when it is closed, it looks a bit like a tiny laptop, which i thought was very cute. and out of all the concepts tcl showed me, i thought this was the most robust and practical. and finally, a trifold tablet essentially a ten inch tablet that folds down into a very chunky phone. it has two hinges one folds forwards, one folds backwards and you can bend it into a lot of unusual shapes, although i m not entirely sure why you would want to. now, none of these are ready to go on sale and the company doesn t even know how much they would cost, but it does give us an idea of what some phones might look like in the future. if computers are, in the future, going to help us design vaccines to take on threats like covid 19, well, those computers are probably going to need to be very different. and they re also going
or labour intensive to be able to achieve that. both ibm and google believe that we are on the cusp of something big with quantum computing. ibm talks about the 2020s being ‘the quantum decade . so maybe for the next pandemic, we ll have bigger weapons in our arsenal. the mind bending world of the quantum computer! now, we often talk about autonomous cars on this programme but have you ever heard of an autonomous wheelchair? the concept has actually been around for a few years now but issues around reliability have meant the idea has never really made any progress. but one japanese company says it has a solution, and paul carter has been to new york sjfk airport to sit in on a very special live trial. it s safe to say that airports and disabled people haven t always been the best of friends.
plans aimed at ending today s throwaway culture are being processed by the european commission. the objectives with job products such as mobile phones and batteries are manufactured so they last and can be easily repaired, helping the environment and wildlife. riot police in venezuela have used teargas to prevent anti government protesters reaching parliament in caracas. the opposition leader called demonstration to demand presidential elections. now, it would appear thatjoe biden is to have extended his lead in the contest to take on donald trump for the democrats in november s presidential election. of the six states taking part in the latest primaries, the former us vice president is on course to beat bernie sanders it would seem. in mississippi, missouri, and michigan. let s go to our north american correspondence who has got the very latest on this.
we won some strong and interesting words from nancy pelosi, the house speaker with this warning of a possible second term for the president. this election is a very important election, in my view, civilization as we know it is at stake.
it has two hinges, one folds forwards and one folds backwards. and you can bend it into a lot of unusual shapes, although i m not entirely sure why you would want to. none of these are ready to go on sale and the company doesn t even know how much they would cost but it does give us an idea of what some phones might look like in the future. if computers are in the future going to help us design vaccines to take on threats like covid 19, well, those computers are probably going to need to be very different. and they re also going to look very different. this is a quantum computer. in this case, one of google‘s. and while it is still early days, one of the things people expect quantum processors will eventually be very good at is solving hugely complex medical problems. a lot of calculations we run today with chemistry, you have to make approximations very early on in the calculation. which means you decrease the accuracy of the results. with quantum computing,