an indication of the user credentials to a second portal managed by the customer; and, in response to the second portal having successfully authenticated the user, establishing an identity session with the second portal; receiving, from the IHS, a request to initiate an entitlement sequence.

Abstract: A system initiates a boot operation that executes firmware, and retrieves an anti-roll back version table stored by a trusted platform module. The system determines that the firmware is invalid based on the anti-roll back version table retrieved from the trusted platform module, and aborts the boot operation in response to the determining that the firmware is invalid based on the anti-roll back version table.