this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
118 points (92.8% liked)

Technology

59287 readers
6348 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
118
‘Quantum internet’ demonstration in cities is most advanced yet (www.nature.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
28 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Experiments generate quantum entanglement over optical fibres across three real cities, marking progress towards networks that could have revolutionary applications.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

A quantum internet could enable any two users to establish almost unbreakable cryptographic keys to protect sensitive information

We can already do that dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I guess that's far more unbreakable than what we have. But anyway, several three letter agencies will fight this (again) tooth and nails.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This will be useful for militaries and corporations, not consumers. If it can't work anywhere (or over a VPN, or wirelessly, etc.) It won't work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Ah, finally. Now we will stop talking about, hearing about, and shoving "AI" in everything and the next new thing will be "quantum internet enabled" things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Your statement isn't terribly we informed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'm sorry. I realized in a comment below that one its very useful for governments/militaries and corporations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean they're not wrong, we already have encryption algorithms resistant to quantumn computers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's not what the article was about