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Quantum computers are like kaleidoscopes; Why unusual metaphors help explain science and technology

Quantum computing is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: You never know what you’re going to get. Quantum phenomena (the behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic levels) are not certain one way or another. These are vague clouds of possibility, or rather probabilities. When someone observes a quantum system, the system… Read More »

Why Are China, the US, and Big Tech Racing to Leverage Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence?

Credit – Getty Images/Science Photo Library KWhen Lawrence Gasman was looking for a PhD topic in the 1970s, computer labs were already teeming with smart people proposing clever work on artificial intelligence. “But the problem was, we had nothing to run them on,” he says. “The processors needed were not available.” It has taken half… Read More »