Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Atul Gawande.

People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

I read @gruber ‘s piece about Apple's pre-announcement of "more personalised Siri”, and I was moved to offer my own thoughts:

https://www.amyworrall.com/blog/why-did-apple-pre-announce-more-personalised-siri

Interesting development to follow: Researchers from the University of Basel and the NCCR SPIN have achieved the first controllable interaction between two hole spin qubits in a conventional silicon transistor.

These qubits can be manufactured with FinFETs transistors using "classical" silicon fabrication methods, opening up the path to faster scaling than competing architectures.

https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Experiment-opens-door-for-millions-of-qubits-on-one-chip.html

#QuantumComputing