As China continues extended trials of its central bank digital currency, Britain too signals serious intent on a potential digital currency, a Britcoin if you may.
On closing a merger with a special purpose acquisition vehicle, IonQ is poised to be the first publicly traded pure-play quantum computing hardware and software company in the world.
Last year’s big ticket item, quantum computing does not find repeat mention this year, though artificial intelligence and machine learning found some passing reference in India's federal Budget plans.
Three Chinese quantum computing firms and a handful of chipmakers have been put on a trade blacklist by the US government to curb export of US technology.
At the centre of geopolitical jostling in the Indo-Pacific, Australia plans to beef up its technological edge in nine critical areas including quantum computing.
The American technology major has achieved an intermediate milestone in its predetermined journey towards building a 1,000-qubit plus quantum computer within two years.