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Cision Canada
4 days ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
Xanadu Unveils First On-Chip Error-Resistant Photonic Qubit
TORONTO, June 4, 2025 /CNW/ - Xanadu has achieved a significant milestone in the development of scalable quantum hardware by generating error-resistant photonic qubits on an integrated chip platform. A foundational result in Xanadu's roadmap, this first-ever demonstration of such qubits on a chip is now published in Nature. This breakthrough builds on Xanadu's recent announcement of the Aurora system, which demonstrated—for the first time—all key components required to build a modular, networked, and scalable photonic quantum computer. With this latest demonstration of robust qubit generation using silicon-based photonic chips, Xanadu further strengthens the scalability pillar of its architecture. The quantum states produced in this experiment, known as GKP states, consist of superpositions of many photons to encode information in an error-resistant manner—an essential requirement for future fault-tolerant quantum computers. These states allow logic operations to be performed using deterministic, room-temperature-compatible techniques, and they are uniquely well-suited for networking across chips using standard fiber connections. This demonstration of generating photonic qubits was enabled by a number of key technological achievements from Xanadu's hardware team. These include the development of photon-number-resolving detectors with detection efficiencies above 99%, the fabrication of customized ultra-low loss silicon nitride waveguides on 300 mm wafer platforms, and the implementation of in-house state-of-the-art optical packaging. "GKP states are, in a sense, the optimal photonic qubit, since they enable logic gates and error correction at room temperature and using relatively straightforward, deterministic operations," says Zachary Vernon, CTO of Hardware at Xanadu. "This demonstration is an important empirical milestone showing our recent successes in loss reduction and performance improvement across chip fabrication, component design, and detector efficiency." The next hurdle towards a utility-scale photonic quantum computer remains clear: further reduction of optical loss will allow for higher quality GKP states suitable for fault-tolerance. With another significant milestone in its hardware roadmap complete, Xanadu remains focused on further optimizing fabrication and photonics packaging processes to alleviate optical loss across its platform. About Xanadu: Xanadu is a Canadian quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. Founded in 2016, Xanadu has become one of the world's leading quantum hardware and software companies. The company also leads the development of PennyLane, an open-source software library for quantum computing and application development. Visit or follow us on X @XanaduAI.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Xanadu Unveils First On-Chip Error-Resistant Photonic Qubit
TORONTO, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Xanadu has achieved a significant milestone in the development of scalable quantum hardware by generating error-resistant photonic qubits on an integrated chip platform. A foundational result in Xanadu's roadmap, this first-ever demonstration of such qubits on a chip is now published in Nature. This breakthrough builds on Xanadu's recent announcement of the Aurora system, which demonstrated—for the first time—all key components required to build a modular, networked, and scalable photonic quantum computer. With this latest demonstration of robust qubit generation using silicon-based photonic chips, Xanadu further strengthens the scalability pillar of its architecture. The quantum states produced in this experiment, known as GKP states, consist of superpositions of many photons to encode information in an error-resistant manner—an essential requirement for future fault-tolerant quantum computers. These states allow logic operations to be performed using deterministic, room-temperature-compatible techniques, and they are uniquely well-suited for networking across chips using standard fiber connections. This demonstration of generating photonic qubits was enabled by a number of key technological achievements from Xanadu's hardware team. These include the development of photon-number-resolving detectors with detection efficiencies above 99%, the fabrication of customized ultra-low loss silicon nitride waveguides on 300 mm wafer platforms, and the implementation of in-house state-of-the-art optical packaging. "GKP states are, in a sense, the optimal photonic qubit, since they enable logic gates and error correction at room temperature and using relatively straightforward, deterministic operations," says Zachary Vernon, CTO of Hardware at Xanadu. "This demonstration is an important empirical milestone showing our recent successes in loss reduction and performance improvement across chip fabrication, component design, and detector efficiency." The next hurdle towards a utility-scale photonic quantum computer remains clear: further reduction of optical loss will allow for higher quality GKP states suitable for fault-tolerance. With another significant milestone in its hardware roadmap complete, Xanadu remains focused on further optimizing fabrication and photonics packaging processes to alleviate optical loss across its platform. About Xanadu: Xanadu is a Canadian quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. Founded in 2016, Xanadu has become one of the world's leading quantum hardware and software companies. The company also leads the development of PennyLane, an open-source software library for quantum computing and application development. Visit or follow us on X @XanaduAI. View original content: SOURCE Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Daily Mail
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The 'must-have' item that sells every 60 SECONDS has shoppers floored with incredible results: 'I swear it took 15 years off me'
A popular Australian eye cream has wowed thousands of beauty fans all over the world with its impressive results, selling one bottle every 60 seconds. Before-and-after photos show the jaw-dropping results of My Perfect Eyes cream from The Perfect Cosmetics Co, with shoppers noticing a 'temporary eye lift' in less than a minute. Lasting up to eight hours, the potent eye cream has been clinically proven to reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, dark circles and under-eye puffiness. The dermatologist-tested formula is said to be a go-to on film sets, where actors need a quick cosmetic refresh to achieve a more youthful appearance for flashback scenes. Shoppers looking to save are in luck as The Perfect Cosmetics Co has launched a massive 40 per cent off sale on everything, including the best-selling eye cream. With one bottle sold every minute globally and 500,000 units sold per year, My Perfect Eyes has racked up more than 1,100 five star reviews. Trustpilot has hundreds of reviews from customers who had seen the product in action on TV and were skeptical it truly was as good as it seemed, but were floored with the results when they tried it for themselves. 'I couldn't believe my eyes when I watched a TV demo of this product and admit I [was] highly skeptical. So I was over the moon when I got to use it myself,' one customer wrote. 'I swear it takes 15 years off me.' Many delighted customers report appearing years younger thanks to the dermatologist-tested formulation: 'Wonderful, I just couldn't believe how much younger I looked. Very very pleased. Thank you so much.' 'My family and friends have noticed a big difference in my confidence when I'm wearing My Perfect Eyes, it's my little secret and I don't necessarily want to share it, but I think I should, I think everyone should wear My Perfect Eyes.' Another added: 'Truly amazing product, at 82 I did not expect such a brilliant result, cheered me up no end.' In clinical trials by Ozderm, 100 per cent of participants reported an immediate reduction in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while 96 per cent reported a dramatic reduction in puffiness*. The formulation has even been used on film sets to turn back the clock for actors in flashback scenes. The Perfect Cosmetics Co founder Penny Lane shared on social media that Australian actor David Wenham relied on the product to appear as a younger version of his character. To buy My Perfect Eyes cream from The Perfect Cosmetics Co, click here.
The Guardian
22-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie review
'It's a drag, isn't it,' Paul McCartney told reporters quizzing him the day after John Lennon's murder, a soundbite as dispiritingly muted, even callous, as his reaction to his mother's death when he was 14: 'How are we going to get by without her money?' Behind the scenes, Paul was lost and tearful, as well as guilt‑stricken that he and John hadn't properly reconciled since the Beatles split: 'I'm never going to fall out with anybody again.' Still, the enshrinement of John and vilification of Paul had begun. 'John Lennon was three-quarters of the Beatles,' Philip Norman told television viewers while promoting his biography, Shout!, a few months later. The antagonism has abated in recent years, but the John-Paul duality persists. Heavy rocker versus cute populist. Working-class rebel v smug bourgeois clone. Tormented genius v girly sentimentalist. Strawberry Fields Forever v Penny Lane. Ian Leslie takes on these tired polarities by reframing the story as a volatile bromance: 'passionate, tender and tempestuous, full of longing, riven by jealousy'. However much at odds temperamentally, John and Paul were an indivisible twosome, the driving force of the Beatles, with George and Ringo (not much featured here) as add-ons. The emotional ties they shared, not least the early loss of their mothers, weren't ones they could talk about, so they sang them instead. As Paul put it: 'You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people.' To Beatles aficionados, the cast and chronology will be familiar: the Quarrymen, Hamburg, the Cavern, Beatlemania, Abbey Road, the Apple rooftop concert; Brian Epstein, George Martin; Cynthia Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jane Asher, Linda Eastman. But Leslie's approach is fresh because focused on the double-consciousness ('a duet not a duel', 'a group within the group') and their 'shared ownership of each other's talent'. He follows them from the teen years when they bunked off classes to strum at each other's houses ('Paul's reversed guitar meant that the two of them could act as mirrors for each other') through jamming sessions in hotel rooms to late-night studio recordings. Their work rate was phenomenal (at the Kaiserkeller they played seven nights a week till two or four in the morning). But so was the intimacy and sense of fun. 'It's like you and me are lovers,' John once said, to which Paul grunted assent, and even after the band's breakup they spoke of their relationship as a marriage. John referred to Paul as 'an old estranged fiance' and described how getting together with Yoko reminded him how he'd picked Paul 'as my partner'. Maybe, John conceded, 'it was a marriage that had to end'. Still, 'I would do anything for him, and I think he would do anything for me.' As Leslie sees it, the marriage didn't end because of musical differences, but because they were spending less time together, and others had intruded. John's marriage to Cynthia, and Paul's long romance with Jane Asher (plus countless flings), didn't seriously threaten it. But Yoko Ono was a force of nature, and with John quiescent in her domineering presence she became a replacement for Paul; John told her he liked her 'because you look like a bloke in drag. You're like a mate.' Linda Eastman was even more of a threat because Paul allowed her well-to-do family to take over Apple's financial affairs, much to John's rage and resentment. After the Beatles broke up, his denunciations of Paul, both in interviews and in music, were ferocious. The Beatles years had been humiliating, he said, with Paul 'a pretty face' who made muzak, rather than a true artist; Yesterday, a Beatles song with only one Beatle on it, was the epitome of his soppiness. Paul was hurt and John backtracked, describing him as 'my closest friend, except for Yoko'. But John had been hurt too, by Paul's neglect and bullying assumption of command, and there were further outbursts. Nonetheless, his idiom ('dear one', 'brother') was still tinged with affection. For Leslie, the intensity of their relationship is imprinted in their songs. He spends many pages dissecting them musically and is thorough in identifying influences: behind Hey Jude, for example, he discerns Bach, doo-wop, Broadway, Anglican church music and gospel. But it's what John called the 'eyeball-to-eyeball' collaboration with Paul that interests him most: 'They liked to put their faces close together and stare, unblinking, until they felt themselves dissolving into each other,' he writes, a tad mystically. Laughter was crucial (the Beatles loved to lark about). So was whistling: 'The way we work,' Paul said, 'John will whistle at me and I'll whistle back to him.' Some of their songs were composed within a couple of hours. Leslie doesn't shirk the question of how much each contributed to the lyrics and melody of their classics. When John, jealous of Paul's versatility, claimed to have written half of Eleanor Rigby, it was a wild exaggeration. But the emphasis here is on Lennon-McCartney as a joint enterprise, and the miracle of the songs they wrote together, with their singing voices sometimes indistinguishable and credit to one or the other beside the point: 'They were so far inside of each other's musical minds that it doesn't matter.' Reading songs as autobiography is dangerous. Leslie's previous books have been works of psychology, and he's an armchair shrink in places here, with Freudian digging to find lines that shed light on the John-Paul relationship. His tone can become overexcited. Please Please Me 'a cruise missile carrying a payload of joy'? Twist and Shout 'a carnal joyride'? Getting Better a 'self-help narrative' in which John acts as 'a Greek chorus in the drama of his own maturation'? Well, maybe. Attributing the self-assurance John and Paul displayed on stage to 'the arrogance of the damaged' is pushing it, too. Then again, John described Strawberry Fields Forever as 'psychoanalysis set to music' and Leslie enjoys the complex identity swaps in the collaboration, such as Paul thinking up the title for John's book In His Own Write: 'There is something delicious about a third-person title being suggested by a second person who co-created the first person's sensibility.'. Sign up to Bookmarks Discover new books and learn more about your favourite authors with our expert reviews, interviews and news stories. Literary delights delivered direct to you after newsletter promotion For the most part, Leslie's book is intelligent, diligently researched fandom. He has read all there is to be read, from the pioneering Hunter Davies to the recent Craig Brown, and has consumed many a film and podcast in between. He's not afraid of terms such as postmodernist and metatextual. But the tone is chatty and engaging, with the emphasis where it should be, on the songs. There'll still be fans wedded to the old binaries. And though Leslie didn't interview McCartney for his book, he's not wholly impartial; it was a 10,000-word lockdown essay about Paul that prompted him to go on and write this. Still, his portrait of John's fragility and self-destructiveness is sympathetic. And his Paul isn't a winsome poster boy but tough, cynical and prone to cold fury. ''I realise now we never got to the bottom of each other's souls,' Paul once said. The dynamic remains mysterious, but this book takes us closer to understanding it. John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie is published by Faber (£25). 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South China Morning Post
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Why Kate Hudson sings about her actress mother Goldie Hawn on her debut album, Glorious
Kate Hudson is sitting on a folding chair in a studio in Los Angeles' Fashion District when suddenly the voice of Kate Hudson comes booming through the wall. Advertisement The 45-year-old singer and actress is there to shoot a music video for 'Right on Time', a recently released bonus track from a new deluxe edition of her 2024 debut album, Glorious. A stately ballad that showcases her soaring vocals, 'Right on Time' is about Hudson's film star mother, Goldie Hawn, and it's bringing a tear to the eye of the woman who wrote it. 'This song makes me emotional,' Hudson says, tilting her head towards the sound. 'It's my mommy, you know?' Raised between Los Angeles and Colorado by Hawn and Hawn's long-time partner, actor Kurt Russell, Hudson broke out in Hollywood with her role as a wise if idealistic groupie named Penny Lane in 2000's rock-obsessed Almost Famous. Advertisement
