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Today, D-Wave unveiled Clarity, its roadmap for the years ahead. Improving current hardware and services, debuting gate-model quantum computers, and quantum annealing will be the centerpieces.

Today at its annual conference, Qubits, D-Wave announced Advantage 2 with over 7,000 qubits, new hybrid solvers in its Leap quantum cloud service, and expansion into gate-model quantum computers.

Providing over twice the precision and inference speed compared to the last generation, Nvidia's new TensorRT 8 deep learning SDK clocked in a time of 1.2 ms in BERT-Large's inference.

Rigetti has introduced a novel modular chip design that will help scale up quantum computers. The chip will feature in an 80-qubit quantum computer that will be revealed by the end of this year.

Using Horse Ridge, a control chip for quantum computers, researchers demonstrated frequency multiplexing on two qubits using the same wire and reported 99.7% fidelity in randomized benchmarking.

Today at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced Grace, its first Arm-based CPU for data centers that promises ten times the performance of today's fastest servers and then some.

Qiskit now natively supports IonQ's quantum hardware. Without writing additional ancillary code, you should be able to run your circuits directly onto IonQ's 11 qubit quantum computer.

A study finds that 40% of China's bitcoin mining is powered by coal and will produce 130.5 million metric tons of carbon emissions by 2024. This would hamper the country's control of CO2 emissions.

Under the new partnership, KAUST will become a licensed user of QC platform Orquestra, allowing the university to accelerate CFD research to improve airplane aerodynamics and reduce emissions.

Quantum Brilliance will be deploying its quantum accelerator at the Pawsey Supercomputing Center in Perth in an industry first. The accelerator works at room temps and is based on synthetic diamonds.

Elon Musk indicates that the SN10 engines lacked thrust. The rocket landed at 10 m/s, damaging some parts. It also used "Helium in header" to atone for SN8's explosion, but that was also problematic.

XNNPack and TensorFlow Lite now support efficient inference of sparse networks. Researchers demonstrated substantial speedups in inference times on realtime gesture detection and background blur apps.

Intel is now one of the 14 companies recognized as having deep domain expertise in providing high-performance compute platforms, solvers, and management solutions via AWS resources to its customers.

The new blog channel will highlight scientific and technological developments in quantum computing. It will also be a place for sharing tutorials, customer stories, and news related to AWS.

IBM detailed its plans for realizing full-scale quantum computers by 2030. Latest updates promise 100x faster circuit execution, greater algorithmic complexities, and a tamed barrier to entry for QC.

An in-depth look at Microsoft's quantum control chip - Gooseberry - and cryo-compute core that can be used to control thousands of qubits, paving way for practical large-scale quantum computers.

Malicious actors, reportedly from North Korea, are targeting security researchers with social engineering attacks using fake social media accounts, exploit claims, and injected malware.

NASA and Boeing are aiming for no earlier than March 25 for CST-100 Starliner's second unmanned orbital flight test (OFT-2). The test is slated to be a milestone in the NASA Commercial Crew program.

As part of a $150 million investment, Google will launch two features geared towards vaccine education. The firm will also be using its buildings and parking lots as vaccination sites.

'The Voyage' kicked off Samsung's CES 2021. The melody captures the firm's brand identity and will be the first time that it will be communicating with its consumers via a brand sound.

In a joint effort by multiple countries with help from Europol, authorities arrested an Australian citizen linked to DarkMarket and proceeded to shut down over 20 site servers in Ukraine and Moldova.

The recent privacy policy updates from WhatsApp have garnered substantial criticism and sparked privacy concerns. Following this, Turkey has now launched an antitrust probe into WhatsApp and Facebook.

Starship SN8 executed an almost perfect high-altitude flight test before plummeting towards the earth at a velocity greater than the intended threshold. SpaceX and Musk extolled the test as a success.

U.S. Lawmakers wrote to Intel and Nvidia inquiring them about the export of their technology that has potentially been used by China to carry out surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang region.

Amazon's quantum computing service has been integrated with PennyLane to speed up the development of quantum-hybrid algorithms. It also has a new tensor network simulator that supports 50 qubits.

In the path towards improving data flow and networking in data centers, Intel showed off key advances like the tight coupling of CMOS technologies with photonics and miniature micro-ring modulators.

At Intel Labs Day 2020, Intel showed two robots running on its neuromorphic Loihi chip. Mercedes-Benz, Lenovo, and others have joined the INRC. A next-gen neuromorphic chip is also in the pipeline.