Realizing Commercially Viable Photonic Quantum Technologies Quantum leap for Cambridge University spin-out Excerpts and salient points ~ + Nu Quantum was founded in 2018 to develop real-world technology based on research generated over the last decade at the world famous Cavendish Laboratory. Nu Quantum has […]
Quantum Computing Business is Still a Family Matter Good capture of businesses and investment in quantum computing with basic 101 quantum computing throughout. Qubit. The Quantum Revolution: Decrypting the family business potential of quantum computing Excerpts and salient points ~ + So far the technology […]
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Commercializing Quantum Technologies Commercialising quantum technologies: opportunity to invest Key points… + The UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Commercialising Quantum Technologies Challenge is a £153 million investment in projects that will help the UK to lead the world […]
Quantum-safe Application Program Interface to be Challenged in Cyber Hackathon IronCAP Challenges Top Hackers with Availability of New “Quantum Safe” API Key points… + 01 Communique Laboratory Inc. has reached a major milestone with the launch of the IronCAP Application Program Interface (“API”). IronCAP’s patent-pending […]
Building the U.S. Quantum Industry U.S. Consortium Pulls Ecosystem Into Quantum Selected notes ~ + The U.S. government is fostering the idea of quantum computing as a nascent industry on a typical technology trajectory—one that the U.S. wants to dominate. The National Quantum Initiative Act […]
If Quantum Computers Can’t Do More Than The Average Laptop, Then Why Should Businesses Bother? Has your business considered the possibility of using quantum computers? Have your competitors considered the prospects? Get ready now. How? There are five courses of action you should embark upon. […]
DARPA Set to Incubate Quantum Bio-computing DARPA unveils new incubators for cognitive dissonance detection, quantum bio-computing and more Excerpts and salient points ~ + DARPA launched the addition of four new incubators on the Polyplexus portal, raising the total to 16 since its inception, with […]
Quantum Computing Inc Takes It’s Quantum Computing Efforts Public (Ticker: QUBT) Quantum Computing flies as it gets bumped up to the OTCQB Market Excerpts and salient points ~ + The Leesburg, Virginia, company’s stock now trades under the ticker QUBT on the middle-tier OTC Market […]
Dominating the Value Chain is Great when Technology is Static. What’s Your Strategy for the 4th Industrial Revolution? How To Build An Ecosystem Strategy Points to note… + Today, rather than looking to dominate value chains, [IBM] seeks to widen and deepen connections with research […]
Update to the 7 “Best” Quantum Computing Stocks Seeing past the investment potential of these companies, this recap has some insight as to what the largest companies are doing toward quantum computing. Nokia is a bit under-the-radar and has an interesting mention in the piece. […]
Merging of Quantum Computing and Smart Technology Much of what we have in the current technology-of-convenience environment may have its use dramatically altered by the advent of quantum computing. From coffee making to your smartphone and the Internet of Things across to medical advances and […]
Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit is Now Open Source on GitHub Open Source Release Welcomes Developers to Contribute and Help Solve Planet-Scale Challenge Excerpts and salient points ~ + [Microsoft’s] Quantum mission is to develop and deploy the world’s most scalable, secure, quantum computing system and […]
There’s Always a Bigger Fish ~ Rigetti Acquires QxBranch. Rigetti Computing acquires QxBranch to expand full-stack capabilities Excerpts and salient points ~ + Rigetti Computing… acquired QxBranch, a quantum computing and data analytics software startup. The acquisition builds on Rigetti’s full-stack strategy and expands the […]
Underscoring “Technological Supremacy and Geopolitical Power” with Quantum Computing Cease-fire in US-China trade war not expected to bridge differences Excerpts and salient points ~ + [W]hen US and Chinese negotiators sit down to work out details, the same difficult task remains: getting China to convince […]
Arguments for the Security of Continuous-variable Quantum Key Distribution (CVQKD) Synopsis: Making Quantum Cryptography Safe and Practical Excerpts and salient points ~ + Most protocols for quantum key distribution (QKD)—a quantum cryptography technique—encode an encryption key in discrete quantum states, such as the two orthogonal […]
D-Wave’s Leap Quantum Cloud Computing Environment Now Available to 30+ Nations. D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today announced the geographic expansion of its Leap™ quantum cloud service which includes access to the D-Wave 2000Q™ system and its Quantum […]
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Digital Risk Management. RSA Security has set out to focus on corporate digital-risk management. RSA’s leadership believes digital risk “will be the largest facet of risk going forward.” RSA Security’s interest is in the business aspect vice the technology aspect. However, technology cannot […]
Digicert, Utimaco, and Microsoft: Partners in IoT Security. Keeping the world safe from the Internet of Things, aka “the IoT”, was a seemingly impossible task due to the many limitations of these low-power, limited computing capacity devices. Fortunately, in a capitalist society, where there is […]
Strategic U.S. Policy and Quantum Science: Time to Prepare. The Heritage Foundation has presented a primer for U.S. national security policymakers. Whether in policy or technology, the piece is an excellent synopsis, in simple terms, on the current status of quantum computing. From the report […]
Intralogistics Industry Notes Quantum Computing Threat to Security. Disruptive technologies are encroaching on every aspect of the world’s economies. Driving these economies is international trade. LogiMAT 2019 is slated for February 19 to 21 in Stuttgart, Germany. LogiMAT is the leading international trade fair providing […]
Canada’s “Quantum Valley” In 2013, Canadian entrepreneur Mike Lazaridis was ranked tenth on a list of the most powerful people in Canada. “An avid believer in quantum information science, Lazaridis founded a new research center for that area of study in Ontario.” The center is […]
Quantum Computing Compound Annual Growth Rate: 25% We are in the midst of a U.S. and China “Quantum Computing Arms Race.” One that will result in groundbreaking computing power, enabling disruptive new technologies. Quantum computers “will have the potential to change long-held dynamics in commerce, […]
Wanted: Computation and Algorithm Specialist. As complex and cutting edge as quantum computing and machine learning are, advertisements for position openings are out there. In looking at a BOSCH coporate position request, one must wonder if industry understands the difficulty in finding the right quntum savvy […]
Proof Positive: Disruptive Technologies Increasing Corporate Bottom Line. IBM released 4th quarter 2018 earnings this week. The company’s strategic imperatives, including “IBM Cloud, Power9 and its AI-related initiatives” were given one of the reasons behind the positive growth. Increasing demand for cloud services, artificial intelligence (AI), […]
Not So Cheery Quantum Computing Prediction Beyond 2019… Top technology innovations for 2019 include blockchain’s comeback, artificial intelligence’s expansion via the cloud, and quantum computing. But all is not as transformative – in 2019 – as one would imagine. According to this op-ed, quantum computers […]
U.S. Department of Energy Funding Quantum. The U.S. Department of Energy is once again announcing grants. Of particular note, the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing is funding quantum computing-centric projects to study configurable entangled photon sources for quantum networks and building commercialization-ready low-cost deployable room-temperature quantum […]
Need a Quantum Computing Control System? Who would have thought the world would see the day? The day when quantum computing devices were real and entering the marketplace? Zurich Instruments has developed and commercially released a quantum computing control system. The device is making rapid […]
Retail Industry Considering Quantum Computing Application. Retail industry looking at quantum computing, considered by retail as a transformational technology for the decade to come. Found here at EssentialRETAIL…
Qrypt and ORNL: Making a Hybrid Quantum Approach. Though previously reported, Qrypt is again in the news with its hybrid approach to cybersecurity. Having signed an agreement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to utilize their research and hardware developed for quantum random number generation, the […]
Quantum Computing Gets Its Own Stock Fund. Quantum computing is catching Wall Street’s eye with its first ETF. The ETF invests in 60 companies engaged in quantum computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and big data. IBM, Lockheed Martin, and Attunity are three of those companies. […]