This Chip Could Be the Massive Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting for in Quantum Computing

Microsoft is claiming to have created a topological qubit—something engineers have been trying to achieve for years. If it’s true, their new Majorana 1 chip could make quantum computing a reality in years, not decades.

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@scalzi it can win and loose the game at the same time for you 😅
@scalzi I read the entire article in Darin De Paul’s voice so yeah, I think it can. 😉
@scalzi I'm not sure I want to know what Quantum Doom is but perhaps that's what's been going on for the last 30 days.
@scalzi
Rarely is the question asked.
@scalzi it both can and can’t play doom… it’s the doom superposition…
@scalzi finally Crysis at 30 fps
@scalzi This is why they keep the antikythera mechanism locked up in a museum, to stop all the darn nerds trying to get it to run Doom.
@scalzi And you don’t mean Doom, the computer game, do you?
@scalzi Yes, but only when you're not looking at it.
@scalzi Yes, but only if you log in with a Microsoft account and use Edge
@scalzi certainly can’t play crysis
@scalzi Very anthropomorphic, staring at me with its little screws, screaming endlessly about the horrors of the quantum world...
@scalzi Dear Popular Mechanics, Still waiting for my flying car (since you first said it was in our future back in the '50s)
@scalzi not only can it play doom, but it can also open a quantum trans-dimensional portal to the demonic realms
@scalzi everything can play Doom lol