Quantum advantage is the milestone the field of quantum computing is fervently working toward, where a quantum computer can solve problems that are beyond the reach of the most powerful non-quantum, or classical, computers. Quantum refers to the scale of atoms and molecules where the laws of physics as we […]
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They call it Q-Day: the day when a quantum computer, one more powerful than any yet built, could shatter the world of privacy and security as we know it. It would happen through a bravura act of mathematics: the separation of some very large numbers, hundreds of digits long, into […]
The UK communications regulator has referred the country’s £7.5bn cloud computing market to the competition watchdog for a formal investigation after a study raised concerns about industry leaders Amazon and Microsoft. Ofcom has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to launch an inquiry, saying it is “particularly concerned about the […]
Improved computer security is on the horizon for both businesses and individual users willing to adopt an alternative to passwords. Yet, despite the growing disdain for the cumbersome process of creating and entering passwords, the transition toward a future without them is gaining traction at a surprisingly slow pace. The […]
In the digital cold war between the United States and China, American officials are increasingly turning their attention to a new target: Chinese cloud computing giants. Over the last 18 months, the Biden administration and members of Congress have ramped up their exploration of what can be done to address […]
Quantum computers today are small in computational scope — the chip inside your smartphone contains billions of transistors while the most powerful quantum computer contains a few hundred of the quantum equivalent of a transistor. They are also unreliable. If you run the same calculation over and over, they will […]
I have my doubts about whether Apple’s Vision Pro, which was announced last week but will not be available until 2024, will be successful. My doubts mostly revolve around Apple’s current strategy, which is to avoid collapsing existing markets, something Apple had to do to make the iPhone successful, and […]
Sorting algorithms are a vital part of computing BEST-BACKGROUNDS/Shutterstock An algorithm used trillions of times a day around the world could run up to 70 per cent faster, thanks to an artificial intelligence created by UK-based firm DeepMind. It has found an improved way for computers to sort data that […]