If we could not find room for it, time to digest it, or a reason to run it during the past week, we have collected it here. Not a recap for the week, but a cleanup of pieces we received and just could not get to.
Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit
Business & Industry
Quantum Shorts | Our judges praised the shortlisted films. “Quantum Shorts makes a big ask: to produce a compelling short film that also connects with the complex science of quantum physics,” they said. “The diverse and creative films that made this year’s shortlist have different strengths in how they respond to this challenge.” Source: Quantum Shorts. Quantum Shorts Quantum Shorts…
Here’s My List of Billion Dollar Bets | DMY Technology Group ( DMYI) announced it would be bringing IonQ public. This will introduce the first quantum computing company to the public markets at an enterprise valuation of $1.38 billion based on $10 per DMYI share. Currently, that’s close to $1.6 billion the enterprise metric and a $2.2 billion market cap. Source: Real Money. Timothy Collins Here’s My List of Billion Dollar Bets…
Cutting-edge Scale-Out Technology from Toshiba will Take Fintech and Logistics to New Level | Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), the industry leader in solutions for large-scale optimization problems, today announced a scale-out technology that minimizes hardware limitations, an evolution of its optimization computer, the Simulation Bifurcation Machine (SBM), that supports continued increases in computing speed and scale. Toshiba expects the new SBM to be a game changer for real-world problems that require large-scale, high-speed and low-latency, such as simultaneous financial transactions involving large numbers of stock, and complex control of multiple robots. The research results were published in Nature Electronics on March 1. Source: Toshiba (businesswire). Toshiba Cutting-edge Scale-Out Technology from Toshiba will Take Fintech and Logistics to New Level…
Technology & Hardware
The Quantum Internet May Be the Beginning of Ultra-secure Non-binary Networks | Today, the conventional internet enatils a coherent stream of photons traveling down a fiber-optic wire, carrying a logical one or zero somewhere around eighty percent the speed of light. Tomorrow, a pair of entangled photons—each called qubits—are both one and zero (superposition) and send data in near-instantaneous time. That’s “quantum internet.” Source: All About Circuits. Adrian Gibbons The Quantum Internet May Be the Beginning of Ultra-secure Non-binary Networks…
Government & Policy
Europe seeks semiconductor boost, first quantum computer | The European Union wants to produce a fifth of the global output of cutting-edge semiconductors at the end of this decade and make its first quantum computer in five years, as part of efforts to cut its dependence on non-European technologies. Source: Reuters. Foo Yun Chee Europe seeks semiconductor boost, first quantum computer…
China challenged US technological dominance | China’s five-year plan aims to gain an advantage in artificial intelligence and quantum computing. The country’s tech industry has been hit hard by the US trade wars and the economic uncertainties of the epidemic. However, the country is keen to reverse this situation in the relatively near future. Source: SOMAG News. Daniel Kucher China challenged US technological dominance…
U.S. panel calls for new digital service academy to bolster federal workforce | Congress created the commission in 2018 to examine how the United States could keep pace in artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies with global competitors. The result is a 756-page blueprint for “defending America in an AI era” and “winning the technology competition.” The panel’s research recommendations include a new federal entity for applied work, called the National Technology Foundation, as well as boosting the government’s investment in AI basic research across several existing agencies by tens of billions of dollars. It says Congress should also spend more in areas dependent on advances in AI and machine learning, including quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, synthetic biology, and renewable energy. Source: Science. Jeffey Mervis U.S. panel calls for new digital service academy to bolster federal workforce…
