Tag: quantum computing

August 10, 2023

President Joe Biden this week signed an executive order restricting U.S. investments in Chinese tech sectors, including AI, semiconductors, and quantum computing, reports Reuters. The move aims to prevent American resources from aiding China’s technological and military growth. China has […]

May 12, 2023

Encryption is the backbone of cybersecurity, keeping data and systems secure. Quantum computing threatens to make today’s encryption obsolete. Developing quantum-secure encryption is one of the main challenges facing the cybersecurity sector today, highlights Michael Redding, chief technology officer at […]

February 28, 2023

Back in the days when I was working with “supercomputers,” it was clear to me that these beasts capable of producing high MIPS (million instructions per second) were far too expensive for smaller businesses. Only enterprises that could foot the […]

January 18, 2023

A report(opens in new tab) from IBM has claimed quantum computing poses an “existential risk” to the current encryption protocols that secure our most sensitive data, like digital transactions. Protocols like public key cryptography (PKC) are said to be vulnerable […]

December 15, 2022

The majority (83%) of professionals working for US companies say their organizations have already started investing in quantum research or technology, if data compiled by Classiq is to be believed The Israeli quantum software firm spoke to 500 US-based professionals […]

November 11, 2022

IBM has unveiled a 433 qubit quantum processor that it is championing as a breakthrough moment in the industry. Although still well below the power of what IBM hopes to achieve in future – it plans to have a 4,000 […]

August 3, 2022

One of the potential encryption algorithms that was a serious candidate to be used in the quantum computing world has been defeated worryingly simply. The algorithm in question is called SIKE (Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation), and made it through the […]

July 13, 2022

Nvidia has introduced Quantum Optimized Device Architecture (QODA), a platform for hybrid quantum-classical computing that is intended to make quantum computing more accessible. Introduced July 12, QODA provides a coherent hybrid quantum-classical programming model, Nvidia said. The platform enables integration […]

May 10, 2022

IBM announced a revision of its (originally) 2020 quantum computing roadmap, bringing about a renewed focus in quantum computing scaling by doubling down on modularity and quantum-capable networking. In a day and age where delays are the norm, IBM’s re-commitment […]

April 26, 2022

Random numbers are in demand for a wide variety of use cases, from computer encryption to lotteries and gambling, as well as for scientific research. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace now offers a quantum computing-based random number generation service, developed […]

January 25, 2022

Quantum computing, the next wave of computational power, is a little limited right now. Don’t just take that from us: IBM itself has said so in a research paper that proposes a method for increasing the applications available for quantum […]

January 13, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, people around the world have adopted new technologies and smart devices as a way of keeping up with changes, and to live, work and learn remotely. While many of these technologies were already […]

August 31, 2020

The exponential growth in computing power looks set to revolutionize a wide range of industries and applications across almost every aspect of modern life. Here are the most important real-world applications for quantum computing any tech-savvy individual should know. Cybersecurity—Becoming […]