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Math may have caught up with Google’s quantum-supremacy claims

Enlarge / Google’s Sycamore processor. (credit: Google) In 2019, word filtered out that a quantum computer built by Google had performed calculations that the company claimed would be effectively impossible to replicate on supercomputing hardware. That turned out to not be entirely correct, since Google had neglected to consider the storage available to supercomputers; if […]

There’s more than one way to form a super-Jupiter

Enlarge / Image of the AB Aurigae system, with details of the object shown at the right. (credit: NASA, ESA, Thayne Currie) On some levels, forming stars and planets is simple: They form where there’s more stuff. So, while the raw material for a star may be a diffuse cloud of gas, the distribution of […]

The way forward on the COVID vaccine rollout

A Fortune discussion on the state of the COVID vaccine rollout and what comes next. Read More