Francisco Pires

"The credible path to fault-tolerant quantum computing."

Also claims the "dawn of artificial general intelligence"

Billions of dollars take some bite out of international sanctions.

The White House's recently-published DAME tax proposal report brings to light estimates showing that national Bitcoin mining consumed more power than all of the United State's computers combined.

Backblaze has poured through its HDD failure rates to find out exactly how long drives can be counted on for the company's cloud storage business, and the results are not what you might expect.

Dripping generational improvements onto midrange GPUs.

Certain classical systems will reign supreme for a long time — and it's unclear how long

LLMs and Generative Pre-Trained Models aren't just here to stay - they're here to bring change.

Low-temperature approach may open new frontiers of performance scaling.

The number of listed and actively traded cryptocurrencies saw its strongest reduction ever this year, with around 1,000 different cryptocurrency tokens becoming barren lands of inactivity.

Switch-Science and SpinQ have partnered in distributing portable quantum computers aimed at bridging the gap between the present and the future of quantum computing education efforts.

Cloud storage specialist Backblaze expects pricing on Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage to maintain its downward trajectory, reaching one cent per GB by 2025.

A US Court in Virginia's Eastern District has seized many domains being used for cryptocurrency fraud schemes of the "pig butchering" type.

The US has lost its position as the country with the most published research papers around chips and related technologies to its perceived threat in the geopolitical landscape: China.

A recipe for future electronics

As part of its Horizon Europe research project, the European Commission has set €2 million aside for feasibility studies on orbital data centers.

The entire world's internet traffic could fit inside a single fiber cable.

One more tick on the roadmap to quantum advantage.

Flexing NAND muscles in a decreasingly HDD-focused storage world.

Parafermions could lead to quantum computers with fewer errors and improved coherence.

The cost to crack passwords is plummeting.

Tightening the technological noose on national security grounds.

Promises more details for November 1st.

Seeking parity with the competition

Even faster if it's still "password"