{"id":79633,"date":"2018-06-14T23:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T06:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/microsoft-making-progress-on-quantum-computer-every-day"},"modified":"2018-06-19T15:04:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:04:49","slug":"microsoft-making-progress-on-quantum-computer-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/microsoft-making-progress-on-quantum-computer-every-day","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft making progress on quantum computer \u2018every day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/doNNClTTYwE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/#sm.0000y8sy4w1hudd6xr922w6wu2uzn#OFDFC893RFS244ug.97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft<\/a><\/strong> is \u201call-in\u201d on building a quantum computer and is making advancements \u201cevery day\u201d, according to one of the company\u2019s top experts on the technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/julie-love-643b141\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Love<\/a><\/strong> (above), Director of Quantum Computing, called the firm\u2019s push to build the next generation of computer technology \u201cone of the biggest disruptive bets we have made as a company\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/quantum\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quantum computing<\/a><\/strong> has the potential to help humans tackle some of the world\u2019s biggest problems in areas such as materials science, chemistry, genetics, medicine and the environment. It uses the physics of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qubit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">qubits<\/a><\/strong> to create a way of computing that can work on specific kinds of problems that are impossible with today\u2019s computers. In theory, a problem that would take today\u2019s machines billions of years to solve could be completed by a quantum computer in minutes, hours or days.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/2018\/06\/15\/microsoft-making-progress-on-quantum-computer-every-day\/\">https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/2018\/06\/15\/microsoft-making...every-day\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is \u201call-in\u201d on building a quantum computer and is making advancements \u201cevery day\u201d, according to one of the company\u2019s top experts on the technology. Julie Love (above), Director of Quantum Computing, called the firm\u2019s push to build the next generation of computer technology \u201cone of the biggest disruptive bets we have made as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,412,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-genetics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79633","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79823,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79633\/revisions\/79823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}