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IBM announces 50-fold quantum speed improvement

Network World

Last year’s experiment used custom circuits and software. Now, IBM customers can run the same experiments using IBM’s quantum computing software development kit, Qiskit. Today, researchers, scientists, and quantum developers are beginning to leverage quantum computing to help solve complex problems.

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UK movers and shakers: New CIO and IT executive appointments

CIO Business Intelligence

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society announced that it has appointed Avril Chester as its new Chief Technology Officer. In her new role, Avril will have “responsibility for executive leadership of all the technology functions, including technical architecture, software development, operations and product delivery.” March 2022.

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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO Business Intelligence

In retail, for example, software has been the fastest-growing job category ; about half of the world’s software engineers work outside the tech industry. Right now, there are roughly 27 million developers on the job, 4.4 ROI and Metrics, Software Development million in the United States. That isn’t easy.

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For Nobel Prize winner David Baker, it’s back to the lab as protein pioneer helps launch more startups

GeekWire

This accelerates the discovery of proteins that can perform specific tasks, such as breaking down plastics, developing new medicines, or improving industrial processes, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in synthetic biology. Takeda Pharmaceuticals bought one of the spinouts, PvP Biologics , for $330 million.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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Sandbox AQ is Alphabet’s new bet on the future of quantum cryptography

CIO Business Intelligence

Sandbox AQ is also looking at the development of new sensors based on quantum phenomena which could be useful in medical diagnostics, and at the discovery of novel materials, including pharmaceuticals, using AI.

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

GeekWire

He was previously an executive at pharmaceutical and vaccine companies Merck & Co, Inc. Sandler, the former CEO of Novas Software, joined OVF in 2010 as an investor. Lee was previously an engineering manager at Facebook in Seattle and also a software development manager at Amazon. and Sanofi Pasteur. Leigh Gower.