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Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computing chip unveiled

Feb 20, 20257 min
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Episode description

After almost 20 years in development Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip has been unveiled. Experts are seeing it as a leap towards quantum computing but what is that? And what does it mean?

Elsewhere, researchers at Imperial College London and Google have been testing an AI co-scientist to see how it might contribute to advanced experiments.

Dr Tiago Costa, who co-led the experimental work tells us how they challenged the tech and what they learnt from collaborating with AI.

Also in this episode:

  • Microsoft unveils new quantum chip
  • Apple’s iPhone 16e revealed
  • NASA’s latest asteroid warning
  • Placenta tissue is used to save a man’s eye
  • NASA’s Curiosity rover captures shimmering rainbow clouds over Mars.


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