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This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. Quantum Market Watch offers daily, cutting-edge updates on the quantum computing market. Stay informed with the latest stock movements, funding rounds, and startup news, alongside in-depth market analysis from industry giants like IBM, Google, and Microsoft. Benefit from expert predictions and insights into emerging market trends, ensuring you remain ahead in the rapidly evolving world of quantum technology. For more info go to https://www.quietplease.ai Check out these deals https://amzn.to/48MZPjs

  1. 1D AGO

    IQM Quantum Computers Goes Public: Europe's 1.8 Billion Dollar SPAC Merger Shakes Up Quantum Hardware Race

    This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. Hey folks, Leo here, your Learning Enhanced Operator on Quantum Market Watch. Picture this: qubits dancing in superposition, collapsing realities like a cosmic roulette wheel—and today, that wheel spun big for IQM Quantum Computers. Just hours ago, on February 23rd, IQM announced a blockbuster merger with Real Asset Acquisition Corp., a SPAC deal valuing them at $1.8 billion pre-money, injecting over $450 million to rocket toward fault-tolerant quantum supremacy. It's the first European quantum firm going public on a major US exchange, with eyes on Helsinki too. The air in their Espoo fab hums with cryogenic chill, superconducting chips pulsing at millikelvin temps, etching pathways to scalable quantum dreams. I'm Leo, elbows-deep in quantum trenches for years, from entanglement experiments at labs echoing Harvard's latest microscopic mirrors for networks, to dialing down decoherence in noisy intermediate-scale machines. Quantum's no lab toy anymore—it's invading markets like a stealthy waveform, interfering with classical limits. Take IQM's full-stack superconducting systems: vertically integrated from chip design to cloud access, they've delivered more on-prem QPUs than rivals like IBM or D-Wave, per their own tallies. Imagine qubits as restless electrons in a storm—superposed states branching infinite possibilities until measurement snaps them into gold. This merger? It's seismic for the quantum hardware sector. Cash floods in for fault-tolerance R&D, turbocharging hybrid quantum-classical algos that crush optimization nightmares. Think materials science exploding with ultrafast quantum chemistry engines, simulating molecules for miracle drugs, as Live Science buzzed about recently. Or finance, where IQM's annealing kin like D-Wave joins collaboratives, slashing RSA cracking costs to 100,000 qubits, warns Scott Aaronson on Shtetl-Optimized. Sector-wise, hardware makers face a bifurcation: integrate or evaporate. IQM's move signals commoditization—cheaper, deployable QPUs on-prem or cloud, democratizing advantage in drug discovery, climate modeling, even Cloudflare's post-quantum encryption rollout today, shielding SASE from Q-Day doom. Feel the chill of dilution fridges, hear the whisper of error-corrected gates knitting 100-qubit fabrics into logical thousands. It's dramatic: quantum parallelism mirroring global markets' entangled chaos— one breakthrough ripples worldwide, from Australia's funding demos to India's quantum roadmap. IQM's public leap? Catalyst for IPO fever, pulling venture like a black hole. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Questions or topic ideas? Email leo@inceptionpoint.ai. Subscribe to Quantum Market Watch, this Quiet Please Production—for more, quietplease.ai. Stay quantum-curious. (Word count: 428; Char count: 3387) For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  2. 2D AGO

    Leo's Quantum Market Watch: Copenhagen's Real-Time Qubit Tracker and Phoenix's Semiconductor Power Play

    This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. Hey folks, Leo here, your Learning Enhanced Operator on Quantum Market Watch. Picture this: a qubit, that fragile quantum heart, flipping from hero to zero in milliseconds—like a Wall Street trader going from bull to bust amid market chaos. Just two days ago, on February 20th, researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute dropped a bombshell: a real-time tracking system for qubit fluctuations, 100 times faster than before, using FPGA wizardry from Quantum Machines' OPX1000. Led by Dr. Fabrizio Berritta and Associate Professor Morten Kjaergaard, they unveiled how superconducting qubits decay erratically, revealing dynamics we couldn't see—like peering into the stormy soul of quantum matter. Imagine the lab: cryogenic chill at near-absolute zero, the hum of dilution fridges, faint blue glow of control lasers dancing on niobium chips. Their Bayesian-updating FPGA controller adapts on the fly, estimating relaxation rates after every pulse. It's dramatic—qubits aren't steady steeds; they're wild horses bucking environmental noise, turning "good" performers bad in fractions of a second. This isn't theory; it's published in Physical Review X, proving we can now chase those ghosts in real time, essential for scaling to fault-tolerant machines. Speaking of scales tipping, let's hit today's hot topic: Which industry announced a new quantum computing use case? None explicitly today, but Phoenix, Arizona, just doubled down as quantum's manufacturing mecca, per The Quantum Insider on February 17th—echoing yesterday's buzz. Officials, investors, and ASU researchers gathered to blueprint a supply chain powerhouse, leveraging Lawrence Semiconductor's isotopically pure silicon-28 wafers and photonic chips at ASU Research Park. They're betting big on epitaxial growth for spin qubits and photonics, mirroring early Silicon Valley's pivot from labs to fabs. This could reshape semiconductors and beyond. Quantum demands defect-free materials; Phoenix's ecosystem—proximity to TSMC fabs, trained talent—positions it to mass-produce qubit-grade hardware. Think: cheaper, reliable quantum processors flooding drug discovery (modeling molecules like never before), finance (optimizing portfolios in superposition), even climate sims. But drama lurks—fluctuations like Copenhagen's findings mean real-time calibration becomes non-negotiable, or we crash. Arizona's play accelerates the race, compressing timelines from decades to years, much like Google's February 9th error-correction threshold that flipped scaling from dream to engineering sprint. We're not just building bits; we're entanglement-weaving the future, where quantum mirrors market volatility—unpredictable, potent, profound. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Got questions or topics? Email leo@inceptionpoint.ai. Subscribe to Quantum Market Watch, and remember, this has been a Quiet Please Production—for more, check quietplease.ai. (Word count: 428) For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  3. 4D AGO

    Xanadu and Tower Forge Photonic Quantum Chips: How Silicon Photonics Will Scale Millions of Qubits

    This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. Imagine stepping into a cryogenic chamber where the air hums with the whisper of superposition, qubits dancing like fireflies in a quantum storm—that's the thrill I live every day as Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, decoding the quantum frontier on Quantum Market Watch. Picture this: just today, Xanadu and Tower Semiconductor deepened their strategic collaboration, announced from Migdal Haemek, Israel, and Toronto, pushing photonic quantum hardware toward commercial scale. Tower's high-volume silicon photonics platform now cradles Xanadu's custom material stack—ultra-low loss silicon nitride waveguides and integrated photodiodes—optimized for fault-tolerant systems that could scale to millions of qubits. It's like forging lightning into circuits, where photons entangle across chips, defying classical bottlenecks. This isn't abstract theory; it's a seismic shift for the semiconductor industry. Tower, a foundry giant, pivots from telecom and data centers to quantum, validating Xanadu's designs through joint tapeouts. Christian Weedbrook, Xanadu's CEO, calls it moving from concept to demonstrator systems in scalable manufacturing. Dr. Ed Preisler from Tower echoes that this reinforces their platform's versatility. For semis, it means quantum-infused fabs churning out hybrid chips that blend photonics with electronics, slashing energy costs and unlocking simulations of molecular bonds that classical silicon dreams of. Let me paint the scene from my last lab visit: dilution refrigerators chilling to 10 millikelvin, the faint glow of superconducting cavities pulsing as we track T1 coherence times in real-time—a breakthrough from University of Copenhagen's SQuID Lab, reported today via Quantum Machines. Qubits flicker, their decoherence waves crashing like ocean swells, but now we monitor fluctuations live, stabilizing entanglement mid-flight. It's dramatic: one moment, a qubit's in perfect superposition, the next, environmental noise tugs it classical—until these tools lasso the chaos. This mirrors broader currents—BC's $1.9M pour into University of Victoria's quantum gear for clean tech, RIKEN and IBM's quantum-centric supercomputing demo in Japan. Quantum's infiltrating everywhere, from McKinsey's banking simulations to Aliro's $15M quantum networking push. Like a qubit in superposition, the market teeters between hype and utility, but breakthroughs like Xanadu-Tower tip it toward revolution. Semiconductors? They'll evolve into quantum orchestrators, accelerating drug discovery at Novo Nordisk scales or materials for eternal batteries, as Infleqtion's Matt Kinsella hinted. The future's entangled: faster chips, unbreakable crypto, economies reborn. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Questions or topic ideas? Email leo@inceptionpoint.ai. Subscribe to Quantum Market Watch, and remember, this is a Quiet Please Production—for more, visit quietplease.ai. Stay quantum-curious. (Word count: 428; Character count: 3387) For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  4. 6D AGO

    Hybrid Quantum Supercomputers Arrive: Italy's 140-Qubit Leap and Spain's Majorana Breakthrough Reshape Computing

    This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. # Quantum Market Watch: Leo's Latest Update Good afternoon, this is Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, bringing you the latest from the quantum computing frontier. We're in a genuinely transformative moment, and yesterday's developments prove it. Yesterday, Pasqal delivered Italy's first neutral atom quantum computer to CINECA in Bologna, a 140-qubit powerhouse that's now being integrated with Leonardo, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. This isn't just another installation. This is Europe executing a bold vision of hybrid classical-quantum infrastructure that will fundamentally reshape how researchers approach impossibly complex problems. Picture this: you have Leonardo, capable of classical processing at exascale speeds, now coupled with Pasqal's neutral atom QPU. When a researcher encounters a bottleneck, a problem too intricate for traditional computation, they can seamlessly offload it to the quantum processor. Advanced materials simulation. Complex optimization. Machine learning tasks that would otherwise take months. This hybrid architecture transforms quantum from a laboratory curiosity into a practical industrial tool. The ripple effects for European industry are profound. The pharmaceutical sector will gain simulation capabilities for drug discovery that currently exist only in theory. Materials scientists can design next-generation batteries with quantum-accelerated molecular modeling. Finance institutions across the continent now have access to quantum optimization for portfolio management and risk analysis. According to market analysis released just yesterday, the quantum technology market is projected to expand from three billion dollars in 2026 to over fifty billion by 2036, with quantum computing hardware, software, and services constituting the largest segment. What makes this moment especially dramatic is the technical precision behind it. This deployment represents the culmination of years of engineering, not just in qubit fabrication, but in solving the integration puzzle between radically different computational paradigms. You're bridging the deterministic classical world with the probabilistic quantum realm, and doing it reliably enough for industrial applications. Meanwhile, researchers in Spain just achieved something equally remarkable. Scientists at the Spanish National Research Council decoded Majorana qubits for the first time using quantum capacitance measurements, detecting parity coherence exceeding one millisecond. These topological qubits are the holy grail of stable quantum computing, resistant to environmental noise in ways that protect information at the quantum level itself. We're witnessing the convergence of multiple technological approaches simultaneously. Neutral atoms in Italy. Topological qubits in Spain. Superconducting advances at institutions worldwide. This diversity strengthens the ecosystem because different platforms excel at different problems. Thank you for joining me on Quantum Market Watch. If you have questions or topics you'd like discussed on air, send me an email at leo@inceptionpoint.ai. Please subscribe to Quantum Market Watch, and remember, this has been a Quiet Please Production. For more information, check out quietplease.ai. For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

    4 min
  5. FEB 16

    Quantum Market Watch: How Pharma's 50 Billion Dollar Bet on Qubits Could Cure Alzheimer's in Months

    This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. Imagine qubits dancing in superposition, each one a shimmering possibility collapsing into reality under my watchful eye. That's the thrill of quantum computing, folks—I'm Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, and welcome to Quantum Market Watch. Just today, ResearchAndMarkets.com dropped their bombshell Quantum 2.0 Market Report, projecting a seismic shift from $3 billion in 2026 to over $50 billion by 2036. No single industry announced a groundbreaking use case this very hour, but the report spotlights pharmaceuticals leading the charge with quantum simulation for drug discovery. Picture this: trapped-ion qubits, those laser-trapped atomic prisoners I wrangle daily at my lab bench amid the hum of dilution fridges purring at 10 millikelvin, their eerie blue glow piercing the cryogenic fog. Let me break it down. In pharma, variational quantum eigensolvers—VQE algorithms—model molecular interactions that classical supercomputers choke on. Electrons tunnel through energy barriers like ghosts slipping unseen walls, revealing protein folding secrets for Alzheimer's cures or pandemic vaccines. This isn't hype; it's fault-tolerant destiny. Error rates dipping below 0.1% now, as Professor José Ignacio Latorre at Singapore's CQT notes in recent analyses—trapped ions and neutral atoms hitting 99.9% fidelity, paving error-corrected paths. The sector's future? Transformed. Quantum sims slash drug discovery from 10 years to months, optimizing catalysts for carbon capture or battery alloys. Finance eyes portfolio tweaks via QAOA, but pharma's edge is visceral: personalized meds from genomic quantum machine learning. Feel the chill of liquid helium vents, hear the faint whir of microwave pulses entangling qubits—superposition births a multiverse of drug candidates, entanglement links distant molecules like cosmic twins. Yet drama lurks: qubit coherence times must stretch, scaling to thousands demands modular architectures, echoing IBM's Nighthawk roadmap or IonQ's photonic leaps. We're shifting from lab hype to hard engineering, with Singapore's Helios computer commissioning soon and Waterloo's open-source stack democratizing access. Quantum mirrors markets—volatile, entangled, poised for advantage. As boards heed briefings on quantum-AI intersections like Moltbook phenomena, invest wisely. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Questions or topic ideas? Email leo@inceptionpoint.ai. Subscribe to Quantum Market Watch, and this has been a Quiet Please Production—for more, check quietplease.ai. Stay quantum-curious. For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  6. FEB 15

    Quantum Teleportation Goes Commercial: How Photonic and QuEra Are Revolutionizing Drug Discovery and Fiber Networks

    This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. Imagine the hum of cryogenic chillers, a symphony of superposition where atoms dance in probabilistic frenzy, defying classical certainty. That's the thrill I live for as Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, tuning into the quantum pulse on Quantum Market Watch. Just days ago, on February 13th, Photonic Inc. and TELUS announced a world-first quantum teleportation over 30 kilometers of commercial fiber in Canada. Picture this: quantum information, entangled photons zipping through existing PureFibre lines, teleporting flawlessly into a matter-based processor. No loss, no decoherence—just pure, spooky action at a distance, Einstein's nightmare made real. This isn't lab whimsy; it's the backbone for distributed quantum networks, proving telecom giants can host the quantum internet today. But let's zoom into today's bombshell: the pharmaceutical sector, via Algorithmiq joining QuEra's Quantum Alliance, unveiled a quantum use case for healthcare breakthroughs. QuEra reports all three of their projects advanced to Phase Two of Wellcome Leap's Quantum for Bio Challenge, targeting drug discovery and biology. Imagine neutral-atom qubits—thousands of rubidium atoms laser-trapped in optical tweezers, forming a 2D lattice where each qubit is a superpositioned powerhouse. I once stood in QuEra's Boston lab, feeling the -273°C chill as Harvard and MIT teams demonstrated 99.5% two-qubit gate fidelity on 60 qubits. It's like corralling fireflies in a storm; one flicker of noise, and coherence collapses. Yet, their algorithmic fault tolerance slashed runtimes, making molecular simulations viable. For pharma, this rewires the future. Classical computers choke on protein folding—billions of conformations, an NP-hard nightmare. Quantum variational algorithms, like VQE, explore energy landscapes in parallel universes of Hilbert space. Suddenly, designing drugs for Alzheimer's or rare diseases accelerates from years to months. Mitsubishi Chemical's recent 52-qubit phase estimation via IBM's Qiskit Functions hints at it: precise hydration-site predictions matching classical gold standards. Costs plummet, pipelines explode—think personalized meds tailored in real-time, slashing trial failures by 30%. Sectors like biotech surge, with Singapore's $37 billion quantum push and Fujitsu's AI-quantum fusion at global expos fueling the fire. We're shifting from hype to hard engineering, as Prof. José Ignacio Latorre notes: error rates dipping below 0.1%, neutral atoms leading the charge. Quantum's like a market crash in slow motion—disruptive, inevitable, rewarding the prepared. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Questions or topic ideas? Email leo@inceptionpoint.ai. Subscribe to Quantum Market Watch, and remember, this is a Quiet Please Production—for more, visit quietplease.ai. Stay superposed. For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

    3 min
  7. FEB 13

    Iceberg Quantum Cuts RSA Cracking Qubits to 100K: Why Banks Are Racing to Post-Quantum Crypto

    This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. Hey folks, Leo here, your Learning Enhanced Operator on Quantum Market Watch. Imagine qubits dancing in superposition, collapsing realities like a gambler's bluff at high noon—that's the thrill humming in labs today. Just yesterday, February 12th, Iceberg Quantum dropped a bombshell: their Pinnacle architecture slashes the qubits needed to shatter RSA-2048 encryption from millions to under 100,000, powered by quantum LDPC error-correcting codes. It's like turning a sprawling metropolis of fragile bits into a sleek, fault-tolerant fortress. Let me paint the scene. I'm in a Berlin cleanroom—chilled air biting at 4 Kelvin, the faint ozone whiff of superconducting circuits, lasers etching photons into submission. Iceberg, partnering with PsiQuantum's photonic wizards, Diraq's spin qubits, and IonQ's trapped ions, just raised $6 million seed from LocalGlobe, Blackbird, and DCVC. CEO Felix Thomsen calls it the ARM for quantum—modular, efficient, hardware-agnostic. They're expanding to Berlin and the US, fueling this fault-tolerant revolution. Now, the template hits home: Which industry announced a new quantum computing use case today? None spotlighted a fresh one precisely on the 13th, but Iceberg's crypto breakthrough screams impact on cybersecurity—the backbone of finance, defense, and global trade. Picture banks like HSBC, already eyeing quantum-AI merges per IBM Research, suddenly vulnerable. RSA-2048 guards trillions in transactions; Pinnacle could crack it in years, not decades, forcing a mad dash to post-quantum crypto like QuSecure's asymmetric migrations. Break it down: In finance, quantum optimization—think evaluating market scenarios in parallel, as Phys.org outlines—meets this threat. Logistics firms reroute in real-time amid chaos; pharma simulates drug interactions at atomic scales. But cybersecurity? Pinnacle's low-overhead error correction means scalable attacks loom, disrupting sectors reliant on public-key encryption. Banks pivot to quantum-safe ledgers, accelerating hybrid quantum-classical pilots like E.ON's DC-DC converters via IBM's Qiskit Functions, hitting 123 qubits for drug discovery at Qubit Pharmaceuticals. It's dramatic: Qubits entangle like lovers in a quantum tango, errors corrected not by brute force but elegant LDPC codes—sparse parity checks weaving a error-free tapestry from noisy threads. We're shifting from hype to hard engineering, as Singapore's CQT director José Ignacio Latorre notes, with 99.9% fidelity unlocking fault-tolerance. EuroHPC JU's Euro-Q-Exa inauguration in Germany today, via IQM, bolsters Europe's sovereign push—photonic systems from QuiX and Artilux eyeing data centers. Infleqtion's $550M SPAC? Fuel for the fire. Quantum's no standalone star; it hybrids with GPUs, per Bloomberg Tech talks. The arc? From fragile prototypes to utility-scale beasts reshaping sectors. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Questions or topic ideas? Email leo@inceptionpoint.ai. Subscribe to Quantum Market Watch—this has been a Quiet Please Production. More at quietplease.ai. Stay entangled. (Word count: 448 | Char count: 3387) For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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  8. FEB 11

    Nu Quantum's UK Lab Launch: How Trapped Ion Networks Are Rewiring Logistics and Drug Discovery

    This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. Imagine stepping into a Cambridge lab where ions dance like fireflies in the night, trapped in electromagnetic fields, their quantum states flickering with potential. That's the thrill I felt yesterday, February 10th, when Nu Quantum unveiled their state-of-the-art trapped-ion qubit networking lab right there in the UK—the first dedicated industrial R&D facility for distributed quantum computing in Europe. I'm Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator, and on Quantum Market Watch, we're diving into how this breakthrough could redefine sectors from finance to pharma. Picture this: qubits, those fragile quantum bits, entangled across nodes like lovers whispering secrets through fiber optics. Nu Quantum's Qubit-Photon Interface, or QPI, uses optical microcavities integrated into custom ion traps to forge high-fidelity entanglement links. It's dramatic—lasers stab precisely, converting ion spins to photons that zip between processors, defying decoherence's cold grip. In their new testbed, they'll prove this with trapped ions, pushing remote entanglement beyond today's limits. Dr. Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, founder and CEO, calls it a huge milestone, doubling their infrastructure post their record $60 million Series A. Collaborators like Professor Matthias Keller at University of Sussex and Professor Mete Atatüre from Cambridge's Cavendish Lab are cheering it on. Now, the big question: Which industry announced a new quantum computing use case today? None explicitly, but let's spotlight distributed quantum's ripple into logistics and drug discovery. Nu Quantum's modular fabric scales processors into networks, like weaving a quantum internet. For shipping giants, imagine optimizing global routes in real-time, entanglement slicing through combinatorial explosions that cripple classical supercomputers—fuel savings, emissions slashed, supply chains unbreakable. In pharma, quantum-enhanced molecular modeling predicts drug interactions with atomic precision, accelerating discoveries from years to months. Professor José Ignacio Latorre at Singapore's CQT notes trapped ions lead in fidelity, crossing 99.9% accuracy, paving fault-tolerant machines by late 2020s. This isn't hype; it's hard engineering, mirroring 2026's shift to pilots in finance and biotech. It's like quantum parallelism in everyday chaos: one raindrop splits into a storm of possibilities, just as superposition lets qubits explore vast solution spaces simultaneously. We're not there yet—noise isolation remains the dragon to slay—but Nu Quantum's lab accelerates the quest. Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Questions or topic ideas? Email leo@inceptionpoint.ai. Subscribe to Quantum Market Watch, and remember, this has been a Quiet Please Production—for more, check quietplease.ai. Stay entangled. (Word count: 428. Character count: 2487) For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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This is your Quantum Market Watch podcast. Quantum Market Watch offers daily, cutting-edge updates on the quantum computing market. Stay informed with the latest stock movements, funding rounds, and startup news, alongside in-depth market analysis from industry giants like IBM, Google, and Microsoft. Benefit from expert predictions and insights into emerging market trends, ensuring you remain ahead in the rapidly evolving world of quantum technology. For more info go to https://www.quietplease.ai Check out these deals https://amzn.to/48MZPjs