Automakers tap VR to banish boredom in autonomous cars.
Nearly 1 in 5 students in the US don't have access to computers at home.
A survey last month found that 75% of Black and Latino families with children in under-resourced schools in Los Angeles don't use computers regularly.
According to Pew Research, 91% of Americans “agree” or “strongly agree” that people have lost control over how personal information is collected and used. By 2025, it’s estimated that 463 exabytes of data will be created each day globally – that’s the equivalent of 212,765,957 DVDs per day.
When Steve Jobs launched the first Apple retail store he said, “People don't just want to buy personal computers; they want to know what they can do with them."
New forms of "empathetic computing" are helping human users feel more comfortable in opening up to a program. Axios reports, our mental health has taken a major hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, while social distancing means it's harder to meet in person with therapists. That has opened a space for emotionally attuned machines to help us.
Cloud gaming and carbon: Gaming takes 7 percent of global network demand and 95 percent of that is people downloading content from the cloud one time and running it on their device at home. A new study modeled a scenario where if 30 percent of gamers switched to the cloud it would cause a 29.9 percent increase in carbon emissions, and one where if 90 percent moved to the cloud would cause a 112 percent increase.
$3 billion: Japan-based conglomerate Toshiba said it’s aiming to generate $3B in revenue from quantum key distribution (QKD) — an emerging encryption tech that could enable ultra-secure communications — by the end of the decade.
The Trump administration's 2021 budget will earmark nearly $2 billion for AI research by 2022, up from $973 million today. It also includes $860 million in "quantum information sciences" spending within the next two years, double the 2020 number.
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