Tue. 03/03 - What If Golf Is The Most Like Fortnite?

Waymo has an interesting raise. Interesting for what it says about self-driving and about Google Moon Shots. Robinhood has the worst possible outages at the worst possible time. A new player in the quantum computing race. And sports tech offers a new way to watch… golf?

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Links:

• Waymo raises $2.25 billion to scale up autonomous vehicles operations (VentureBeat)
• Robinhood Trading Site Seizes Up, Customers Miss Stock Rally (Bloomberg)
• Honeywell set to launch its quantum computer with quantum volume of 64 (ZDNet)
• Ampere Altra is the first 80-core ARM-based server processor (VentureBeat)
• iPhone Maker Expects China Plants to Return to Normal in Coming Weeks (Bloomberg)
• Tim Cook and Apple Bet Everything on China. Then Coronavirus Hit. (WSJ)
• Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy (TNW)
• NBC’s experimental PGA Tour live stream makes it easier to follow your favorite golfer (The Verge)

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