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Microsoft reaches a key milestone in its quest to build a quantum supercomputer

GeekWire

A peer-reviewed paper in Physical Review B , a journal of the American Physical Society, confirmed that the company’s approach can create and control Majorana , a type of particle considered key to the future creation of scalable and stable qubits, the fundamental units of quantum information.

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Disease experts declare it’s time to join forces for multiple COVID-19 vaccines

GeekWire

Multiple COVID-19 vaccines are in development. Unprecedented collaborations involving the biotech industry and government agencies are urgently needed to develop and produce the billions of doses of vaccine that will be needed to stop the coronavirus pandemic, four public-health pioneers declare. The first U.S.

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

According to Bizzdesign’s survey of over 1,000 enterprise architects and IT business leaders, the top priorities to improve the impact of EA in 2022 include improving communication about the value of EA to the business (56%) as well as improving the development and adoption of EA processes (50%). Strategy development. Microsoft Azure.

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Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

Vox

Elon Musk is at or near the top of pretty much every AI influencer list I have ever seen, despite the fact he doesn’t have a degree in AI and seems to have only one academic journal article in the field, which received little notice. The most important paper I ever wrote for AI was in a psychology journal.

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Tech Moves: Bioengineer joins AI2 incubator; Icosavax adds execs, expands board; and more

GeekWire

Spun out of the University of Washington, Icosavax has applied its vaccine development technology to COVID-19 and other viruses. Proprio’s high tech surgical tools utilize computer vision, AI and virtual reality to produce a real-time image for surgeons. Former Blue Shield of California CFO Heidi Kunz as a board member.

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Seattlepi.com will try newsletter strategy in Hearst’s ‘next phase’ for former newspaper website

GeekWire

” The company is hiring a new city editor to lead the initiative , seeking someone to “develop and write a daily newsletter that delivers sharp, insightful and useful news to the Seattle community, building on the strong journalistic legacy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.”

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How do you recycle plastic? Startups and scientists are trying to make it easier

GeekWire

Now startups, scientists, and government leaders and agencies — including many based in the Pacific Northwest — are taking more aggressive steps to address the avalanche of plastic waste that was triggered in the 1970s and has surged over the decades. Despite being an expert on plastic recycling with a chemical engineering Ph.D.,