Here is an article at physorg.com about a result in quantum computing (see here for my own article on this result.) And here is an article on the website fudzilla describing this physorg result. How in the world do you get from the physorg article to fudzillas: "Top boffins who have been looking under the bonnet of Quantum computers are starting to think that they may not be the future of computing"?
Is the internet version of the game telephone more or less noisy than the spoken game?
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