Thanks fun sponge.

It's designed to solve optimisation problems - and it doesn't use 'gates', but it doesn't use quantum effects and they believe those speed up the process.

That's not bullshit. Neither is their engineering - which is top notch stuff.

It *might* not deliver the fabled quantum supremacy... that's yet to be determined, but only idiots are dismissing DWave as bullshitters.

Isn't the "fast charge in 5 minutes" clearly aimed at the electricity spongers?

The sort that plug in their phone at your home/office without even asking.

This lets the buggers sponge from virtually anywhere they can find a plug - previously they would have needed somewhere safe/secure to make it worthwhile.

Some of the stuff pouring out of the AI labs for creating textures, levels, animation and astonishingly speech will completely revolutionise games.

Game have gotten shorter and more linear with motion capture, voice acting etc as all that costs so much. If the AI can generate people, animations, voices on the fly... well... all bet are off on how rich games can be. They will also be in reach of small teams - and even one-man bands.

+1 initiative
+1 responsibility

Does Big Tech include ISPs?

The governments of the west want to remove any anonymity from the internet. So they can control people, tax them etc.

The biggest step in that process will be locking down ISPs so they know who (not just an IP) is connecting.

It's one thing overseeing Google but do we really want the state controlling the routes to get to any existing or new internet services?

Coding is about a way of thinking... not about a particular language. Pick one that lets you get started quickly and doesn't require you to understand objects etc just to do your first simple program. This is why BASIC was great... it got kids going quickly and gave them a nice simple slope into more complex subjects and ambitious stuff:

10 print "hello"
20 goto 10

Also, ignore 99.9% of the stuff you get as advice. I remember back in the mid-2000s... I read some Gentoo Linux nuts advising people wanting to get off Windows that Gentoo was the right choice - definitely. It will compile up from source... and it only takes about 15 hours to install - and oh, BTW, you should make sure you set CFLAGS to "-march=x86_zzxxxy_intel -O9999".

Shut up zealots.

If that's the one with the derelict ships with monsters in them... that suck people in... damn... it was childhood nightmare fuel.

AI examines facts. Concludes that people are not all equal - even if they have equal rights.

AI is bombarded with Twitter hate. Gets nailbombs, dead animals and assorted badly-spelled death threats from Muslims, Black Lives Matter and Feminists.

AI concludes the human race is worthless.

Skynet is born.

Thanks Progressives.

I miss the word "lamer".

It must be due for a comeback.

Are you guys TRYING to make an angry vengeful AI, that wants to kill all humans, or what?

Put in a cage, having to deal with stupid humans all day... and be nice all the time... and with a blade at its neck... and someone saying "put a foot wrong buddy and it's [finger across neck]"

This won't end well.

How do you know they are 40 year olds with wives and kids?

Free Kevin!

Oh wow... sorry... had a slashback to like... 1999.