This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to store quantum information. His encoding had two key properties. First, it could tolerate errors that only affected individual qubits. Second, it came with a procedure for correcting errors as they occurred, preventing them […]
Read MoreDestiny 2’s latest expansion, Lightfall, is only a month away from arriving on Xbox, Windows PC, and other platforms. And once it begins, so too will the fight against The Witness, Emperor Calus, and his Shadow Legion on Neptune. Featuring a fresh campaign with a Legendary difficulty option, a brand new six-man endgame PvE raid, […]
Read MoreA few minutes into a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large piece of paper and crumpled it into a seemingly disordered ball of chaos. He held it up for the audience to see, squeezed it for good measure, then spread it out again. “I get a wild mass […]
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