"Quantum Supremacy"
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,232 words · ~6 min read
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did you know that the human body could only survive for three days without tech
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news wait that can't be true shh don't undermine
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me google has done it the request for galactic conquest can now begin in
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earnest because the tech giant has achieved quantum supremacy
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that's actually a technical term for the ability of quantum computers to solve
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problems that classical computers cannot solve or can't solve in a practical
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amount of time anyway google says that they've reached the milestone by having
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their sycamore quantum machine describe the output of a quantum random number
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generator way more boring than i thought uh that's like a regular number
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generator but uh uh it has quantum in front of it basically google says that
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while such a task would take the fastest super computers in the world about ten
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thousand years to complete sycamore did it in under four minutes ha ha quantum
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supremacy achieved no ah you're always here
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it turns out that not everyone is buying google's claim ibm who built the summit
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supercomputer that google virtually ran against sycamore says that with some
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software and hardware tweaks summit could complete the same random numerator
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generator task in two and a half days still a lot longer though that would
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downgrade google's achievement from quantum supremacy to just old
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quantum advantage and no one wants a quantum advantage that's bush league
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you never conquer the galaxy that way yeah advantage quantum
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speaking of super computers NVIDIA just laid out a vision for everyone to use
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theirs good old leather jacket jensen unveiled
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the egx edge supercomputing platform at mobile world congress la yesterday
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rather than serving as a single enormous computer egx combines the company's cuda
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x software and NVIDIA servers to provide GPU powered computing to companies that
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wouldn't normally use NVIDIA services like walmart
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low prices every day in fact at walmart in new york state
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equipped with the egx tech was able to compute in real time more than 1.6
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terabytes of data generated each second
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as a computer guy trust me that's a lot
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of data but egx is only one of six miracles that
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jensen said would contribute to a future where edge computing is available to
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everyone the other miracles including ai smart networking and 5g tech were shown
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on stage as stones in different colors
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wait is jensen wang a real life thanos no is
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this NVIDIA's end game
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oh no and mark zuckerberg went for a visit to
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the u.s congress once again you think you think they'd be friends by
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now but they hate them still these hangouts always seem a little tense
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don't they members of the house financial services committee questioned
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marky mark about the facebook-led libra association
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and its plans for creating a digital currency zuckerberg told congress that
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facebook would not move forward with libra without the support of u.s regulators and we agree libra's going to
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need all the help we can get as last week the libra association lost a chunk
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of its uh prominent members including visa mastercard and booking.com and
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facebook may face yet another blow if a just introduced bill goes through that
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would require large social networks to allow users to take their data and leave
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for another platform if they choose to just take it and go man i mean i know
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zuckerberg's a reptilian but i still feel for the guy sometimes you know i
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just hope he's eating enough instincts yeah too skinny now it's time for quick bits
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slash TechLinked so check them out there or at the link below uh oh don't
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forget about the quick bits
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according to google people who pre-order the stadia founders edition first we'll
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get access first as their hardware kits will be shipped out in order of
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ordering so so some founders might not be able to
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play on launch date wow but google says all founders should be able to be up and
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running within a couple of weeks of november 19th first come first save hey
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you sicken me google you sick of me with your fairness Intel's element pc concept
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was shown to the press earlier this month but it looks like it's already
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found its way into consumer devices the ghost canyon nook was documented in
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china containing a PCIe based element
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module with a CPU RAM and storage inside
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installed any tiny backplane with another two pci slots available for a
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discrete GPU not a bad size for a tiny gaming pc
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maybe this isn't as stupid as we thought it was at first it's like Intel works
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with computers or something they've been doing this for a long time microsoft is
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for some reason developing a vr system that would allow users to walk down the
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street or anywhere really while wearing a vr headset something i've always
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wanted to do the system would generate a virtual world with in-game objects
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appearing to represent real world obstacles so the user could avoid them
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and any real responsibilities hanging over their heads also your mother-in-law
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just turns into an in-game tree or something beautiful and evergreen samsung heard
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apple was making an augmented reality headset so they started working on their
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own that's the only explanation for this patent showing a pair of glasses
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equipped with ar displays well maybe before they work on that they
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should fix the broken fingerprint sensors huh
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they did yeah carry on then samsung and defense
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company raytheon has showed off its mobile anti-drone laser defense system
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which can track and disable drones while mounted on a vehicle
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the the system's on a vehicle the drones aren't a vehicle the drones are in the
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sky yeah they are a vehicle i guess and the video for this is actually pretty
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rad with some sick rock and roll music so you know it's hardcore watch out
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drones you're dead meat buddy
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all right that's enough of this foolishness it's far too silly come back
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on friday for some less silly definitely boring tech news
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we're gonna have spreadsheets and riley yeah yeah we're adults well
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that's what they say little sandwiches