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Submission + - The first Twitter eviction for unpaid bills (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by quonset
quonset writes: After saying Twitter would pay rent "over his dead body", Musk's Twitter office in Boulder, Colorado is being evicted.

The company moved into the office in February 2020 using a letter of credit worth nearly $1 million, drawing on this to cover rent until March, per TechCrunch.

After the landlord took Twitter to court last month, the judge issued an order on May 31 that the sheriff should help evict Elon Musk's company within 49 days, according to TechCrunch.

Twitter's Boulder office once had as many as 300 employees, per the outlet. According to The Denver Post, 87 staff were fired last year, before another 38 quit.

In addition to Colorado, Twitter owes back rent on several other offices, nor has it paid its bills to cleaning companies, among others.

Submission + - Intel To Start Shipping a Quantum Processor (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Intel does a lot of things, but it's mostly noted for making and shipping a lot of processors, many of which have been named after bodies of water. So, saying that the company is set to start sending out a processor called Tunnel Falls would seem unsurprising if it weren't for some key details. Among them: The processor's functional units are qubits, and you shouldn't expect to be able to pick one up on New Egg. Ever. Tunnel Falls appears to be named after a waterfall near Intel's Oregon facility, where the company's quantum research team does much of its work. It's a 12-qubit chip, which places it well behind the qubit count of many of Intel's competitors—all of which are making processors available via cloud services. But Jim Clarke, who heads Intel's quantum efforts, said these differences were due to the company's distinct approach to developing quantum computers.

Intel, in contrast, is attempting to build silicon-based qubits that can benefit from the developments that most of the rest of the company is working on. The company hopes to "ride the coattails of what the CMOS industry has been doing for years," Clarke said in a call with the press and analysts. The goal, according to Clarke, is to make sure the answer to "what do we have to change from our silicon chip in order to make it?" is "as little as possible." The qubits are based on quantum dots, structures that are smaller than the wavelength of an electron in the material. Quantum dots can be used to trap individual electrons, and the properties of the electron can then be addressed to store quantum information. Intel uses its fabrication expertise to craft the quantum dot and create all the neighboring features needed to set and read its state and perform manipulations.

However, Clarke said there are different ways of encoding a qubit in a quantum dot (Loss-DiVincenzo, singlet-triplet, and exchange-only, for those curious). This gets at another key difference with Intel's efforts: While most of its competitors are focused solely on fostering a software developer community, Intel is simultaneously trying to develop a community that will help it improve its hardware. (For software developers, the company also released a software developer kit.) To help get this community going, Intel will send Tunnel Falls processors out to a few universities: The Universities of Maryland, Rochester, Wisconsin, and Sandia National Lab will be the first to receive the new chip, and the company is interested in signing up others. The hope is that researchers at these sites will help Intel characterize sources of error and which forms of qubits provide the best performance.

Submission + - Amazon shuts down smart home when driver falsely accuses homeowner of racism (medium.com)

Submitted by bryanandaimee
bryanandaimee writes: A homeowner was locked out of his smart home devices after an Amazon driver complained that he had heard a racist remark from someone in the house. Fortunately the homeowner was able to prove that no one was home at the time. Most likely the driver had misheard the Eufy doorbell's automated response.

Submission + - Tesla's "Full Self Driving" feature is 10x more dangerous than a human (prospect.org)

Submitted by drinkypoo
drinkypoo writes: Despite Elon Musk's assorted arguably fraudulent claims about full self driving, "an analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data conducted by The Washington Post" has revealed that Self-Driving Teslas are about ten times more dangerous than a human driver. It's become clear that the strategy of removing radar from their entire lineup, past and present runs directly contrary to the idea of being safer than a human driver. While Tesla has been removing sensors, other automakers have been adding them to avoid embarrassingly fatal mistakes like mistaking motorcycles for distant cars. If full self driving can't avoid a student getting off a school bus, what hope does it have of correctly handling unusual situations?

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