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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.

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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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It does not mean that cryptography is broken, or that we can achieve general artificial intelligence, or anything of the sort. Most of what we do on our computers—fancy graphics, email, databases, building websites, data analysis, digital signal processing—can’t be done with quantum computing.