Business and science: What is quantum computing?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We travel to a facility in the south of England to see one of the super-fast computers in action.
We’ll find out what quantum computing has the potential to do, what its going to take to make that a reality and importantly whether quantum businesses are making any money...
Presenter: Gareth Mitchell Producer: Hannah Mullane
(Image: A quantum computer. Credit: Oxford Quantum Circuits)
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| 0:23.0 | podcast. Now this might not be the sound you'd be expecting at the beginning of a regular edition |
| 0:31.7 | of Business Daily, but we're in quite a special place here. It has to be said. I'm Gareth Mitchell, |
| 0:37.1 | by the way, as part of this week about business and science. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm in a facility based in the south of England working on quantum computing. So we're going to be talking about that today. |
| 0:48.4 | It's kind of controversial. Some people think it is the next generation of compute. Others say it might be not quite ready yet. |
| 0:55.2 | It might even be rather hyped. Either way, let's find out more about this facility and this |
| 1:01.5 | quantum computer that I'm standing right in front of here. That's all coming up on today's |
| 1:07.6 | episode of Business Daily. |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you. up on today's episode of Business Daily. Oh, I see. |
| 1:15.7 | Next level of security. |
| 1:17.6 | It's a mission impossible. |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah, it's quite different from working in academia. |
| 1:21.3 | It's the example of the centre of the internet. |
| 1:24.0 | So all the server racks, |
| 1:25.7 | every door you open, they know you've opened. |
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