Weekly Brief: I Quant To Break Free

Get the Weekly Brief straight in your inbox: Google and NASA have just announced that they have achieved Quantum Supremacy! Hooray! But, errr… what on earth are they talking about? Simply put, this is the ability of devices to solve complex problems that classical computers can’t solve in a realistic timeframe. Google’s quantum computer solved […]

Weekly Brief: I Quant To Break Free

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Google and NASA have just announced that they have achieved Quantum Supremacy! Hooray! But, errr… what on earth are they talking about?

Simply put, this is the ability of devices to solve complex problems that classical computers can’t solve in a realistic timeframe. Google’s quantum computer solved a problem in 200 seconds that would have taken a classical supercomputer 10,000 years to solve! The problem it solved was pretty unimportant and meaningless, sure, but Google’s achievement hints at the enormous potential of quantum computing. As it develops, we will hopefully see it applied in all industries across the globe! It will… excuse the pun… achieve global supremacy.

In the nearish term, quantum computing can be applied to everything from cryptography to chemistry, communication to optimisation, and tons more. Looking at cryptography as an example, we note cybersecurity depends on computers multiplying large prime numbers. Traditional computers therefore struggle to crack encryptions because this requires reversing the multiplication process and finding the original primes (which takes ages). Quantum computers can do this exponentially faster. This could help security services around the world crack codes and develop better, quasi-impenetrable quantum-secure cybersecurity systems! The flipside of this, of course, is that dissident groups could use quantum computing to hack systems globally before they’re upgraded (yikes). Meanwhile in a separate vein (pardon the pun), quantum computing could also revolutionise healthcare. It could allow us to understand the nature of all matter – which means better medicine with fewer side effects, to faster and better diagnostics. Forget a life expectancy of 81 (current UK life expectancy) – how about 110?

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Weekly Brief: You Gotta Fight. For Your Right…

This week we’re bringing you a piece about Google! Google has just won a landmark ‘Right to be Forgotten’ case and it’s all we’re thinking about! Plus, we’re bringing you all the hottest jobs of the week. Enjoy! […]

Weekly Brief: You Gotta Fight. For Your Right…

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As you are probably aware (!), Google has won a landmark ‘Right to be Forgotten’ case. The “Right” was enshrined by the EU in a 2014 legal ruling and required Google, and other search engines, to delete embarrassing or out-of-date data about individuals on request. And General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) added yet more obligations! In case you didn’t already know (and this newsletter is opening your eyes 👀) members of the public can now request that ANY organisation (including UK startups!) delete information about them and the organisation in question has exactly one month to respond! Bored? Me too. Slightly… but the reality is most people didn’t know any of this until it was splashed across every newspaper in the UK this week! And learning new things is always #good4thebrain 😎

Anyhow, onto the interesting stuff… in 2016 the French Privacy Regulator CNIL fined Google €100,000 💲 for point blank refusing to de-list sensitive information from search results globally upon request. Google fought back 👊 and took its case to the European Court of Justice! Search engines, Google argued, should not censor search results for people in other parts of the world where the Right to be Forgotten is not enshrined. Were the Right to be Forgotten applied outside the EU, it could (potentially!) be abused by authoritarian regimes to censor human rights abuses. Essentially, Europe ruled that it is not Europe’s place to apply the Right to be Forgotten globally!

So what actually happened this week? Well Google WON the landmark case and (for now!) the Right to be Forgotten only applies within the EU. So try not to do anything too embarrassing when you’re outside of Europe…

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