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D-Wave Develops a Lower-Noise Quantum Annealer
D-Wave has developed a lower noise version of their D-Wave 2000Q processor and has made it available on-line via their Leap quantum cloud...
May 16, 20192 min read
NXM Labs Introduces Quake, a Hybrid Solution for Quantum Resistant Cryptography
The NXM Quake (Quantum Augmented Key Encapsulation) solution combines both a classical and a quantum key encapsulation algorithm (for...
May 10, 20191 min read
IBM Revamps the IBM Q Experience to Provide Jupyter Notebook Support and Releases a New Version o...
IBM is now beta testing a new version of the IBM Q Experience that provides the ability to run Qiskit using Jupyter notebooks. ...
May 8, 20192 min read
Quantum Circuit Simulation on the World's Fastest Classical Supercomputer
A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA, University of Illinois, and Google recently posted a paper showing simulation results...
May 4, 20192 min read
U.S. Government Funding Opportunity for Development of Quantum Algorithms
The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) together with the National Security Agency (NSA) is soliciting proposals to develop new quantum...
May 4, 20191 min read
Can Researchers Exponentially Improve Quantity and Quality at the Same time?
We read with interest a recent article in Nature Magazine by Joseph Emerson of Quantum Benchmark and IQC that indicated entangling gate...
Apr 24, 20192 min read
Apr 19, 20190 min read
You've Heard About the Traveling Salesman Problem. How About the Traveling Welding Robots?
Many introductory computer science programs will cover the traveling salesman problem as an example of an NP-hard problem that becomes...
Apr 18, 20192 min read
Innovations in Classical Computing Architectures Make Quantum Advantage a Moving Target
We’ve seen a great many quantum computing presentations that show an almost obligatory slide titled “Moore’s Law is Ending”. It is meant...
Apr 16, 20193 min read
Marketing Hint to QC Companies: Use HTTPS on Your Website
As most people know, one of the aspects of quantum computing that has raised concern is the effect it will have on computer security in...
Apr 13, 20192 min read
Archer Exploration Starts Carbon-Based QC Chip Development Project
Archer Exploration in Australia has started a project they call 12CQ with the aim of building a carbon-based quantum computing device...
Apr 5, 20191 min read
Quantum Value: A new hope
There has been a lot of discussion about Quantum Advantage to demonstrate uses of quantum computers that solve practical problems which...
Apr 5, 20191 min read
Chinese Scientists Set New Quantum Factoring Record
In a technical paper titled Factoring larger integers with fewer qubits via quantum annealing with optimized parameters, Chinese...
Apr 5, 20192 min read
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) To Provide Up to $40 Million for Research Into New QC Algorithms ...
The U.S. DOE has released Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) for both government labs and non-government organizations for research...
Apr 5, 20191 min read
Bo Ewald Takes the Helm at ColdQuanta
ColdQuanta announced today that it has appointed Robert “Bo” Ewald as President and Chief Executive Officer. Bo is well known in the...
Mar 27, 20192 min read


Is a Quantum Winter Coming?
It may seem strange to talk about an upcoming winter at the end of March (unless you are in Australia), but at the recent Inside Quantum...
Mar 23, 20192 min read
Intel and IBM Publish Research Papers Combining QC and AI
A lot of folks are researching using quantum computing to work with artificial intelligence algorithms. Recently, IBM and Intel received...
Mar 16, 20192 min read
The Popular Press Discovers Quantum Time Travel
There has been a rash of articles this week describing how scientists were using an IBM Quantum Computer to reverse time. We almost...
Mar 16, 20191 min read
IBM Releases Version 0.1 of Qiskit Ignis
IBM has released a new module in their Qiskit suite called Qiskit Ignis. Qiskit Ignis is a framework for understanding and mitigating...
Mar 16, 20191 min read


Worldwide Map of Quantum Research Activity
Everyone knows that people are researching quantum computing all over the world. But, as typically happens with technology, there can...
Mar 8, 20191 min read
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