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RIKEN has been selected, in partnership with SoftBank Corp. to carry out a project for the "Research and Development of quantum-supercomputers hybrid platform for exploration of uncharted computable capabilities" as part of the Research and Development Project of the Enhanced Infrastructures for Post-5G Information and Communication Systems by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Scientific American Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things The popular term “quantum supremacy,” which refers to quantum computers outperforming classical ones, is uncomfortably reminiscent of “white supremacy” Advertisement In 2012, the quantum physicist John Preskill wrote, “We hope to hasten the day when well controlled quantum systems can perform tasks surpassing what can be done in the classical world.” Less than a decade later, two quantum computing syste...

Quantum for quants A fundamentally new kind of computing will shake up finance—the question is when T HE FINANCE industry has had a long and profitable relationship with computing. It was an early adopter of everything from mainframe computers to artificial intelligence (see timeline). For most of the past decade more trades have been done at high frequency by complex algorithms than by humans. Now big banks have their eyes on quantum computing, another cutting-edge technology. Listen to this...