#14 Daily Tech: IBM will have thousands of quantum computers for sale by 2025

IBM says it will have thousands of quantum computers for sale by 2025

Speaking to Reuters ahead of its Think conference, Krishna said that the devices that should go up for sale in 2025 will have more than 4,000 qubits of computing power. To put things in perspective, today’s machines have some 127 qubits.

Uber to test delivering food with robots

Uber is the latest company to try delivering food to people's homes with robots.

Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

Humans communicate with each other through language, which enables us talk about things beyond time and space. Do non-human animals learn to associate human speech with specific objects in everyday life? We examined whether cats matched familiar cats’ names and faces and human family members’ names and faces.

Almost 20% of Active Twitter Accounts Are Fake or Spam

SparkToro and Followerwonk conducted a rigorous, joint analysis of 44,058 public Twitter accounts active in the last 90 days. These accounts were randomly selected, by machine, from a set of 130+ million public, active profiles. Our analysis found that 19.42%, nearly four times Twitter’s Q4 2021 estimate, fit a conservative definition of fake or spam accounts (i.e. our analysis likely undercounts).

Web3 is just expensive P2P

Web3 claims to be the only way to save us from commercial entities defining what we can see and what not. Yet, it does exactly this: It results in commercialized entities defining what we can see and what not.

$3 billion in bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST stablecoin from collapse

Luna Foundation Guard said it spent almost all of the bitcoin in its reserve last week in a futile attempt to save UST.

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