By Nora Buli OSLO (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin does not truly understand the destructive power of nuclear weapons, a 92-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki said on Monday, on the eve of his Japanese survivors’ group receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Terumi Tanaka was referring to threats made by Putin and […]
Google says it has cracked a quantum computing challenge with new chip
By Stephen Nellis SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) – Google on Monday said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe. Like other tech giants such as […]
TikTok hires ex-Trump administration lawyer ahead of Supreme Court appeal
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – TikTok and its Chinese owner ByteDance have turned to a veteran U.S. Supreme Court lawyer as they prepare to ask the justices to block a law that could ban the popular short video platform in the United States. Noel Francisco, who served as U.S. solicitor general during Republican President-elect Donald […]
Webb telescope confirms the universe is expanding at an unexpected rate
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause – perhaps some unknown factor involving the mysterious cosmic components dark energy and dark matter. Two years of data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have now validated the […]