Credit: Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock French quantum computing startup Alice & Bob has announced the results of research that demonstrates design advances for its superconducting ‘cat qubit.’ The research as conducted in collaboration with its academic partners at Laboratoire de Physique de l’ENS, Mines Paris and Laboratoire de Physique de l’ENS de Lyon, demonstrating major design advances for its superconducting ‘cat qubit.’ Théau Peronnin, CEO and co-founder of Alice & Bob, comments: “These new designs can further enhance cat qubit performance beyond its already record-breaking ..read more

Credit: whiteMocca/Shutterstock In a recent post on the ARM website, Mark Hambleton, vice president of open-source software (OSS) at Arm, describes the company’s focus on open-source software.  A key tenet for Arm and our ecosystem is collaboration across the open-source community to create a strongly curated Arm architecture that is more stable for software to land on, enabling millions of developers worldwide to test and build their applications. This is why Arm supports thousands of open-source projects in all segments, from the cloud to the edge and endpoint, with several recentl ..read more

Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Akkodis, a global digital engineering company and the tech business of the Adecco Group, has announced that its Canadian subsiduary has been awarded a contract by the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) to deliver professional support services to modernise and transform software systems. The company has received this award as part of a joint venture with two leading industry partners, Thales Canada and KWESST Micro Systems. Tao Qiu, Country President for Akkodis in Canada, said, "Akkodis is honoured to support the Canadian Government in fulfillin ..read more

Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Atos has been awarded a five-year contract by The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust to modernise its communications infrastructure by installing new hybrid cloud-based technologies from the Atos Unify range of remote and distributed work offerings and solutions, supporting the hospital’s role as a world-leading innovator in cancer research, diagnosis and treatment. Atos will provide the Trust, which delivers care to nearly 60,000 NHS and private patients every year, with an end-to-end hybrid communications solution including cloud paging, Teams integratio ..read more

Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Atos has been awarded a five-year contract by The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust to modernise its communications infrastructure by installing new hybrid cloud-based technologies from the Atos Unify range of remote and distributed work offerings and solutions, supporting the hospital’s role as a world-leading innovator in cancer research, diagnosis and treatment. Atos will provide the Trust, which delivers care to nearly 60,000 NHS and private patients every year, with an end-to-end hybrid communications solution including cloud paging, Teams integratio ..read more

redit: Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock Eviden and Alice & Bob have announced a partnership to make Alice & Bob patented cat qubit technology accessible to end users in QaptivaTM, Eviden’s quantum application development platform. Cédric Bourrasset, Global Head of HPC-AI and Quantum Computing at Eviden, Atos Group: “The QaptivaTM platform enables our customers to explore the rich universe of quantum computing technologies, and today’s addition makes it richer than ever. Alice & Bob’s cat qubits are a fascinating building block for fault-tolerant quantum computers.” Pioneered by ..read more

Credit: Vasin Lee/Shutterstock The ION AI robot, the first AI government adviser in the world employed by the Romanian Government to represent the voice of its citizens, has been invited at Oxford University by the Oxford AI Society for a special session of discussions entitled 'Advancing Governance with AI. Exploring Romania's ION project', in which the developers of the project presented the technical aspects of the complex solution and the ethical implications of using AI technology to represent citizens' needs. ION is an independent research initiative, developed pro bono by the AI an ..read more

Credit: HLRS In 2022 the City of Stuttgart announced that the Rosensteinbrücke, a busy bridge for local traffic across the Neckar River, had become structurally unsound. For safety reasons it was permanently closed to streetcars, buses, and automobiles, and in the coming years it is scheduled to be replaced. The closure has caused disruptions, but at the same time many argue that its upcoming redesign could offer opportunities to improve the site and its surrounding neighborhood. Potential advantages include making Stuttgart’s transportation infrastructure more sustainable and supporting ..read more

Credit: Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $2.2 million for 11 collaborative research projects in high energy physics that involve substantial collaboration with Japanese investigators. For over forty years, collaboration between US and Japanese scientists has enabled progress in some of the most challenging areas in high energy physics. Working together, researchers explore the universe at the smallest and largest scales, from the most elementary constituents of matter and energy to the nature of space and time. The long history of US-Jap ..read more

Credit: Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock New research by the University of Liverpool could signal a step change in the quest to design the new materials needed to meet the challenge of net zero and a sustainable future. Published in the journal Nature, the Liverpool researchers have shown that a mathematical algorithm can guarantee to predict the structure of any material just based on knowledge of the atoms that make it up. Developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Liverpool’s Departments of Chemistry and Computer Science, the algorithm systematically eva ..read more