v0.44.0

What's Changed

• Constrain to pytket 1.x. by @cqc-alec in #570
• Remove noise_specs from local-emulator backends by @cqc-alec in #572
• Update version and changelog for 0.44.0 release by @cqc-alec in #573

Full Changelog: v0.43.0...v0.44.0