John Martinis leaving Google. Some friction with Hartmut Neven who will lead the effort at Google.
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Meet the company that has just begun testing a coronavirus vaccine in the United States
“We’ve had failures. We’ve gone down blind alleys. But because we’ve been quiet about it, nobody’s seen that.” Melissa Moore, Moderna Therapeutics
The coronavirus pandemic in five powerful charts
A new firm says it can link satellites to ordinary smartphones
If it works, there will be no escaping a mobile signal. AST & Science emerged from “stealth mode” this week. It dubs its service “SpaceMobile”. Mr Avellan, a veteran of the satellite industry, says he …
Chance discovery brings quantum computing using standard microchips a step closer
A study to prod an antimony nucleus (buried in the middle of this device) with magnetic fields became one with electric fields when a key wire melted a gap in it. S. ASAAD ET AL., NATURE 579, 205 (2020)
Keysight Technologies Drives Advancements in Quantum Technology that Enable Companies and Institutions to Perform Cutting-edge Research
Company collaborates with MIT and acquires Labber Quantum
Tens of thousands of communications satellites could spoil view of giant sky telescope
Supreme or Unproven?
Despite much recent fanfare, quantum computers still need to show that they can do something useful.
The Breakthrough Birth of Low-Loss Fiber Optics
Once Charles Kao had identified the promise of glass for communications, specialists in glass science took on the task of making that promise a reality. A small group at Corning succeeded by taking a contrarian …
A better starting point for exploring entanglement
“In their approach, Xiang’s team encoded non-Gaussian characteristics into the mathematics of ‘Wigner’ distribution functions, which are related to the probability distributions of quantum particles. Their updated equations removed many of the complications typically involved …