Items tagged with quantum computing
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Zak Killian - Thu, Feb 20, 2025
For years, predicting when quantum computing would become practical has been difficult, largely because of fundamental challenges that had no clear solutions. Those timelines may need to be advanced considerably, though; Microsoft has...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Feb 12, 2025
There's a thermal noise problem in quantum computing, and it comes from an unlikely source: the wiring used to interface with the qubits. You see, electrical signals traveling across wire generate heat, and quantum bits or "qubits" have to...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Sep 13, 2024
Microsoft is making some changes to SymCrypt, which is the core cryptographic function library currently used by Windows. These changes are based on the guidance provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This...
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Chris Goetting - Wed, Oct 05, 2022
Intel has its hands in many different areas of semiconductor innovation, design and production. The company is best known for its desktop and server processors, but has also developed new memory and storage solutions, FPGAs, its latest Arc...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Feb 24, 2022
Researchers are attempting to use quantum computing and machine learning in order to gain a better understanding of holographic duality. The study is the first systematic survey for quantum computing and deep-learning as it pertains to...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Nov 17, 2021
Quantum computing might be our path to real science-fiction computing power, and it's been making grand strides in the last couple of years. About two years ago, Google announced that it had achieved "quantum supremacy," which means that...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Nov 16, 2021
Quantum computers are really, really bad at most of the things we use computers for, but they're impossibly-superior at certain, select tasks. One of those tasks happens to be breaking encryption. That's a concern for security agencies the...
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Nathan Ord - Thu, Jul 01, 2021
Quantum computing is the next big field of research that could topple how we use computers today. Now, IBM has proved and demonstrated that quantum computers have advantages over their classical counterparts.
To understand what IBM has...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, May 19, 2021
During yesterday’s Google I/O event, we heard about several updates to Google software products, including Android 12 and Wear OS. Google also managed to bring in actor Michael Peña to tour the new Google quantum computing and AI campus...
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Nathan Ord - Thu, May 13, 2021
Early in 2020, we covered a cryogenic control chip from Intel called Horse Ridge that was destined to help make quantum computing more feasible. Since then, Intel has created a second generation of the chip, and the partnership between...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 02, 2021
Several years ago, Microsoft succinctly explained why it was making big investments in quantum computing, saying the short answer is "quantum computing will change everything." The longer answer is a bit more complex, but the general...
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Nathan Ord - Sat, Jan 02, 2021
Quantum computing is a fascinating and continually developing field that may drive computers' future and fundamentally change the world. While that is happening, people still need networks to communicate over the internet. As such...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 29, 2020
Every so often, Google and IBM like to flex their developments in quantum computing (Google last year claimed it had achieved quantum supremacy), a highly complex way of crunching data to potentially solve problems much faster than...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 04, 2020
Less than six months after researchers at Google claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy, a notion IBM rejects, Honeywell has come out of the woodwork and essentially told them both to step beside, saying it achieved a breakthrough that...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 19, 2020
Looking ahead, quantum computing has the potential to dramatically alter the technology landscape, though several challenges will have to be overcome for this to be a feasible reality. In an effort towards getting us there, Intel and...
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Shane McGlaun - Fri, Dec 27, 2019
Scientists at the University of Bristol and the Technical University of Denmark have made an incredible breakthrough discovery. Researchers for the institutions have achieved quantum teleportation between two computer chips for the first...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Dec 09, 2019
While Intel is currently embroiled in a x86-64 processor battle with AMD, the company is also dipping its toes into the future of computing: quantum computing to be exact. The company today announced the fruits of a partnership with...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 23, 2019
There's a good old fashioned nerd fight brewing between the eggheads at IBM and Google. Don't worry, it's not physical—it's a war of words and theoretical concepts. What sparked the debate is Google's claim of achieving "quantum supremacy"...
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Brittany Goetting - Sun, Sep 22, 2019
We are a little bit closer to making quantum computing an everyday reality. Google researchers reportedly created a quantum computer that has achieved “quantum supremacy”. The quantum computer was able to solve equations that would be...
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Brittany Goetting - Sat, Aug 24, 2019
Beam me up, Scotty. Scientists have recently announced that they have achieved complex quantum teleportation. Multidimensional teleportation could have a strong impact on quantum computing and communication.
Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna, and...
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, Apr 26, 2018
Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) have announced that they have created a new material that is a key step in creating the next generation of supercomputers. These next-generation quantum computers will be far faster than...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Mar 06, 2018
Google has developed a new quantum processor called Bristlecone that it hopes will be instrumental in building a quantum computer capable of solving real-world problems. At the American Physical Society meeting in Los Angeles where the...
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