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Apple Debuts Post-Quantum Cryptography Cipher PQ3 for iMessage Communication
Apple announced a new quantum-resistant encryption protocol that will be used to secure iMessage communications, PQ3 against attack scenarios known as "harvest now, decrypt later".
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Microsoft Launches Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0
Microsoft recently announced the 1.0 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK), a significant rewrite of the prior QDK, emphasizing speed, simplicity, and a browser experience for developers. QDK is mostly rewritten in Rust, which compiles to WebAssembly for VS Code or the web and native binaries for Python.
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AWS Announces Amazon Braket Direct: Reserve Dedicated Capacity on Different Quantum Devices
AWS recently announced the availability of Amazon Braket Direct, a new Amazon Braket program allowing quantum researchers to dive deeper into quantum computing.
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Microsoft Integrates Copilot with Azure Quantum Elements for Advancing Scientific Research
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft demonstrated the advantages of combining AI and Azure Quantum Elements, a suite of services and tools for quantum chemistry and materials science. With the integration of Copilot, the new solution allows researchers to explore more materials, speed up chemistry simulations, and experiment with existing quantum hardware.
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Cloudflare Post-Quantum Cryptography Now Generally Available, Including Origin Servers
Cloudflare has announced the general availability of post-quantum cryptography for a number of its services and internal systems. While promising a higher standard of privacy for the post-quantum era, the new feature depends on post-cryptography support in browsers and on the final link between Cloudflare and origin servers.
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Baidu Announces Superconducting Quantum Computer and Integration Solution
Baidu, the company behind the homonymous search engine, has announced its first quantum computing processor, named Qian Shi, along with an "all-platform" integration solution aimed to simplify access to quantum hardware resources via mobile, desktop, and the Cloud.
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Google Open-Source Quantum Computing Framework Cirq Reaches 1.0
After over four years in development, Google open source quantum programming framework Cirq has reached stability and established itself as the lingua franca that Google engineers use to write quantum programs for Google's own quantum processors.
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Three-Node Quantum Network is a Step towards the Quantum Internet
Researchers at the Delft University QuTech center created the first multi-node quantum network, which is a step in the direction of building a network of interconnected quantum computers. InfoQ has spoken with Ronald Hanson, principal investigator at QuTech, to learn more.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Q&A with Jean-Philippe Aumasson
While quantum computing is still in its infancy, post-quantum cryptography is a field of growing interest for companies and research institutions. InfoQ has spoken with cryptography researcher Jean-Philippe Aumasson to understand where post-quantum crypto is headed.
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The Pillars of Future Cryptography at IBM
In a recent webinar, IBM summarized the latest advances in cryptographic technologies the company has been working on, including confidential cryptography, quantum-safe encryption, and fully homomorphic cryptography.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 15th, 2021
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of the new Azure SDK, multiple Akka.NET plugins, and the streaming of Include 2021, a digital event host by Microsoft focused on diversity and inclusion. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 15th, 2021.
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Microsoft Opens up Its Azure Quantum Platform for Public Preview
Announced at Ignite 2019, Azure Quantum is a full-stack, cloud ecosystem enabling access to diverse quantum hardware and software. Aimed at developers, researchers, and customers, Azure Quantum is now in public preview.
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Microsoft Introduces Its Quantum Intermediate Representation
Based on LLVM, IBM Quantum Intermediate Representation (QIR) extends LLVM IR to better suit the representation of quantum constructs.
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Amazon Releases Quantum Computing Service Braket into General Availability
Amazon Braket is a fully-managed AWS service that provides a development environment for exploring and designing novel quantum algorithms. With the service, customers can test and troubleshoot their algorithms on quantum circuit simulators and run them on different quantum hardware technologies.
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MIT Researchers Claim to Have Found a Way to Scale up Quantum Chips
In a recent paper published in Nature, MIT researchers have described a process to manufacture "artificial atoms" that can be integrated to create larger-scale quantum chips. As a proof of this, they built a 128-qubit chip, the largest yet.