Chinese scientists say they’ve achieved
quantum supremacy


Google said last year it has built a computer that could perform a computation in 200 seconds that would take the fastest supercomputers about 10,000 years.
The Chinese researchers claim their new prototype is able to process 10 billion times faster than Google’s prototype, according to the Xinhua report.


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WHO says e-vaccination certificates could be key to unlocking global travel

Be Prepared To Show Covid-19 Vaccination Proof In Order To Travel

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International travelers may soon be required to get COVID-19 vaccination before flying

Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce said he's been talking to his counterparts at other airlines around the world about the possibility of a “vaccination passport” for international travelers.
“We are looking at changing our terms and conditions to say for international travelers, that we will ask people to have the vaccination before they get on the aircraft,” Joyce told Australia's Network Nine television.


"But certainly for international visitors coming out, and people leaving the country, we think that’s a necessity,” he said.
Korean Air, said Tuesday there’s a real possibility that airlines will require that passengers be vaccinated .

Chung said there are already a variety of discussions within the industry to ensure safer travel during the pandemic. These include trials of “Common Pass,” an app endorsed by the World Economic Forum that aims to provide a standardized format for airlines to evaluate the coronavirus test results of passengers to determine whether they should travel.

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Flying without a vaccine passport in 2021

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Under-the-skin surveillance


“ In recent years both governments and corporations have been using ever more sophisticated technologies to track, monitor and manipulate people. If we are not careful, the epidemic might mark an important watershed in the history of surveillance. Not only because it might normalise the deployment of mass surveillance tools in countries that have so far rejected them, but even more so because it signifies a dramatic transition from “over the skin” to “under the skin” surveillance. 

Hitherto, when your finger touched the screen of your smartphone and clicked on a link, the government wanted to know what exactly your finger was clicking on. But with coronavirus, the focus of interest shifts. Now the government wants to know the temperature of your finger and the blood-pressure under its skin. “

Yuval Noah Harari
the world after coronavirus

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How 700 Epidemiologists Are Living Now, and What They Think Is Next


Epidemiologists are a very cautious group. Most said that even with vaccines, it would probably take a year or more for many activities to safely restart, and that some parts of their lives may never return to the way they were.

It would probably be many years until it was safe enough to “return to approximately the lifestyle we had.” , “We have to settle to live with the virus.”

Epidemiologists worry about many unknowns, including how long immunity lasts; how the virus may mutate; the challenges of vaccine distribution; and the possible reluctance to accept the vaccine among some groups.


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