Cloud Data Science 10

Lots of happenings this week. The Cloud Data Science world is keeping busy.

Also, the coronavirus is affecting many upcoming conferences, so just be aware of that.

News

• Honeywell has announced the development of the most powerful quantum computer in the world
  They are partnering with Microsoft Azure so eventually it will be a part of Azure Quantum
• Google Cloud Speech to Text got many updates
  It now supports 7 new languages, has better punctuation, understand whom is speaking, and more
• Google Cloud TPU pods are Generally Available
  Google calls them custom-built AI super computers
• Azure CosmosDB has a free tier
  This is a nice new feature. The service is awesome but used to be a bit spendy to try out.
• Azure HDInsight now supports Apache analytics projects
  This announcement includes Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka. The frameworks in Azure will now have better security, performance, and monitoring.
• AWS DeepRacer 2020 Season is underway
  This looks to be a fun project. I might have to join in the future.