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HONG KONG, CHINA / ACCESSWIRE / July 3, 2022 /TickerWin, one of the leading market research companies, has released a report on 'Booming of Computing Industry with Blockchain Technology'. Metaverse is a virtual world based on VR and AR technologies, in which users can interact with each other. Beyond social interactions, it will also be a place for shopping, events, education, and more. The metaverse game is a game world in which users will exist as avatar versions of themselves, supported by NFT and Blockchain technologies. They can then engage in daily activities such as meeting up with friends, buying groceries and attending a work event.

Quantum Computing, Bio-Computing and Blockchain-Computing

Computing power has always been increasing. However, new developments on the horizon like quantum computing and bio-computing are set to blow Moore's Law - the observation made in 1965 that computers tend to roughly double in power every two years - out of the water. The field of computing that we refer to as artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning and deep learning, has chiefly become viable in the past decade or so because computer processors have finally become available that can keep up with the background mathematics that is required. Today, Google is said to have a working quantum computer capable of operating 100 million times faster than any non-quantum computer in existence. While this will only be relevant to a very limited number of use cases (it's unlikely you could use it to play the game 100 million times faster than on an powerful GPU, for example), it's clear that we're getting set for an increase in computing power, unlike anything we've seen before.

The Rise of Blockchain and NFT assets

With the arrival of a new open, decentralized internet, comes an increased focused on blockchain, for the management of transparent data. Blockchains allow for convenient, trustless data exchanges, recorded histories, and decentralized authority.

Many experts believe the blockchain will play an important role in the creation of a safe and fair metaverse. The blockchain is also helping to form the creation of a new economy within the metaverse, one defined by creators being able to monetize the things they make and receive adequate compensation for their talents.

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, for instance, are an exciting part of the metaverse, which allow people to sell everything from data to services and experiences, in a way that benefits the actual artist or creator behind each asset.

The roles for startups to play

Startups are emerging across the globe with their own metaverses. Furthermore, NFTs have also been a hot topic for many months now and the prospect of combining NFTs and metaverse solutions holds great potential. Numerous startups have been launching platforms in which users can create, mint and sell their own NFTs. These platforms are also working with brands and businesses who want to enter the NFT space.

Beyond creating their own metaverses, startups also develop technology to help build or support metaverses. In this sense, they play a tech enabler role. For example, they can provide businesses with the tools to create their own immersive 3D environments in the metaverse, with high quality visuals and optimal user experience. They can provide companies with the tools to launch solutions to host their meetings in the metaverse or to advertise their products at virtual events. Such tools include 3D development, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, etc.

As questions and concerns arise around user safety, regulating the metaverse and other legal matters, businesses will likely need to implement cybersecurity and compliance solutions. Startups, which are already leading in these areas for sectors like insurance, will emerge as key providers to ensure compliance with future regulations and security best practices.

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Industrys Largest Quantum Computing Community Debuts in Japan IBM Quantum Announced as Platinum Sponsor Q2B22 Tokyo Co-Hosted by QunaSys

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ QC Ware, a leading quantum software and services company, today announced the inaugural Q2B22 Tokyo Practical Quantum Computing, to be held exclusively in person at The Westin Tokyo in Japan on July 13-14, 2022. Q2B is the worlds largest gathering of the quantum computing community, focusing solely on quantum computing applications and driving the discourse on quantum advantage and commercialization. Registration and other information on Q2B22 Tokyo is available at http://q2b.jp

Q2B22 Tokyo will feature top academics, industry end users, government representatives, and quantum computing vendors from around the world.

Japan has led the way with ground-breaking research on quantum computing, said Matt Johnson, CEO of QC Ware. In addition, the ecosystem includes some of Japans largest enterprises, forward-thinking government organizations, and a thriving venture-backed startup community. Im excited to be able to connect the Japanese and international quantum computing ecosystems at this unique event.

QC Ware has been operating in Japan since 2019 and recently opened up an office in Tokyo.

Sponsored by IBM Quantum, Q2B22 Tokyo will be co-hosted by QunaSys, co-hosted by QunaSys, a leading Japanese developer company working on innovative algorithms focused on accelerating the development of quantum technology applicability in chemistry.

Japans technology ecosystem is actively advancing quantum computing. QunaSys is a key player in boosting technology adoption, driving business, government, and academia collaboration to enable the quantum chemistry ecosystem. We are pleased to work with QC Ware and co-host Q2B Tokyo bringing Q2B to Japan, said Tennin Yan, CEO of QunaSys.

IBM Quantum has strategically invested in Japan to accelerate an ecosystem of world-class academic, private sector and government partners, including installation of the IBM Quantum System One at the University of Tokyo, and the co-development of the Quantum Innovation Initiative Consortium (QIIC), said Aparna Prabhakar, Vice President, Partners and Alliances, IBM Quantum. We are excited to work with QC Ware and QunaSys to bring experts from a wide variety of quantum computing fields to Q2B22 Tokyo.

Q2B22 Tokyo will feature keynotes from top academics such as:

Kohei Itoh, President, Keio University Hidetoshi Nishimori, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology Francois Le Gall, Professor, Nagoya University

Other keynotes include:

Matt Langione, Partner, Boston Consulting Group Aparna Prabhakar, Vice President, Partner Ecosystem, IBM Quantum Mitsunobu Koshiba, Honorary Chairman,JSR Corporation Koji Yasui, Sub Program Director of SIP Program, Photonics and Quantum Technology and Senior Chief Technologist, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Celia Merzbacher, Executive Director, QED-C

Japanese and international end-users discussing active quantum initiatives, such as:

Automotive:

Takanori Ide, Senior Specialist, Aisin Corporation Dr. Elvira Shishenina, Quantum Computing Lead, BMW Group Tadashi Kadowaki, Project General Manager, Denso Corporation

Materials and Chemistry:

Qi Gao, Senior Chief Scientist, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Gian-Luca Romano Anselmetti, Covestro Deutschland AG Yu-ya Ohnishi, Deputy General Manager, JSR Corporation

Finance and more:

Nikitas Stamatopoulos, Vice President, R&D Engineering, Goldman Sachs Masayoshi Terabe, Head of Quantum Transformation, Sumitomo Corporation Ryota Katsuki, Researcher, NTT Data

In addition to IBM Quantum, Q2B22 Tokyo, is sponsored by D-Wave Systems, Keysight Technologies, NVIDIA, Quantinuum Ltd., Quantum Machines, and Strangeworks, Inc.

Other sponsors include:

Gold: Agnostiq, Bleximo Corp., Classiq, and Fujitsu Showcase: Deloitte and PsiQuantum Exhibitor: NEC and Pasqal Networking: QED-C Technical & Government Truck Sponsor: AISIN

Q2B has been run by QC Ware since 2017, with the annual flagship event held in Northern Californias Silicon Valley. Q2B Silicon Valley is currently scheduled for December 6-8 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

About QC Ware

QC Ware is a quantum software and services company focused on ensuring enterprises are prepared for the emerging quantum computing disruption. QC Ware specializes in the development of applications for near-term quantum computing hardware with a team composed of some of the industrys foremost experts in quantum computing. Its growing network of customers includes AFRL, Aisin Group, Airbus, BMW Group, Covestro, Equinor, Goldman Sachs, Itau Unibanco, and Total. QC Ware Forge, the companys flagship quantum computing cloud service, is built for data scientists with no quantum computing background. It provides unique, performant, turnkey quantum computing algorithms. QC Ware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and supports its European customers through its subsidiary in Paris and its Asian customers from a Tokyo office. QC Ware also organizes Q2B, the largest annual gathering of the international quantum computing community.

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To find the best grass, it makes sense to follow the fattest cows.

In terms of investment opportunities, tracking the big money can usually point investors in the right direction.

And in this case, Amazon is the fattest cow in the industry. In the past five years, Jeff Bezos and his executives have been pouring enormous amounts of capital into a brand-new, industry-changing field.

Its been a long road bringing this technology to market, and Amazon is far from the only player on the field. But with nearly unlimited resources and access to an elite talent pool, Amazon has a real shot at bringing its new hardware to full-scale commercialization.

But if quantum dominance is the companys goal, its engineers are going to have to solve the same problem as everyone else: error correction.

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Information is a fascinatingly complex concept in and of itself.

According to the legendary Rolf Landauer, one of the fathers of modern physics, information is a purely physical phenomenon. Every piece of information must be represented by some kind of tangible symbol.

Because of this principle, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics actually have a lot in common with the data stored on your computer. Both are nothing more than symbols that represent meaning using physical space.

The Egyptians stored data using carvings in stone, while computers use billions of tiny 0s and 1s called bits. But the overall concept is strikingly similar.

Ancient carvings and conventional computers are both highly resistant to errors. When you save a picture or carve a picture of a buffalo into a cave wall, the information stays exactly where it is. Its very unlikely that after drawing your buffalo, it suddenly changes shape into a dog.

Unfortunately, this is exactly the problem that is holding back quantum computing.

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These incredibly powerful machines have an irritating tendency to make random mistakes while crunching numbers. Without a robust process to prevent quantum qubits from wantonly changing themselves, quantum computing is dead in the water.

But even though this new technology is completely different from conventional computing, the information is still stored through physical means. Mr. Landauer was right yet again.

With that in mind, the best way to solve a physical problem is with a physical solution.

The current gold standard in error correction is very similar to a quality-control process that can be found in any manufacturing facility across the globe just at a much, much smaller scale.

This complex process involves a sort of checks and balances system that identifies misflipped qubits, evaluates their position compared with the rest of the system, and then re-flips the erroneous portions accordingly.

All of this happens within the tiniest fraction of a second, but it allows the entire system to proceed without catastrophic failure. The concept is still in the theoretical stages, but quantum computing has a notoriously short lab-to-market pipeline.

Neither Amazon nor IBM nor the small-cap company weve been following can move forward until error correction is solved so I expect to see this protocol baked into whichever quantum machine hits the market first.

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For individual investors like us, Amazon claiming the top spot is bad news.

Sure, we could all pony up and buy shares of the company it wouldn't exactly be a bad investment. But at the scale Amazon operates, becoming the worlds quantum computing leader would have less effect on the companys share price.

Companies with a smaller market cap, fewer employees, and greater passion for this mind-blowing field are what we look for. In this case, the news could easily quadruple the companys value.

Luckily for us, Amazons massive size doesn't mean squat. Plenty of world-changing breakthroughs have been achieved by small, underfunded teams working in less than ideal conditions.

Weve narrowed down a few key players currently giving Amazon a run for its money. If you're serious about investing in this sector, avoid companies like IBM and Amazon like the plague.

Try reading into companies like these before you start throwing your money at blue chip stocks. Trust me, the payoff could be vastly greater than anything Amazon could ever hope to return.

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Changes to ANZSCO should help the IT sector. Photo: Shutterstock

Australias IT industry has the chance to better target visa policies and industry development activities by using the updated official Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) skills list to ensure official skills classifications reflect contemporary technologies.

The overhaul of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) a classification system for modelling the local job market that was last fully updated in 2013 comes nearly a year after a Parliamentary committee recommended that the system be replaced with an alternative that is more flexible to adapt to emerging labour market needs.

Given that ANZSCO is used to formulate visa policy for skilled migrants in specific industries, that review highlighted the challenges presented by overbroad skills classifications that didnt allow visas to be properly targeted.

In a time where the IT industry is crying out for skills related to important new technologies such as cloud computing, blockchain, cyber security, quantum computing, and more, the ICT industrys myriad job roles are still grouped into just a few categories.

These include Business and Systems Analysts, and Programmers (ANZSCO Group 261); Database and Systems Administrators, and ICT Security Specialists (262); ICT Network and Support Professionals (263); and ICT and Telecommunications Technicians (313).

Those old descriptors, which were created in a time where technologies like cloud computing and smartphones were in their infancy, only vaguely align with many of todays most in-demand subject areas which include emerging technologies like cloud architectures and mobile app development.

Failure to focus skills development efforts has left companies largely filling roles with a limited pool of contractors demanding ever-increasing salaries for ever harder-to-find skills.

That situation recently drove Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER) secretary David Fredericks to declare Australias ICT sector fundamentally a contractor-based industry that relies on that talent pool to deal with a wave of work that is coming through the grants process.

ANZSCO for the better

Ensuring that official skills lists reflect the current job market and industry requirements may be important for funding and industry development, but the ICT industrys rapid pace has made it a moving target for government instruments like ANZSCO and the Skilled Occupation List (SOL), which regularly run up to a decade behind industry practice.

Despite recognising in August 2018 that a review of the classification is desirable, the ABS put its ANZSCO overhaul on the back burner to focus its resources on the 2021 Australian Census.

Early last year, the ABS began exploring options for a phased approach to updating ANZSCO after announcing that it had necessary support and resourcing to explore new ways of classifying jobs in cyber security, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and naval shipbuilding.

This dovetailed with work already being undertaken by ACS, which in mid-2020 revised its approach to classifying cyber security jobs so that applications for skilled migration visas could be properly assessed against cyber security-specific criteria.

It is also canvassing opinions about a new way of maintaining ANZSCO trialled over the past year that would eschew infrequent major updates for more regular, staged reviews of industry capabilities conducted with relevant industry bodies.

In November, the ABS released a partial, Australia-only update of ANZSCO that reflected the fruits of this approach, introducing changes in several areas including priority emerging occupations and new codes for cyber security specialisations that were previously lumped under one ANZSCO code (262112).

The updated ANZSCO now lists the likes of Cyber Security Engineer (261315), Devops Engineer (261316), Penetration Tester (261317), Cyber Governance Risk and Compliance Specialist (262114), Cyber Security Advice and Assessment Specialist (262115), Cyber Security Analyst (262116), and more allowing recruiters, migration specialists and others to better address the cyber security skills gap by offering visas for those specific roles.

That update represents the first incremental step of a larger program of work, the ABS said at the time and with the release of the first major data sets from the 2021 Census finally behind it, the organisation is now diving into the full ANZSCO overhaul.

In 2021, the ABS trialled a new, targeted approach to updating ANZSCO, ANZSCO Review director Chris Hinchcliffe said, noting that the ABS is now accepting submissions about the new approach and will be taking a similar approach to reclassifying construction-industry roles.

The ABS continues to develop the new approach to maintaining ANZSCO to reflect the contemporary labour market and better meet stakeholders needs, Hinchcliffe said. Feedback will determine a set of proposed changes [and] assist with planning future updates to ANZSCO.

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Countries designate technologies as strategic for a variety of reasons. Some technologies are regarded as an engine for economic growth, others as a way to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers, a defensive measure, a path to gain economic or national security advantages, or even serve as leverage during times of conflict. Weve seen this play out with satellites, cellular networks, atomic energy, chip manufacturing and more.

Quantum computing is a new strategic technology with wide-reaching implications. The ability to solve problems and perform calculations that no existing classical computer can, or ever will be able to, opens a plethora of strategic opportunities and challenges.

Much attention has been focused on decryption using quantum computers. The worlds financial systems and many computer networks are protected by an encryption scheme that was once considered unbreakable. And indeed, it would take classical computers many years to break it. But a powerful-enough quantum computer could crack the code in a few hours. Suddenly, bank accounts, health records, and other sensitive information could be left exposed, with untold consequential damages. Though quantum computers that can break the code might not be available for another 5 to 10 years, bad actors are already recording sensitive encrypted information so theyre ready to decrypt it in the future. Even when considering blockchain, public-to-public-key and reused public-to-public-key-hash addresses are vulnerable to quantum attacks, raising concerns about bitcoin and contracts that are secured by the blockchain.

Those same quantum computing technologies can also act as a strong defensive measure. Many organizations are using quantum technology, and specifically, quantum key distribution, to create encryption schemes that are much more difficult to break or gain access to.

But while companies should indeed consider the positive and negative impact of quantum computers on their encryption and communication systems, they should also be aware that they can gain strategic leverage from superior quantum computing technology.

Quantum can be a game-changing differentiator when working with huge data sets, models that have numerous variables yet exhibit a high rate of change over time. This can apply to moonshot projectscuring cancer, decoding the human genebut also to everyday problems such as optimizing shipping routes or balancing personal stock portfolios.

Take, for instance, energy storage. Quantum computers excel at simulating chemical and pharmaceutical compounds. This is because chemical interaction is done at the quantum physics level, andas Noble Laureate Richard Feynman noted 40 years agoa quantum system is the best choice to simulate quantum phenomena. Powerful quantum computers, and the software that drives them, can be used to develop superior batteries with higher efficiency, lower weight, and higher capacity. Since batteries represent about 30% of the cost of an electric vehicle and play a critical role in its usefulness, leadership in battery technology could translate to leadership in the electrification of vehicles, energy storage for buildings and more.

Machine learning is another example. Whether to improve conversational AI, solve protein-folding problems or analyze images and videos, countries that develop leading ML capabilities gain strategic advantages. Quantum computing offers dramatic new ML opportunities. They stem from the ability of a quantum computer to load much more information than classical ones, execute numerous calculations simultaneously and use these capabilities to uncover new and meaningful data patterns.

That unique quantum ability to perform numerous calculations in parallel, as opposed to sequentially, comes in handy for better weather forecasting, more accurate assessment of financial risk and the ability to streamline the supply chain, optimize traffic and improve the dynamic allocation of shared resources, such as cellular spectrums.

Many countries understand this. Indeed, we are seeing a global quantum arms race, bearing similarities to the space race of decades ago. China, for instance, is reportedly investing $10 billion in a national quantum program. The European Union has pledged significant amounts in addition to what member-states are pledging individually. The US committed $1.2 billion as part of the National Quantum Initiative, followed by another $1 billion in National Science Foundation funding for AI and quantum centers. Many additional countries including Russia, Japan, India, Germany and France have created their own national quantum programs.

Given the strategic and wide-ranging consequences of superior quantum computing capacity, it is fair to ask what constitutes technical superiority. We look at two key components: hardware and software. Quantum computing hardware is about exploring new ways to create high-quality quantum bits or qubitsand integrating them into machines with larger capacity and higher computational accuracy. But this hardware will be useless without software that allows researchers to quickly translate their algorithms into the low-level instructions that quantum computers need to operate. Yet this quantum circuit creation is done nearly manually today, very close to the hardware itself. But as computers become larger and more powerful, it will become impossible for humans to cope with the scale and complexity of quantum circuitsunless they harness new breakthroughs in software development platforms.

Conventional computing capabilities are limited: you have to break the data into 1s and 0s. Quantum changes that and thus opens many opportunities that can look at multiple variables simultaneously.

Attaining and retaining strategic advantages requires long-term planning and focused execution. Analysts say that the U.S. lost the 5G war to China. Can the US afford to lose the quantum race as well? What if China or another nation unveiled tomorrow morning a scientifically-credible demonstration of a computer that cracks financial encryption or accurately simulates a complex molecule? Overnight, the world will feel completely different.

Here are four ways countries can increase their chances of winning the race:

We are at a critical juncture. Lets not wait for the quantum equivalent of a Sputnik moment. Rarely does a new technology come along that provides those who can harness it with this level of power.

Now is the time to grab the quantum bull by the horns. Our children and grandchildren will thank us for it.

Adm. Mike Rogers is the former head of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. Nir Minerbi is theCEO and co-founder at quantum software providerClassiq.

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