Quantum Corridor and Toshiba announced the demonstration of the first cross-state Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) over a live commercial metro fiber network, and I had questions about it. What’s the significance of crossing a state line? What was the real-world use case? What do they mean by “no quantum specialists required”? Why are they targeting QKD in the United States? So, we agreed to hop on a podcast together and get some answers.

* “Quantum Corridor, Toshiba demonstrate first cross-state Quantum Key Distribution over live commercial metro fiber network”

* Ryan Lafler (LinkedIn), President & CTO of Quantum Corridor

* Terry Cronin (LinkedIn), VP of Business Development and QKD Evangelist at Toshiba International Corporation

* Quantum Corridor (website)

* Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (website)

* Quantum Corridor (LinkedIn)

* Toshiba (LinkedIn)

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Filed under: Quantum Communications • Network Security • Commercial Quantum Technology

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In September, IQM announced an over-$300M Series B, which I suspected made the company a unicorn, so I emailed and got confirmation of that. Then on October 7, I published an article titled “IQM’s Unicorn-Smelling Dragon.” One of the responses to the article was to inquire how IQM did it. So, I reached out to Dr. Jan Goetz, CEO and Co-Founder of IQM, and I asked him.

* IQM website

* IQM Resonance

* IQM Academy

* IQM (LinkedIn)

* Dr. Jan Goetz (LinkedIn)

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Filed under: Quantum Computing • Startups • Podcast

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My guest this episode is The Quantum Dragon’s uncle, Sergio Gago, Captain of the Quantum Pirates ship. We spoke about the Quantum Pirates newsletter, curating noise, snarky remarks, the Ion Maiden band, The CTO Toolbox, AI, Risitas, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

* LinkedIn profile

* Quantum Pirates on Substack

* The CTO Toolbox on Amazon

* The Pirate CTO website

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I asked the Dungeon Master about the IBMQ tutorials, teleportation, citizen science, quantum gaming, procedural generation, chief science officership, his association with the University of Basel, and his favorite quantum gate. Spoiler alert: Star Trek is a recurring theme.

* Decodoku on itch.io

* Hunt the Quantpus on itch.io

* Quantum Solitaire on itch.io

* Hello Quantum - Qiskit Edition on GitHub

* The History of Games for Quantum Computers on Medium

* Moth Quantum products:

* MicroMoth on GitHub

* Actias software synthesizer

* Quantum Audio open-source Python package for building Quantum Representations of Digital Audio using Qiskit circuits

* James Wootton on LinkedIn

* James Wootton on Bluesky

* Dr. James Wootton on Medium

* Decodoku on YouTube

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I asked Yuval about podcasting, swag, LEGOs, names, and music, plus we talked, of course, about neutral atom quantum computing and quantum error correction (QEC). During his second answer, appropriately in response to a question about memorable podcasts, The Quantum Dragon Cave felt a 5.9 earthquake. That’s memorable.

* Yuval Boger (LinkedIn)

* The Superposition Guy’s Podcast

* QuEra Computing Inc.

* QuEra Computing (YouTube)

* QuEra Computing (X)

* QuEra Computing Inc. (LinkedIn)

* Q2B24 Silicon Valley | Ask Us Anything with John Preskill & Scott Aaronson

* Q2B24 Silicon Valley | John Preskill, Caltech

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Enjoy some “easy listening” this holiday season as Dr. Bob Sutor and I play a game I invented called “trigger word association.” We also talked about caffeine, coffee, his books, and his newsletter, but hey, we played a game too!

* Website

* Dancing with Qubits, 2nd edition

* Dancing with Python

* LinkedIn newsletter

* Substack newsletter

* LinkedIn

* Bluesky

* Facebook

The legendary caffeine analogy begins at 5:19 in the video below, although the question that leads to it starts at 4:25. You know what? You might as well just watch the whole video.

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Join Niccolò Coppola and me as we talk about Alice & Bob’s whitepaper. We talk about the visuals, we talk about the audio, and we even talk a little bit about the content.

Links, as promised:

* Webpage

* Whitepaper (47 pages)

* Roadmap (14 pages)

* Spotify

* Apple Podcasts

Names dropped, in order:

* Christopher Bishop

* Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

* Dr. Raphaël Lescanne

* Dr. Théau Peronnin

* Lex Fridman

* Prof. Scott Aaronson

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Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Quantum Dragon Podcast. If you have any constructive or destructive feedback, please leave such in the comments, or feel free to privately message me anywhere you can find me.

Shoutouts, in the order in which they appear:

* Yuval Boger

* Sergio Gago

* QuEra

* qBraid

* Amazon

* IBM

* Quandela

* Alice & Bob

* aQuantum

* QPerfect

* Classiq

* QCentroid

* Moody's

* Multiverse

* Infleqtion

* Inside Quantum Technology

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