This week on the Geekwire Podcast: Google prepares to say goodbye to Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, we get ready to say farewell to Skype; and we take a quantum leap with one of Microsoft’s top technical leaders in the field: theoretical physicist Chetan Nayak, technical fellow and corporate vice of quantum hardware for the company.
Related stories and links:
- End of an era: Microsoft to shut down Skype, shifting users to Teams, 14 years after $8.5B deal
- Microsoft quantum breakthrough promises to usher in the next era of computing in ‘years, not decades’
- Amazon’s new quantum chip joins race to enable next era of computing
- Google sets long-term plan to exit Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, consolidate in South Lake Union
- Tech investors on why AI makes this a great moment for startups — with one caveat
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With GeekWire’s Taylor Soper and Todd Bishop; Audio editing by Curt Milton
