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OrbitsEdge teams up with HPE to build data centres in Space – Data Economy

Last week, Amazons AWS re:Invent 2019 conference welcomed more than 60,000 attendees, spread out across six venues on the Las Vegas Strip, which promised to make re:Invent 2019 the biggest re:Invent yet.

Here is a list of just some of the announcements the cloud giants made over the course of the conference:

AWS Local Zone

AWS announced the opening of an AWS Local Zone in LosAngeles (LA). AWS Local Zones are a new type of AWS infrastructure deploymentthat place compute, storage, database, and other select services close tocustomers, giving developers in LA the ability to deploy applications thatrequire single-digit millisecond latencies to end-users in LA.

Amazon EC2

The cloud giants unveiled nine new Amazon Elastic ComputeCloud (EC2) innovations. AWS added to its industry-leading compute andnetworking innovations with new Arm-based instances (M6g, C6g, R6g) powered byAWS-designed processors in Graviton2, machine learning inference instances(Inf1) powered by AWS-designed Inferentia chips.

AWS Outposts

AWS announced general availability of AWS Outposts, fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises while connecting to AWSs broad array of services in the cloud.

AWS Outposts bring native AWS services, infrastructure, andoperating models to virtually any data centre, co-location space, oron-premises facility.

AWS Wavelength

AWS announced AWS Wavelength, which provides developers theability to build applications that serve end-users with single-digitmillisecond latencies over the 5G network.

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Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services at theedge of telecommunications providers 5G networks, enabling developers to serveuse-cases that require ultra-low latency like machine learning inference at theedge, autonomous industrial equipment, smart cars and cities, Internet ofThings (IoT), and Augmented and Virtual Reality.

Quantum ComputingService

AWS announced three initiatives as a part of the companysplans to help advance quantum computing technologies:

Theres no question the world will be a better place ifeveryone can innovate more quickly and efficiently, said Charlie Bell, SVP,Amazon Web Services.

And if stuff just works better. For that reason, Im excited that we are sharing what weve learned with you in the Amazon Builders Library.

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Quantum Computers Are About to Forever Change Car Navigation – autoevolution

We presently take great pride in the way we can find directions to anywhere. Gone are the days were the paper-printed maps were our only guides in foreign places, as now all it takes to get from point A to point wherever is a swipe of the finger.

All present-day navigation solutions can direct a car depending on a variety of factors on a number of routes. The problem is none of them take into account what the other cars are doing in real time, and, just when you were about to gloat for having dodged a bottleneck, you find other drivers, lots of them, had the exact same advice served to them by navigation apps.

Quantum computing might help with that, as they are countless times faster, and exactly such a solution was tested by Volkswagen earlier this month at the Web Summit in Portugal.

Using an algorithm called Quantum Routing and a D-Wave quantum computer, Volkswagen showed that nine public transit buses can successfully avoid traffic jams by knowing in real-time where such queues are being formed.

Volkswagen believes quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize how we use and learn from data in the real world, said in a statement Thomas Bartol, senior vice president of Information Technology and Services for Volkswagen Group of America.

Even though the technology is still in its early stages, this demonstration shows its potential, and how Volkswagen plans to play a leading role in bringing these solutions to market.

The tech demonstrated by the Germans in Portugal is nowhere near mass implementation. Volkswagen did announce that it is planning to bring the tools it already showed to market maturity, but it's unclear in what timeframe.

For now, the carmaker is looking for other clogged cities to explore.

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Quantum Computers Are About to Forever Change Car Navigation - autoevolution