Will quantum computing drive financial services to a new level of digital transformation? BBVA has been investigating its impact on complex banking, investment and trading challenges.
Quantum Computing: Microsoft
It’s possible right now to run quantum-inspired algorithms on a classical computer and observe the type of impact quantum computing will have on various business and social challenges.
Quantum Computing: Intel
Intel aims to achieve quantum practicality–commercially-viable quantum computing–by the end of this decade.
Quantum Computing Consortia
The Quantum Economic Development Consortium and The Chicago Quantum Exchange are two examples of government-academia-industry collaboration in the race for global quantum supremacy
Quantum Computing: Honeywell
Honeywell’s quantum computer is ready for companies eager to find out what will be the impact of the next era of computing on their business.
Will Work From Home Last Beyond the Pandemic?
Remember we were so worried about AI killing jobs only a year ago? Now that a coronavirus is killing people around the world, the future of work has turned in a new direction, becoming virtual and remote, rather than physical and local. The digital transformation of work has finally arrived. But will it last?
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Dr. Yair Schindel, aMoon Managing Partner, on Covid-19 and Investing in Medtech
Dr. Yair Schindel
When VC aMoon was established in 2017, “the premise was to invest heavily in the convergence of technology and biology, healthcare and data,” says Dr. Yair Schindel, its Managing Partner. Schindel and Marius Nacht, the other founder of the Israeli venture capital firm which has raised to date more than $1 billion, were talking to potential investors about “the coming tsunami of healthtech” over the next 10 years. “Now we see things happening that we only expected to see three or five years from now,” says Schindel. “In that sense, Covid put everything on steroids.”
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Travel During and After the Pandemic
Herzliya, Israel-based Pangea announced today a platform and a process with which governments worldwide can issue a smart card that facilitates entry into airport terminals and airplanes. The card has the holder’s photo, a digital signature, a chip, and a hologram, includes up-to-date encrypted data on the holder’s Covid-19 profile, and can be securely linked to a country’s medical database.
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Covid Near You Helps Defeat the Invisible Enemy
“It is impossible to defeat an enemy that we cannot see,” says Bill Gates. Like many other observers and participants in the fight with COVID-19, Gates maintains that testing is critical for the reopening of the US economy, to identify new hot spots and intervening, even reversing relaxed policies, in a timely manner.
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News from Israel about COVID-19 Vaccine and Finding High-Risk People
News from Israel today about rapid progress in developing a COVID-19 vaccine and in identifying people at the highest risk of severe COVID-19 complications.
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