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In 2030 he plans to have the most powerful quantum computer that exists

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China and the US are the countries that are dedicating more resources to the development of Quantum technologies. And also those who are reaching The most relevant achievements. However, there is a country that has officialized its intention to lead in the medium term both in the field of Quantum computing as in the manufacture of semiconductors: Japan. In the middle of last April we tell you that the Riken Center for Quantum Computing and Fujitsu had just announced that they had developed in a joint project A superconductor quantum computer endowed with 256 cubits. A priori may not seem like a great achievement if we are in mind that IBM already has a condora superconductor quantum processor of 1,121 cubits, and also The Heron platform (5k) endowed with error mitigation. And the China Telecom Quantum Group (CTQG) and the Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed The Xiaohong quantum processor of 504 superconductor cubits. However, Japan’s plan in the field of quantum machines does not end up here. And it is that in 2030 it intends to have a quantum computer 25% more powerful that the most capable that IBM will have at that time. 250 logical cubits to make a difference The design and tuning project of this ambitious quantum machine is already underway. And the Riken Center for Quantum Computing, Fujitsu and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science in Japan. This quantum computer will use superconductor cubits and a very advanced cooling system, presumably a dilution system similar to the employee by The machine they presented in April. Whatever your best asset, if you finally get to fruition, it will be its 250 logical cubits. Each logical ul Logical cubits represent a way to overcome the difficulty involved in the use of hardware or physical cubits, which are extremely noise sensitive, and, therefore, prone to make mistakes. Each logical cubit is constructed in an abstract way About several physical or hardware cubitsso that a single logical cubit encodes a single cubit of quantum information, but with redundancy. It is precisely this redundancy that allows to detect and correct the errors that are present in the physical cubits. Until very recently the number of hardware cubits that was necessary to implement a single logical cubit immune to errors was impracticable, but IBM says that he has found the solution To this problem. And presumably Fujitsu and the Riken center too. IBM is going to build The quantum computer ‘Starling’ in a new data center that will be housed in Paughkeepsie, New York (USA). This machine will bring together 200 logical cubits that, in theory, will allow you to execute 100 million quantum operations. IBM says that ‘Starling’ will be ready in 2029but, as I mentioned a few lines above, Fujitsu and Riken intend to have their quantum machine of 250 logical cubits in 2030. If they get it, they are likely to lead in this field. In any case, before that milestone arrives, much earlier, in 2026, they pursue to be ready A 1,000 cubits computer. They will not be 1,000 logical cubits; They will be 1,000 conventional cubits, and, therefore, prone to make mistakes. Even so, if Japan get it, only one step from the US and China will be placed in this field. Image | Fujitsu More information | Nikkei Asia In Xataka | Physicists believed that this quantum phenomenon was impossible. They were very wrong

The World Cup, paper, scissors exists. And it is a very serious thing

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Netflix has taught us with ‘The squid game‘That children’s games are a very serious thing. As we grow, we stop playing most of them, but there is such an entrenched one that we use it when it is discussion or to decide something quickly: the stone, paper and scissors. And it is so important that there are even World Cups with thousands of dollars at stake. WRPSA. In this story, it is difficult to differentiate what is a joke from what is serious. Your YouTube channel seems a parody, and in the gallery of its website they modify works of art so that it seems that are playing this game and they have even one section of browser games that call “simulators.” But no, the World Stone Association, Scissors exists and is not an American, as we might think, but has a presence throughout the world. The adventure of World Rock Paper Scissors Associationor WRPSA, began in 2015. He was not born out of nowhere, but taking the witness of the World Rock Paper Scissors Society who had already held international championships between 2002 and 2009. And both one and the other organized tournaments of what you are thinking: stone, paper and scissors, facing those who consider them as the best players in the world and giving juicy awards. Rules. Should we explain how it is played? Basically, participants simultaneously perform one between three gestures: stone (closed fist), scissors (two extended fingers forming a ‘V’) and paper (the palm and all extended fingers. The mechanics is that the stone wins the scissors, the scisso known However, to compete in international events, at least with the rules of the WRPSA (Lizard and Spock are gestures that are not allowed), there are a number of elements that we must take into account. The first thing is that players must show their gesture at the same time. The hands should be hidden until the gesture is launched, they should look into each other, the best of three, five or seven rounds is played, there is a variant by teams and referees that are responsible for not cheating. Strategies. This game seems pure random and, obviously, there is a very, very important factor of randomness, but there are also some strategies that can be used to increase the possibilities of victory. Some are logical, such as not always using the same pattern, since it is something that can be used against you. Others have more psychology behind. For example, the research They suggest that winners tend to repeat their movements, while losers change to another gesture. Therefore, if you win, you are more likely to repeat the gesture and, if you lose, you can take advantage of the fact that the repetition trend exists in the winning case and trying to anticipate. For example, if they beat you with stone, the opponent may once again use stone, so you would get the victory. The best play to win? May your tactic be randomly. A Chinese mathematician named Zhijian Wang discovered that the most precise way to win is by choosing a random strategy. Also discovered That the most common pattern among the losing players of his study was precisely the stone, paper and scissors, in loop. Damage. As a notion in case you want to become a professional, it is not bad, but … Do you earn money? Depends. In the annual edition of the World Rock Paper Scissors Championships of Toronto, a main prize of up to 10,000 dollars is offered. The Rock Paper Scissors League From the United States, which organized events throughout the territory, distributed prizes of between $ 1,000 and $ 5,000. Other minor tournaments offer food checks, gift cards or film tickets for a year, but when a large sponsor gets into the equation, the monetary amount triggers. It was the case of the 2005 “championship” starring the Bud Light brewing brand, which during the Super Bowl of that year gave a prize of one million dollars. In 2006 and 2008 He sponsored The American League with a prize of 50,000 dollars to the champion and a pass for the international championship held in China. Jump to Europe. Some of these championships have been broadcast on television and, apart from the commented, some minor tournaments have been held that have cash awards, but above all they are a drinking food party with a good atmosphere. And in Europe we have not been left out of this peculiar sport. Perhaps, the most famous league on the continent is organized by Wacky Nation in the United Kingdom, giving prizes of up to 20,000 pounds in the 2019 edition. In Spain, the awards have been somewhat more modest, something curious if we take into account that culturally it is a game that is frequently used to decide something in a simple, fast and fair way. In 2023, the Polytechnic University of Valencia celebrated The first stone, paper and scissors tournament, a closed competition to its students, with 128 registered and with an award that consisted of a paratrooper experience for two people. Last year, the Caja Rural de Navarra and the General Commission of the University Tent They celebrated A tournament with 64 participants and 500 euros of the winner, 200 euros for the second and 50 for the third. Asia to your roll. But if we were talking about the finals of a World Cup in China before, it is because in Asia, as usually happens, they are at another speed in this type of issues. It makes a lot of sense, in reality, since in China it is where, during the Han dynasty (206 AC to 220 AD) there was a game called Shǒushìlìng It is the predecessor of the current game. China arrived in Japan in the seventeenth century, where it adapted and consolidated with the gestures and rules we use today. After the 2008 Olympic Games, the Championship of the International Stone Federation, Paper and Scissors with … Read more

the fastest and most efficient transistor that exists

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Transistors are the cornerstone of Integrated circuits. The first as we know them were currently invented in 1947 by John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain, three physicists from Bell laboratories. A simple way to define a transistor invites us to describe it as A semiconductor electronic device which is capable of responding to an input signal by giving us a certain exit. An electronic amplifier, for example, will increase the power, voltage or the current of the signal that we place at its input, using an external power supply. There are several types of transistors (bipolar, specific contact, field effect, uniunion, unique electron, phototransistors, organic electrochemicals, etc.), but, fortunately, we do not need to deepen them much more to be able to move forward with this article. It is enough for us to know two more data about these devices. On the one hand, what They are active elements within the integrated circuits. And, in addition, that those that have allowed us to achieve the level of integration used by current lithographic techniques are those of field effect (FET). Bismuth transistors promise us to change the rules of the game of chips The Spanish physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and his MIT colleagues (Massachusetts Technology Institute), in the US, they talked about the potential of Boro Nituro in a scientific article that they published in Science In 2021. At that time his proposal was only theoretical, but three years later They brought their ideas to practice. And yes, they have enormous potential. What they did, in short, is to manufacture a new type of transistors using an ultra -elapsed ferroelectric material constituted of boron nitride (it is an extremely hard compound formed in the same proportion by boron and nitrogen). This Chinese transistor is 40% faster and 10% more efficient than the most advanced Finfet transistors of Intel and TSMC The starting point of the researchers of the University of Beijing we are talking about in the head of this article is different. In the scientific text they have published in Nature Materials They argue to have designed A GAAFET type field effect transistor (Gate-Lall-Around Field-Effect Transistor) that is 40% faster and 10% more efficient from an energy point of view than the most advanced finger transistors that use Intel and TSMC today. Sounds good. GaaFet technology is already The present of the semiconductorsso TSMC, Intel and Samsung have been working on it for several years. However, these Chinese transistors have a characteristic that clearly unchecks them from the devices that are using the three companies I just mentioned: they use bismuth instead of silicon. The use of this chemical element, according to these Chinese scientists, allows these transistors to solve the limitations imposed by silicon when implementing integrated circuits that They go beyond the 3 nm. These statements by Peng Hailin, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Beijing and leader of this research, express with roundness Why these transistors are important: “It is the fastest and most efficient transistor ever created (…) If innovations in chips based on existing materials are considered a shortcut, then our transistors based on 2D materials are like ‘changing lane’ (…) Our research shows that the GaaFet 2D exhibits a performance and energy efficiency comparable to silicon commercial transistors, which makes them promising candidates for The next generation of semiconductors“Hopefully it is like that. I hope these transistors succeed when leaving the laboratory and be adopted by the industry. Image | TSMC More information | Nature Materials In Xataka | Cobalt is one of the most coveted metals. And it is because it is essential in lithium batteries

If the question is how much money it exists in the world per person, this graphic developer has the answer

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Imagine there was a form of distribute all money in cash of the world equitably between Each inhabitant of the planet. Thus, a Wisconsin farmer would have the same cash That a potter in New Delhi, a goat shepherd in Namibia or a dentist in Sydney. How much money You think it would correspond to each inhabitant? The short answer: everyone could Buy a Sandero Dacia. The world money supply is not the same as world wealth The modern economic system encompasses many financial and monetary elements that define the term of wealth. So one of the ways in which the exercise of imagination distribution of wealth that would allow mitigating world poverty can be distribute all money in cash that exists in monetary markets around the world. This “cash” money is known as M2 Prenss supply And it is an intermediate monetary aggregate that includes money in circulation from around the world and certain bank deposits with high liquidity and with a period of up to 2 years, savings and money market accounts, as well as deposits with availability with notice of up to three months. In other words, the monetary supply M2 is all that money you could have in your pocket in a relatively immediate way. The concept of monetary supply m2 differs from the Global wealth or heritage in which this includes assets and real estate properties or mercantile that, although they can have a lot of value, are not easily redeemable for Count and sound money. According to data collected by CEICM2’s money supply amounts to 123.3 billion (Europeans) of dollars In 2024. That is, joining all the effective of all the economies of the world, we would add that money. According to the report ‘Global Wealth Report 2024‘Prepared by UBS, the world’s private net richness in 2024 was encrypted in 487.9 billion dollars in total. To help us see that information in a more graphic way, in Visualcapitalist have created an infographic in which the M2 MONITORY OFFER DATA obtained by CEIC, and divides between the world population data registered by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Distributing all world cash As we said, the world M2 money supply registered by the CEIC economic body in 2024 is 123,313 billion dollars (with the Anglo -Saxon system they would be trillion), while the data of the world population in 2024 reveal that we are currently 8,161,973,000 inhabitants In this little blue marble that we call planet Earth. The result of the equitable cast is that, each inhabitant of the planet would correspond 15,108 dollars Or, what is the same, about 13,944.28 euros to change. According to the Virtualcapitalist calculationsthat would be equivalent to the expenditure generated by the list of the purchase of an average home for two years, a second -hand car, or also reaches to buy a Sandero dacia. Without extras, yes. Spain is better for accounts If we repeat the same exercise, but circumscribing the data to the scope of Spain, the amount that each Spaniard would receive would be somewhat higher. According to CEIC’s records for Spain in December 2024the supply of monetary m2 available was 1,647,611,114 million dollars (or 1,648 billion dollars). On the other hand, the data of INE population count January 2025 left a total of 49,077,984 inhabitants in Spain. That lets us, by distributing the total of the money supply among the inhabitants of Spain, each would receive 33,571.29 dollars or some 30,967.97 euros to change. In Xataka | How much money you need to be among the richest 1% in Spain Image | Visualcapitalist.com

The Coffee World Cup exists and Spain has put their hopes in a barista in Vigo: Marcos González

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Making coffee is simple, but prepare a good coffee It is something that has crumb. When you start investigating the peculiarities of each preparation, coffee varieties and instruments for get all the juice to the grainsyou discover that it is an art. There are those who take this to the highest level, so much that there is even a coffee World Cup. Or Baristas, rather. This is the World Coffee Challenge, and this year the Vigo Marcos González will represent Spain in this curious competition. The Coffee World Cup. If there is an Excel World Cupit is logical that there is such a competition around One of the most consumed drink on the planetafter the water, of course. In fact, there is not only a competition, since the World Coffee Challenge is an umbrella that embraces various disciplines. One of them is the World Barista Championship in which, obviously, the best baristas in the world break up to see who prepares the best experience. Because here not only does the technique matter, but to tell a story to the jury. It seems boring from the outside, but it is quite interesting to see the skills of the competitors. One of them is someone who has worked a career as a coffee disseminator, James Hoffmanwho rose with the trophy in 2007 and what he has done follies how to prepare a Donut coffee. Coffee fest. As in all competitions, there are a series of previous rounds, and to find the Spanish representative, a few days ago the Coffee fest. More than a simple competition, it is a coffee celebration with the best coffee with milk preparation or the best filtered coffee, others that test their skills with the Latte arttasting tournaments and other activities. James Hoffman was in this year’s edition, as well as other disseminators and youtubers such as Hedrick Lance. And, regardless of being a meeting point in which coffee lovers share knowledge and experiences, it was the framework of the national competition of Baristas. Vigo quality. 18 professionals from all over the country gathered to prove their skills, and the best was the Vigo Marcos González. It was not the first time that he raised with victory, since in 2018 and 2019 he was also considered the best barista in Spain. His proposal this year was an experience that ‘told’ crucial moments of his career, as they detail Our companions from direct to the palate: Origin: Inspired by its connection with the Esmeralda farm in Panama, this concoction reflects its first experiences with Coffee Geisha, a variety appreciated for its unique flavor profile. Freedom: This drink embodies Marcos’s relationship with his team and innovative spirit, highlighting the importance of collaboration and creativity in the world of coffee. Happiness: A fusion that joins flavors and techniques of Colombia, Panama and Asturias, regions that have significantly marked the personal and professional life of the barista. His three elaborations, in order, were an express with The exclusive Geisha Caféa coffee with milk and a cocktail. In Faro de Vigo, the barista confessed That such a championship requires many hours of training. Also imagination to link coffee with the narrative and conquer the jury. And that your pulse does not shake because we all know that any calculation error can be a disaster when it comes to Prepare the perfect coffee. Objective: Milan. It will be from October 17 to 21 when Milan will host the World Coffee Championship of this 2025 and the opportunity that Marcos will have to be duel against another 69 of the best baristas in the world. In FDV, he said that some of them are their idols, so it will not be easy, but he hopes that this time the defeated after staying in 2019 one step away from the semis. The judges will evaluate factors such as the taste, presentation, balance and technique of the barista, as well as that narrative that we comment that links the elaborations. We will have to be attentive. Images | WCC In Xataka | Toast coffee at home with the air fryer: the perfect example that experiments are done with soda

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