Month: November 2024

Der chinesische Automobilriese Geely plant Berichten zufolge die Übernahme des deutschen Flugtaxi-Pioniers Volocopter. (Volocopter, Bundesregierung)

Amazon will am Temu-Hype teilhaben: In neuen Haul-Store kostet alles nur wenige US-Dollar und wird direkt aus China geliefert. (Amazon, Onlineshop)

AMD plant einen Stellenabbau von vier Prozent und richtet den Fokus auf KI und Rechenzentren, während die Gaming-Sparte zurückfällt. (AMD, KI)

Am 11. November fand ein Cyberangriff auf den Ökostromanbieter Tibber statt. Dabei sind Daten von rund 50.000 deutschen Kunden abgeflossen. (Cybercrime, Datenschutz)

Brannon Braga und Rick Berman wollten die Enterprise ursprünglich erst spät ins All schicken. (Star Trek, Klingonen)

Seit 20 Jahren hoffen Spieler auf Eigenheime in World of Warcraft, nun kommt die Funktion - und noch sehr viel mehr. (World of Warcraft, MMORPG)

Die Unterlagen zum ersten britischen Satelliten sind unvollständig. Es ist unklar, warum sich Skynet-1A in seiner jetzigen Umlaufbahn befindet. Die BBC hat recherchiert. (BBC, Raumfahrt)

Gezieltes Incident Management kann die Folgen von Cyberangriffen erheblich reduzieren. Ein praxisorientierter Workshop vermittelt die nötigen Schritte, um bei IT-Sicherheitsvorfällen schnell und effektiv zu reagieren. (Golem Karrierewelt, Server-Applikationen)

Game Platform GOG no longer goes by the name Good Old Games, since GOG now offers new titles as well. But GOG hasn’t exactly given up on its roots. Today the company announced the GOG Preservation Program, an initiative that helps ensure old games are compatible with current and future PCs. In other tech news […]

The post Lilbits: GOG brings old games to new PCs, VMWare goes free(er), Apple smart screen leaked, and more appeared first on Liliputing.

There's a general consensus that we won't be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected quantum computing, which is unlikely to arrive until the end of the decade. It's still an open question, however, whether we could perform limited but useful calculations at an earlier point. IBM is one of the companies that's betting the answer is yes, and on Wednesday, it announced a series of developments aimed at making that possible.

On their own, none of the changes being announced are revolutionary. But collectively, changes across the hardware and software stacks have produced much more efficient and less error-prone operations. The net result is a system that supports the most complicated calculations yet on IBM's hardware, leaving the company optimistic that its users will find some calculations where quantum hardware provides an advantage.

Better hardware and software

IBM's early efforts in the quantum computing space saw it ramp up the qubit count rapidly, being one of the first companies to reach the 1,000 qubit count. However, each of those qubits had an error rate that ensured that any algorithms that tried to use all of these qubits in a single calculation would inevitably trigger one. Since then, the company's focus has been on improving the performance of smaller processors. Wednesday's announcement was based on the introduction of the second version of its Heron processor, which has 133 qubits. That's still beyond the capability of simulations on classical computers, should it be able to operate with sufficiently low errors.

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