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When Will You Actually Use a Quantum Computer? Sooner Than You Think

By Futurist Thomas Frey

IBM just demonstrated real-time quantum error correction running on standard AMD chips—performing 10× faster than required and finishing a year ahead of schedule. Tech journalists are calling it a breakthrough. Venture capitalists are recalculating investment timelines. But here’s the question nobody’s answering clearly: when will this actually matter to regular people?

The honest answer might surprise you: you’re probably already using quantum computing without knowing it. And within five years, quantum-enhanced services will be so embedded in everyday applications that asking “when will I use quantum computing?” will sound as strange as asking “when will I use cloud computing?” You already do. You just don’t think about it.

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Computer Security, Inventions, Medicine, Science & Technology News

Quantum computing : Solving problems beyond the power of classical computing

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Quantum computers will lead to vast improvements in drug discovery, weather forecasting and supply chain optimisation.

Weather forecasting today is good. Can it get better? Sure, it can, if computers can be better. This is where quantum computers come into the picture. They possess computing capacity beyond anything that today’s classical computers can ever achieve. This is because quantum computers can run calculations exponentially faster than today’s conventional binary computers. That makes them powerful enough to bridge gaps which exist in today’s weather forecasting, drug discovery, financial modelling and many other complex areas.

Classical computing has been the backbone of modern society. It gave us satellite TV, the internet and digital commerce. It put robots on Mars and smartphones in our pockets.

“But many of the world’s biggest mysteries and potentially greatest opportunities remain beyond the grasp of classical computers,” says Stefan Filipp, quantum scientist at IBM Research. “To continue the pace of progress, we need to augment the classical approach with a new platform, one that follows its own set of rules. That is quantum computing.”

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Computer Security, IBM, Science & Technology News

Successful deployment of CQC’s Iron Bridge Quantum Photonic Cryptography Device into IBM Key Protect

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The IronBridge 4 qubit cryptographic device, which can generate quantum secure keys for your applications, successfully integrates with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud.

Cambridge Quantum Computing has integrated its IronBridge quantum photonic cryptographic device with IBM Key Protect and can demonstrate the generation of post-quantum secure keys.

This solution requires minimal changes to existing infrastructure and interfaces natively with the IBM Cloud platform. This project was achieved through Cambridge Quantum Computing working with the IBM Key Protect team. Technically, this provides the IBM Cloud with various forms of post-quantum encryption keys and enhanced security around existing cryptography, as classical AES keys benefit from being generated from a quantum source of entropy. The keys are generated through NIST pre-approved algorithms and are uploaded and stored ready for use as Key Protect Standard Keys.

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Computer Security, IBM, Inventions

IBM just proved quantum computers can do things impossible for classical ones

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A team of researchers from IBM, the University of Waterloo, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) today published the results of an experiment proving a quantum computer can do things a classical one cannot. This may be a watershed moment in the history of computer science.

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Engineering, Inventions, Nanotechnology

German researchers have built a quantum transistor using just a single atom

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A team of researchers at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a quantum transistor using just a single atom, and capable of operating at room temperature.

The device points toward major new frontiers in computing power and efficiency. Transistors, which control the flow of electronic signals, are the basis of modern electronics. The steady reduction in the size and energy consumption of transistors has been the fundamental driver of advances in computing power for more than half a century.

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