{"id":32162,"date":"2016-11-23T22:32:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T06:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/microsoft-sets-sights-on-building-practical-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:17:09","slug":"microsoft-sets-sights-on-building-practical-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/microsoft-sets-sights-on-building-practical-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Sets Sights on Building Practical Quantum Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-sets-sights-on-building-practical-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DAILY VIDEO: Microsoft Starts Quantum Computer Development Program; Cerber Ransomware Expands Database Encryption Attacks; IBM Debuts Watson Internet of Things Services Practice; and there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s topics include Microsoft\u2019s plan to build a Quantum computer, Trend Micro\u2019s find that the Cerber malware is seeking out database files to encrypt and hold for ransom, IBM\u2019s new Watson internet of things services for the automotive, electronics and insurance industries, and the release of the Microsoft Office Online Server update.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is on a mission to build a quantum computer, and the company has appointed Todd Holmdahl to manage the project. Holmdahl is the corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum, a unit dedicated to turning the company\u2019s quantum computing research into real-world products.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/video\/microsoft-sets-sights-on-building-practical-quantum-computer.html\">http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/video\/microsoft-sets-sights-on-building...puter.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAILY VIDEO: Microsoft Starts Quantum Computer Development Program; Cerber Ransomware Expands Database Encryption Attacks; IBM Debuts Watson Internet of Things Services Practice; and there\u2019s more. Today\u2019s topics include Microsoft\u2019s plan to build a Quantum computer, Trend Micro\u2019s find that the Cerber malware is seeking out database files to encrypt and hold for ransom, IBM\u2019s new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49555,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32162\/revisions\/49555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}