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Our New Reality, Augmented

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Just over a week ago Google released Android 8.1, still slowly rolling out to the Google Pixel line. Now normally, 0.1 upgrades don't really do much, but this one is a little  different. It contained the necessary framework for what it called ARCore -- Augmented Reality. Right now there's two big types of "Reality" we see these days, one is Virtual Reality (VR) and the other is Augmented Reality (AR). The biggest difference and the easiest way to think of it is that VR is creating a whole new world around you, putting you in a completely different place, while AR works with what you're seeing right now, the world you're in, and adding elements to it. Most famously Pokemon Go came out last summer and had an "AR mode" that added basically added a Pokemon on top of whatever your camera was looking at. Now that implementation was okay, but not great. So why is what Google has done such a big deal? Although Google started working on AR, starting with
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Quantum Computing

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I read some news today about Australian researchers who theoretically developed a new chip design that incorporates a flip-flop  design, using the same material and technology used today. Now, in theory this would make quantum computing much more affordable and faster to develop to the point where anyone could get a quantum computer as easy as they can buy a laptop or phone today. The big question is, why does it even matter? What's so great about quantum computing? Quantum Computing Now, a very simplified explanation was provided by Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, back in 2016 at a press conference. We can see that here: Source: Youtube, CBC News Now, Trudeau's explanation, although simplified, gives the general idea of why technology like this is so important. As most people know, doing anything with a computer, or anything with a chip in it, is just massive combinations of a circuit saying "1" or "0", albeit very complex combinatio
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