GitHub Takes Stance for Net Neutrality

At the beginning of December, GitHub made its stance in favor of net neutrality public. Now that the FCC has voted to repeal regulations protecting it, GitHub says the fight is not over. InfoQ has spoken with GitHub’s chief strategy officer, Julio Avalos.

Here’s What is Limiting Blockchain Mainstream Use

In a recent article on Medium, Blockchain engineer Preethi Kasireddy describes the key challenges that Blockchain has to overcome to become practical for mainstream use.

What Rust Achieved in 2017

Rust development in 2017 focused on a number of areas, including tooling, the library ecosystem, interoperability, and others with a common theme: increasing productivity, especially for newcomers to the language, writes Rust core team member Aaron Turon.

Rust 1.23 Improves Memory Usage and More

The most significant improvement in Rust’s latest version is the reduction of memory usage made possible by avoiding some unnecessary copies. Additionally, rustdoc now consistently uses a CommonMark compliant engine to render the documentation.

Intel Joins the Race for Quantum Supremacy with a 49-Qubit Chip

At CES 2018, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced Intel successfully built a 49-qubit chip, which aims to allow researchers to improve error correction techniques and simulate computational problems.