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IBM’s new quantum step is the Qiskit software

Dataconomy

IBM has recently released Version 1.0 of its Qiskit quantum computing software, marking a significant milestone, though it’s not the company’s first venture into quantum hardware or software. What is IBM Qiskit? What is IBM Qiskit? Qiskit 1.0 Qiskit 1.0

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. Each houses an IBM z15 system. According to IDC, IBM sold more than 4,300 IBM Z systems in 2020, for approximately $3.5 Sonnenstein is looking for a return on that investment. “We

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IonQ opens up Forte quantum computing platform for use on Amazon Braket Direct

GeekWire

(IonQ Illustration) IonQ has opened up its most advanced quantum computing platform for public availability through Amazon’s cloud-based Braket Direct Program , even as the Maryland-based company gears up to produce even more advanced hardware at a Seattle-area manufacturing facility.

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Watsonx Code Assistant Adds COBOL-to-Java Translations on IBM Z

Tech Republic

Generative AI comes to mainframe application modernization with a model trained on more than 80 code languages and 1.5 trillion tokens of data.

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AWS opens up its Amazon Braket platform as ‘launch pad’ for quantum computing

GeekWire

IonQ, one of the hardware partners for the Amazon Braket quantum computing platform, uses a specialized type of chip known as a linear ion trap. And when it comes to the hardware, Amazon is partnering with providers that take different approaches to quantum processing. IonQ Photo via AWS).

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Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

Microsoft’s first version of Windows might not have been well received, but it kick-started a battle between Apple, IBM, and Microsoft to provide computing to the masses. If you wanted to run multiple programs, then you needed a PC with a hard disk and 512 kilobytes of memory. Carol Halebia. Back in 1985, Windows 1.0 With Windows 1.0,

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Tapping into the power of others

Eric D. Brown

Last week, I read with interest the announcement that IBM was opening up their Watson computing platform to outside organizations and developers to use to build upon the cognitive computing and natural language processing of the platform. Currently, you’d have to invest a great deal of money in hardware and/or cloud services to get started.