US image plummets internationally as most say country has handled coronavirus badly: In several countries, favorable views of the US are at their lowest point since the Center began polling on this topic two decades ago.
Pew Research
+ Ratings for Trump remain poor
+ Trump’s most negative assessment is in Belgium, where only 9% say they have confidence in the US president to do the right thing in world affairs.
+ In several countries, the share of the public with a favorable view of the U.S. is as low as it has been at any point since the Center began polling on this topic nearly two decades ago.
+ Just 41% in the United Kingdom express a favorable opinion of the U.S., the lowest percentage registered in any Pew Research Center survey there. In France, only 31% see the U.S. positively
IBM thinks it can deliver a quantum computer that would marry enormous computing power with a tough-to-achieve low rate of errors by 2023, per a technical timeline the company published Tuesday.
Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth: IBM thinks quantum supremacy is not the milestone we should care about.
MIT Technology Review
Fortune: Microsoft hails success of its undersea data center experiment—and says it could have implications on dry land, too
+ Data centers are energy hogs, with their cooling needs—those servers give off a lot of heat—accounting for as much as 40% of consumption.
+ That's one of several problems Microsoft is attempting to solve in Project Natick, an audacious scheme that aims to make undersea data centers a thing.
Work from home is ending. But the pandemic is still here. Return-to-the-office plans suggest employers expect we’ll just have to get used to living with COVID-19.
Apple’s product prices are getting more confusing: With the Apple Watch Series 6, a redesigned iPad Air, and a bundle of services, it’s getting harder to figure out how much you need to spend
Nicole Nguyen
3 steps to becoming everyone’s favorite panelist
Doug Neff
Tragically Hip double feature hitting Canadian theatres on Sept. 18: Select Cineplex locations will screen Long Time Running and A National Celebration.
CBC
HBD: Mickey Rourke, actor, The Wrestler (2008), 68
Great British Bake Off in a bio-secure bubble? ‘It will be mind-blowingly full-on’: COVID tests, pizza nights — and no trips home. Former contestant Henry Bird on a series like no other.
The Times
