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Quantum filo pastry gets magnetic twist
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Thursday, 08 May 2025 09:05

Quantum filo pastry gets magnetic twist


Boffins eye quantum computer boost from chromium sandwich

Boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs having come up with a more viable way to do quantum computing and sensing, by creating much longer-lasting quantum states.

Cisco creates entanglement chip
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Wednesday, 07 May 2025 10:41

Cisco creates entanglement chip


Powered by potentially dead or alive cats 

Cisco boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a prototype quantum entanglement chip.

South Korean top quantum boffin defects to China
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Treat your boffins nicely or they will be headhunted

China’s semiconductor headhunting just bagged another trophy as South Korean quantum materials expert Lee Young-hee took a full-time post at the Hubei University of Technology in Wuhan.

Quantum messaging works over 254km
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Thursday, 24 April 2025 09:25

Quantum messaging works over 254km


Didn’t need to freeze the quantum cats

A team of German boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs having sent the first-ever coherent quantum communications across 254 km of bog-standard telecoms fibre.

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip “fraud”
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Thursday, 13 March 2025 09:37

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip “fraud”


Boffins don’t back the hype

Microsoft has been boasting that its quantum chip is powered by an "entirely new state of matter," but not everyone is buying the hype.

British Time Lords fight GPS jammers
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Thursday, 06 March 2025 09:48

British Time Lords fight GPS jammers


Reversing the polarity on the neutron flow.

Britain's top boffins—nicknamed the "Time Lords"—are racing against the clock to save the country from a £1.4 billion-a-day threat.

Microsoft's quantum leap
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Thursday, 20 February 2025 09:07

Microsoft's quantum leap


New chip could speed up the introduction of quantum supercomputers

Software King of the World Microsoft has unveiled a breakthrough that, thanks to a revolutionary Majorana 1 chip, could make quantum computing a reality within years—not decades.

Australia fast-tracks cryptography overhaul
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Thursday, 19 December 2024 01:16

Australia fast-tracks cryptography overhaul


Fears of Quantum cats 

Australia’s chief cyber security agency has announced plans to overhaul the cryptographic foundations of the internet by 2030, years ahead of other nations.

Google claims to have entered a parallel universe
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Willow gets own multiverse

Search engine outfit Google has boldly claimed that its latest quantum chip, Willow, might be tapping into parallel universes to achieve its jaw-dropping performance.

Google unveils quantum processor faster than supercomputers
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Cat is out of the box

Google scientists have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a new quantum processor capable of solving a problem in five minutes that would have taken the world's best supercomputer 10 septillion years.