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Around 200 Pittsburgh area workers for federal safety agency laid off

WPXI 02 Apr 2025
Suzanne Alison told Channel 11 News that she received her notice when she logged into her computer, stating she had until June. We asked the workers how they felt after reading the notice. “A little bit betrayed, hurt, abandoned,” Chasko replied ... ... ....
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US: Quantum computer solves real-world problem for automobile giant Ford

Interesting Engineering 01 Apr 2025
These computers use quantum properties of materials to store and process information, which achieves several-fold faster computations than what silicon-based bits work at.  ... D-Wave Quantum Inc.’s approach is a bit different.
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Phillies Notebook: Torpedoes are a lock to gain popularity among batters

The Trentonian 01 Apr 2025
“With the torpedo you can get jammed more than hitting off the end, but then it helps, obviously, because you’re moving the barrel down a little bit,” he said.
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Certified Randomness Milestone Might Be First-Ever Practical Application Of Quantum Computers

IFL Science 31 Mar 2025
Building upon the original protocol and realizing it is a first step toward using quantum computers to generate certified random bits for actual cryptographic applications.”. Classical computers cannot generate truly random numbers.
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Nvidia to Open Quantum Computing Research Center in Boston This Year in a Landmark for Region’s Tech Sector

The Harvard Crimson 28 Mar 2025
Quantum computing is a novel, more sophisticated way of processing information, in which bits — the fundamental units of information in a computer — can store and process vastly more data by relying on quantum mechanics.
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JPMorgan Just Beat Big Tech to a Quantum Breakthrough

New York Observer 28 Mar 2025
... in the race to make quantum computing useful ... Quantum computers don’t use ordinary bits but qubits, which can exist in multiple states at once and collapse into intrinsically random outcomes.
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AI vs. Humans: Bill Gates reveals three jobs are safe from automation

The Times of India 28 Mar 2025
The revolution that I was a part of was about-- taking computers from being very expensive to being essentially free. When I was young, whenever I heard there was a computer that was available, even at night, I would go and get access to them...
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Research team demonstrates certified quantum randomness

Computer Weekly 27 Mar 2025
It is a task that is often used to demonstrate quantum supremacy since it cannot be achieved on a classical computer ... “This is a first step toward using quantum computers to generate certified random bits for actual cryptographic applications.”.
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Producer price inflation expected in 2025 to rise despite dipping in February

Independent online (SA) 27 Mar 2025
Stats SA said prices slowed down a bit from 4.4% to 4.2% for food products, beverages and tobacco products while metals, machinery, equipment and computing equipment also eased from 1.4% to 1.2% during the month ... BUSINESS REPORT .
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Lost Nintendo Entertainment System port of Populous found

Boing Boing 26 Mar 2025
Populous was a flagship game of the 16-bit era, creating a new genre from scratch and ...
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Hidden dance of subatomic particles revealed using new quantum computer

Interesting Engineering 25 Mar 2025
Therefore, scientists have resorted to computer simulations to study quantum ... In most quantum computers, information is stored in qubits, the quantum equivalent of bits used in classical computing.
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European gaming history often ignored in US-centric retrospectives

Boing Boing 24 Mar 2025
the European world of 8-bit and 16-bit computer gaming is improbably excluded from retrospectives ... .
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The Essentials With Alexandra Popa: La Mer, Lingerie and Earl Grey Tea

New York Observer 24 Mar 2025
At the moment, I’m taking a little bit of a break from screen time because I’m always on my computer or phone ... I’m listening to a bit of a mix ... started going out a little bit more now.
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Professional Systems Administrator, Developer, WHMCS Guru looking for work!

Web Hosting Talk 23 Mar 2025
I've been doing business here and there since 2002, and am looking to expand my horizons a bit, and to make a bit of money while doing so. A bit about me. ... Currently spending a good bit of time focusing on php/mysql projects, but nothing major.
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Jensen Huang's quantum mea culpa didn't convince Nvidia GTC panelists that he felt bad for ...

Business Insider 23 Mar 2025
"I think when he made his initial statements, he honestly didn't believe that he would cause serious damage to the reputations of so many quantum computing companies, so this was a little bit of mea culpa without a doubt.".
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