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Google creates quantum computer that is 1.6bn times quicker than world's fastest supercomputer

Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, with the quantum computer.

Google has achieved a breakthrough in computer research, by solving a complex problem in minutes with a so-called quantum computer that would take today's most powerful supercomputer thousands of years to crack.

Official confirmation of the breakthrough in quantum computing came in a paper published in Nature , after weeks of controversy following the leak of a draft, over whether Google's claim of "quantum supremacy” was valid.

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