Author: precious

Imagine a certain type of computer that could solve problems in seconds as opposed to today’s supercomputers that would take a septillion years to solve. That is what quantum computing is all about – a new type of computing that leverages quantum mechanics to solve problems that would take traditional computers a very long time to solve. This type of computing uses quantum bits (qubits) instead of using the regular bits that represent 0 and 1 – qubits can be both 0 and 1 at the same time. After a decadeslong quantum arms race with Google’s Willow Quantum Chip and…

South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission says they have temporarily suspended the services of Deepseek from operating in their country, and it’ll be reinstated once “adjustments are made to comply with domestic personal information protection laws.” Deepseek, a Chinese Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup, owned and funded by the Chinese hedge fund High Flyer, has been taken down by the South Korean Government from their App Store. Right from its R1-model launch in January 2025, it has caused quite some stir in the AI industry, as it has been greatly considered a competition to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s most advanced technology. This is…

With the growing demand for automation industries and robotics innovation in industries like manufacturing and logistics, it is no wonder that Apptronik closed a $350 million Series A funding round that was co-led by B capital and Capital Factory in conjunction with Google. Apptronik, an Austin-based human-centred robotics company that started out of the Human Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin wants to expand its team to meet the growing demand for next-generation humanoid robots. Of course, it now gets to do that on a large scale with this funding. Since its inception, Apptronik has developed over…