Compact News from around the Globe
A letter sent by an industry group said companies are concerned that the planned rules could put their staff at risk of criminal investigations or prosecutions related to what the firms’ users post online.
A Chinese research team has surpassed Google, building a quantum computer that completed a calculation in just over an hour that would take classical computers more than eight years to perform. In recent years researchers around the Globe have finally reached the ‘quantum advantage’ – the point at which quantum computing can solve a problem … Read more
650 U.S. banks will soon be able to offer bitcoin purchases to an estimated 24 million total customers. The move is the latest by Atlanta-based payments giant NCR, and NYDIG, to capitalize on demand it’s seeing from banks and credit unions tired of seeing crypto-purchases made from their accounts to outside exchanges. By providing these … Read more
GitHub launches a preview of a new AI-powered programming tool that aims to help software developers write better code. The code synthesizer is called Copilot and was developed in collaboration with OpenAI. Copilot can make recommendations in almost any programming language, but it works best with popular languages like Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go. … Read more
The company stated that hackers used a vulnerability (CVE-2021-35941) to remotely wipe data from live disks.
Elon Musk has said that SpaceX’s Starlink internet could be available globally from August.
Cornell University researchers captured a sample from a crystal in three dimensions and magnified it 100 million times.
Virgin Galactic has said it expects to begin commercial service in 2022. It has already sold 600 tickets, with prices topping out around $250,000 for suborbital flights.
Federal judge dismisses two antitrust cases brought against Facebook.
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has declared one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, is not permitted to undertake any regulated activity in the UK. The regulator said no other entity in the group holds any form of UK authorization, registration, or licence to conduct regulated activity. Binance said the FCA notice would have no direct … Read more