NYSE Trading Halted Last Week

Computer Server Problem Causes Outage

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NYSE Trading Halted Last Week

Several news sources reported that trading in 242 stocks was suspended because of computer server problem on the New York Stock Exchange last Friday. The  outage, which lasted from about 11:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. affected stocks such as ExxonMobil, General Electric, American Express Co and Merck & Co.

The exact problem with the server has not been announced, and as of yet there is nothing on the NYSE web site discussing the outage.

The NYSE has had computer problems in the past, I have wrote about last year.

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An IBM Quantum Computer Will Soon Pass the 1,000-Qubit Mark

The Condor processor is just one quantum-computing advance slated for 2023

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This photo shows a woman working on a piece of apparatus that is suspended from the ceiling of the laboratory.

A researcher at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center examines some of the quantum hardware being constructed there.

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IBM’s Condor, the world’s first universal quantum computer with more than 1,000 qubits, is set to debut in 2023. The year is also expected to see IBM launch Heron, the first of a new flock of modular quantum processors that the company says may help it produce quantum computers with more than 4,000 qubits by 2025.

This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2023.

While quantum computers can, in theory, quickly find answers to problems that classical computers would take eons to solve, today’s quantum hardware is still short on qubits, limiting its usefulness. Entanglement and other quantum states necessary for quantum computation are infamously fragile, being susceptible to heat and other disturbances, which makes scaling up the number of qubits a huge technical challenge.

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