Microsoft Corp. has announced a significant breakthrough in quantum computing with its new Majorana 1 chip. Stocks of other quantum computing firms, which were already outperforming big tech, have seen a ripple effect. If Microsoft’s claims are true, the implications are broader: It believes this will lead to commercially usable and viable quantum computers “within…
Chaired by the Prime Minister, it should include the ministers for home affairs, finance, external affairs, defence, electronics and information technology, commerce and education. In this information age, technology is a core element of national power, the primary agent of economic transformation and an important aspect of the day-to-day life of citizens. Individual departments and…
The National Quantum Mission’s governing board will offer grants to 10 to 15 startups in the next three months to enable them grow, scale and go global, said Ajai Chowdhury, board chairman at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras.  He was speaking here on Monday at the inauguration of the 16th edition of the five-day international conference…
New Delhi: Startups exploring space, crafting high-end chips and developing defence technologies may get long-term loans at low or nil interest rates from a â‚ą1 trillion government fund to support companies in promising segments struggling for capital. Setting up the fund for deeptech companies, first proposed in the interim budget in February, is part of…
