Ather Fawaz
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Clarity: D-Wave's guiding light for its future in quantum computing
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. → Read More
D-Wave announces the next generation of its quantum system and more at the Qubits conference
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. → Read More
Reddit user reverse-engineers what they believe is Apple's solution to flag child sex abuse
Reddit user u/AsuharietYgvar is confident that they have uncovered Apple's NeuralHash algorithm, which will combat child sexual abuse, deep in iOS' source code. A GitHub repo contains their findings. → Read More
Nvidia and Mozilla release the latest version of the Common Voice Dataset
The latest iteration of the Common Voice Dataset was released today bringing with it over 13,000 hours' worth of crowd-sourced speech data, over 182,000 unique voices, and a total of 76 languages. → Read More
AI won't be taking up software engineering jobs any time soon, but it's getting there
In a paper, researchers test the best language models (GPT-2/3/Neo) at solving programming questions from coding interviews. Results aren't particularly groundbreaking but show potential. → Read More
Interview: D-Wave's Alan Baratz on the present and future of practical quantum computers
We sat down with D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz to have a chat about quantum computers, what kind of problems they're solving, how they're tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, and what lies ahead. → Read More
Internet Explorer 11 is set to retire next year
Microsoft announced today that come June 15, 2022, the desktop application for Internet Explorer 11 will be retired. The firm is confident that the future of Windows 10 lies with Microsoft Edge. → Read More
WSJ: Bill Gates left Microsoft board during probe into inappropriate relations with employee
A report from the Wall Street Journal says that some members of Microsoft's board of directors wanted Gates to step down as company director following inappropriate relations with a female employee. → Read More
OpenAI's diffusion models beat GANs at what they do best
OpenAI's improvements to contemporary diffusion models see them beat the state-of-the-art generative adversarial networks (GANs) in both conditional and unconditional image generation tasks. → Read More
Intel and QuTech's Horse Ridge highlights key progress towards scalable quantum computers
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. → Read More
Nvidia now a three-chip company as it unveils its first Arm-based CPU
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. → Read More
IonQ's quantum computers are now fully integrated with Qiskit
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. → Read More
China's bitcoin mining empire is at odds with the country's pledge to go carbon-neutral
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. → Read More
New research shows that near-term quantum computers can learn to reason
Cambridge Quantum Computing has demonstrated Variational Inference on quantum computers for the first time. Results are encouraging, indicating a promising new approach in quantum machine learning. → Read More
Zapata and KAUST team up to accelerate fluid dynamics research using quantum computers
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. → Read More
The world's first diamond-based quantum accelerator to be deployed in Perth
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. → Read More
Lack of thrust and an ad hoc solution to SN8's explosion led to Starship SN10's fiery ending
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. → Read More
Researchers accelerate sparse inference on XNNPack and TensorFlow Lite for realtime apps
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. → Read More
Intel is now an AWS High Performance Computing Competency Partner
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. → Read More
AWS introduces a new blog channel dedicated to quantum computing
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. → Read More