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LEMONT, Ill.—For all the hype, funding and policy around quantum computing, there is still a lot of basic scientific research to be done to bring a quantum information system to life. Leading ...

A gamer may want to build their PC from scratch for several reasons. You might choose this option if your gaming PC or gaming consoles doesn't meet the demands of the games you play, you want a more ...

Google pulled off I/O, its developers conference, without a hitch yesterday. The Mountain View company retook the stage in grandiose fashion with a bevvy of announcements ranging from the ...

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There are a couple of things to note right off the bat. Both the minimum and recommended specs ask for 16GB of RAM, so you can be fairly sure than an 8GB system isn't going to cut it. 8GB of RAM on a ...

I was a college senior as the pandemic closed the world down in 2020, but by then I already knew I would be spending a lot of time at a desk, probably at home. The future of office-based work looked ...

It'll need a million or so qubits, Google's top researchers say at Google I/O. The company's biggest machines today have only a few dozen. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

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The Australian government has invested US$620 million in startup PSiQuantum to build a fault-tolerant quantum system for commercial use. PsiQuantum is betting big on its ability to build what it said ...

Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they ...