IBM May Have Found a Path to Dealing with Decoherence in Current Quantum Computers

In a recent Nature paper, researchers from IBM and other institutions devised two quantum algorithms to train a quantum support vector machine (SVM) classifier and proposed a novel approach to dealing with decoherence and noise in current quantum hardware.

Microsoft Open-Sources Q#, its Language for Quantum Computing

At its Build 2019 conference, Microsoft announced it will open-source parts of its Quantum Developer Kit, including the Q# compiler and quantum simulators, this summer on GitHub.

Microsoft Open-Sources CCF Framework to Improve Blockchain Ledgers Throughput and Latency

Microsoft Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) is an open-source framework aiming to enable the creation of blockchain ledgers that can execute transactions with throughput and latency similar to those of a centralized database, says Microsoft.

Microsoft Launches Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity System

Recently launched in preview by Microsoft, ION is a Decentralized Identifier (DID) network that runs on top of Bitcoin and aims to provide a decentralized identity system and PKI at scale.

Cloudflare CIRCL Experiments in Post-Quantum Cryptography

Cloudflare has open-sourced CIRCL (Cloudflare Interoperable, Reusable Cryptographic Library), a collection of algorithms for post-quantum (PQ), elliptic curve cryptography, and hashing for prime groups.