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HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores says the stage is set for a recovery in PC demand later this year, even if the outlook for the first half of 2024 looks mixed at best. “Demand has slowed down in commercial,” Lores told Yahoo Finance Live on Wednesday, but he expects growth to return for the PC market in the second half of the year. Lores’s near-term caution in part reflects continued demand challenges in the computer and printer markets. Laptop shipments fell 16% month over month in January, according… Source link

If the quantum computing era dawned 3 years ago, its rising sun may have ducked behind a cloud. In 2019, Google researchers claimed they had passed a milestone known as quantum supremacy when their quantum computer Sycamore performed in 200 seconds an abstruse calculation they said would tie up a supercomputer for 10,000 years. Now, scientists in China have done the computation in a few hours with ordinary processors. A supercomputer, they say, could… Source link

Placeholder while article actions load News that Alphabet Inc.’s Google sidelined an engineer who claimed its artificial intelligence system had become sentient after he’d had several months of conversations with it prompted plenty of skepticism from AI scientists. Many have said, via postings on Twitter, that senior software engineer Blake Lemoine projected his own humanity onto Google’s chatbot generator LaMDA. Whether they’re right, or Lemoine is right, is a matter for debate… Source link

Millions of youth nationwide Monday embark on Computer Science Education Week — with its “Hour of Code” shared by 1 billion young students globally. Left behind will be many Chicago Public Schools students learning from home during a pandemic shining a harsh spotlight on the digital divide. “I was going to ask my school for a small budget to send some kind of electronics kits home to my students, just so they’d have something to do, because our kids don’t have access to… Source link