Europe’s precarious path to quantum computing supremacy

This article features an interview with Joe Fitzsimons, the CEO and founder of Horizon Quantum Computing. At TNW Conference on June 16, Fitzsimons will be speaking at a session titled, “Is quantum computing the future of finance?” To check out the talk — and all the other action at Europe’s leading tech festival — you can get a ticket here. Quantum computing is fiendishly complicated to commercialise. Despite claims that it will save the planet and cure cancer, real-world applications are yet to emerge from the hype. For startups, this offers both promise and peril. Ominously, any practical use cases may not emerge for years —…

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