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Astar - Journey Beyond the Ages

Melodic Black Metal from Rome, Italy

Astar are a journey through medieval myths and legends, where magic, arcane rites, and ancient prophecies tell the story of the Sangreal. The epic black metal band was formed in Rome in 2022 by Duke Eligos (vocals) and Sir Percival (guitars, bass, and synths). Later joined by Lady Tuyla (keyboards and synths) and Lord Folchitto (drums).

1. Hyperborean Sky 06:09 2. The Prophecy of War 05:36 3. Homeland 02:07 4. Timeless Mountain 06:41 5. A Ballad for the Rising Hero 05:46 6. Legacy of the Fall 05:26 7. The Emerald King 05:41 8. Journey Beyond the Ages 07:31 9. Munsalvaesche 04:47

Release date: May 31st, 2026

Black Metal Promotion: YouTube channel

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Xanatu quantum tech

Photonic quantum computing leader Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. has expanded its strategic cooperation with Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology, and Research. This should help Asia's fast growing quantum technology industry. The revived and enlarged relationship is formalised by an MoU to considerably improve the next-generation quantum technology research and development pipeline. Achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing is the goal of this strategic alliance.

The deal deepens Xanadu's long-standing, crucial cooperation with ASTAR's Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a semiconductor and integrated circuit research leader. The new addition contains the Quantum Innovation Centre (Q.InC) and the Institute of High Performance Computing, two more crucial ASTAR facilities. This multi-institutional interaction represents a full-stack strategy by integrating hardware production, computational modelling, and innovation commercialisation into a quantum initiative.

The MoU aims to build long-term research partnerships and actively study the viability of cooperative quantum laboratories and fully operating facilities in Singapore.

Use Synergy for Next-Generation Devices

ASTAR's government and technological expertise and Xanadu's photonic quantum computing expertise, including its software platforms and algorithms, constitute a strong partnership. ASTAR delivers integrated photonics design, smart packaging, and quantum material research for next-generation quantum devices. This cooperation is leading the global race to turn quantum systems from research prototypes to enterprise-ready, commercially viable products.

Technical focus is photonic quantum computing, a strategic approach. Photons, or light particles, are Xanadu's qubit, unlike trapped-ion or superconducting approaches, which need cryogenic settings. The photonic approach's inherent advantages include room-temperature operation and use of the semiconductor and optical communication infrastructure.

A photonic system uses beam splitters and phase shifters built in silicon chips to execute quantum gates. The properties of light encode quantum information. This field is integrated photonics. The cooperation intends to produce, manipulate, and detect quantum states of light at scale with high dependability while minimising physical system flaws. The expanded alliance aims to solve scale and stability challenges through several key, well-defined projects to create the next wave of quantum research.

Focus on Research Pillars

The four technological pillars that underpin the expanded field of research are necessary for fault tolerance:

This technically demanding topic addresses GKP state creation error mitigation. GKP states are highly specialised, continuous-variable quantum states. These states are needed to develop photonic-platform fault-tolerant quantum computers. For industry challenges, a quantum computer must have fault tolerance, the capacity to detect and correct errors before they happen. The coordinated project will employ A*STAR's advanced fabrication capabilities and integrated photonics expertise to improve GKP state creation to make these vital quantum resources stable and reproducible for complex algorithms.

Development of Quantum Light Sources: Photonic quantum computers' performance depends on their light sources. The second significant topic is collaborative quantum light source improvement. The squeezed light, a non-classical state that reduces noise in some measured variables, is crucial to Xanadu's systems. This research designs stable, scalable, and efficient integrated light sources to supply high-quality quantum resources for high-speed quantum computation.

Quantum computers must be scaled up using a robust and intricately linked network of quantum components. The cooperation will build quantum connectivity solutions using custom ASIC integration and cutting-edge integrated photonic devices. This work aims to create a dense, repeatable, low-loss “plumbing” system on a chip for quantum data transfer in large processors. Custom classical electronics are needed for high-speed, low-latency quantum state control and readout to connect the quantum processor to the traditional control system.

The final strategic pillar is exploring photonic quantum computer hosting in Singapore. This initiative indicates both sides' commitment to building quantum infrastructure in the area and connects research to commercial application. If this investigation led to the construction of a joint facility, Southeast Asian research institutes, governments, and businesses would have direct access to cutting-edge hardware, solidifying Singapore's status as a quantum computing hub.

Fast-tracking fault tolerance

"The extended partnership is meant to accelerate the company's path towards delivering fault-tolerant quantum computers that can solve real-world problems intractable for classical supercomputers," said Xanadu founder and CEO Christian Weedbrook.

Professor Yeo Yee Chia, ASTAR's Deputy Chief Executive, stressed the Agency's importance and stated the alliance will employ ASTAR's scientific expertise and industry-standard facilities like IME to accelerate development cycles. This technique seeks clear paths from early quantum notions to reliable, manufacturable solutions. This focus on manufacturability ensures that fault-tolerant quantum computer parts can be scaled up in a factory rather than a lab.

Xanatu quantum tech

Photonic quantum computing leader Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. has expanded its strategic cooperation with Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology, and Research. This should help Asia's fast growing quantum technology industry. The revived and enlarged relationship is formalised by an MoU to considerably improve the next-generation quantum technology research and development pipeline. Achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing is the goal of this strategic alliance.

The deal deepens Xanadu's long-standing, crucial cooperation with ASTAR's Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a semiconductor and integrated circuit research leader. The new addition contains the Quantum Innovation Centre (Q.InC) and the Institute of High Performance Computing, two more crucial ASTAR facilities. This multi-institutional interaction represents a full-stack strategy by integrating hardware production, computational modelling, and innovation commercialisation into a quantum initiative.

The MoU aims to build long-term research partnerships and actively study the viability of cooperative quantum laboratories and fully operating facilities in Singapore.

Use Synergy for Next-Generation Devices

ASTAR's government and technological expertise and Xanadu's photonic quantum computing expertise, including its software platforms and algorithms, constitute a strong partnership. ASTAR delivers integrated photonics design, smart packaging, and quantum material research for next-generation quantum devices. This cooperation is leading the global race to turn quantum systems from research prototypes to enterprise-ready, commercially viable products.

Technical focus is photonic quantum computing, a strategic approach. Photons, or light particles, are Xanadu's qubit, unlike trapped-ion or superconducting approaches, which need cryogenic settings. The photonic approach's inherent advantages include room-temperature operation and use of the semiconductor and optical communication infrastructure.

A photonic system uses beam splitters and phase shifters built in silicon chips to execute quantum gates. The properties of light encode quantum information. This field is integrated photonics. The cooperation intends to produce, manipulate, and detect quantum states of light at scale with high dependability while minimising physical system flaws. The expanded alliance aims to solve scale and stability challenges through several key, well-defined projects to create the next wave of quantum research.

Focus on Research Pillars

The four technological pillars that underpin the expanded field of research are necessary for fault tolerance:

This technically demanding topic addresses GKP state creation error mitigation. GKP states are highly specialised, continuous-variable quantum states. These states are needed to develop photonic-platform fault-tolerant quantum computers. For industry challenges, a quantum computer must have fault tolerance, the capacity to detect and correct errors before they happen. The coordinated project will employ A*STAR's advanced fabrication capabilities and integrated photonics expertise to improve GKP state creation to make these vital quantum resources stable and reproducible for complex algorithms.

Development of Quantum Light Sources: Photonic quantum computers' performance depends on their light sources. The second significant topic is collaborative quantum light source improvement. The squeezed light, a non-classical state that reduces noise in some measured variables, is crucial to Xanadu's systems. This research designs stable, scalable, and efficient integrated light sources to supply high-quality quantum resources for high-speed quantum computation.

Quantum computers must be scaled up using a robust and intricately linked network of quantum components. The cooperation will build quantum connectivity solutions using custom ASIC integration and cutting-edge integrated photonic devices. This work aims to create a dense, repeatable, low-loss “plumbing” system on a chip for quantum data transfer in large processors. Custom classical electronics are needed for high-speed, low-latency quantum state control and readout to connect the quantum processor to the traditional control system.

The final strategic pillar is exploring photonic quantum computer hosting in Singapore. This initiative indicates both sides' commitment to building quantum infrastructure in the area and connects research to commercial application. If this investigation led to the construction of a joint facility, Southeast Asian research institutes, governments, and businesses would have direct access to cutting-edge hardware, solidifying Singapore's status as a quantum computing hub.

Fast-tracking fault tolerance

"The extended partnership is meant to accelerate the company's path towards delivering fault-tolerant quantum computers that can solve real-world problems intractable for classical supercomputers," said Xanadu founder and CEO Christian Weedbrook.

Professor Yeo Yee Chia, ASTAR's Deputy Chief Executive, stressed the Agency's importance and stated the alliance will employ ASTAR's scientific expertise and industry-standard facilities like IME to accelerate development cycles. This technique seeks clear paths from early quantum notions to reliable, manufacturable solutions. This focus on manufacturability ensures that fault-tolerant quantum computer parts can be scaled up in a factory rather than a lab.

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Adding/deleting entities & path-finding improvements

Up until today, entities could only be added to the world when the Tiled map was loaded. But I've added dynamic system events for registering and deleting entities. In this demo video, I added a button to spawn a new entity, who will try to walk across the map before triggering their own deletion.

I've also improved my NPC path-finding algorithm immensely.

Cached paths: A scripted behavior used to just run an A* algorithm every time an entity was idle. Now it caches the last path calculated for a few seconds, reducing CPU load. It will still re-calculate its path if it runs into an issue. I exponentially backs off those retries if they are continuously stuck to avoid using up too much CPU when an NPC is stuck.

Dynamic impedance: Originally, the algorithm only supported binary "blocked" or "not blocked" tiles. Now tiles and entities have a dynamic impedance, a weighted value of how much of an obstacle something is. A wall has an infinitely high impedance, while an NPC that walks around has a low one. This allows NPCs to identify paths that go through closed doors or other NPCs (if there's no other way). I eventually want to add controls to my map file that create "encouraged" paths, which would just be a series of tiles with lower than normal impedance values.

There are still two improvements I want to make before moving to my next focus:

Predict future (non-)impediments: if an entity that is in an NPCs way is actively moving (out of their way), we should ignore their impedance. As of right now, all NPCs think all other (moving) NPCs are just static obstacles. They all try to walk around each other, even though they're all going to the same place. It's more like a stampede than a queue.

Backtracking when stuck: If two NPCs get in each other's ways such that there's no way to get around each other - they'll just get stuck forever. I want to add a mechanism to walk backwards a few tiles on a random rare occasion, letting the other NPC through. This would be more of a failsafe than a feature - to prevent a game sequence from getting permanently stuck.