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The world’s new fastest supercomputer is an exascale machine for AI
SingularityHub
For the last two years, the US’s Summit was the fastest supercomputer on the planet. But this week, a new system, Japan's Fugaku, took the crown.
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Podcast: Quantum computing, now and next
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Race to vastly better annealers, powerful universal quantum computers which will transform machine learning into quantum learning
Next Big Future
Google has a team led by John Martinis to develop better quantum computers. They will be competing not only with whatever improvements D-Wave can make, but
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Quantum computing: the ultimate disruptor
Exponential Investor
Quantum computing isn't just faster or simply better, says Andrew Lockley. It's like nothing you've ever seen before.
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Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer
New Scientist
For the first time, researchers are able to extend the lifetime of a quantum bit, or qubit, using error correction – an essential step to useful quantum computers
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Quantum computing moves beyond 1s and 0s to make them easier to build
PC World
Quantum computers may promise a giant leap forward in performance and efficiency, but none of that can happen until we figure out a practical way to build them. The answer? Objects with more than two quantum states.
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First programmable quantum computer developed by researchers
Azom
Two contrasting strategies have come close in the race to develop large-scale quantum computers. One strategy is based on trapping ions, while the other is based on a traditional technology. Both can now develop a basic device, which would be able to run a range of quantum software.
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High-Fidelity Quantum logic gates using trapped-ion hyperfine qubits
APS Physics
The highest two-qubit gate fidelities have been demonstrated in two experiments that use scalable trapped ion platforms.
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What makes quantum computing so controversial?
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Marcos Lopez de Prado and Quantum Computing. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1Wq6gwm Connect with Singularity University: Website: http://singularityu.org Singulari...
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Google gains new ground on universal quantum computer
Physics World
Combination of digital and analogue computing methods may be the route towards a quantum computer
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Quantum computing will make your PC look like a graphing calculator
Digital Trends
infried Hensinger likes Star Trek. “It goes all the way back to primary school,” said the director of the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies in England. “I wanted to be science officer on the Enterprise, so I worked out in about grade five that I wanted to study physics.” Today, his day-to-day work on abstract […]
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Google sees long, expensive road ahead for quantum computing
Next Platform
As was the case over seven decades ago in the early days of digital computing – when the switch at the heart of the system was a vacuum tube, not even a
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Quantum computing is the next space race, says Telstra's Hugh Bradlow
Financial Review
If Australians win the quantum computing race, they could shape the future of the 21st century, Telstra's Hugh Bradlow has said.
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Quantum summit - panel discussion
YouTube - IQIM Caltech
How soon will we have quantum computers? In what ways will they transform our lives? Listen in as some of the top experts from tech companies working on quan...
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Quantum computing breakthrough could help 'change life completely', say scientists
Independent
'It is the Holy Grail of science ... we will be able to do certain things we could never even dream of before'
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In two minds: governments' quantum leap into the future
The Guardian
Governments are investing millions in quantum in the hope it might help save lives. But will this gamble on subatomic particles pay off?
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Quantum computing is going commercial with the potential to disrupt everything
Newsweek
Problems that would take longer than a human's life span on a classic computer will be completed in hours or days with quantum computing.
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China shatters “spooky action at a distance” record, preps for quantum internet
Scientific American
Results from the Micius satellite test quantum entanglement, pointing the way toward hackproof global communications
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Quantum computers compete for “Supremacy”
Scientific American
Two technologies may be on the verge of surpassing even the most powerful digital computers in a year or so, but key challenges remain unsolved
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Quantum computing moves one step closer with spintronics material creation
Digital Trends
A newly developed material known as bismuthene could make spintronics viable at room temperature and beyond.
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Morgan Stanley: This next big technology trend could start the ‘fourth industrial revolution’
CNBC
Morgan Stanley says IBM, Google, Microsoft and Nokia Bell Labs currently have the "most credible" quantum computing pipelines.
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The strange physics Google, IBM, and others are banking on to change computing
Fast Company
Quantum computing has long lingered somewhere between reality and fantasy. Whatever the facts, the underlying science is very real and very weird.
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Google quantum computer test shows breakthrough is within reach
New Scientist
The idea that quantum computers can do things that regular ones cannot isn’t proven. But Google thinks it knows a problem only a quantum computer can solve
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Quantum computers pose imminent threat to Bitcoin security
MIT Technology Review
Bitcoin is taking the world by storm. The decentralized digital currency is a secure payment platform that anybody can use. It is free from government interference and operated by an open, peer-to-peer network. This independence is one reason Bitcoin has become so popular, causing its value to rise steeply. At the beginning of 2017, a single…
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Europe unveils roadmap for the next decade of quantum computing
Engadget
Back in 2016, the EU invested 1 billion euros (almost $1.2 billion at today's exchange rates) in quantum computing. Now, a year and a half later, it's time for an update on what's happening thanks to a 150-page roadmap on European quantum technologies. It also outlines where the project will go over the next decade.
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Error-free into the quantum computer age
Eurekalert
A study led by physicists at Swansea University in Wales, carried out by an international team of researchers and published in the journal Physical Review X shows that ion-trap technologies available today are suitable for building large-scale quantum computers. The scientists introduce trapped-ion quantum error correction protocols that detect and correct processing errors.
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Scientists discover how to harness the power of quantum spookiness by entangling clouds of atoms
Singularity Hub
One of the most iconic features of quantum mechanics is “entanglement." Now, three independent European research groups have managed to entangle not just a pair of particles, but separated clouds of thousands of atoms. They’ve also found a way to harness their technological potential.
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Quantum computer: we’re planning to create one that acts like a brain
The Conversation
Combining quantum computing with neural networks could produce AI that can make very complex decisions quickly.
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The Guardian view on quantum computing: the new space race
The Guardian
Editorial: The main use of quantum technology might not be to hack existing systems but to create unhackable communication networks of the future
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Silicon gains ground in quantum-computing race
Nature
The manufacturing techniques behind classical computing are making their way into quantum devices. The manufacturing techniques behind classical computing are making their way into quantum devices.
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The quantum computing apocalypse is imminent
Techcrunch
According to experts, quantum computers will be able to create breakthroughs in many of the most complicated data processing problems, leading to the development of new medicines, building molecular structures and doing analysis going far beyond the capabilities of today's binary computers.
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This is what a 50-qubit quantum computer looks like
Engadget
From afar, it looks like a steampunk chandelier. An intricate collection of tubes and wires that culminate in a small steel cylinder at the bottom. It is, in fact, one of the most sophisticated quantum computers ever built. The processor inside has 50 quantum bits, or qubits, that process tasks in a (potentially) revolutionary way. Normally, information is created and stored as a series of ones an
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Russian, German physicists create 'impossible' material for quantum computers
Sputnik News
The researchers, supervised by Professor Alexei Ustinov, the head of the MISiS Superconducting Metamaterials Lab, has created the world's first metamaterial-based...
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Job one for quantum computers: Boost artificial intelligence
Quantam Magazine
The fusion of quantum computing and machine learning has become a booming research area. Can it possibly live up to its high expectations?
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Why quantum computers will be an amazing tool for social innovators
SingularityHub
Quantum computers will have a wide impact from scientific research to business. But there’s another area that could benefit from their problem-solving prowess too: Social impact. As quantum computers are developed further, here are three reasons it is important for social innovators to step up and lead.
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Quantum algorithm could help AI think faster
Eurekalert
One of the ways that computers 'think' is by analysing relationships within large sets of data. An international team has shown that quantum computers can do one such analysis faster than classical computers, for a wider array of data types than was previously expected.
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IBM inches ahead of Google in race for quantum computing power
MIT Technology Review
All kinds of things are hooked up to the Internet these days, but Jerry Chow’s computer stands out. Chilled by liquid helium, his superconducting processor uses quantum physics to circumvent rules of everyday reality that limit the power of conventional computers. Chow manages IBM’s quantum computing group at the company’s Thomas J. Watson research center…
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Job one for quantum computers: boost artificial intelligence
Wired
The fusion of quantum computing and machine learning has become a booming research area. Can it possibly live up to its high expectations?
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Quantum computers 'one step closer'
BBC
Quantum computing has taken a step forward with the recent development of a silicon-based programmable quantum processor.
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Physicists create new form of light
MIT
MIT and Harvard physicists have created a new form of light that could enable quantum computing with photons.
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A programmable two-qubit quantum processor in silicon
Nature
A two-qubit quantum processor in a silicon device is demonstrated, which can perform the Deutsch–Josza algorithm and the Grover search algorithm. The development of platforms for spin-based quantum computing continues apace. The individual components of such a system have been the subject of much investigation, and they have been assembled to implement specific quantum-computational algorithms.
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Nobody knows how far off useful quantum computers are: Here’s why
The Next Web
The recent breakthroughs in quantum physics expand on work down nearly two decades ago. So how far away are useful quantum computers?
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If quantum computers threaten blockchains, quantum blockchains could be the defense
MIT Technology Review
  A blockchain is a mathematical structure that stores data securely over time. The idea has risen to fame on the back of the Bitcoin boom. Bitcoin relies on blockchains to securely store its related currency transactions. But the same technology can store any kind of data—shipping data, the progress of computer programs, smart contracts,…
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Google wants to make programming quantum computers easier
MIT Technology Review
Quantum computers are still in their infancy, but builders of the exotic machines want to encourage software developers to experiment with them. Programming the circuits on quantum machines is a real challenge . Instead of standard digital bits, which represent either 1 or 0, quantum computers use “qubits,” which can be in both states at once…
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The coming quantum leap in computing
BCG
Practical applications for quantum computing in multiple industries are closer than many people think. The market could hit $50 billion by 2030.
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Researchers created ‘Quantum Artificial Life’ for the first time
Vice - Motherboard
“Our research brought these amazingly sophisticated events called life to the realm of the atomic and microscopic world …and it worked.”
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IBM just proved quantum computers can do things impossible for classical ones
The Next Web
The debate over whether quantum computers will ever be able to do anything better than classical ones is over. A team of researchers just proved they can.
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Graduate student solves quantum verification problem
Quantamagazine
Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum computer…
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How old-school silicon could bring quantum computers to the masses
Fast Company
A new approach to quantum—schlepping data with light—depends upon the very readily available stuff of classical computer chips.
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The case against quantum computing
Spectrum IEEE
The proposed strategy relies on manipulating with high precision an unimaginably huge number of variables
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A new type of quantum computer has smashed every record
TechSpot
IonQ was founded on a gamble that 'trapped ion quantum' computing could outperform the silicon-based quantum computers that Google and others are building. As of right now,...
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Quantum communication just took a great leap forward
Singularity Hub
Solutions to these problems have been found using the bizarre properties of the quantum world, in particular quantum entanglement.
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A new type of network is on the rise to combat the quantum threat to encryption
Data Centre Knowledge
“Quantum-proof” encryption algorithms won’t be entirely quantum-proof. Quantum key distribution networks could be the answer.
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D-Wave takes another step on the Path to broader quantum computing commercialization
Forbes
D-Wave’s new, lower-noise quantum processor will make quantum computing solutions more practical for business.
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People may one day live on Mars in these NASA-approved, 3D-printed homes—take a look inside
CNBC
A NASA contest asked dozens of architects and technology experts to submit designs for 3D-printed habitats that could one day house humans on Mars. These are the designs that won.
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How a quantum computer could break 2048-bit RSA encryption in 8 hours
MIT
Many people worry that quantum computers will be able to crack certain codes used to send secure messages. The codes in question encrypt data using “trapdoor” mathematical functions that work easily in one direction but not in the other. That makes encrypting data easy but decoding it hugely difficult without the help of a special…
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Quantum computing breakthrough means Google could be very close to revealing revolutionary machine
Independent
Google director says computational power is growing at 'doubly exponential' rate
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Quantum supremacy is coming: Here’s what you should know
QuantaMagazine
Researchers are getting close to building a quantum computer that can perform tasks a classical computer can’t. Here’s what the milestone will mean.
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200 times faster than ever before: the speediest quantum operation yet
UNSW
A group of physicists at UNSW Sydney have built a super-fast version of the central building block of a quantum computer. The research is the milestone result of a vision first outlined by scientists 20 years ago.
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Quantum supremacy is coming. It won't change the world
The Guardian
If quantum computers are to help solve humanity’s problems, they will have to improve drastically
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Entan­gle­ment sent over 50 km of opti­cal fiber
UIBK
For the first time, a team led by Innsbruck physicist Ben Lanyon has sent a light particle entangled with matter over 50 km of optical fiber. This paves the way for the practical use of quantum networks and sets a milestone for a future quantum internet.
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Google reportedly attains 'quantum supremacy'
CNET
Its quantum computer can solve tasks that are otherwise unsolvable, a report says.
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When will quantum computers outperform regular computers?
Gizmodo
Any day now, quantum computers will solve a problem too hard for a classical computer to take on. Or at least, that’s what we’ve been hoping. Scientists and companies are racing toward this computing milestone, dubbed quantum supremacy and seemingly just beyond our reach, and if you’ve been following the quantum computing story, you might wonder why we’re not there yet, given all the hype.
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Google’s Quantum supremacy announcement shouldn't be a surprise
Gizmodo
Headlines have boldly proclaimed that Google achieved “quantum supremacy” after the Financial Times on Friday leaked a draft of Google’s quantum supremacy research paper. I’m here to tell you that this is not a big surprise, nor is it a big deal—at least, not for you, yet.
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A quantum leap in the classical world
Popular Mechanics
For the first time ever, physicists tested the phenomenon of quantum superposition using molecules. That's a big deal.
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China takes another step towards uncrackable quantum communication
SingularityHub
On top of improving the efficiency, the team has tackled some of the potential side-channel attacks that a hacker could use to compromise the secure link.
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Honeywell's new quantum computer edges closer to threatening Bitcoin
Decrypt
Honeywell has announced that its newest quantum computer has reached a quantum volume of 64—twice as powerful as rival machines from IBM and Google.
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Time crystal discovery could change the future of quantum computing
Inverse
An international team of physicists observed the interaction of time crystals for the first time, a phenomenon essential to quantum computing.
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Major quantum computational breakthrough is shaking up physics and maths
The conversation
Citizen sleuths were out in numbers (or holed up inside, frantically tweeting) after last week’s Boston Marathon bombings. Alongside the drip-drip from mainstream media and the trickle of information from…
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Commercialising quantum computers
The Economist
Today’s small, limited and finicky machines may yet have business uses
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A path to graphene topological qubits
Aalto University
Researchers demonstrate that magnetism and superconductivity can coexist in graphene, opening a pathway towards graphene-based topological qubits
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Exclusive: Air Force research taps quantum computing
Axios
The research collaboration with QC Ware will provide a real-world test of the technology
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Going beyond qubits: New study demonstrates key components for a Qutrit-based quantum computer
Berkeley Lab
Team led by Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists builds a new type of quantum processor capable of information scrambling like that theorized within black holes.
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Intel says it has solved a key bottleneck in quantum computing
Engadget
Intel has overcome a quantum computing bottleneck by controlling two qubits with a cryogenic control chip..
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Google aims for commercial-grade quantum computer by 2029
The Wall Street Journal
Tech giant is one of many companies racing to build a business around the nascent technology.