Morning Briefing: Top stories from The Straits Times on Aug 11
Morning Briefing: Top stories from The Straits Times on Aug 11

Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Wednesday, Aug 11. New Covid-19 cases in Singapore fall for fifth day in a row, with 11 in ICU MOH reported 53 local cases, 15 of which are unlinked, and one imported case. READ MORE HERE SIA, Scoot and Changi Airport recognised for Covid-19 safety measures; Changi... » read more

NEC, ParityQC Collaborate to Develop Highly-scalable, Practical Quantum Computers
NEC, ParityQC Collaborate to Develop Highly-scalable, Practical Quantum Computers

Tokyo, Japan and Innsbruck, Austria, Feb 10, 2021 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) and ParityQC today announced that they have started collaborating in the field of quantum annealing, a method of quantum computing. NEC will be the first company worldwide(1) implementing the ParityQC architecture for quantum annealing devices. The collaboration entails NEC... » read more

Fujitsu Develops New Tech for Quantum-Inspired “Digital Annealer”, Achieving Megabit-class Performance for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Fujitsu Develops New Tech for Quantum-Inspired “Digital Annealer”, Achieving Megabit-class Performance for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems

KAWASAKI, Japan, Nov 9, 2020 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, in collaboration with the University of Toronto, has successfully developed a new parallel search technology to help achieve megabit-class performance for large-scale problems, representing an important technical milestone for its Digital Annealer. Fujitsu’s Digital Annealer is a unique computing architecture that rapidly solves... » read more