C12 is announcing that it recently raised an €18 million funding round ($19.4 million at today’s exchange rate). Originally founded in 2020 as a spin-off
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What Is a Quantum Battery? And When Will It Power My Laptop?
The modern battery has come a long way in its 224-year history. In the place of Alessandro Volta’s piles of metal disks and brine-soaked cloth,
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Quantum error correction used to actually correct errors
Enlarge / Quantinuum’s H2 “racetrack” quantum processor. (credit: Quantinuum) Today’s quantum computing hardware is severely limited in what it can do by errors that are
Read moreMicrosoft and Quantinuum say they’ve ushered in the next era of quantum computing
Microsoft and Quantinuum today announced a major breakthrough in quantum error correction. Using Quantinuum’s ion-trap hardware and Microsoft’s new qubit-virtualization system, the team was able
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Quantum computing progress: Higher temps, better error correction
Enlarge (credit: vital) There’s a strong consensus that tackling most useful problems with a quantum computer will require that the computer be capable of error
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Google Launches $5 Million Competition to Figure Out What the Hell Quantum Computers Do
If you’ve ever wondered what quantum computers actually do, you’re not alone. The truth is, no one knows what modern problems this technology can solve.
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