16 Minutes on the News #10: Amazon Healthcare, Oculus VR/AR, Google Quantum Supremacy?

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🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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News and trends covered this week include: * Amazon's move into care delivery, initially for employees, what it means for incumbents and startups, the future of healthcare -- with @julesyoo @jorgecondebio * Oculus Connect 6, Facebook's annual developer event, where announcements about devices and content signal the future of VR (and AR) --with @cdixon * Google quantum supremacy claim, as shared in a paper with/via NASA: what does it mean for cryptography and other applications, where are we in quantum computing? -- with @vijaypande …hosted by @smc90.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal and I'm here today with the 10th episode of our short form news show, 16 minutes, where we cover recent headlines, The A6 and Z way.
0:10.4	This week we cover multiple topics, Amazon's virtual care, what it means for incumbents and startups, and the future of healthcare.
0:17.3	Then we do a quick take on Oculus Connect and where are we with VR and AR? And finally,
0:22.2	we discuss the leaked paper slash news that Google may have achieved quantum supremacy. What does it
0:27.1	mean? Where are we with quantum computing? But first, please be sure to subscribe to 16
0:31.8	minutes separately in your podcast app. Just search for it there because we will no longer
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0:49.6	find those at A6NZ.com slash 16 minutes. And finally, please note that none of the following is investment
0:56.0	advice or intended for investors. Please be sure to see A6NZ.com slash disclosures for important
1:01.4	information. So the first segment of this week's episode is about the news that Amazon
1:06.8	just launched something called Amazon Care, which was described as a virtual medical clinic for employees.
1:12.5	And what that really is is a combination of telemedicine in targeted in-home follow-ups.
1:16.8	And I think it's really significant that it's for employees because previously Amazon joined up with J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway.
1:22.5	And the reason they did this is because they're like, we need to move the needle on how expensive health care is as employers covering this. They have 1.2 million employees combined, so they basically
1:31.4	banded forces to figure out this problem. And Amazon had also acquired pill pack, which is an
1:37.2	online pharmacy. And so all these pieces are kind of coming together. And so let me now welcome
1:41.0	our A6 and Z experts, A6 and Z biopartners, Jorge Kande and Julie You.
1:46.4	Great to be here, Sonal.
1:47.3	Thanks for having us.
1:48.0	So let's talk about this news.
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