� FUJITSU Fujitsu and the Riken Research Institute are set to offer quantum computing capabilities to companies operating in Japan . From April 2023 , Fujitsu will become the country ' s first domestic company to commercialise quantum computing .
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Ongoing advancements of autonomous vehicles
With continuous advancements and developments in technology , autonomous cars are continuing to evolve and make great strides towards reality .
Baidu has recently become the first robotaxi operator in China to obtain permits for selling rides with no human driver or staff member inside the vehicles . The tech giant ’ s autonomous ride-hailing service , Apollo Go , is now authorised to collect fares for robotaxi rides in Chongqing and Wuhan , two of China ' s largest cities .
" Fully driverless cars providing rides on open roads to paying customers means we have finally come to the moment that the industry has been longing for ," said Wei Dong , Vice President and Chief Safety Operation Officer of Baidu ' s Intelligent Driving Group .
� GOOGLE CLOUD Google Cloud claims to have repelled the biggest HTTPS DDoS attack ever recorded , after a Cloud Armor customer was targeted by attacks peaking at 46 million requests per second ( RPS ).
� TWITTER Twitter has confirmed that the phone numbers and email addresses of 5.4 million accounts have been stolen . In a statement on its website , Twitter said that , in January 2022 , it received a report of a vulnerability in Twitter ' s systems .
� PLEX Video-on-demand service Plex has notified its customers of a data breach in which email addresses , encrypted passwords , and usernames were stolen by a third party .
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