Google announced in Nature on the 23rd October 2019 that it has achieved ‘quantum supremacy’, demonstrating the ability of quantum devices to solve problems that classical computers practically cannot. In a…
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Unicef has recently launched a pilot project called Unicef’s Game Chaingers, which recruits gamers to use the processing power of their computers to mine cryptocurrency Ether, to aid Syrian children. …
Scout | The Rest of the World Has a Chinese Quantum Computing Boondoggle on Their Hands Scout is a community exploring the social implications of technology through reporting, science fiction,…
Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alien Google’s DeepMind says it has made another big advance in artificial intelligence by getting a machine to master the Chinese game of Go without…
Meet the secretive AI startup that’s trying to give computers imagination Life would be pretty dull without imagination. In fact, maybe the biggest problem for computers is that they don’t…
The Golem project is in the process of creating a ‘global, open sourced, decentralised supercomputer that anyone can access’. It’s a network that aims to combine the power of users’…
