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DARPA boosts Microsoft’s far-out effort to build topological quantum computer

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. “Experts disagree on whether a utility-scale quantum computer based on conventional designs is still decades away or could be achieved much sooner,” Joe Altepeter, US2QC program manager in DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, said in a news release. “You can see that just in how few venture funds are investing in quantum.

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