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New Advances Bring the Age of Quantum Computing Closer Than Ever | Quanta Magazine

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In a white paper written on the same day as the Caltech paper, Gidney and his colleagues announced that they had developed a new method for breaking ECC that was at least 10 times more efficient than previous methods. They estimate that most cryptocurrencies would provide seconds to a machine with less than 500,000 qubits. … Read more

A Closer Look at the Smallest World, and Its Most Common Wonders | KQED

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A Closer Look at the Smallest World, and Its Most Common Wonders | KQED

Alexis Madrigal: Welcome to Forum. I’m Alexis Madrigal. I can’t be alone because I’ve always wanted to go to Antarctica. Something about the strangeness of the land and the remoteness of the place—something about the lack of human destruction, something about the sheer challenge of getting there and surviving. Our guest this morning, Ariel Waldman, … Read more