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D-Wave says it achieved ‘quantum supremacy,’ using a computer to solve a problem that would otherwise take a million years

Fast Company Tech

In effect, this means that D-Wave has achieved quantum supremacy on a useful problem, something it says nobody else has yet been able to accomplish, and which is detailed in a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Science. This is a really important moment in time for the entire quantum computing industry, says Dr. Baratz.

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How BoardSite Can Help Your Nonprofit Board Be More Productive

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Between coordinating busy schedules and deciding on agenda items, it’s often difficult for nonprofit boards to be truly productive. Here’s how board portal software like BoardSite can help your nonprofit’s board be more productive and successful and follow good governance practices.

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Why Data SHOULD Drive Your Strategy

Association Analytics

This flies in the face of modern organizational thinking, and associations looking to be proactive – or facing the modern challenges of the industry – would be advised to get on board with data as a vital resource. Despite what some in the AI or crypto industries might tell you, most industries dont change that quickly.

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The gaming industry keeps failing miserably at selling its most important products

The Verge

Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Series S preorders went live on Tuesday , capping a rough week of product rollouts that included similarly messy situations for preordering Sony’s PlayStation 5 and buying Nvidia’s RTX 3080 graphics card. Many of these problems are the same issues that plagued Sony. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge.

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Why microplastic pollution in soils and crops is ‘raising alarm’ among experts

Fast Company Tech

In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee , a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city. It’s a problem that has long littered the landscape in Kampala, the capital, where buveera are woven into the fabric of daily life. But we need more crops.

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Microsoft wants to hand off much of its Army HoloLens program to Palmer Luckey’s Anduril

Engadget

If the Department of Defense approves the deal, the company will expand its existing partnership with Anduril Industries, Palmer Luckeys defense startup , for the next stages of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program. Microsoft, which spearheaded the program , would transition into supplying AI and cloud infrastructure.

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

SaaS, PaaS – and now AIaaS: Entrepreneurial, forward-thinking companies will attempt to provide customers of all types with artificial intelligence-powered plug-and-play solutions for myriad business problems. Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. AI properly done could provide great benefits for industry.

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