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A new commentary argues that quantum computing has moved past theoretical promise into applied use, citing challenges like disease research, complex financial portfolio management, and secure communications as areas where current quantum tools can already contribute. The piece frames quantum computing as a usable technology today rather than a distant future capability.
Wells Fargo removed 500 megawatts of expected capacity resales from its 2027 estimates for Meta, roughly $5 billion in revenue, saying the company will likely need that computing power for its Muse AI agent instead. The firm raised its price target on Meta to $1,000 from $796, implying about 35% upside from Monday's close.
Several companies are developing immersive technologies that enhance product design, museum exhibits, and remote medical treatments. These innovations aim to expand the practical uses of spatial computing and virtual reality beyond entertainment. Despite the decline in metaverse hype, interest in these fields continues to grow for professional and healthcare purposes.
IEEE Computer Society announced that IEEE Day 2026 will be observed on 6 October, the first Tuesday of the month, as is customary each year. Celebrations will extend over a two-week window from 4 to 17 October, with local chapters and student branches hosting both online and in-person gatherings.
Google is testing a prototype data center positioned in space to explore running AI workloads beyond Earth's surface. The initiative examines whether solar power and the vacuum of space can support computing infrastructure typically housed in terrestrial facilities.
A hardware tinkerer who created the Soggy-1000, a clone of Sega's SG-1000 console compatible with its optional keyboard, found Sega's built-in BASIC too limiting for development work. They are now writing their own Forth implementation to serve as a self-controlled, copyright-clean programming environment that can be embedded in ROM and run interactively on the machine.
Physicists at the University of Surrey have designed a new type of qubit, the Superfluid Helium Oscillator Quantum (SHOQ) device, built from superfluid helium-3 rather than superconducting circuits. Published in npj Quantum Information, the team's calculations suggest the charge-neutral design could cut error rates roughly 100-fold compared with conventional superconducting qubits. Lead author Dr. Priya Sharma says it is the first reported qubit concept based on a superfluid.
Cerebras Systems co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman is scheduled to appear at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for a session titled 'Can AI Keep Scaling?', addressing rising demand for compute, energy and infrastructure. Cerebras builds wafer-scale AI chips as an alternative to conventional chip architectures, raised $5.5 billion in its May IPO, signed a multiyear deal with OpenAI for 750 megawatts of systems through 2026-2028, and launched its CS-4 hardware in August.
A group of software researchers has published an essay arguing that modern computing tools trap users as passive consumers rather than letting them adapt software to their needs. Drawing on decades of research and commercial products, plus their own prototype testing, they propose 'malleable software'—systems users can reshape at the point of use instead of relying on distant engineering teams.
At the 2026 Inclusion Conference in Shanghai, the Yansyn-X2 humanoid robot was shown producing a tear after being asked to 'shed tears.' The demonstration highlighted engineering work in affective computing, aimed at helping robots recognize and respond to human emotional cues.
A Fly.io engineer has announced he is leaving the company to join Kurt on a new venture focused on rethinking how operating systems and applications work in the age of AI. The essay argues that AI is dissolving traditional boundaries between programmers and users, allowing anyone to generate custom software with natural language instead of code.
Researchers from UChicago PME, Harvard, Stony Brook and Quantinuum built and tested a complete set of quantum operations based on non-Abelian anyons, publishing results in Nature. The team says this is the first experimental proof that manipulating these exotic quasiparticles can perform any computation required for universal quantum computing.