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Physicist. Ex-WIRED and BBC.
I co-host The Quantum Kid w my son Kai on YouTube — we make quantum accessible & fun!
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This Roblox Game’s Levels Are Generated by a Real Quantum Computer
Insider Brief The Quantum Kid’s latest episode explores quantum computing through gaming, featuring a Roblox-style game whose levels are generated by a real quantum computer rather than a standard game server, developed by MOTH Quantum’s James Wootton and MiTale’s Natasha Skult. 10-year-old host Kai also plays a live match of quantum chess against researcher Tamás Varga, winning by putting his own queen into superposition — a legal, winning move only possible under quantum rules.
The Quantum Kid: Peter Shor, Steven Chu & John Preskill Explain Quantum – So You Can Finally Understand It
Insider brief The Quantum Kid released a Best Of episode highlighting conversations with leading scientists and innovators explaining concepts across quantum science and technology. The podcast’s first year featured discussions with figures including Peter Shor, Steven Chu, John Preskill, Scott Aaronson, and other researchers working across quantum computing and related fields.
The Quantum Kid Turns 1: 115K Subscribers and Award Shortlists
The Quantum Kid celebrates its first anniversary as host Kai Weber turns 10, with the YouTube channel surpassing 115,000 subscribers and earning shortlist recognition in the Webby Awards and Publisher Podcast Awards. Over the past year, Kai has interviewed leading figures including Nobel laureates Steven Chu and John Martinis, quantum pioneers Peter Shor, David DiVincenzo and Scott Aaronson, and astrophysicist Avi Loeb.
Quantum Machines Makes Second European Acquisition in Six Weeks as Quantum Closes In on Real-World Advantage
From left to right: János Lazányi, CEO of PCB Engineering; Hila Manoach, Chief People Officer at Quantum Machines; Shaul Galila, Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Quantum Machines; and Itamar Sivan, CEO and co-founder of Quantum Machines. This acquisition further establishes Quantum Machines as the quantum company with the broadest global footprint, with employees across 22 countries.
California Industry, Academia and Government Leaders Weigh in on Quantum Scaling and Statewide Strategy
Quantum San Diego Convening John Martinis, Nobel laureate Gathering at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute shapes California’s quantum roadmap and funding direction LA JOLLA, SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES, May 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- This week, leaders from industry, academia, national laboratories and government came together for the Quantum San Diego Convening – a focused, two-day gathering at the University of California San Diego that furthers the efforts of Quantum California, the...
Quantum Machines Acquires QHarbor to Strengthen its Software Platform and Expand European Footprint
Alberto Tosato (L) and Stephan Philips (R), co-founders of QHarbor Expansion strengthens QM’s presence in one of Europe’s leading quantum hubs, setting up its new site in Delft DELFT, NETHERLANDS, May 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Quantum Machines (QM), the leading provider of hybrid quantum-classical control solutions, today announced the acquisition of TU Delft spin-off QHarbor and the opening of a new office in Delft, the Netherlands.
‘The Quantum Kid’ Podcast Receives Nomination for the Webby Awards People’s Choice
Podcast and YouTube channel, The Quantum Kid, has been named as a 2026 nominee for Webby Awards People’s Choice award Kids are naturally curious about how the world works.
What is 'quantum advantage' and how can businesses benefit from it?
Before 19 February 2025, most people wouldn’t have heard of the name Majorana. That day, Microsoft announced it had created the first chip powered by “topological qubits”. These qubits (quantum bits), the company said, were built around elusive particles dubbed “Majorana fermions”, named after the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana.
10 quantum startups win the World Economic Forum’s Quantum for Sustainability challenge
Lead, Quantum Technology, World Economic Forum Ten innovative startups were recognized for their quantum solutions tackling global sustainability challenges, announced on World Quantum Day in Riyadh. The winners focus on addressing critical issues such as climate change, water scarcity, and healthcare through cutting-edge quantum technologies. The challenge highlights how quantum technologies can drive impactful advancements in fields like sensing, computing, security and materials discovery.
Building more investment and support for quantum computing
Research institutions and companies including IBM, Google and Quantinuum are advancing quantum computing technology, with significant success in some areas. In 2025, the UN International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, this progress is being celebrated, but there's also an opportunity to discuss the benefits and potential of quantum technologies.
What is 'quantum advantage' and how can businesses benefit from it?
1 day ago Dormant Coins Targeted in Proposed Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin Fork Bitcoin could be about to get a major change. A new proposal suggests some coins might have to be destroyed to protect the network from future … 14 hours ago Space could emerge from time Physicists of the 19th century assumed that space was distinct from time – and two researchers now suspect they were correct to do so.
NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards are here
In a landmark announcement, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published its first set of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. This announcement serves as an inflection point in modern cybersecurity: as the global benchmark for cryptography, the NIST standards signal to enterprises, government agencies, and supply chain vendors that the time has come to make the world’s information security systems resistant to future cryptographically relevant quantum computers.
How IBM and STFC Hartree Centre are accelerating innovation
The world needs science like never before: To address the global chip shortage, mitigate global warming, discover new materials faster — all of these benefit from accelerating the pace of scientific discovery. We also need to collaborate with talented people, finding solutions together across borders and time zones. IBM Research has been embracing collaboration with academic institutions, industry players, and government organizations.
Giant Zombie Atoms of the Cosmos
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What Is a Neutron Star?
On Aug. 6, 1967, Jocelyn Bell was looking at the squiggles drawn by a red pen on moving rolls of chart paper—the data from a radio telescope she was using to do her Ph.D. research on distant galaxies. She noticed one squiggle that looked odd. It was a “a bit of scruff,” she tells me from her office at Oxford University, where she’s now a visiting professor of astrophysics. The “scruff” was a series of sharp pulses that came every 1.3 seconds. Bell kept on observing it the following nights.
Could there be life in Titan's methane sea?
Welcome to Titan, the largest of Saturn’s many moons. This weird world, about the size of Mercury, is utterly alien and yet strangely Earth-like. Like Earth, Titan’s atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, but mixed with methane. It has mountains, valleys, dunes – and rivers and lakes too, but filled with an oily hydrocarbon cocktail of ethane and methane. Titan is the only other place in our neighbourhood with large bodies of liquid on its surface. And for some scientists that means the potential for life.
Why These Researchers Are Drawn to the World’s Edge - Cosmos on Nautilus
The ice on Lake Baikal in Siberia is thick and endless, a deep blue covered with fresh powdery snow. It’s a long journey to reach this middle of nowhere. First a six-hour flight from Moscow to Irkutsk, then three hours by car, and finally four hours on the “Matanya,” a train rolling at bicycle speed on the single-track railway hugging Baikal’s breathtaking coast. Built in 1905, if the train were to go any faster than 15 or 20 miles per hour, it would not make the bends and would fall into the lake.
Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Two white dwarfs and a pulsar orbit one another in a system that reveals how gravity behaves in extreme environments. Credit: Eric Nyquist for Quanta Magazine. Miguel Zumalacárregui knows what it feels like when theories die. In September 2017, he was at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Saclay, near Paris, to speak at a meeting about dark energy and modified gravity.
Coders Worldwide Help Computers Understand Natural Language
By Katia Moskvitch “What’s taking up all that space?!” That’s what you’d probably say to a human to find out what file was eating up all of the space on your hard drive. But dealing with a computer, you’d have to be more precise and say, somewhat boringly: “Display the top result from a list of files sorted in decreasing order of size, displayed in gigabytes / human readable format.” We want to change that.
IBM and MIT researchers find a new way to prevent deep learning hacks
By Katia Moskvitch Deep learning may have revolutionized AI — boosting progress in computer vision and natural language processing and impacting nearly every industry. But even deep learning isn’t immune to hacking.
Coders worldwide help computers understand natural language
December 11, 2020 | Written by: Katia Moskvitch Categorized: AI Share this post: “What’s taking up all that space?!” That’s what you’d probably say to a human to find out what file was eating up all of the space on your hard drive. But dealing with a computer, you’d have to be more precise and say, somewhat boringly: “Display the top result from a list of files sorted in decreasing order of size, displayed in gigabytes / human readable format.” We want to change that.
IBM and MIT researchers find a new way to prevent deep learning hacks
December 10, 2020 | Written by: Katia Moskvitch Categorized: AI Share this post: Deep learning may have revolutionized AI – boosting progress in computer vision and natural language processing and impacting nearly every industry. But even deep learning isn’t immune to hacking.
New IBM-MIT system brings AI to microcontrollers – paving the way to ‘smarter’ IoT | IBM Research Blog
December 8, 2020 | Written by: Katia Moskvitch Categorized: AI | AI Hardware Share this post: Smart homes are now all the rage, with smart speakers controlling your lights, your door lock, your fridge. But what if you didn’t want to use a smart speaker or any sophisticated computer to operate your devices?
IBM’s AiMOS Simulations show how coronavirus penetrates cells — a step towards inhibitors design
By Katia Moskvitch Spike protein of the coronavirus attaching itself to the cell’s membrane. Credit: Cornell University And… halt! When it comes to stopping a virus it its tracks, it’s crucial to know exactly how and where the tiny intruder actually gets into an organism. For the first time, researchers have generated a complete molecular model of the specific elements of coronavirus that penetrate our cells’ membrane — and understood how and why the penetration happens.
Virtual Event: Katia Moskvitch
presenting Neutron Stars: The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos in conversation with DAN HOOPER Date Sep 30 Wednesday September 30, 2020 7:00 PM Location Join our online event (or pre-register) via the link in the event description.
Quantum computing and AI to enable our sustainable future
By Katia Moskvitch Next-generation plants to efficiently capture carbon dioxide from our overburdened atmosphere, and to store it safely, mitigating climate change. Modelling nature to feed our surging population, without a carbon footprint. Rethinking batteries and gadgets before we have to rethink the world. Learning from our past for a healthier future — with sustainable materials, sustainable products, sustainable planet. We are not there yet, but it’s not just wishful thinking.
Astronomers Have Found the Universe's Missing Matter
Astronomers have finally found the last of the missing universe. It’s been hiding since the mid-1990s, when researchers decided to inventory all the “ordinary” matter in the cosmos—stars and planets and gas, anything made out of atomic parts. (This isn’t “dark matter,” which remains a wholly separate enigma.) They had a pretty good idea of how much should be out there, based on theoretical studies of how matter was created during the Big Bang.
Unpuzzled by the challenge, the new IBM Puzzle Master springs into action
By Katia Moskvitch Imagine a room with 100 boxes, each with a number between 1 and 100. Alice enters the room; she can switch the numbers between exactly one pair of boxes, if she wishes to do so. Then she leaves, all the boxes are closed, and Bob enters. Although Bob could speak to Alice before she had gone into the room, they have no further contact. Now Bob is given a random number between 1 and 100 and has to find the box with that number. He can open at most 50 boxes.
A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery | Quanta Magazine
“A minor point of interest regarding the Spitler Burst.” The email subject line popped up on Shami Chatterjee’s computer screen just after 3 in the afternoon on Nov. 5, 2015. When Chatterjee read the email, he first gasped in shock — and then sprinted out of his Cornell University office and down the corridor to tell a colleague. Twenty-eight minutes later, when he started to draft a reply, his inbox was already buzzing. The email thread grew and grew, with 56 messages from colleagues by midnight.
Human brain’s odd electrical pulses stem from a completely different region than once thought
Credit: Patrick J. Lynch By Katia Moskvitch Researchers have solved a century-long mystery about the source and the function of the earliest type of electrical waves discovered in the human brain. Called the alpha rhythm, these brainwaves are changes in the electrical activity of neurons, the nerve cells of the brain that transmit information. The research may help scientists develop better treatments against schizophrenia and dementia.
Two Months In, the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium Gains Traction
By Trish Hall and Katia Moskvitch For many scientists, the COVID-19 pandemic is a once-in-a-lifetime moment. The world is looking to them for solutions as they collaboratively work against the same enemy: the deadly disease caused by the coronavirus. And a growing number of those science teams are making use of supercomputers to speed their work. Researchers worldwide have free access to the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium that has just completed its second month of operation.
IBM open sources $300* fully-functional LEGO®microscope design
By Katia Moskvitch With a detailed instructions video, anyone can build it at home — you just need access to a 3D printer and have to buy a Raspberry Pi computer and an 8MP Raspberry Pi camera Frustrated that his lab’s microscope kept producing bad images, IBM scientist Yuksel Temiz decided to build one himself. So he turned to his childhood obsession: LEGO. A fully functional LEGO microscope.
Free App Shines a Light on Solar Energy
South African start-up Zero Point Energy in talks to license IBM’s solar app Have you ever wanted to go green, switch to renewables and help save the planet but… had no clue where to start? You’re not alone. Homeowners are confused about energy. Most of us don’t know how to become more energy conscious — we may have good intentions, but if a solar energy provider were to ask us how many panels we would need on our house, we would have no idea. IBM researchers wanted to change that.
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDr David Evans: "From conception to design and building this, it's taken about 20 years." The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a "mini-Big Bang" by smashing together lead ions instead of protons. The scientists working at the enormous machine achieved the unique conditions on 7 November. The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than at the centre of the Sun.
Nepali researcher from remote village invents cybersecurity tools
By Katia Moskvitch From left to right, IBM scientists Marc Ph. Stoecklin, Jiyong Jang and Dhilung Kirat. “As a kid, I always imagined this ‘other world’– a world with something called computers,” says Dhilung Kirat, brushing his long black hair off his forehead. In his early 30s, he is one of the youngest, yet most prominent IBM cybersecurity researchers — and the brains behind applying artificial intelligence to cybersecurity.
AutoAI set to make it easy to create machine learning algorithms
February 3, 2020 | Written by: Katia Moskvitch Categorized: AI Share this post: A new deep learning design approach could help businesses and non-experts to write their own AI solutions Artificial intelligence has the potential to greatly simplify our lives – but not everyone is a data scientist and not all data scientists are experts in machine learning. Enter AutoAI – a novel approach of designing, training and optimizing machine learning models automatically.
Qubits & Zombies: Meet the Scientist Behind the World’s First Video Game for Quantum Computers
James Wootton used to be just a gamer and a programmer. But that wasn’t enough. He decided to throw quantum computing into the mix. By Katia Moskvitch The day eight-year-old James Wootton won a Game Boy after submitting his idea for a new Slush Puppy flavor, which was part of a competition in a wrestling magazine, his life changed. From that moment on in 1992 he became a gamer.
Qubits & Zombies: Meet the Scientist Behind the World’s First Video Game for Quantum Computers
James Wootton used to be just a gamer and a programmer. But that wasn’t enough. He decided to throw quantum computing into the mix. By Katia Moskvitch The day eight-year-old James Wootton won a Game Boy after submitting his idea for a new Slush Puppy flavor, which was part of a competition in a wrestling magazine, his life changed. From that moment on in 1992 he became a gamer.
Developing nations join R&D race for gas hydrates | Environmental XPRT
China, India and Latin America are exploring a potential game-changer for global energy markets. Katia Moskvitch investigates. It looks like chunks of ice — but put a flame to it and it goes ablaze. Touch it, and you’ll feel an odd sizzling sensation. This peculiar compound is methane hydrate. Not only might it become the source of the world’s next energy bonanza, but it could also let some coastal developing nations leapfrog coal and other ‘dirty’ sources of energy.
Why These Researchers Are Drawn to the World’s Edge
The ice on Lake Baikal in Siberia is thick and endless, a deep blue covered with fresh powdery snow. It’s a long journey to reach this middle of nowhere. First a six-hour flight from Moscow to Irkutsk, then three hours by car, and finally four hours on the “Matanya,” a train rolling at bicycle speed on the single-track railway hugging Baikal’s breathtaking coast. Built in 1905, if the train were to go any faster than 15 or 20 miles per hour, it would not make the bends and would fall into the lake.
Top Brazilian Bank Pilots Privacy Encryption Quantum Computers Can’t Break
Using a novel crypto scheme called homomorphic encryption, researchers apply machine learning on fully encrypted banking data — without having to decrypt it first. By Katia Moskvitch Even a quantum computer wouldn’t be able to break homomorphic encryption. [Credit: IBM Research.] More than 5,000 publicly disclosed data breaches and billions of personal records exposed.
Take the Whisky test: How IBM tech can help root out fake Scotch
December 30, 2019 | Written by: Katia Moskvitch Categorized: Hartree Center | IBM Research - UK | IBM Research Europe | IBM Research-Zurich | STFC-Hartree Center | Thomas J Watson Research Center Share this post: With the festive season just days away, it’s not just turkey and cranberry sauce flying off the supermarket shelves. It’s also champagne, wine, gin… and, of course, whisky. And it better be genuine.
Take the Whisky test: How IBM tech can help root out fake Scotch
By Katia Moskvitch With the festive season just days away, it’s not just turkey and cranberry sauce flying off the supermarket shelves. It’s also champagne, wine, gin… and, of course, whisky. And it better be genuine. IBM researchers are working on technologies to help you make sure the whisky you buy is indeed what it says on the label. Whisky is a counterfeiting target all over the world, be it in the developed or developing markets.
Thread by @SciTech_Cat: "At @IBMResearch in Zurich, scientists are reinventing tape technology
At @IBMResearch in Zurich, scientists are reinventing tape technology - combining it with cloud computing. Remember - it all started with tape, but then it kinda sunk into oblivion. 1/10 THREAD Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos Old cassette players, anyone? I still remember my bright pink walkman w Michael Jackson tape in it... back in 1991 or thereabouts. I was 11 then.
Quantum Computing Gains a First Foothold in Investment Banking
IBM Research and JPMorgan Chase use quantum computing to predict the price of financial options By Katia Moskvitch Up, down and up again — stock prices fluctuate wildly every day. Predict accurately the future economy, and you can sell your assets at their highs, or, if things go south, just move your money into tangible assets such as gold. To take predicting stock market wobbles to a whole new level, more and more banks are now turning to quantum computing.
Artificial intelligence, drones and sensors set to save our crumbling infrastructure
By Katia Moskvitch A drone is much faster at snapping cracks on he pillars of Storebælt bridge, the longest suspension bridge in Europe, than a human team ever would Infrastructure fails. The buzz about flying taxis, futuristic high-speed vacuum tunnels and even autonomous cars apart, in real life essential infrastructure is ageing around the world, with bridges, motorways, dams and tunnels cracking at the seams. It’s a challenge that exceeds the capacity of any maintenance department.
Augmenting Humans: IBM’s Project Debater AI gives human debating teams a hand at Cambridge
By Katia Moskvitch Two teams, sparring on a controversial topic — whether artificial intelligence would bring more harm than good — the Thursday night debate in front of 300-strong audience seemed rather typical for Cambridge Union, the world’s oldest debating society. Except it wasn’t.
This huge radio telescope is out to solve an epic astrophysics mystery
The radio-quiet zone begins about a half an hour drive away from this remote, desolate place in the Karoo desert, in South Africa’s Northern Cape. The use of mobile phones and laptops is strictly forbidden. A few trees and shrubs dot the ochre landscape; occasionally, a tiny scorpion scurries away in the blazing sun. What holds your eye, though, are the giant dishes.
Four education startups that keep you learning into adulthood
Neasden Control Centre Today, education doesn’t stop after students graduate; many continue learning throughout their life. And in addition to adult learning courses at colleges and universities, a lot of courses are now offered online – ranging from MOOCs ("massive open online course") to many apps. At the Global Education & Skills Forum in March, two of the 10 finalists were lifelong learning startups. Here are four of the most promising EdTech startups around.
The hottest startups in Stockholm
Nick D Burton / WIRED Over the past decade, Stockholm has experienced a spike in venture capital and government funding, with more and more co-working spaces popping up around the city. But the biggest change, says Anna Gissler, the CEO of Invest Stockholm, is startups trying to make a positive impact on society. Natalia Brzezinski, CEO of tech-conference Brilliant Minds and Symposium Stockholm, agrees.
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