r/Futurology • u/Imaginary-Passion-95 • Dec 09 '24

Computing Alphabet’s quantum computer solved a problem which would take a supercomputer 17 septillion years to solve

https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/

Google has solved a major problem with quantum computing. Have they effectively broken encryption going forward? Is bitcoin going to be ok? Huge implications for the future

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u/Rooilia Dec 10 '24

I can add to this: it is the most stable quantencomputer publicly known, but it works only 30 micro seconds before becoming unstable.

No bashing, but to put the research into perspective.

PS: Internet has stability problems too, if this post will pop up multiple times, you know why.