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Though nothing in the laws of physics rules out quantum computers, qubits are maddeningly delicate. Experiments must be done at temperatures near absolute zero, and the slightest disturbance can cause the teetering quantum states to collapse. Given such obstacles, quantum computing's accomplishments have so far been rather modest: using a short string of atoms to find the factors of the number 15 or to search a "database" of eight items...
...four U.S.-based French business owners to come back; another 15 are thinking about it. Director general Guy Giustini says: "We're encouraging successful entrepreneurs and skilled workers - French and American - to expand their activity to Europe via Marseilles, not close shop in the U.S. It's not a zero-sum logic." It's no huge job engine; the businesses launched under Home Sweet Home involve around 80 employees. But some are impressed. "I was surprised to see how many solid and savvy business partners were already here," says Olivier Zelphati, returning after eight stateside years to start...
...writers have so tirelessly searched for experiences to infuse novels with new ideas or so single-mindedly set about placing themselves at ground zero of American public life...
Kitty’s idea took hold, and the Brattle Theater Company formed, immediately buying Brattle Hall. From 1948 to 1952, the Company occupied the building, bringing the likes of Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Zero Mostel to play in everything from Shakesperean tragedies to Chekhovian dramas...
...study measured the relative intensity of participants’ workouts by asking them to rate their level of exertion on the Borg scale which ranges from zero (no exertion) to ten (almost maximal exertion...