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Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has now selected Microsoft as one of two companies that will advance to the final phase of its Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC).

The moment I read this, my first thought was, DOGE probably fired everyone involved in this program, and said they just saved American citizens $99999 trillion dollars by doing it.

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

DARPA is always cost a lot of money. Wouldn't they the ones that try to investigative psychic powers were real? Oh and for a while they were trying to develop a perpetual motion machine.

Of course in retrospect that looks stupid, but if they'd ever succeeded in building a perpetual motion machine they would have made all their money back and then some. So it isn't immediately apparent that they will have saved anyone any money. They've just not spent the money, which is not the same thing at all.