The federal government will invest $40 million in a Toronto company to help it develop the “computer of the future,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Jan. 23. “As many of you know, I get really excited by quantum computing,” Trudeau said while visiting the installations of Xanadu Quantum Technologies. The prime minister said the…
Biden Signs Cybersecurity Bill to Ensure Data Encryption Used by US Government Is Quantum Proof
President Joe Biden has signed into law the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, legislation to push the federal government to adopt technology designed to protect against potential data breach attempts by a future quantum computer. The Dec. 21 signing of the bipartisan measure, also called H.R. 7535, comes amid a race with China in advancing quantum computing technology and…
Quantum Computing: Race for the Next Manhattan Project
World powers are in a race for the next Manhattan Project. This time, instead of an atomic bomb, the atoms make up a quantum computer. In this special report, we look at China’s goal to be the first to get their hands on the ultimate cyber weapon, how China stacks up against the United States…
Quantum Computing as Important as the Atomic Bomb: Expert
Chinese tech giant Baidu is developing its own quantum computer to compete with the United States in the race toward next-generation information processing. The computer does not outperform rivals currently being developed in America but, according to one expert, signals dire competition over the future of data security. Arthur Herman, a senior fellow at the…
Sen. Marco Rubio: US Reliance on Chinese-Made Pharmaceuticals and Critical Technology Could Help Hand Taiwan to the Regime
“What everybody needs to understand,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said, “is that the day China takes Taiwan without the U.S. being able to stop them will be a linchpin moment in human history.” In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek sat down with Rubio to discuss how the Chinese regime has…
NSA Says ‘No Backdoors’ in New Quantum Resistant Encryption Scheme
The next generation of encryption standards being developed out of the United States will be impenetrable, even by the country’s top code crackers, and resistant to quantum computers, according to NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce. “There are no backdoors,” Joyce told Bloomberg May 13, referring to hidden flaws that enable hackers to break encryption. The development…
Taiwan Joins Quantum Computing Race, Establishes National R&D Team
Taiwan recently unveiled a national team dedicated to quantum computing R&D, taking advantage of the island’s advanced semiconductor industry. An announcement was made about the initiative involving 17 research groups on March 16 by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the national research institute Academia Sinica, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), reported…
Aspiring Quantum Computing Firm Sandbox AQ Spun Off From Alphabet
Quantum computing aspiring firm Sandbox AQ. spun off from Alphabet Inc., procured “nine figures” of funding, and signed several clients for its cybersecurity services, Reuters reports. Sandbox’s investors include Schmidt, Breyer Capital, T. Rowe Price funds, and Salesforce.com Inc. founder Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures. Sandbox would use cloud computing from Google Cloud and others. Sandbox AQ, backed by Google…
JPMorgan, Toshiba, Ciena Find New Way to Protect Blockchain With Quantum Network
NEW YORK—A team of quantum computing engineers from JPMorgan Chase & Co., Toshiba Corp. and Ciena Corp. say they have successfully shown that a powerful, newly-developed encryption network can be used to protect communications on the blockchain, according to a paper published Thursday. The group of researchers say it is the first time that a…
IonQ Launches New Tech for Quantum Computing
IonQ Inc. aims to use barium ions as qubits in its systems to enable advanced quantum computing architectures. IonQ plans to use barium ions to build systems designed to be faster, more powerful, more easily interconnected, and feature more uptime for customers. “IonQ builds the world’s most powerful quantum computers, and the ability to build…
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