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The opening week of the 2022 college football season features no ranked teams in action and just one Power-5 matchup. But that hasn’t diminished the anticipation for the Week 0 college football schedule as it is the first gridiron action in over seven months. The week’s slate is headlined by Nebraska vs. Northwestern, in which the Cornhuskers are 11-point favorites in the Week 0 college football odds at Caesars Sportsbook. But the biggest Week 0 college football spread is Utah State being massive 27-point favorites over the UConn Huskies.

UConn has won just four total games since the 2018 season, while Utah State is coming off an 11-win season. But that number is still huge considering the Aggies aren’t a Power-5 team, while the Huskies are independent, but still in FBS. So which side of the line should you lean towards when making Week 0 college football predictions? Before locking

City donates 500 decommissioned computers to be refurbished and provided to Detroit families

• Part of Partnership with human-IT to provide free technology to lower-income Detroit residents to bridge city’s digital divide

DETROIT – Hundreds of City government computers recently replaced for newer models will be completely refurbished and distributed for free to Detroit families in need of technology and access to the Internet, thanks to a partnership between the City and nonprofit human-IT. The donation of more than 500 decommissioned city computers is part of the city’s larger strategy for bridging Detroit’s digital divide through its partners at Connect313.

Half of the computers were delivered today, and the remainder will be delivered in the coming weeks. All 500 computers first will be wiped of any existing and sensitive data. Most will be refurbished to be provided to Detroit families lacking access to technology by human-IT and its community partners. Devices

When Google announced its quantum computer had solved a problem beyond the capability of the most powerful supercomputer, it was a landmark for the industry. But Chinese researchers have now shown they could solve the same problem on a normal supercomputer in just seconds.

The ultimate promise of quantum computing is its ability to carry out certain computational feats far faster than classical machines, or even solve problems that would be essentially impossible to crack using traditional approaches.

The field is still nascent though, and today’s devices are far too small to be put to work on any real-world challenges. But in an effort to prove that the field is making progress, developers of quantum processors have been eager to find problems that may not have much practical use, but can demonstrate the potential speedups their technology is capable of.

Google made a major breakthrough on this front in 2019

Although quantum computing is relatively new and far from mainstream adoption, the hype for this emerging technology is building. If companies hope to capitalize on it, though, they must move past this excitement and look at its specific, practical implications.

Effective implementation of any technology requires understanding what it can do for businesses and the obstacles they may face in using it. The journey begins with asking what quantum computing means for IT professionals as a whole as well as individual teams.

What is quantum computing?

Quantum computing operates on the quantum principles of superposition and entanglement. Whereas classical computers calculate with transistors representing either 1 or 0, quantum machines use qubits, which can represent both simultaneously. This lets them perform calculations in minutes that would take classical computers millennia to complete.

The superposition of qubits—being both 0 and 1 at once—lets quantum machines weigh far more possibilities simultaneously.

“These models capture the shape, timing and speed of the electrical signals that neurons fire in order to communicate with each other, which is considered the basis of brain function,” said Costas Anastassiou, PhD, a research scientist in the Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai, and senior author of the study. “This lets us replicate brain activity at the single-cell level.”

The models are the first to combine data sets from different types of laboratory experiments to present a complete picture of the electrical, genetic and biological activity of single neurons. The models can be used

It’s not what you’d expect to find on the 29th floor of a Toronto office building. Instead of cubicles, a complex arrangement of lasers, mirrors and optical fibers run from floor to ceiling, making up the quantum computer called Borealis.

And Borealis recently hit a milestone by solving a colossal math problem.

“If we ran [the problem] on the most powerful supercomputer out there, it would take 9,000 years. For Borealis, it takes less than a second, which is quite incredible,” says Christian Weedbrook, CEO of Xanadu, the company that built Borealis.

Weedbrook said it’s just the third time a quantum computer has tackled something out of reach for an ordinary computer, a scenario called quantum advantage. The first time was by Google in 2019, the second by a team of Chinese researchers in 2020. Xanadu’s achievement was published earlier this summer in the magazine Nature.

A blessing was held at the University of Hawaiiʻi at Mānoa’s Shidler College of Business on August 11 to celebrate the completed renovation of the Tom WS Hee Undergraduate Computer Room into a state-of-the-art facility. The $600,000 lab renovation was funded from the estate of Clifford and Blanche Hee and named in honor of their son Tom Heewho was an admired alumnus of the college and an accomplished banking professional, computer expert and community-minded volunteer.

Lab upgrades include a full refresh and modernization of the space, with sleek new furnishings, upgraded computer systems, sound dampening technology, large digital displays and flexible working spaces designed specifically for group collaboration. Additional Bloomberg terminals were added for students to conduct high-level financial analysis projects. The renovation was managed by Bowers + Kubota Consulting, which transformed the space to evoke a modern yet functional workspace for current and future students.

“The transformation of

Dartmouth bid farewell this year to seven retreating Arts and Sciences faculty members in departments ranging from English and creative writing to computer science and geography.

John CampbellClass of 1925 Professor of Sociology; Thomas H. Cormenprofessor of computer science; Andrew FriedlandRichard and Jane Pearl Professor in Environmental Studies; Misagh Parsaprofessor of sociology; Ivy Schweitzerprofessor of English and creative writing; Kathleen Wine, associate professor of French; and Richard WrightOrvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs, all retired this year.

Each of the professors has made unique and lasting contributions to the College, says Elizabeth Smithdean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

“As dedicated teachers, scholars, and colleagues, they influenced generations of students as well as peers on campus and around the world,” Smith says. “Their legacies will be part of Dartmouth forever.”

Several of the retiring faculty members shared their thoughts on the

Dylan Zajac ’25 clearly remembers when his side hustle—taking broken computers, fixing them, and selling them at a cut-rate price—bloomed into a full-fledged charity.

“There was this dad that I was messaging with on Facebook. I was negotiating the price of this laptop with him, and he was telling me all about how his son needs it for school,” Zajac said.

“I started to feel bad. I realized I was making 200 percent profit on this computer, which is great for my business, but in terms of helping people, it just didn’t sit well with me.”

Zajac, now a rising sophomore at Babson College, decided he’d give it to his customer’s son for free.

“He’d never had a laptop before, and he still uses it today,” Zajac said. “That’s when I started realizing I could really do this. I’d be able to give these working computers away to people who