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Albert Einstein in Washington, D.C. Credit: Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, LC-D In honor of Einstein’s birthday, we’re ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum computers—if validated, that is. Reading time 3 minutes The entire spiel of ...