Overhype? When I write about startups in the deep tech and quantum computing space, one of the things I always consider before putting pen to paper (or fingers to laptop keys as so happens to be the case these days) is how interesting the company is in regard to what they…

Going Too Far In 2019, Bill Gates stated that it was time for the government to step in and regulate big tech companies. With the likes of Facebook, Amazon and Google dominating our everyday lives, some would say it’s a good thing. Cases of anti-trust and anti-competitive behaviour have hounded US tech companies…

Toppling Dominoes Researchers from Vandersypen’s lab at QuTech, a collaboration between Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) that was founded in 2014, have published a paper in Nature Communications, Electron cascade for distant spin readout, that has come up with a new approach…

AI has its good points but also some that are a little less reassuring. Whether we all have a job in the future is one of them — Elvis Has Left The Building With the millions in the US who have just lost their jobs over the COVID-19 pandemic, putting the country into near economic meltdown along with the rest of the planet, thoughts of artificial intelligence (AI) taking over people’s livelihoods could be viewed as ill-timed.

In the coming years, the blockchain will play a greater role in our lives. Yet that role could be threatened if things are not put in order first. — 53 Qubits Late last year in October, Google announced that it had achieved ‘Quantum Supremacy’ on its 53-qubit quantum computer. The phrase means, in layman’s terms, that a quantum device can solve any given problem that a classical computer/supercomputer can’t. After the announcement, there was both celebration and derision from all corners…

Cryptocurrency is spreading like wildfire. In Cuba, too, the disruptive technology is making its mark — Bastion Of Communism There’s no escape from cryptocurrencies, and especially Bitcoin. No corner of the world exists (North Korea and Iran being possible exceptions) where its influence is not being felt. …