Public support of clean energy initiatives is being met with public funds. The private sector now also needs to amp up innovation in the area. The public must demand change, policy must facilitate it, and companies must do more to make the clean energy revolution a reality.

These gentle giants are undergoing a silent extinction.

IBM has announced IBM Q, an initiative to build the first commercially available universal quantum computers with the help of others interested in the field. IBM hopes to develop 50 qubit computer systems in the next few years, which would be dramatically faster and more powerful than today's computer systems.

Some of the finest minds in the artificial intelligence got together to hypothesize about the worst possible things that could happen when AI becomes a prevalent part of society. While it was fairly easy to come up with situations where AI could be misused, coming up with solutions and ways to prevent misuse proved to be far more of a challenge.