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PsiQuantum: The Silicon Valley unicorn going up against IBM, Microsoft and the Chinese govt

Ooda Loop

It was 2004, and they had just become the first in the world to demonstrate an “unambiguously entangled quantum logic gate”—the initial step in building a quantum computer. University of Queensland professor Andrew White could tell his postdoc student had itchy feet.

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Sequoia, Jay-Z, Will Smith back Landis’ $165M debt, equity round toward making homeownership accessible to everyone

TechCrunch

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. If so, Landis gives the client a budget to pick a property, and will purchase the home and rent it to the client, who will then work toward saving money and building a stronger financial footing to get to mortgage-readiness. according to Statista.

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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure

CIO

This will continue due to the typical budget, spending, and equipment update cycles of everyone from the hyperscale cloud to small enterprise. Since our founding in 2004, we have incrementally added to our global data center capacity each year, and all of the customer equipment in those facilities doesn’t go away.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO

Nobody likes to be treated like a line item on the budget. Of course, the industry has matured a lot since McConnell’s book was released in 2004, and everyone pretty much understands the need for the cogitating phase of software development. Measure the right outputs.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

TechCrunch

Over the years, the event has become a relatively low-tech, low-budget showcase for a group of tech investors and billionaire industry insiders to take a look at early stage businesses that could be their next billion-dollar opportunity. A little less than three years ago at the Computer Science Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

CTOvision

Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. Even where budget is available, some regions do not yet have the capacity to expand the WAN to meet the demand. Dr. Deepak Kumar founded Adaptiva in 2004. – bg. About the Author: .

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History of Flight Booking: CRSs, GDS Distribution, Travel Agencies, and Online Reservations

Altexsoft

So, customers were able to search for a flight, set their maximum budget, and the system would find the seat that matched this bid. 2001-2004: Orbitz and KAYAK foundation. KAYAK.com was founded in 2004 by Orbitz owners as another travel meta-search engine and fare aggregator. Skyscanner looked minimalistic in 2004.

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