Microsoft’s wacky Majorana 1 chip, powered by an ‘entirely new state of matter’, could have industrial quantum computing here ‘in years, not decades’

Yes, the scientists are doing weird stuff again, and this weird stuff is sure to lead to other weird stuff and plenty of even more peculiar technology in the future. At least, that’s usually my reading of anything quantum computing related, and that seems to be the general gist of Microsoft’s new quantum chip announcement….

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‘I expect a lot of people will hate it’: PUBG creator Brendan Greene doesn’t care if his new game is too hard for players to handle as long as it ‘elicits a reaction’

Survival games aren’t known to be easy; that’s kind of the whole point, especially when you often find yourself in remote, unforgiving locations where you need to keep fed, hydrated, and protected from the elements and maybe some hostile mobs. But Prologue: Go Wayback! takes its difficulty to a whole new level. “I like brutal…

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