They grow diamonds in petri dishes now (sorta)
A group of research scientists at the Carnegie Institution have devised a new method to grow diamonds. Keep in mind that there’s more to diamonds than the tragic trade surround them (explained in great...
View ArticleD-Wave using large scale software to prove that its quantum computer is real
Oh, D-Wave. The Canadian quantum computer company—excuse me, the alleged quantum computer company—needs your help to prove that its quantum computer is on the up and up. Read More
View ArticleAre We Less Than 5 Years Away From Quantum Computing?
Are we actually looking at a viable quantum computer? Could be, amigos. A team of researchers from universities in the UK, Japan, Israel, and the Netherlands, have announced that they’ve come up with a...
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D-Wave CEO Vern Brownell On Quantum Computing And Tackling Tech’s Big Problems
It’s been a big year for D-Wave, the quantum computing technology company. In May it was announced that NASA and Google had jointly purchased a D-Wave Two computer to anchor a new ‘Quantum Artificial...
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Report: NSA Trying To Build A Quantum Computer To Crack Encryption
The National Security Agency wants to build a futuristic super computer that can break most types of encryption, according to documents obtained from Edward Snowden by the Washington Post. No reason...
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D-Wave Systems Raises $28.4 Million Round
Quantum computing technology company D-Wave Systems has raised a new $28.4 million round of funding, according to a new filing on the SEC’s site. Read More
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YC-Backed Rigetti Computing Raises $2.5M To Create Commercial Quantum Systems
Once confined to research labs and science fiction, quantum computing is finally reaching a point where researchers aren’t simply trying to find out what’s possible, but looking at how they can...
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Google Partners With UCSB To Build Quantum Processors For Artificial...
Google today announced that it is expanding its research around quantum computing and that it has hired UC Santa Barbara’s (UCSB) John Martinis and his team — one of the most prolific research groups...
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D-Wave Systems Raises Another $29M To Accelerate Development On Its Quantum...
Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems announced today that it raised a $29 million (CAD) round of funding in late 2014. This follows the $28.4 million it brought in last summer and ~$2.2 million...
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IBM Researchers Can Now Spot Errors In Quantum Calculations
IBM researchers say they’ve solved a big piece of the quantum computing puzzle with a new system for protecting against errors that can crop up among quantum bits, or ‘qubits.’ The issue the team is...
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A Turning Point For Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is moving from theory and experimentation into engineering and applications. But now that quantum computing is going mainstream, it is incumbent on businesses and governments to...
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AI is closer than we know
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest subjects these days, and recent advances in technology make AI even closer to reality than most of us can imagine. The subject really got traction when...
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Inside the Starburst-sized box that could save the Internet
Cybercrime is costing us millions. Hacks drain the average American firm of $15.4 million per year, and, in the resulting panic, companies often spend more than $1.9 million to resolve a single...
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In Apple vs. the FBI, technology wins
Government policy and technology usually coexist in harmony. But occasionally, they get into a brawl. When this happens, policy may win a battle or two, but, ultimately, technology always wins. It...
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IBM launches quantum computing as a cloud service
Quantum computing is still very much in the early research stage, but IBM is hoping to accelerate the progress around it by making a quantum computer available to researchers as a cloud service. It is...
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Post-quantum crypto startup PQ bags $10.3M Series A
Being first to market with complex technology doesn’t usually make for a simple sales proposition. Nor does trying to pioneer an alternative approach as a small security startup vs established...
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Google starts experimenting with quantum-secure connections in Chrome
If quantum computing ever lives up to its promise (and that’s still a big ‘if’ at this stage), somebody could use this technology to retroactively break any communications that were encrypted with...
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Why we are still light years away from full artificial intelligence
The future is here… or is it? With so many articles proliferating the media space on how humans are at the cusp of full AI, it’s no wonder that we believe that the future — which is full of robots and...
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D-Wave ups its quantum annealing game to 2000 qubits
Universal quantum computers don’t exist, but that hasn’t stopped D-Wave from carving out its own place in the quantum computing market. Today, the 17-year-old company is announcing its forth quantum...
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IBM adds new API to quantum computing cloud service
IBM announced today that it was updating its Quantum Experience cloud with a new API that it hopes will increase the abilities of researchers and other interested parties to build more sophisticated...
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