Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, May 19th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today. Google I.O. continues and continues to produce new headlines for us to cover.

Invidia is Nurfing the ability to mine crypto.

Etheorem says it's going to go super energy efficient real soon.

Microsoft 10X is officially no longer a thing and reviews of the new iPad

pro reveal it to be an iPad. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Often the day after the Google I.O. keynote, it's worth doing another dive in, not just to collect things that I missed from the keynote, but because, you know, I.O. is a whole multi-day event where headlines continue to be made over the course of several days. For example, let's just run down a few things of

interest, especially to developers.

Google has unveiled version 2.2 of its open source UI development kit,

Flutter, with a payment plugin for in-app payments,

and Google said 200,000 plus apps in the play store were built using

flutter. Google Cloud launched Vertex AI a managed machine learning

platform for developers to deploy and maintain AI models.

There are two new APIs in AR core providing more detailed raw depth maps as well as new recording and playback features for

developers. We also didn't talk about Google giving plenty of space during the

keynote yesterday to their cloud computing, supercomputing, and quantum computing efforts.

They even enlisted actor Michael Pena

to try to explain where they think these efforts are going.

For example, Google announced plans to build a commercial grade quantum computer by 2029 and unveiled its new quantum AI campus in Santa Barbara, California, coding and gadget.

The campus has Google's first quantum data center, hardware research laboratories, and the company's

very own quantum processor chip fabrication facilities.

As we look 10 years into the future, many of the greatest global challenges from climate change to handling the next pandemic demand a new kind of computing, Quantum AI lead engineer Eric Lucero said, to build better batteries, to lighten the load on the power

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