drug – Devstyler.io https://devstyler.io News for developers from tech to lifestyle Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:24:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Qubit Accelerates Drug Discovery with Hybrid Quantum Computing https://devstyler.io/blog/2022/12/05/qubit-accelerates-drug-discovery-with-hybrid-quantum-computing/ Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:24:36 +0000 https://devstyler.io/?p=95429 ...]]> Start-up Qubit Pharmaceuticals is significantly reducing the time and investment required to discover reliable treatments in oncology, inflammatory diseases and antivirals.This is done by accelerating the simulation and modeling of drug molecules using hybrid quantum computing.

Qubit is building a drug discovery platform using the NVIDIA QODA programming model for hybrid quantum-classical computers and the startup’s Atlas software suite.

“By combining NVIDIA’s computational power and leading-edge software with Qubit’s simulation and molecular modeling capabilities, we are confident in our ability to dramatically reduce drug discovery time and cut its cost by a factor of 10. This unique collaboration should enable us to develop the first quantum physics algorithms applied to drug discovery”,
said Robert Marino, president of Qubit Pharmaceuticals.

Founded in 2020, the Paris and Boston-based company is a member of NVIDIA Inception, a program that offers go-to-market support, expertise and technology for cutting-edge startups.

Qubit has one of France’s largest GPU supercomputers for drug discovery, powered by NVIDIA DGX systems. The startup aims for pharmaceutical companies to begin testing their first drug candidates discovered through its GPU-accelerated research next year.

]]> Teens are going to be protected from drug deals on Snapchat https://devstyler.io/blog/2022/01/20/teens-are-going-to-be-protected-from-drug-deals-on-snapchat/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:28:52 +0000 https://devstyler.io/?p=79341 ...]]> Snapchat announced its efforts to protect teenagers from drug deals in its application. One of the changes is the updates Quick Access option which is trying to reduce communication between kids and strangers. In a blog post, the company said:

“In order to be discoverable in Quick Add by someone else, users under 18 will need to have a certain number of friends in common with that person”

However, some other features and changes will be provided for parents in the next couple months. Those changes will give parents an opportunity to monitor some of their teens’ communications.

After the deaths of teens and young adults who were said to have bought fentanyl-laced drugs through Snapchat were examined, the application was forced to face a big backfire a couple of months ago.

Snapchat declared that it is working on identifying drug slang. Not only that but the company is now working with law enforcement in order to report potential cases. Snapchat stated that it will make big efforts in order to help with the fight against illegal online drug trade.

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