As the U.S. restricts chip sales to the region over China concerns, California-based Blaize is planning to go public via a SPAC backed by Middle Eastern investors.
A newly invented fuel cell taps into naturally present, and ubiquitous microbes in the soil to generate power.
This soil-powered device, about the size of a regular paperback book, offers a viable alternative to batteries in underground sensors used for precision agriculture.
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Elon Musk posted a video of Optimus doing a basic household chore, but there’s a catch.
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A team of researchers from Kyushu University’s Faculty of Engineering, led by Associate Professor Nobuhiro Yanai, has shattered barriers by achieving quantum coherence at room temperature.
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The new method from ETH Zurich departs from traditional carbon capture, relying on temperature or pressure, minimizing energy consumption.
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60 nations across the planet are scheduled to go to polls in 2024, making it one of the biggest polling years in history.
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Betavolt wants to create batteries that will last a lifetime by 2025.
A Chinese startup called Betavolt has cooked up this itty-bitty nuclear battery — about the size of a little coin — which they claim can crank out electricity for 50 years straight, with no charging pit stops needed.
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This article introduces new approaches to develop early fault-tolerant quantum computing (early-FTQC) such as improving efficiency of quantum computation on encoded data, new circuit efficiency techniques for quantum algorithms, and combining error-mitigation techniques with fault-tolerant quantum computation.
Yuuki Tokunaga NTT Computer and Data Science Laboratories.
Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers, which do not execute quantum error correction, do not require overhead for encoding. However, because errors inevitably accumulate, there is a limit to computation size. Fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQCs) carry out computation on encoded qubits, so they have overhead for the encoding and require quantum computers of at least a certain size. The gap between NISQ computers and FTQCs due to the amount of overhead is shown in Fig. 1. Is this gap unavoidable? Decades ago, many researchers would consider the answer to be in the negative. However, our team has recently demonstrated a new, unprecedented method to overcome this gap. Motivation to overcome this gap has also led to a research trend that started at around the same time worldwide. These efforts, collectively called early fault-tolerant quantum computing “early-FTQC”, have become a worldwide research movement.
