The Weekly Quantum Digest: Things get ‘chippy’ between IBM and Google over quantum supremacy
Google claims quantum supremacy. IBM says, no you don’t. Google says, yes we did. IBM says, whatever. Read more about the quantum supremacy debate more. Spotlight Story: “The calculation that Google chose to conquer is the quantum equivalent of generating a very long list of random numbers and checking their values a million times over. […]
IonQ secures $55 million in latest funding round
As Google and IBM fight it out over whether quantum supremacy has finally been reached or not, investment money continues to pour into quantum computing startups. In the most recent example of big bets, IonQ, a leader in universal quantum computing, recently announced it has secured $55 million in a funding round led by the […]
Colombia Enters The Quantum Computer Space
Beaten Down For decades the South American continent has been hounded by guerilla wars, bloodshed and economic chaos. Chile and Pinochet. Peru and its Shining Path. Venezuela and Maduro, who has brought the oil-producing country to its knees. Yet there is one that has suffered more than any other. Colombia. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán’s assassination, in […]
As supremacy debate continues, Google CEO expects quantum applications in a decade
Although the notion of quantum supremacy is still being debated, researchers, including Google scientists, officially released their paper in Nature describing how they may have achieved quantum computing’s holy grail. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai sounded cautiously optimistic in comments about the paper that describes how scientists using Google’s 53-bit quantum computer, named Sycamore, took 200 […]
Quantum Computer Claws Are Out: IBM says Google’s quantum claim isn’t so Supreme
Two quantum giants are in a war or words over recent claims of quantum supremacy, according to Wired Magazine. Las month, Google claimed in a technical paper that the search-engine giant achieved quantum supremacy in a NASA-Google collaboration. Quantum supremacy — originally conceived by Caltech professor John Preskill — is the point at which a […]
As Cold As Ice – Kiutra enters the Quantum Computing World
Innovators in the Field The German-speaking world, like other developed regions around the globe, has its fair share of startups in the ‘hard tech’ space. And in quantum computing (QC), the case is much the same. For a region that could claim to be the spiritual home of quantum mechanics, the great-granddaddy of today’s innovators in […]
Researchers take a quantum simulator for a spin through spacetime
One of the things that quantum computers are uniquely suited for is — surprise, surprise — studying the quantum realm. In a recent study, a team of researchers used a quantum simulator to explore loop quantum gravity and the dynamics of spacetime, according to a news release. The team simulated spin-network states on a four-qubit […]
The Weekly Quantum Digest: Einstein’s quantum twin spin and more
How quantum technology is bound to change the world, putting a quantum spin on Einstein’s twin paradox and more in this week’s Quantum Digest. Spotlight Story: “No, quantum computing did not come of age with Google’s Sycamore, a 53-qubit computer solving in 200 seconds a problem that would take even a supercomputer 10,000 years. Instead, […]
The Quantum Compass
Spies Like Us The Hunt For Red October, a classic in the chase/war/espionage genre. Or in a lighter note, the great comedy Spies Like Us. In the 1980s, the scenario of a bitter Cold War, the threat of nuclear apocalypse, Ronald Reagan on the one side and Mikhail Gorbachev on the other, was a reality that […]
Quantum machine learning startup gets backing to expand team
What do you get if you couple artificial intelligence with quantum computing — and throw in some big business challenges-slash-opportunities, like creating new drugs and making ground-breaking advances in materials science? You get about £1.3 million in seed funding, according to Business Cloud. Rahko, a London-based quantum machine learning company, received the million-pound-plus seed funding […]