quantum computers

Quantum computers are like kaleidoscopes – why unusual metaphors help illustrate science and technology

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Quantum computing is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get. Quantum phenomena – the behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic level – are not exactly definitive. They are opaque clouds of possibilities, or rather: probabilities. When one observes a quantum system, it loses its … Read more

Why China, the US and Big Tech are racing to leverage quantum computing and AI

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Credit – Getty Images/Science Photo Library WWhen Lawrence Gasman was looking for a PhD topic in the 1970s, computer labs were already buzzing with smart people proposing smart studies in artificial intelligence. “But the problem was we had nothing to run them on,” he says. “The necessary processors simply did not exist.” It took half … Read more