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Anaconda and IBM Watson Team to Simplify Enterprise Adoption of AI Open-Source Technologies

“Anaconda, Inc., provider of the leading Python data science platform, and IBM Watson (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new collaboration to help simplify enterprise adoption of AI open-source technologies. By working together, the two companies plan to help fuel innovation …

CIMON-2 Masters Its Debut on the International Space Station

“CIMON-2, the latest version of the artificial intelligence-powered astronaut assistant developed has successfully demonstrated its capabilities on board the International Space Station (ISS) in initial tests. The ball-shaped, free-flying voice-controlled assistant demonstrated its functionalities while interacting with European Space …

Free of Heavy Metals, New Battery Design Could Alleviate Environmental Concerns

“Today, IBM Research is building on a long history of materials science innovation to unveil a new battery discovery. This new research could help eliminate the need for heavy metals in battery production and transform the long-term sustainability of many …

AI-Powered Astronaut Assistant Returns to Space with “Emotional Intelligence”

“CIMON, the world’s first AI-powered astronaut assistant, returned to the International Space Station—this time with a heightened ability to analyze human emotion. The objective, according to the researchers who fine-tuned the robot after its first successful mission …

Building single-atom qubits under a microscope

“Our team at IBM Research made a breakthrough in controlling the quantum behavior of individual atoms, demonstrating a versatile new building block for quantum computation. In the paper “Coherent spin manipulation of individual atoms on a surface,” published today in …

On “Quantum Supremacy”

“Quantum computers are starting to approach the limit of classical simulation and it is important that we continue to benchmark progress and to ask how difficult they are to simulate. This is a fascinating scientific question. Recent advances in quantum …

Unlocking a 140-year-old Secret in Physics

“Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of today’s digital, electronic age, providing us a multitude of devices that benefit our modern life, including computer, smartphones and other mobile devices. Improvements in semiconductor functionality and performance are likewise enabling next-generation …

IBM Opens Quantum Computation Center in New York; Brings World’s Largest Fleet of Quantum Computing Systems Online, Unveils New 53-Qubit Quantum System for Broad Use

“Fleet of ten quantum systems benefit from the industry’s most powerful hardware with improved stability to propel quantum computing forward Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computation Center in New York State. The new …

IBM Gives Away PowerPC; Goes Open Source - Want to Design Your Own 64-bit RISC Processor on the Cheap?

“Remember PowerPC? Nah, me neither. But now it can be yours. For free. Srsly. IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation, making it freely available to anyone who wants it. It’s a no-cost, royalty-free …

World’s First Quantum Computing Safe Tape Drive

“Ten months ago we assembled a team from IBM Research in Switzerland and IBM tape developers based in Tucson, Arizona, to try to build something which has never been built before to address a risk that may not materialize for …