Quantum Computing
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Another quantum computer company has raised US$6.1 million in seed extension funding.
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Vodafone and IBM are urging companies in the telecoms supply chain to make sure they are ready for the post-quantum world.
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Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Systems subsidiary is to offer customers cloud access to IBM quantum computers.
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Fujitsu and Osaka University say they have made a significant breakthrough in quantum computing.
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Equinix is to install a quantum computer in Tokyo and make it available to businesses worldwide.
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A new Cisco-sponsored centre at the University of Edinburgh is to research quantum computing, artificial intelligence and cyber security.
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Quantum Motion, a UK-based quantum computing scale-up led by academics from UCL and Oxford University, has raised over £42 million in equity funding.
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An Australian start-up has raised US$18 million to develop miniaturised quantum computers that it believes are capable of solving complex problems.
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A quantum computing company co-founded by a winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for physics has raised €100 million in funding.
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The end of current techniques used to encrypt data traffic might be closer than most people think, according to a mathematical paper from China.
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Oxford Ionics, which is developing proprietary electronics for quantum computing, has raised £30 million in Series A funding.
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IBM has formed an alliance with Helsinki quantum software company Algorithmiq, a US$4 million start-up.
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ColdQuanta has raised US$110 million in funding from private equity and other investors, including Sumitomo and former Motorola chairman and CEO Chris Galvin, who has joined the company’s board.
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The science arm of the Australian state of Victoria is taking a stake in quantum computing company ColdQuanta to set up a new research unit in Melbourne.
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Professor Tim Spiller of the Quantum Communications Hub speaks to Natalie Bannerman about the role of quantum in communications and innovations enabling it.
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BT is set to play a significant role as quantum technology develops. Andrew Lord, senior manager of optical research at BT, talks about the company’s quantum R&D, QKD and the quantum internet
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Pioneers in quantum technology are working with integrated circuit makers to deliver the quantum’s benefits in volume and lower its costs, Alan Burkitt-Gray writes.
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Pioneering UK companies in the quantum computing and security industry have set up a lobby group, UKQuantum, to be a “voice for the sector”.
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The GSMA has set up a taskforce to look at the impact of quantum technology on the mobile industry and to help define quantum-era policy and regulations.
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Data centre colo and interconnection company Cyxtera is to give more than 2,300 customers access to quantum computers after a deal with Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC).
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Luxembourg-based satellite company SES is to lead a 20-company consortium to deliver a satellite system for European quantum cybersecurity.
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South Korean operator SK Telecom has succeeded in getting its approaches to quantum-era securing considered as global standards.
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The power of cloud services is set to take a leap forward following a deal between a UK quantum computing company and a German chip maker.
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Amazon has set up a centre in California to develop quantum-secure networking.
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Quantum computing company ColdQuanta has hired Bob Sutor, formerly of IBM, as its VP of corporate development.
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techUK has released a new quantum commercialisation report calling on the UK government and industry to set clear commercial ambitions together.
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Quantum security company Arqit has won a role at the heart of the UK’s integrated military command system.
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IBM confirms the launch of the IBM z16, its next-gen system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimised inferencing.
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Fujitsu says it has successfully developed the world’s fastest quantum computer simulator capable of handling 36-qubit quantum circuits.
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The world’s largest bank has teamed up with Ciena and Toshiba to develop quantum technology that can deliver 800Gbps channels and a total speed of 2.4Tbps.
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A New York-based company that is working with Telefónica says it has developed a quantum-based key system that is available in the cloud.
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A very British approach to regulation; altimeter checks in Norway and the cold side of quantum computing
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A company backed by two universities and the security services has opened a lab in London so that potential users can explore quantum computing.
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The UK government has picked Arqit Quantum to join a project to built ultra-high security in 5G communications.
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ColdQuanta, the quantum company that Zayo founder Dan Caruso led for a time, has set up a partnership to make real-life quantum computing solutions.
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IBM confirms that LG Electronics has joined the IBM Quantum Network to advance industry applications of quantum computing.
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ColdQuanta, the quantum security and computing company led by Zayo founder Dan Caruso, has appointed heads of research and of engineering.
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Quantum security company Arqit has won a deal to provide security for the Saudi Arabian project to build a new smart city, Neom.
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Fujitsu and a company working with the International Space Station have been named as among the first users of Quantum Origin, what’s claimed to be the world’s first commercial product built using quantum computers.
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OTTs, 2022 trends and BT's Andrew Lord on QKD and hollow core fibre
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The security that the internet has relied on for decades is broken. Fortunately, the cavalry, in the form of quantum keys, is riding to the rescue, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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The merged quantum computing company bringing together Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum will be called Quantinuum, the two said yesterday.