Quantum cost: The pitfalls of simplifying politics
There may be only one way a quantum computer could more accurately predict an election’s outcome than a professional poll: by knowing perhaps too much about you. Luckily, that’s a feasibility.
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When Scott Fulton looks at the data center, HPC, infrastructure and next gen architecture, he focuses on the big picture.
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Could quantum computers fix political polls?
If a quantum system can predict the locations of air molecules in a hurricane, you’d think predicting election results would be a much simpler problem. A quantum physicist and a neuroscientist tell us otherwise.
Breeding neuromorphic networks for fun and profit: The new reproductive science
The most expedient way to produce the algorithms you need for a new class of computer that works like the brain, its engineers are discovering, is through a Darwinian exercise in natural selection.
Photon juggling: One big quantum processor from 100 little ones
One big pile, as Arlo Guthrie once disseminated from practical experience, isn’t really better than two little ones. Yet for a type of computer even less mindful of the law, all the little piles are already one big one.
Could 5G rescue the world’s economy from a coronavirus recession?
The case Nokia is making for empowering everyday enterprises — not just telcos — with 5G, is that their infrastructure will drive their productivity. Does that claim stand up under closer scrutiny? We asked economists.
The tech crisis that isn’t: China controls the world’s rare earth supply chains
Is it a crisis when a country holds a commanding lead in supplying a critical global market successfully manages to avoid disrupting that market amid a pandemic, and doesn’t have “United” in its name?
Aftershock: The long-term prognosis for a tech economy in trauma
In the short term, demand for IT services has increased since the pandemic’s onset. In a way, that’s the problem: The economy may not be healthy enough to sustain these services’ essential providers.
COVID-19’s permanent impact on tech supply chains
It won’t be the tech economy you remember, with its Black Friday bargains, annual tech festivals, and star-studded rollout events. Are we ready to make our livings around what devices do come forth?
5G rejiggered: The longer, rougher road ahead toward ubiquity
With the dawn of the small cell era apparently postponed, 5G stakeholders look to one of the newly ratified components of the 3GPP standard as a revenue stream: Say hello, telcos, to distributed cloud computing.
5G and Wi-Fi 6: Unlikely allies
Before the pandemic, telcos pondered how to sell 5G fixed wireless so convincingly that consumers would willingly ditch their Wi-Fi routers. Now that Wi-Fi is everyone’s best friend, that strategy has pivoted completely.
Point of care: Life-saving clinical trial technology at the crossroads
The fate of nations may depend upon the contributions of brave patients willing to risk their lives for treatments and vaccines. The technology that supports them, like most everything else, has been ravaged by the pandemic.
Will the pandemic map a new course for autonomous cars?
In a future where human contacts will need greater protection, the driverless car could end up giving people greater control than they had before.
Could a neural network have predicted this pandemic’s impact?
World leaders are being blamed either for ignoring the data belying the significance of the novel coronavirus, or paying too much attention to it. Perhaps it would help if neural networks made that data more relevant.
Down an invisible road: Service mesh’s unpaved path to practicality
A solution to maintaining connectivity for thousands of microservices in a network, may have come just in time, or even a moment too late for some. Yet just behind it may be another solution to the traffic jam it’s expected to cause.
The quantum supremacy enigma: Can Google’s claim withstand scrutiny?
In October, Google claimed its quantum computing chip became capable of processing a task that, for an ordinary supercomputer, would be virtually impossible. Google should have expected IBM to take that as a challenge.
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