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C08 - Rumours of Death
[Avon and Tarrant break into Servalan's empty office, and leave. They then break into Surveillance. Avon shakes Grenlee in his chair.]
AVON: Hey! Wake up! [Grenlee groans throughout.] Where is Servalan? Where is Servalan!?
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Microsoft's Azure Quantum platform for QCaaS already supports 5 different Quantum Computing providers, not incl. Microsoft's own offerings:
✅ Quantinuum
✅ IonQ
✅ Rigetti
✅ Pasqal
✅ Atom Computing (NEW)
"Microsoft announces the best performing logical qubits on record and will provide priority access to reliable quantum hardware in Azure Quantum"

Microsoft announces the best performing logical qubits on record and will provide priority access to reliable quantum hardware in Azure Quantum - The Official Microsoft Blog
At Microsoft, we’re ushering in a new era of computing on the path to unlocking scientific advantage and tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges. This is why we’re building Azure Quantum — to create the first platform for reliable quantum computing and achieve the vision of quantum at scale. In April, we announced...

So, #chopin dropped this new waltz, and it's pretty dramatic. Nice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfse_wSUmw&t=67s

Classifying Bicycle Infrastructure Using On-Bike Street-Level Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19194v1

Classifying Bicycle Infrastructure Using On-Bike Street-Level Images
While cycling offers an attractive option for sustainable transportation, many potential cyclists are discouraged from taking up cycling due to the lack of suitable and safe infrastructure. Efficiently mapping cycling infrastructure across entire cities is necessary to advance our understanding of how to provide connected networks of high-quality infrastructure. Therefore we propose a system capable of classifying available cycling infrastructure from on-bike smartphone camera data. The system …

Where would I report a product (in the EU, as a private person) with an inherent design issue that is life-threatening? It's in the same vein as a car with a gas pedal that can get stuck by design, so it likely would need a mass recall/fix. It doesn't make sense to report it to the producing company because this company is known to having denied similar issues.