Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Great video from 2015 on what quantum computing is and why it’s important. The content is still very relevant today. The quantum computer is something to learn about and study, since this is one of the technologies ushering in the next wave of innovation.
China’s State News Agency Introduces New Artificial Intelligence Anchor
By Alex McFarland unite.ai
Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, has released its latest artificial intelligence (AI) 3D news anchor. The AI anchor joins a list of growing virtual presenters that are being developed by the agency.
The AI news anchor is named Xin Xiaowei, and it is modeled after Zhao Wanwei, who is one of the agency’s human news presenters.
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Will the real VCs please stand upBy Alan Vaksman venturebeat.com
Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash
Recently, Marc Andreessen, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the largest venture capital funds, called on the whole world to start building. To build in the broadest sense: from new cities and industries, to new educational programs that will enable millions to study at Harvard, or the learning institutions of their choice.
According to Marc, the cause of the catastrophic consequences of the spread of COVID-19, on one hand is the lack of imagination: we all simply could not foresee such a thing, nor how governments worldwide would respond. On the other hand, the fact that we did not act proactively is because we lived and did business by inertia, which meant that we lost the ability to build and create truly new things.
⭐️ NASA – Best Photo from Last Week
SpaceX Demo-2 Rollout
Last Updated: May 22, 2020, Editor: Yvette Smith
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the horizontal integration facility at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Demo-2 mission, Thursday, May 21, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The flight test will serve as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.
Find more Demo-2 images in Flickr.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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