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Ed Makes His Quantum Play

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Where there’s hype there’s money to be made, Ed muses in his diary, and the most hyped sector in tech is quantum computing. The contradiction here is that there’s unlikely to be a useful quantum computer for donkeys’ years, but startups which announce breakthrough enabling technologies for quantum are raising astonishing sums. So how do …

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SMIC shipping 7nm ICs

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SMIC has been shipping a 7nm chip for a year, says TechInsights which has reverse engineered the device and says “initial images suggest it is a close copy of TSMC 7nm process technology.” Although it is a couple of nodes behind Samsung and TSMC, it is seen as an impressive achievement by SMIC because it …

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Raytheon Intelligence & Space wins contract for NextGen Weather Processor

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Raytheon Intelligence & Space has been awarded a $21.7m contract by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to replace U.S. legacy weather systems with the NextGen Weather Processor (NWP) programme. NWP is intended to ensure the improved safety, security and efficiency of National Airspace System operations by processing weather data and identifying possible safety hazards …

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Glasgow University team win satellite design competition

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A team from Glasgow University has won £600,000 in a competition to design a satellite. The 10 students designed a satellite to analyse shorelines and coastal vegetation to help scientists and policymakers understand the impact of climate change on coastal regions. The  Nanosat Design Competition was run by the UK Space Agency and Department for …

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Eutelsat expected to take over OneWeb this week

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Eutelsat, the French satellite operator, is expected to announce a merger with OneWeb this week Eutelsat already has a 23% stake in OneWeb and is its second largest shareholder. OneWeb was bought out of bankruptcy by the British government and India’s Bharti Global. Bharti has a 38.6% share in OneWeb, the British government has 19.3% and Softbank 12%. …

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The CPU Idea

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In 1969, Victor Poor vice president of Computer Terminal Corp (CTC), had asked Intel to integrate onto a few chips about a hundred logic circuits which made up the processor of CTC’s intelligent terminal called ‘Datapoint 2000’. “Hoff (Ted Hoff inventor of the 4004 CPU) estimated that Intel could integrate it all onto a single …

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IQM raises €128m Series A2

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IQM, the Espoo quantum computer developer, has raised a €128 million Series A2 funding round. The money  will be used to expand international business and accelerate product development. The funding round follows a €39m Series A1 announcement in 2020 and includes part of a €35m  venture loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced earlier …

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AWS Backup Audit Manager adds support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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AWS Backup Audit Manager now allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Using AWS Backup Audit Manager, you can now continuously evaluate the data protection activity of your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP resources and generate audit reports that can help you demonstrate compliance with organizational best practices or regulatory standards.

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