Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library By Mark Kim Just when it was looking like the underdog, classical computing is striking back. IBM has come up with a way to simulate quantum computers that have 56 quantum bits, or qubits, on a non-quantum supercomputer – a task previously thought to be impossible. […]
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Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library By Mark Kim Just when it was looking like the underdog, classical computing is striking back. IBM has come up with a way to simulate quantum computers that have 56 quantum bits, or qubits, on a non-quantum supercomputer – a task previously thought to be impossible. […]
“Blade Runner 2049” conjures a hallucinatory miasma of lavish visual images. Sony Pictures Reading about auteurs talking about auteurs is almost always fascinating. Hideo Kojima, creator of countless Metal Gear games and the still-in-development Death Stranding, wrote his own review of “Blade Runner 2049” on Rolling Stone’s Glixel and discusses how […]
Ever since the controversial Catalan independence referendum earlier this month, the region’s government has been pleading for intervention by the European Union. But the appearance from the bloc’s three most senior figures – Jean-Claude Juncker, Antonio Tajani and Donald Tusk – alongside the Spanish monarch and premier Mariano Rajoy will […]
Porter may be from the US but has been unofficially adopted by the Great British Public. The gentle giant is releasing his beautiful new collection of Nat King Cole covers and will treat UK audiences to a spellbinding preview on the chat show this evening. To make it even more […]
The new leader, 31, swept to power last week and has been formally asked by President Alexander Van der Bellen to forge a team. Mr Kurz finished first in Sunday’s election after he secured 31.5 per cent of the vote, winning by a clear margin but falling well short of […]
Photo credit: Google Earth More From Popular Mechanics David Kennedy is an archeologist at the University of Western Australia. For twenty years, he’s flown planes above Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries, spotting ancient, human-made stone structures that sprawl across the country’s lava field, known as the harrat. These structures, […]
View photos Morning smog envelops the skyline in Mumbai, India, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Environmental pollutants are killing at least 9 million people and costing the world $4.6 trillion a year, a toll exceeding that of wars, smoking, hunger or natural disasters, according to a study released Thursday in The […]