On Wednesday, Google said it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called "quantum supremacy", which could allow new kinds of computers to do calculations at speeds that are inconceivable with today's technology.
The Google device did in 3min 20sec a mathematical calculation that supercomputers could not complete in under 10,000 years.
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