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Photo: CHRIS DELMAS/AFP (Getty Images)It turns out that breaking an encryption algorithm meant to withstand the most powerful cyberattacks imaginable might not be as tough as we’d been led to believe. In a paper published over the weekend, researchers demonstrated that a PC with a single-core processor (weaker than a decent laptop) could break a “post-quantum” algorithm that had been a contender to be the gold standard for encryption in just one hour.Last month, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST,…

Last month, physicists at Toronto-based startup Xanadu published a curious experiment in Nature in which they generated seemingly random numbers. During the pandemic, they built a tabletop machine named Borealis, consisting of lasers, mirrors, and over a kilometer of optical fiber. Within Borealis, 216 beams of infrared light bounced around through a complicated network of prisms. Then, a series of detectors counted the number of photons in each beam after they traversed the prisms. Ultimately, the machine generated 216…

Photo: CHRIS DELMAS/AFP (Getty Images)This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the winners of a global competition to create new encryption standards. Somewhat mind-bogglingly, these algorithms have been designed to defend against a cyber threat that doesn’t even exist yet: quantum computers.For the most part, today’s popular encryption standards are very strong and difficult to defeat. Powered by complex mathematical equations that normal computers can’t crack, encryption keeps your…

Photonic materials are the ones that emit, detect or manipulate light. These materials play a crucial role in various sectors such as telecommunications, data processing and storage, and solar cells. Because of their vast usage, there is a continuous need to make them efficient. Researchers, at the University of Central Florida (UCF), are developing new photonic materials that could one day enable ultra-fast, light-based computing. Known as topological insulators, the unique materials are like wires that have been turned…

IBM said it is planning to launch a quantum computer with a 4,000 qubit processor by 2025 and put quantum computing to practical use. The company shared its roadmap to build a modular architecture that will enable quantum computers to have more qubits. In addition to increasing the number of qubits, the company is also working on building software to “distribute workloads across quantum and classical resources."  Qubit or quantum bit is the basic unit of quantum information. Higher…

Visual representation of how quantum computing will improve Hyundai Motor's future mobility systemsNew Delhi: Hyundai Motor Company and IonQ, a quantum computing company have today announced a new project designed to apply quantum machine learning to image classification and 3D object detection for future mobilities.With this collaboration, IonQ and Hyundai will improve computational functionality through more efficient machine learning on quantum computers, as they can process enormous amounts of data faster and more…