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Badenoch ‘worried’ UK may need IMF bailout
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Air India crash aftermath handled ‘irresponsibly’, says court
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Quantum computing: A tech race Europe could win?
Posted onThe prize, then, for the company that is first to build a reliable quantum computer at scale is potentially enormous. It will be “winner-takes-all”, as it was for classical computers and IBM, predicts Peronnin. And, he reckons, there is a fighting chance that his or another French company will be that winner.
