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Quantum Computers Take a Major Step Forward with Fiber-Optic Innovation

Credit PixabayQuantum computing advances rapidly thanks to qubits—the building blocks of these systems. Among these, superconducting qubits promise scalability but rely on electrical signals, which pose scaling challenges.However, physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have now developed a fully optical readout for superconducting qubits, as published in Nature Physics....

High-Temperature Memory Unit Enables Computers to Operate in Extreme Conditions

The experimental hot memory unitBrenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and MarketingComputers typically malfunction when exposed to extreme heat, but engineers at the University of Michigan are working to change this by developing new memory that can function at the temperature of molten lead.Computers are now everywhere, with cars alone housing up...