| Microsoft quantifies its quantum ambitions, macOS seeks the high ground and Apple comes to its search senses. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for September 26, 2017. 1. Microsoft wants to take a quantum leap Microsoft's Ignite conference is underway, and it's placing a big bet on quantum computing. This includes setting up its own quantum computing lab in Santa Barbara, and potential to either sell a quantum computing device in future, or at least make its services available via Azure. Quantum computing is a bit beyond my grasp, but I believe it has something to do with time travel and second chances. And Scott Bakula. 
2. macOS High Sierra is here It's the operating system that prompted a weed joke from an Apple exec on stage, and now anyone can download and install it. It brings a lot of under the hood changes, mostly, so take a look and see if it's up your alley. Generally speaking, updates are good. 3. Apple goes back to Google for search defaults Apple has switched from Bing to Google as the default search provider for Siri web searches on iOS, and for Spotlight searches on the Mac. I assume this means Bing's usage numbers will plummet to zero since this was the only accidental way anyone was using it to begin with. 4. Vimeo acquires Livestream and launches its own live video Vimeo is launching live video streaming, and it acquired Livestream to help make it happen. The latter company is most known for being the annoying reason you can't generally use "livestream" all one word as a generic term. 5. Star Trek: Discovery premiere is a mixed bag My Original Content co-host Anthony Ha has feelings about the new Star Trek series: So do I, but I'll reserve my thoughts for our next show while you can read his right now. 6. Waymo wants $1.8 billion from Uber I also want $1.8 billion – from anyone – but Waymo believes it has a valid claim in its ongoing legal complaint against the ride hailing company over self-driving tech. The figure is the max amount of damages it's seeking, found in a new court filing. 7. Instagram now lets you be selective with commenters Comments can be toxic, but you're hopefully less likely to get bad ones if you can limit the ability to add comments to your post to specific groups, including people you follow. Now, you can do that if you have a public account. | 
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