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Quantum computing’s potential is still far off, but quantum supremacy shows we’re on the right track

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We recently learned about a major breakthrough: Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with a 53-qubit computer. Google performed a computation in a few minutes (3 minutes, 20 seconds to be precise ) that would have taken more than 10,000 years on the most powerful computers we currently have.

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A 5G future

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I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. We’ve seen the reaction to news that Amazon’s Echo and Google Home send recordings of conversations back to the server. I have 30 or 40 GB of photos.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

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This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Trends in software architecture, infrastructure, and operations.