Take back your personal data with Incogni! Use code Sabine at the link below and get 60% off annual plans: https://incogni.com/sabine Last year, Microsoft announced its Majorana quantum computing chip, which supposedly used topological qubits to make calculations. The problem was that the paper published alongside the announcement didn’t show any evidence for those claims. Now they’ve announced a new quantum chip. Is it any better this time?. Let’s take a look. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03884 👕T-shirts, mugs, posters and more: ➜ https://sabines-store.dashery.com/ 💌 Support me on Donorbox ➜ https://donorbox.org/swtg 👉 Transcript with links to references on Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/Sabine 📝 Transcripts and written news on Substack ➜ https://sciencewtg.substack.com/ 📩 Free weekly science newsletter ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsletter/ 👂 Audio only podcast ➜ https://open.spotify.com/show/0MkNfXlKnMPEUMEeKQYmYC 🔗 Join this channel to get access to perks ➜ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw/join 📚 Buy my book ➜ https://amzn.to/3HSAWJW #science #sciencenews #microsoft #quantumcomputing
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M$: "If James Bond could have a quantum solace ... so can we."
Is it possible that they actually have the stuff but keep it secret?
I'm 70 now and there is one thing for sure I can say about Microsoft from my dealings with them from 1990 on and it's this, YOU CAN NOT BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAY AND YOU CAN NOT TRUST THEM!
I work in tech and I can confirm that Microsoft tells many non-truths about their products.
Such a strange way to present by Microsoft. It's like they think they are presenting something real while everybody else doesn't agree they are.
Perhaps in an alternative universe somewhere in the multiverse?
It's both solved and unsolved. Nobody will know until they open the box.
demonstrating topological states <-> qubits is still short of true quantum advantage. Actually doing computations on a substrate is fine, but then it needs to be faster.
Thanks for keep us updated with what's really happening in quantum computing Sabine 😁
That last dig at ms was probably your best ending line ever.
Vague = "Microsofty", reminds me of Toyota's periodic announcements of a breakthrough hydrogen engine that never breaks through.
Without a working Quantum Algorithm, what good is it?
Quantum, Qubits and lies - OH MY!
Seems like the folks at Microsoft are smoking a lot of Majorana!
I wouldn't trust Microsoft as far as I could throw them.
Reminds me of the XKCD comic "Estimation", where the author of the MIcrosoft file copy dialog is visiting friends. He's on his cell phone, saying "I'm just outside of town, so it's looking like I should be there in fifteen minutes. Actually, it looks more like six days. No, wait, thirty seconds."
The Marijuana 2 on the cloud soon? 😊
"Quantum quantum quantum" - Microsoft "Show your work" - Everyone "Quantum quantum quantum 2.0!" - Microsoft ....
So will it have a Schrödinger’s Blue Screen of Death?
"At 99% and decades left." Sounds like my current project... maybe I should borrow the term 😂🤣