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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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The Real Problem with Software Development

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We’re seeing more code that’s written (at least in first draft) by generative AI tools, such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT (especially with Code Interpreter), and Google Codey. Software architecture is a distinct specialty that has only become more important over time. That brings me to my main point.

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A 5G future

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We’ve seen the reaction to news that Amazon’s Echo and Google Home send recordings of conversations back to the server. What if all of your documents were in Google Docs, all of your music was in your favorite streaming service? O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Jose , March 15-18, 2020.

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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.