📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
Microsoft Japan tested a four-day work week and productivity jumped by 40%
Microsoft [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us] recently tested a 4 day work week over a one month period for its 2,300 person workforce in Japan. As technology allows us to be far more productive in the workplace, the struggles of work-life balance of always being accessible has generally lead
Vaccine against 1.5 million killer tuberculosis is a step closer
💉 Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people around the world each year. This vaccine could revolutionize treatment and provide long-term protection. It has already cleared a critical phase of clinical trials and been tested on more than 3,500 adults in TB endemic regions of South Africa, Kenya and Zambia, researchers
Google's quantum computer chrushes supercomputer in calculation
Google says that its 54-qubit Sycamore processor was able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. That would mean the calculation, which involved generated random numbers, is essentially impossible on a traditional, non-quantum computer. William Oliver of
🌍 Kickstarting The Industrial Revolution in Africa
Everywhere it has been implemented throughout the globe, industrialization has lifted people out of extreme poverty, extended life expectancies, raised literacy rates, and improved living conditions. Finally, it is Africa’s turn. Proposed [http://www.tralac.org/resources/by-region/cfta.html] by Rwandan President Paul Kagame in March 2018, the
This open-source home design might revolutionize the way we build
Keeping the fifth largest city in America running in a hot and arid desert climate is a difficult task, but the city of Phoenix, Arizona has pledged to do so and go carbon neutral and zero-waste. To achieve this, the city held a sustainable home design competition to come up
Silicon Is Reaching its Limits. Up Next: Carbon Nanotubes
Silicon has powered the information age, but it’s reaching its physical limits. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) hold a lot of promise as a replacement if we can get around some key obstacles—and the designers of a new chip seem to have done just that. For decades computer power steadily
Alphabet Releases Its Master Plan for Toronto’s New Smart City
Ever dreamed of living in a giant experiment? If so, Toronto may be the city for you. Sidewalk Labs has released blueprints for its proposed waterfront smart city and, depending who you ask, it’s either going to be the pinnacle of modern living or an Orwellian nightmare [https://singularityhub.
Quantum Computing, Now and in the (Not Too Distant) Future
Fifty years ago, smartphones would have been the ultimate computing wizardry. Just as classical computers were almost unimaginable to previous generations, we’re now facing the birth of an entirely new type of computation, something so mystical it may as well be magic: quantum computing. If the word “quantum” makes
IBM Introduces ‘Quantum Volume’ to Track Progress Towards the Quantum Age
Quantum computing companies are racing to squeeze ever more qubits into their devices, but is this really a solid sign of progress? IBM is proposing a more holistic measure it calls “quantum volume” (QV) that it says gives a better indication of how close we are to practical devices. Creating