Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
Today I’m delighted to announce Willow, our latest quantum chip. Willow has state-of-the-art performance across a number of metrics, enabling two major achievements. The concensus seems to be that this is a major achievement and milestone in quantum ...
Thunderbird for Android November 2024 Progress Report
It’s been a while since our last update in August, and we’re glad to be back to share what’s been happening. Over the past few months, we’ve been fully focused on the Thunderbird for Android release, and now it’s time to catch you up. In this...
Spark or Hadoop: the best choice for big data teams?
I always find the Olympics to be an unusual experience. I’m hardly an athletics fanatic, yet I can’t help but get swept up in the spirit of the competition. When the Olympics took place in Paris last summer, I suddenly began rooting for my country ...
How to build better AI chatbots
At Campfire, we launched a consumer AI chat product called Cozy Friends on Steam and mobile on October 12. Imagine Animal Crossing or The Sims with AI agents. In the first 30 days, users exchanged more than 1.7M messages with our AI agents. This beat...
5G never delivered for cloud computing
I recall this as if it was yesterday. I entered the conference room to talk about cloud computing and 5G. I gave this type of presentation often a few years ago. The executives were excited about 5G’s potential. I took a deep breath, knowing I had t...
NVIDIA Releases EGL-Wayland 1.1.17
NVIDIA published EGL-Wayland 1.1.17 on Monday as the newest update to this Wayland EGL external platform library to provide client-side Wayland support to EGL atop the EGLDevice and EGLStream extensions...
Python a shoo-in for Tiobe language of the year
High-flying Python is expected to win the Tiobe programming language of the year designation for 2024, as the language with the biggest ratings increase in Tiobe’s language popularity index during the year. Python also ranks as the most popular prog...
Raspberry Pi 500 & Official USB Monitor Announced
Raspberry Pi today announced the Raspberry Pi 500, an updated version of its keyboard PC, this one powered by the Raspberry Pi 5. And it’s also announced a device many won’t have expected: an official monitor! This year, Raspberry Pi has announced ...
