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Intel Bets Big on 2-Track Quantum Strategy

Quantum computing has lived so long in the future it’s taken on a futuristic life of its own, with a Gartner-style hype cycle that includes triggers of innovation, inflated ...Full Article

Cold Blanket Cast on Quantum Computing

Amid the gush of money and enthusiastic predictions being thrown at quantum computing comes a proposed cold shower in the form of an essay by physicist Mikhail Dyakonov published ...Full Article

Quantum Startup Targets the Stack

Add the Israeli startup Quantum Machines to the list of innovators pursuing the building blocks of the elusive computing architecture. The web site Techcrunch.com reported Wednesday (Nov. 21) that Tel ...Full Article

Rigetti Eyes Scaling with 128-Qubit Architecture

Rigetti Computing plans to build a 128-qubit quantum computer based on an equivalent quantum processor that leverages emerging hybrid computing algorithms used to test programs and potential applications. Founded ...Full Article

How to Fight the Coming Quantum Data Decryption Threat

Is quantum computing 15 years away? Twenty? Is a nation state or threat actor secretly already using it? Are threat actors already capturing and storing your data, hoping some ...Full Article

Quantum Error Correction: Google Takes on Qubit Accuracy

The more we hear and read about quantum computing, the more we develop a dawning comprehension for what it seems to be - along with appreciation for why it's ...Full Article

New Device Spots Quantum Particle ‘Fingerprint’

Majorana particles have been observed by university researchers employing a device consisting of layers of magnetic insulators on a superconducting material. The advance opens the door to controlling the ...Full Article

Quantum Computing vs. Our ‘Caveman Newtonian Brain’: Why Quantum Is So Hard

Quantum is coming. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon enough*. Within 10 to 12 years, we’re told, special-purpose quantum systems (see related story: Hyperion on the Emergence ...Full Article

NSF Partners With VMware on IoT, Launches Computing Efforts

The National Science Foundation has launched a partnership with VMware to advance edge computing infrastructure required for the Internet of Things (IoT). Separately this week, NSF unveiled a $30 ...Full Article

Quantum Computers Threaten Data Encryption

The promise of quantum computing comes with a major downside: "Cryptographically useful" quantum machines will threaten public key encryption used to secure data in the cloud, a new report ...Full Article
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