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Future quantum computers will be no match for ‘space encryption’ that uses light to beam data around — with the 1st satellite launching in 2025

Future quantum computers will be no match for ‘space encryption’ that uses light to beam data around — with the 1st satellite launching in 2025

By converting data into light particles and beaming them around the world using satellites, we could prevent encrypted messages from being intercepted by a superpowerful quantum computer, scientists claim.

Currently, messaging technology relies on mathematical, or cryptographic, methods of protection, including end-to-end encryption. This technology is used in WhatsApp — as well as by corporations, the government and the military — to protect sensitive data from being intercepted. 

Encryption works by scrambling data or text into what appears to be nonsense, using an algorithm and a key that only the sender and recipient can use to unlock the data. These algorithms can, in theory, be cracked. But they are designed to be so complex that even the fastest supercomputers would take millions of years to translate the data into something readable. 

Quantum computers change the equation. Although the field is young, scientists predict that such machines will be powerful

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SandboxAQ Puts a Quantum Twist on AI Technology

SandboxAQ Puts a Quantum Twist on AI Technology

Just when you thought you had a handle on artificial intelligence (AI), here comes a twist on the technology. Because AI is being merged with quantum computing ahead of schedule. The result could have significant implications for financial services as well as other verticals.

“The physical world is defined by quantum mechanics,” Chris Hume, senior director of business operations for SandboxAQ, told PYMNTS. “The more effectively we can understand those interactions and then model those interactions, the more efficiently and effectively you can build predictive models. With the algorithms that we’re developing combined with the classical computer hardware that’s available today, you can build better predictive models, and that’s the exciting part. And that’s the opportunity at hand.”

SandboxAQ has termed its AI-quantum computing hybrid AQ. Quantum computing as a holistic approach to data is years away and, as Hume said, even scientists who work on quantum computing

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What is Quantum Computing?

What is Quantum Computing?

Technology Computer

The pace and scale of change would have amazed our mid-20th-century forebears. Yet techno-optimistic assurances about the positive social power of a networked computer on every desk have proved tragically naïve. The information age of late has been more effective at fomenting discord than advancing enlightenment, exacerbating social inequities and economic inequalities rather than transcending them. The United States’ extraordinary push to develop nuclear and other weapons during World War II unleashed a torrent of public spending on science and technology. The efforts thus funded trained a generation of technologists and fostered multiple computing projects, including ENIAC—the first all-digital computer, completed in 1946.

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Google, IBM make strides toward quantum computers that may revolutionize problem solving

Google, IBM make strides toward quantum computers that may revolutionize problem solving

New Computer Technology

Now that machines are interacting with people and integrating into the chaos of the wider world, everything becomes more uncertain. Indeed, most household objects, from toothbrushes to light switches to doorbells, already come in a smart version. But as they proliferate, we are going to want to spend less time telling them what to do. For the past 40 years we have been programming computers; for the next 40 we will be training them, says Chris Bishop, head of Microsoft Research in the UK.

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IBM Debuts Next-Generation Quantum Processor & IBM Quantum System Two, Extends Roadmap to Advance Era of Quantum Utility Dec 4, 2023

IBM Debuts Next-Generation Quantum Processor & IBM Quantum System Two, Extends Roadmap to Advance Era of Quantum Utility Dec 4, 2023

New Computer Technology

At some point in the coming decade, we’ll need to make the jump to a new technology, and the smart money’s on graphene. That changeover is going to seriously shake up the status quo of the computer industry, and make and lose a lot of fortunes. It’s very likely that in a few decades we may find ourselves back here again, debating what new technology is going to take over, now that we’ve reached the limits of graphene. The first problem was solved when electronics giant Samsung announced that its research arm had discovered a way to mass produce whole graphene crystals with high purity. The issue is that, while graphene’s extreme conductivity makes it attractive from a heat perspective, it’s also annoying when you want to make transistors – devices that are intended to stop conducting billions of times a second.

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