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    Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer
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    Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer

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    1. Swissai on

      For those looking for a tl;dr

      All they did was teleport a mouse a few metres across a laboratory

    2. raininfordays on

      This is pretty great news. It’s like going from needing a computer the size of a room to being able to use a laptop for the same thing.

    5. Ghostly_Wellington on

      Time to sell the company abroad then so that we can repeat the growth and prosperity bought about by our AI breakthroughs.

    6. FluffyBunnyFlipFlops on

      Does this mean that they will also be able to use quantum entanglement to transmit data over huge distances instantaneously?

      Edit: For those of you who seem to think light needs to move between two quantumly entangled particles, or that it can only happen at the speed of light…

      “It doesn’t matter if the particles are 1,000,000 miles apart, or a light-year apart. The moment you observe one particle and it collapses into a definite state, the other particle *immediately* collapses into its corresponding entangled state. There’s no time delay, no signal traveling between them. It’s as if they’re connected in a way that transcends space and time.”

    7. Squaregogh on

      That article almost melted my brain trying to understand it. What does this mean in simple terms? What will we see come from this?

      Article says “The researchers claim the quantum teleportation technique could form the foundation for a future ‘quantum internet’, which would offer an ultra-secure network for communications, computation and sensing.”

      Just a more secure Internet? Something more?

    9. NuclearVII on

      So much misinformation here in the comments.

      No, you cannot use this effect to communicate faster than light. That is not possible. Period, end of, full stop.

      Articles like this are clickbaitiest of clickbait.

    10. earth-calling-karma on

      You’d need a teleportation device to fish the information from in between enshitting popups and ads on that site.

    11. BoxScoreP18 on

      Presumably this means we no longer need improved transit routes between Cambridge and Oxford!?

    13. ftatman on

      Can someone explain how the ‘photonic interface’ they say was used to achieve this is any different to say the fibre optic cables we use today for internet to move things from one place to another? I’m clearly missing something here.

    14. CobaltTJ on

      I remember this being reported a while ago as well when it was first achieved. Really pisses me off that sensationalist headlines don’t tell the full truth (which is the point of them to make money) because no, it’s not like teleportation in Star Trek, we’re only sending data, not matter. Still a very cool achievement but the media and the media illiterate run away with the headlines without understanding the full context.

    15. YesAmAThrowaway on

      “It is not the first time that scientists have achieved quantum teleportation, with teams previously transferring data from one location to another without moving qubits. However it is the first demonstration of quantum teleportation of logical gates – the minimum components of an algorithm – across a network link.”

      So it is a copy.

    18. Electrical-Page-6479 on

      > The researchers claim the quantum teleportation technique could form the foundation for a future ‘quantum internet’, which would offer an ultra-secure network for communications, computation and sensing.

      The government are already insisting on a backdoor.

    19. CharSmar on

      My, we’re a pessimistic lot aren’t we? Ok, this isn’t “teleportation” as years of science **FICTION** have led us to believe but this is still impressive, no?

    20. Bearcat-2800 on

      I teleported home one night

      With Ron & Syd & Meg

      Ron stole Megan’s heart away

      And I got Sydney’s leg