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“Sydney university student Pablo Bonilla, 21, had his first academic paper published overnight and it might just change the shape of computing forever,” writes Australia’s national public broadcaster ABC:As a second-year physics student at the University of Sydney, Mr Bonilla was given some coding exercises as extra homework and what he returned with has helped to solve one of the most common problems in quantum computing. His code spiked the interest of researchers at Yale and Duke in the United States and the multi-billion-dollar tech giant Amazon plans to use it in the quantum computer it is trying to build…
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:Social calendar and event discovery startup IRL, which focused on virtual events amid the pandemic, says that it now has 10M+ MAUs, growing 30% MoM since AugustFollowing its $16 million Series B last fall, event discovery network IRL is launching a new website that adds Click here to read full news..
“Turning digital data into profit,” is the slogan of Cognesia, a data analytics company whose client list includes Visa, Rolls-Royce, and Toys ‘R’ Us. Now Variety reports:Brad Rukstales, the chief executive of a Chicago-area company that provides data-marketing solutions, said he was arrested Wednesday after he entered the U.S. Capitol alongside a mob of pro-Trump rioters seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election… “Our CEO, Brad Rukstales, participated in the recent Washington DC protests,” Schaumburg, Illinois-based Cognesia said in a statement Thursday. “Those actions were his own and [and he was] not acting on behalf [of] Cogensia nor do his…
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Amazon open sources its Lumberyard game engine; the project will be overseen by the Linux Foundation and now be called the Open 3D EngineWhere does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve’ Take our AI survey to find out.Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source Click here to read full news..
Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt:Two major Chinese banks now allow customers to exchange digital yuan for fiat at 3,000+ ATMs in Beijing, in an expansion of China’s digital currency experimentChina has expanded its digital currency experiment with a roll-out of digital yuan conversion feature at more than 3,000 ATMs in Beijing. Click here to read full news..
Ryne Hager / Android Police:CEO of OSOM, a privacy-centric smartphone company founded by ex-Essential employees, teases OV1, the company’s first handset slated for launch in summer 2022Essential, the smartphone company once helmed by Android creator Andy Rubin, might be dead, but the rest of the team behind the cult-favorite phone isn’t done yet. Click here to read full news..
The UK’s most powerful supercomputer, which its creators hope will make the process of preventing, diagnosing and treating disease better, faster and cheaper, is operational. The Guardian reports: Christened Cambridge-1, the supercomputer represents a $100m investment by US-based computing company Nvidia. The idea capitalizes on artificial intelligence (AI) — which combines big data with computer science to facilitate problem-solving — in healthcare. […] Cambridge-1’s first projects will be with AstraZeneca, GSK, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust, King’s College London and Oxford Nanopore. They will seek to develop a deeper understanding of diseases such as dementia, design new drugs,…
“Everything from Visual Studio Code to Microsoft Edge and Teams package links were affected,” reports Windows Central. They note Azure’s status page (which now shows the issue lasting for more than 22 hours), though however long it lasted, “it’s a virtual eternity for those whose entire ecosystem is crippled by such an outage.” According to Ars Technica, starting on Wednesday, “packages.microsoft.comthe repository from which Microsoft serves software installers for Linux distributions including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and morewent down hard…”The outage impacted users trying to install .NET Core, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SQL Server for Linux (yes, that’s a thing) and…
The central bank of central banks is worried about “decentralized finance.” From a report: The Bank for International Settlements, an umbrella group for central banks, said in a report this week that it’s concerned there’s a “decentralization illusion” in DeFi. DeFi is a rapidly-growing part of the cryptocurrency market that promises to deliver traditional financial products like loans and savings accounts without involvement from regulated middlemen such as banks. But regulators are increasingly concerned about platforms offering DeFi services that may not be as “decentralized” as advertised. “What we found is that, first, the decentralized aspect tends to be illusive,”…
Luisa Beltran / Barron’s Online:Cross-border payments startup dLocal’s shares closed up 54% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, after raising $617.6M in its IPO, valuing the company at ~$10BShares of dLocal soared as much as 59% Thursday after the company completed an initial public offering that raised more than expected. Click here to read full news..