did you know that the human body could only survive for three days without tech
news wait that can't be true shh don't undermine
me google has done it the request for galactic conquest can now begin in
earnest because the tech giant has achieved quantum supremacy
that's actually a technical term for the ability of quantum computers to solve
problems that classical computers cannot solve or can't solve in a practical
amount of time anyway google says that they've reached the milestone by having
their sycamore quantum machine describe the output of a quantum random number
generator way more boring than i thought uh that's like a regular number
generator but uh uh it has quantum in front of it basically google says that
while such a task would take the fastest super computers in the world about ten
thousand years to complete sycamore did it in under four minutes ha ha quantum
supremacy achieved no ah you're always here
it turns out that not everyone is buying google's claim ibm who built the summit
supercomputer that google virtually ran against sycamore says that with some
software and hardware tweaks summit could complete the same random numerator
generator task in two and a half days still a lot longer though that would
downgrade google's achievement from quantum supremacy to just old
quantum advantage and no one wants a quantum advantage that's bush league
you never conquer the galaxy that way yeah advantage quantum
speaking of super computers NVIDIA just laid out a vision for everyone to use
theirs good old leather jacket jensen unveiled
the egx edge supercomputing platform at mobile world congress la yesterday
rather than serving as a single enormous computer egx combines the company's cuda
x software and NVIDIA servers to provide GPU powered computing to companies that
wouldn't normally use NVIDIA services like walmart
low prices every day in fact at walmart in new york state
equipped with the egx tech was able to compute in real time more than 1.6
terabytes of data generated each second
as a computer guy trust me that's a lot
of data but egx is only one of six miracles that
jensen said would contribute to a future where edge computing is available to
everyone the other miracles including ai smart networking and 5g tech were shown
on stage as stones in different colors
wait is jensen wang a real life thanos no is
this NVIDIA's end game
oh no and mark zuckerberg went for a visit to
the u.s congress once again you think you think they'd be friends by
now but they hate them still these hangouts always seem a little tense
don't they members of the house financial services committee questioned
marky mark about the facebook-led libra association
and its plans for creating a digital currency zuckerberg told congress that
facebook would not move forward with libra without the support of u.s regulators and we agree libra's going to
need all the help we can get as last week the libra association lost a chunk
of its uh prominent members including visa mastercard and booking.com and
facebook may face yet another blow if a just introduced bill goes through that
would require large social networks to allow users to take their data and leave
for another platform if they choose to just take it and go man i mean i know
zuckerberg's a reptilian but i still feel for the guy sometimes you know i
just hope he's eating enough instincts yeah too skinny now it's time for quick bits
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according to google people who pre-order the stadia founders edition first we'll
get access first as their hardware kits will be shipped out in order of
ordering so so some founders might not be able to
play on launch date wow but google says all founders should be able to be up and
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you sicken me google you sick of me with your fairness Intel's element pc concept
was shown to the press earlier this month but it looks like it's already
found its way into consumer devices the ghost canyon nook was documented in
china containing a PCIe based element
module with a CPU RAM and storage inside
installed any tiny backplane with another two pci slots available for a
discrete GPU not a bad size for a tiny gaming pc
maybe this isn't as stupid as we thought it was at first it's like Intel works
with computers or something they've been doing this for a long time microsoft is
for some reason developing a vr system that would allow users to walk down the
street or anywhere really while wearing a vr headset something i've always
wanted to do the system would generate a virtual world with in-game objects
appearing to represent real world obstacles so the user could avoid them
and any real responsibilities hanging over their heads also your mother-in-law
just turns into an in-game tree or something beautiful and evergreen samsung heard
apple was making an augmented reality headset so they started working on their
own that's the only explanation for this patent showing a pair of glasses
equipped with ar displays well maybe before they work on that they
should fix the broken fingerprint sensors huh
they did yeah carry on then samsung and defense
company raytheon has showed off its mobile anti-drone laser defense system
which can track and disable drones while mounted on a vehicle
the the system's on a vehicle the drones aren't a vehicle the drones are in the
sky yeah they are a vehicle i guess and the video for this is actually pretty
rad with some sick rock and roll music so you know it's hardcore watch out
drones you're dead meat buddy
all right that's enough of this foolishness it's far too silly come back
on friday for some less silly definitely boring tech news
we're gonna have spreadsheets and riley yeah yeah we're adults well
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