On the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, some are comparing the party to the Black Lives Matter movement. We get response from Shaun King, a Black Lives Matter activist

Microsoft's new speech recognition technology is able to transcribe conversational speech as well as (or even better than) humans. The technology scored a word error rate (WER) of 5.9%, which was lower than the 6.3% WER reported just last month.

Planetary scientist James Shirley has suggested a model that could help predict when Mars' global dust storms are most likely to occur. The winds in the strongest Martian storms top out at about 97 km/h (60 mph), less than half the speed of some hurricane-force winds on Earth.

The possibility of arranging many small quantum computers into dense, powerful parallel networks could be the key to creating multiple-quantum computer systems. Fully functional quantum computing systems would dramatically change everything we do, affecting such sectors as finance, telecommunications, and healthcare.