Seeqc, a startup that is part of a relatively new class of quantum computing companies that is looking at how to best use classical computing to manage quantum processors, today announced that it has raised $ 5 million from M Ventures, the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Merck, the German pharmaceutical giant. Merck will […]
The Mapzen open-source mapping platform has a hard history. On the one hand, Mapzen is used by over 70,000 developers and it’s the backbone of such mapping services as OpenStreetMap, Remix, and Carto. But, as a business, Mapzen failed in 2018. Mapzen’s code and service lived on as a Linux Foundation Project. Now, it’s moved […]
Microsoft will be holding a press conference the eve of the kick-off of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show in Barcelona next month. In addition, the company is bringing a number of its execs from Azure, AI and robotics and its Airband Initiative to the show, as well. Microsoft’s MWC 2020 invitation (courtesy of The […]
By Leah Crane IBM is one of many firms developing quantum computersIBM Research Quantum computing is booming, but is it a bubble? At a gathering of experts on this technology in California last week, nobody seemed to know how, or even if, it will turn out to be useful. The race for quantum supremacy may […]
When Google launched Flutter in 2018, it was meant for designing apps that run on iOS and Android. Since then, the open source UI framework has been expanded, enabling developers to build apps for the web, desktop and embedded devices. On Wednesday, Google launched the latest version of Flutter and laid out how the UI […]
Amazon Web Services and Verizon are collaborating to bring 5G to edge computing in a service that aims to bring more machine learning to applications and cut latency. At AWS re:Invent 2019, CEO Andy Jassy and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg, outlined AWS Wavelength, a platform that aims to bring compute and storage to edge compute […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to bring quantum computing to the cloud world, with the company on Monday lifting the lid off three initiatives at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. more re:Invent The first is Amazon Braket. Amazon Braket is a new, fully managed AWS service that the company has touted as enabling scientists, […]