Quantum computing doesn’t show up often in the news. After all, it has gigantic potential, but the technology has been promising practical real-world uses in “just a few years” for decades now. The science world may have finally reached a tipping point for practicality, though. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google”>Google‘s engineers data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://blog.google/technology/research/quantum-echoes-willow-verifiable-quantum-advantage/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://blog.google/technology/research/quantum-echoes-willow-verifiable-quantum-advantage/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>demonstrated a world-first of running a verifiable algorithm on its data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/google-claims-its-new-willow-quantum-chip-can-swiftly-solve-a-problem-that-would-take-a-standard-supercomputer-10-septillion-years” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/google-claims-its-new-willow-quantum-chip-can-swiftly-solve-a-problem-that-would-take-a-standard-supercomputer-10-septillion-years”>Willow quantum chip — 13,000 times faster than a supercomputer.
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