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Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing

posted by on Monday April 03 2017, @05:27PM   
from the never-heard-of-him dept.

takyon writes:

Rigetti Computing, a leading quantum computing start-up, announced it has raised $64 million in Series A and B funding.

[...] The latest round brings the total amount of venture funding raised by Rigetti to $69.2 million.

"Quantum computing will enable people to tackle a whole new set of problems that were previously unsolvable," said Chad Rigetti, founder and chief executive officer of Rigetti Computing. "This is the next generation of advanced computing technology. The potential to make a positive impact on humanity is enormous."

"We will use the funding to expand our business and engineering teams and continue to invest in infrastructure to manufacture and deploy our quantum integrated circuits," Rigetti added.

Source: http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/03/quantum-computer-startup-rigetti.html

Previously mentioned here: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/02/10/181240

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• On the evil side of interpretations.. (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 03 2017, @07:10PM

  by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 03 2017, @07:10PM (#488299) Journal

  "Quantum computing will enable us alphabet soups to tackle a whole new set of problematic plebs that previously had hidden exchange of thoughts," said Useful I-iot, founder and chief executive officer of Front Computing. "This is the next generation of advanced peeping technology. The potential to make a snooping impact on humanity for our overlords is enormous."

  As another poster wrote, there are quantum proof cryptos. I recall lattice ones being one of them. The question is how much capacity it will cost.

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