January 20, 2025

A Quantum money solution to the Blockchain scalability problem

Researchers from Caltech and Ben-Gurion University put forward the idea that classical blockchains and smart contracts are potentially useful primitives not only for classical cryptography, but for quantum cryptography as well. Abstractly, a smart contract […]

Miraex as finalist of the NASA Challenge

Miraex, together with top-notch partners Aperio Global and IBM, has been selected among the 15 finalists for the NASA Science Mission Directorate “Entrepreneurs Challenge”. Miraex, a Swiss startup located in Lausanne and spinoff of EPFL, is one of the few […]

US unveils Quantum Internet blueprint

US Department of Energy (DOE) officials and scientists have begun laying the groundwork for a more secure “virtually unhackable” internet based on Quantum Computing technology. A report has been issued that lays out a blueprint […]

Quantum Computing to study genetic diseases

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are tapping into the potential of quantum computers to understand genetic diseases. The team developed and implemented a genetic sample classification algorithm, a Hamming distance-like, that […]

SIG and ID Quantique collaborate in QKD

Services Industriels de Genève (SIG), Geneva’s utility company (Switzerland), ID Quantique (IDQ), one of the leading company in quantum-safe security solutions, and ADVA, a provider in secure open optical networking solutions, announced today the implementation […]

Quandela closed its first round

The startup Quandela has closed its first round table to develop high-performance and reliable photonic qubit sources. This round was carried out with Quantonation and Bpifrance. Created in 2017, Quandela is a spin-off from the […]

ORCA Computing raises £2.9M ($3.7M)

ORCA Computing Ltd, a quantum computing company based in London, UK has announced the close of £2.9M ($3.7M) public and private financing to begin building their optical-fiber based quantum computer. The pre-seed round was led […]

Atos announces its Quantum Annealing Simulator

Atos announces the development of a new Quantum Annealing Simulator, thus becoming the world’s first company to provide powerful simulation solutions to explore the two main technological paths of quantum computing: quantum annealing, via its […]