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A Useful Quantum Computer Within 10 Years? DARPA, 2 Australian Startups & More Are Working On It
Andrew Dzurak, founder and CEO of Australian startup Diraq, holds one of the company’s projects. Image credit: Diraq DARPA has awarded two Australian startups, Diraq and Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), contracts for quantum computing research, the U.S. agency announced on April 4. Both Sydney-based companies will participate in the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) program, designed to assess other companies to…
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DARPA wants to accelerate translation of C code to Rust – and it’s relying on AI to do it
The American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to use AI to automate the translation of legacy C code to Rust to avoid known memory safety vulnerabilities. The C programming language dates from the 1970s, but remains ubiquitous on everything from “smartphones to space vehicles”, DARPA noted. That’s in part because of the popularity of C and C++,…
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