• Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computing chip unveiled

  • Feb 20 2025
  • Length: 7 mins
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Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum computing chip unveiled

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  • 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.

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    • Microsoft unveils new quantum chip
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    • NASA’s Curiosity rover captures shimmering rainbow clouds over Mars.



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