Amazon releases video of new 'octocopter' delivery drone prototype
The article is about how Amazon is creating a new way to deliver parcels to customers, through a drone that will land on a special pad a deliver the package in your garden. it has a 15 mile radius and delivers as soon as you order. The drone will be delivering packages into the customers garden using a pad supplied through Amazon.
- shows the drone flying between 55-58 mph
- Amazon is going to deliver on its promise of getting packages to customers in 30 minutes.
- only that its drones weigh less than 55 pounds
- The larger the yard and the less tree cover, the easier the landing will be
In my opinion this is a good prototype but will have a lot of kinks in it and needs those problems sorted out before the idea is actually launched. For example on a day of bad weather the drone may not be able to fly and also not all customers have a garden for the drone to land in. Also this will put a lot of people out of jobs.
Google’s new quantum computer is '100 million times faster than your PC'
The article is about how Google has created a quantum computer that is faster than any other computer on the market by a big margin. The computer is said to be 100 million times faster than any other computer in 2013. However the computer is in early stages and can be beat by some algorithms.
- It is more than 108 times faster than simulated annealing running on a single core
- the D-Wave X2 quantum computer, which they say is 100 million times faster than a conventional computer chip, in 2013
- proof-of-concept problem we achieve a 100-million-fold speed-up
- We found that for problem instances involving nearly 1,000 binary variables
In my opinion this kind of computer going on sales to the public is a waste of time and money because no one is going to need this kind of computer to browse the web or check Twitter. It also shows that technology is moving along very fast and we are being taken along with it.
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